Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-04-05

2Ol 40, so years OF welded life before
thky have begun arranges for the best.
So What flowers in almost all cases are
appropriate for the marriage day. The
divergences of disposition will become
correspo ndences, recklessness will be
come prudence, frivolity will be turned
into practically.
There has been many an aged wild
owed soul who had carefully-locked
bureau. and i'm the bureau "A box, and in
The box folded paper, and in the
folded paper a half-blown rose. slight
~ fragrant, discolorcd. carefully
pressed. She put it there 30 or 30 years
ago. On the anniversary DAY of her
wedding she viii go to the bureau, she
will lift the box, she will unfold the
paper, and to her eyes y"ill bc exposed
the half-blown bud, and the memories
of the past will rush upon her, and a
tear will drop upon the flower. and sud
denly il is TRANSPORTED, and there Is
stir i'm the dust OF the anther, and IT
rounds out. and it is full of life, and II
begins TO trcmble in the procession up
the church aisle. and the dead music of
half century ago comes throbbing
through the air. and vanished faces re-
appear, and right hands are joined. and
manly voice promises: II will, for
better or for worse" and the wedding
march thunders a salvo of JOY al the
departing crowd. but a sigh on that
anniversary day scatters the scene. I'm
der the dccp-fetched breath the altar,
| the flowers the congratulating groups
are scattered. and there is nothing left
| but IA trembling hand holding Il faded
rosebud. which is put into the paper
| and then into the box, and the box care
| fully placed in the bureau, and with "A
| sharp. sudden click of the lock the scene
| is over.
| All. my friends, let not the prophecies
of the flowers ON your wedding day be
false prophecies. BE blind TO each 9th
er's faults. Make the most of each 9th
cr's cNcellcncics. Remember the vows,
the ring on the third finger of the left
hand. and the bencdiction of the calla
| lilies.
If YOU ask me the question: what
are flowers good for?" | answer. they
are good to honor and comfort the OBJ
scquies. The worst cash ever made into
| the side of our poor earth is the cash
of the grave. 1t is so deep, it is SO
cruel, il is so incurablc. that it needs
something 10 cover it up. Flowers for
| the casket, flowers for the hcarsc.
| flowers for the cemetery. What a CON
| trast between Il grave in country
| churchyard, with the fence broken
| down and the tombstone aSlant and the
>neighboring cattle browsing amid the
MULLEN stalks and the Canada thistles.
and a June morning in Greenwood, the
wave of roseatc bloom rolling to the
top of the mounds and then breaking
into foaming crests of white flowers all
around the pillows of dust. 1t is the
difference between sleeping under rag:
and under an embroidered blanket. W,
want old Mortality with his chscl to- -
through all the gravcyards in Christen
dom, and while he carries "A chisel il
one hand we want old Mortality to hav,
some flower seed in the palm of The
other hand.
"Oh." YOU say. "the dead don't know;
H. makes mo difference TO them"
think you are mistaken. There are not
so many steamer: and trains coming Ia
| any living city as there are convovs
I coming from Heaven TO earth. and if
there be instantaneous and constant
communication between this world and
the better world ,o Won mot suru,....