The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-08-10

you uflIt IAf away into FAnCys realm,
and forget all bread and butter ankle
ties, all nd-of-the-century problems.
Such a rest corner Is by no means to
be despsed, Would that all the weary
and careworn could once in a while
surrender themselves entirely to its
quieting influences.
PLANT OF THE PINE.
found pine that shot its solemn bole
Twice fifty feet against the summer
sky
From out sunless gorge. And sad of
soul
It seemed. until sought to question
why:
Whereat the tree moaned darkly, made
this strange reply:
sleep,
Foreboding the day 1 shall stagger
and leap
And tremble through tempests Ger seas
that are deep.
''They will fashion, me forth for a ship,
they will make
My stature and glrth but mock,
they will break
My branches and rend me for merchant
ings' sake.
Eternal unease shall be portioned to
me,
A creature firm rooted and fair so to be,
Eternal unease on the shifting, loud sea.
For each to his nature; and mine is to
grow
Tall, sombre. and steadfast, and gravely
| arrow
With brothers as grave, while the CEN
turtles go.
IT am troubled betimes, l am sorely OPP
pressed,
AS ponder and dream on my mother
| earth's breast,
With fear of the ocean that knoweth
| not rest"
RICHARD BURTON.
WHITENESS AND SWEETNESS.
People who love the white flowers
best, and there are many who, though
! delighting in bright hued blossoms,
find the white always satisfying and
charming, may be interested to know
| that they are not only the sweetest
| of all but the most valuable to COM
| merce, suggestive, subtle gift that we
name fragrance. Truly, we who love
| the white flowers best, have natures
! own preference to sustain us in our
| choice.
| The white flowers seem to be natures
| darlings, since though they are so pale
| they are almost always conspicuous,
| even at night when they seem to keep
awake for the purpose Of letting their
| light shine in the darkened corners.
| And then, more lavishly than with the
| rest, she has endowed them with that
| mysterious, white rose, the humble alys-
sum and aristocratic daphne, the serene
| waterlily of the north and the superb
magnolia Of the south, and all the host
| of others that are clothed in whiteness.
| Even the common white petunia seems
sweeter than its gayer fellows, especial
| ly when through the dusk it seems to
| glow with a soft, pure radiance, and
| fills the air with its fragrance. While
/ the reds have a proportion OF nearly
| one-tenth that are sweet, the yellows
have a little more than one twelfth.
| OF the white flowers the very large
proportion of sixth are as agreeabls
| to the sense of smell as they are to the
| sight. This probably holds good the
world over--that white flowers are
sweetest Of all Think of the sug-
gestive, subtle gift that we name frag-
rance. Truly, we who love the white
flowers best, have natures own prefer
Pence to sustain us in our choice.
Thus of the number of purple or vio-
let flowers, out of 3O8 varieties only IL
are of pleasant odor The blue flowers
are Of 594 varieties, and of these "a are
perfumed. Red flowers are gathered
| Of 1923 different kinds, 81 of them be-
ing sweet scented, and here Is found
an exception to the statement made
above, owing to the large number Of
roses found among the reds and pinks
OF 1920 species of plants gathered in