Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-11
DEsERET EVENING NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY H. 1901.

closely-hbred moral heroes Of American
bction."
Could anything be finer in sentiment
or more true 10 the spirit VI hearth
and home than the following eXtrao,
irOW une OF Bismarcks letlcra to his
Wife. lust published IN The Love Let
tiers Of Bismarck" by Messrs Harper
q Brothers? There Is something
strangely pathetic and beautiful Ia the
stllns fidelity OF the man. In The reyel-
alton OF his most tender thoughts-not
that Ne would suppose tor q moment
that there is anything singular In his
atllude, but I'm the case of this man.
whose VII was iron. whose words We're
blows. me contrast rs the more stlik-
ing and the more remarkable; II mar
ried you 10 order 10 love sou IA God
and according 10 the need Of my heart.
and IN order to have IN the midst Of
the strange world a place for my heart,
which ain the worlds bleak winds can
not chill and whore | may ind the
warmth If the home fire TO which
eagerly betake myself when fl IL
stormy and cold without. but not to
have society woman for others, and
! shall cherish and nurse your little
fireplace, put wood on IT, ana blow and
protect IL against an that Is eva and
strange for next 20 God mercy there
Is nothing which Is dearpr and more
necessary to me than your love and
The homelIke hearth that stands be-
tween Us everywhere even ma strange
land, when we are together
From the countless books upon ma
tive flowers that have been issued dur
ing the past half dozen years, II would
seem that they had been viewed from
every possible side, yet Mrs. Mabel
Osrood Wright in her forthcoming
hook-The Flowers and Ferns IN Their
Haunt3 (Macmllan)-treat them from
a wholly new standpoint. The flower Is
not considered merely ms an aggrega-
ton Of calyX, cOrolla, stamcns ana pistil
that leads to its correct naming or
from the complex mechanism that calls
for the aid Of insects to insure It's fer
tllizatiOn, but for It's value as part of
the landscape,
The author holds that II one wishes
to know the Wild flowers really they
must visit them in their haunts, for the
more exquisite the flower the more
completely does 1t lose its Characteris-
llCs NHeU StpuIdleu from us HdluIdl
surroundings. The fifty fun page Illus
trations are also made from this point
Of view being extremely beautiful
photographs Of flowers, ferns, vines,
etc, taken az they grew, by the author.
and by Mr. j. Horace Mcfarland, the
numerous marginal engrayings being
also from direct photography, the WORK
Of securing the subjects In the right
condition having been over two years.
Tgre are also many drawings In the
text.
As whole the book considers the
flowers from the human, not the tech
nical side, and for the pleasure they
give us, a special chapter being de-
voted to the romance Of the waits and
strays that have escaped from forgot.
ten gardens to the highways and fields
to be the only evidence Of old homes,
The book is divided In twelve seq
tions, The Coming Of Spring Along
the Waterways, Escaped from Gardens,
In Silent Woods, Humble Orchids,
Poisonous Plants, The Triumph Of the
Vine, a Composite Family Wayfarers,
The Fantasies OF Ferns, The open
Fields and Aftermath