Middletown transcript., 1897-06-05
wH1FF OF JuNR RosEs.

Junel Leafy Junel Month Of roses.
Darling June, queen month of the
yeari A trifle cool and distant, maybe
at first, but she's lovely and beautiful,
for nature is lavish with her gifts for
the queen, and chiefest among them is
that sweetest flower whose pretty name
is rose. Well may the poet sing "Plant
roses, sweet roses, in passing along.'
How dull even June would be had no
one ever planted rose. And yet how
many yards there are that never knew
rose. How many lives and homes
where Whit of June roses is un-
known. So many people there are who
save their roses to strew over cofins
and graves, when those whose lives
they might have frightened and sweet
ened are beyond their reach forever.
How many there are who save their
kind, pleasant words to whisper into
dead ears-words of honest praise and
approval, that perhaps some one died
hungering to hear, that might SO easily
have been spoken when their utterance
would have lightened a pitiful burden
and given beauty to a colorless life.
How like mockery are the eulogiums
of the dead who when living were mis-
judged understood. How much more
happiness there might be.in the world
if we were more lavish with our smiles
and more stinting with our frowns.
Have you ever observed how easy a
thing it is to make little child glad
or sad? Men and women are only
children grown tall, and little words,
little deeds, mere trifies, make and mar
their lives.
June rosesl How swee they are.
But June brings us other blessings, ,and
her roses are rivalled by the sweet girl
graduate, the white robed throng.
There is a home in every community
awaiting the arrival of the young girl
graduate. 1t may be a brown old home
away off in the country; a pretty cot
tage home in the village, town, or
mansion home in the city, bright with
anticipation Of the coming girl, the
girl with the sheepskin. She is coming
by the hundreds and thousands, too,
foF the girls are keeping pace with the
boys and take to college training
kindly, though they may get it at great
cost, at great sacrifice on the part of
mother or father whose great desire is
that the daughter as well as the son
shall have the best possible equipment
for life and its duties. And what will
she recompense for all these privileges2
Will she bring good cheer to the home |
hearts? It were better that she had
never gone ii she returns to coldly crit
icize the plain and homely speech and |
manner of those less favored than she. |
There are lessons for her yet to learn |
that are not found in the college cur
riculum, and if she is both wise and |
good, her home coming will be joy to |
the home hearts and a blessing to the
community. Very many of these young
girl graduates are preparing to join the
great army of bread-winners, and are
already seeking their places in the
world. Will they carry good cheer into
the market place and make their fel-
low workers glad of their coming?
How full Of promise life is at June
time, when the roses bloom and the
birds sing and all the world is beauti-
ful and bright. And yet how few ever
find the world all it seemed from the
Pisgah peak of Commencement day.
Let the graduates of '97 learn to
''plant loses''and they will find "heart-
easel blooming beside them all along
The way. "Give.something for others,
a word or song" The simple art of
being kid is all this old world needs
10 make it veritable paradise.