The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-03-20

of childhood. The planting, the weed
ing, the watching for the first blossom,
keep the whole family interested, and 10
the most thoroughly natural and health.
iui pleasure child can have. There is
in all this u sense of ownership which is
as unselhsh as possession can be, for
connected with it is usually the desire
to give away the first fruits as an offer
ing to friendship or charity.
The flower lover is almost always the
flower giver, and nothing is sweeter than
to see dear child bring to the fond
mother the first blossom from my own
garden
The best and surest way to shut out
evil thoughts is to furnish themes for
good and pure and beautiful thoughts:
mind engaged in the attention to beau
tuful things in nature has no place for
that which is hateful and ugly, and we
cannot nverestimate the real value of
flower culture as part of childrcns edu-
cation
l have often wondered if the children
we see stealing flowers do this entirely
from mischief, or if some do not really
love the blossoms they cannot have at
home. If they had early been taught IL
real appreciation of flowers they would
probably more highly regard their neigh
bors' rights in the ankind
The dug Ups.'
Everyone being On the alert for new
sensations, it will probably be interesting
TO quote the experience of a socially
resurrected woman, who tells in her
own bright way what happened to her
i'll this connection. ut is a curious
sensation remarked one of the ultra
fashionable set of fifteen years ago. $50
go back to the city after "A dozen wears
of quiet living in the country, and find
oneself dug up-that is the latest
term, am told, for those who have been
out OF the world OF society for some
time, and who wander in like ghosts of
, the past for some occasional function.
At Mrs. AS ball the other night | felt
as if l had strayed into another world
Society in which l had been born and
bred, where l had always felt as much
at home as in my fathers house, with
the same sense of vested right by rca-
son OF inheritance, and in which always
fancied l could retain my place, which
could take possession of whenever
cared to do SO, suddenly seemed quite.
alien. The room appeared to be full Of
unfamiliar faces, with here and thern
an old friend, whose greetings were Of
the briefest, and who seemed intimate
with peoole l had never heard Of.
~ wonder where all these frumpa
! come FROM l overheard one of these
Of dug-ups in my life l suppose they
are the Van Amsterdams and the Val,
Iwille1s. and the Spuytenfuyfels. and
all the rest Of the Rip Van Wrinkle tribe
that call themselves old families. and
who have been asleep for the last TWEEN
| ty years! AS for my children. they
have quite deserted NE and our ances-
tors.
''Wbat is the use, mamma said my
eldest daughter the other day, of talk
ing of old families? Who cares stra "
about them? There's Kitty Knickcr-
booker. who they say. is going to marry
young Bodcnstcin. He is good looking:
! and clever and rich, and everyone say
| she is very lucky. Whoever thinks Of
, her colonial ancestors except few dear
! Old ladies like you, mamma, and who
cares how his father made his fortune:
i OF course. if our fine forebears had left
us a lot Of money l would have thought
them perfectly splendid. hut hope yon
won't mind my saying, dear, that. as it
is, ! think they must have been uncom-
monty stupid to have had so many
chances and to have left us so little"'-
; Philadcl ohia Times