Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-09
Children AND t.loMers.

Children and Flowers.
Wise and loving parents want their
children to be educated to enjoy what
is beautiful in art in literature and in
nature. They may question the influ-
ence of luxurious living, may fear the
effect of elegant surroundings as Undue
ing Incidence of mind and body or as
fostering q spirit of discomfort, but they
cannot think that a life of plain living
and high thinking" would exclude pleas
ure in a sunny sky or a modest flower.
The little garden where the children are
allowed to have a plot of their own af-
fords one of the most innocent delights
of childhood. The planting, the weed
ing, the watching for the first blossom,
keep the whole family interested, and is
the most thoroughly natural and health
full pleasure child can have. There is
in all thissa sense of ownership which is
as unselfsh 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 a 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 overestimate the real value of
flower culture as part of children's 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 a
real appreciation of, flowers they would
probably more highly regard their neigh
bors' rights in the matter.-Womankind
The tsDug Ups"
Everyone being on the alert for new
sensations, it will probably be interesting
to quote the experience of socially
resurrected woman, who tells in her
own bright way what happened to her
in this connection. "It is a curious
sensation" remarked one of the ultra
fashionable set of fifteen years ago, ''to
go back to the city after dozen years
of quiet living in the country, and find
oneself a 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. A.'s ball the other night [ felt
as if I had strayed into another world
Society in which [ had been born and
bred, where had always felt as much
at home as in my fathers house, with
the same sense of vested right by rea-
son of inheritance, and in which l always
fancied / 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 there
an old friend, whose greetings were of
the briefest, and who seemed intimate
with people I had never heard of.
81 wonder where all these frumps
come FROM / overheard one of these
strangers say. I never saw such a set
of dug-ups in my life. | suppose they
are the Van Amsterdams and the Van
Twillers, and the Spuytenduyfels, and
all the rest of the Rip Van Wrinkle tribe
that call themselves old families, and
who have beeneaSleep for the last TWEEN
ty yearsr AS for my children, they
have quite deserted me and our ances-
tors.
"sWhat is the use, mamma said my
eldest daughter the other day, of talk
ing of old families? Who cares straw
about them? There's Kitty Knicker-
booker, who, they say. is going to marry
young Bodenstein He is good-looking
and clever and rich, and everyone says
she is very lucky. Whoever thinks OF
her colonial ancestors except a few dear
cares how his father made his fortune?
Of course. if our fine forebears had left
us a lot of money [ would have thought
them perfectly splendid, but | hope you
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!'-
Philadelphia Times.
The ssDivine Sarah" as q Grandmother.
A London journal says that Dumas
fills wittily spoke of the marriage of M
Maurice Bernhardt and his Polish prin-
cess as the union de Ia Grande Boheme
ct de la Petite Pologne. La Petite
Pologne was thirty years ago to Paris
what Tyburn was a hundred years ago
to London. But the union has had hap
pier results than could have been ex-
pected NJ Maurice Bernhardt has set
tied down; his wife has kept her fortune
and is domestic, and Mile. Simone, their
daughter, promises to be wonderful be-
ing. If there is anything in heredity
she would astonish and delight the
xx-nrld if oh On mo fnrxya rd in tho SOhprQ