The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-04-24

flowers, and there was no flower el cct-
ed. That trailing arbutus don't trail
in this part Of the country.
Well, of course, the rose is by uni
vcrsal suffrage the queen of all the
flowers. About six hundred years ago
the duke Of Lancaster chose red rose
for his emblem. His brother, the
duke of York, chose white rose. The
descendants of these Two princes got
TO fighting for the crown and it was
called the war of the roses. But after
while the son Of ono married the
daughter of the other and stopped the
war, and the Two roses were united III
to one and called the Tudor rose.
In the eleventh century the Danes
made war upon Scotland, and one dark
night planned an attack upon fortress
that was the key to the whole country.
They took off their shoes and breeches
so as to swim across mOat that sur
rounded the fortress, thinking that the
moat was deep and full of water. But
| the Scotch had nearly filled the mOat
| with thistle, and it stuck the Danes 80
terribly that they yelled in agony and
| got out quickly and the Scotch took
| them unawares and killed nearly all of
| them before they could put on their
shoes and brccches. The thistle saved
Scotland: and so they took it for their
national flower.
| Away back in the centuries, when
good st. Patrick went to Ireland as q
missionary, he preached to them about
the Trinity and how there were three
pcrsous is one God, and The people
laughed at HIM and said it was impos-
sible aud they didn't believe it. So
the saint picked up shamrock stem
with its three leaves growing out of 1t
and exclaimed: Why not? Why
not? If this tile plant can make
three from ol.c, hy can't God do it?n
So he convinced and converted all that
people, and they took the clover or
shamrock plant for the national tower.
In the sixth century the Normans
invaded Wales, and just before great
battle one dark, cloudy evening the
Welsh went through field where the
leeks or wild onions were in bloom,
and every man pluckcd one and stuck
il in his hat 80 as to distinguish their
soldiers from the enemy, and by this
means they whipped the fight and
saved their country. After thai they
took the lcck for their national flower.
When Napoleon Bonapartc overran
Germany and the emperor and his
family had to fly from Berlin and con-
ceal themselves, he was awfully dis
tressed and they liked to have persisted.
But his old mother made garlands OF a
little wild flower, known as tie corn
flower or kascrblume, and put them
on him and checrcd him up, and when
Bonapartc was vanquishcd the en-
peror adopted that little wild flower as
the national emblem.
When Louis VII started out on the
Crusades he chose the iris as his badge,
and when he returned with his army
it was adopted as the nations flower.
This is enough of national flowers. I
wish we had one for our nation, and
we will have one when this Federation
of Womcn's Clubs takes hold of the
matter, and hope it will be the golden
rod. 1t grows from Name to Mexico
and bends its graceful head in field and
| forest.
The reason l got to rumlnatipp
about flowers was because our good
ladies gave an entertainment the other
night which was quite original anu
| peculiar. 1t was called the enchanted
garden. There were twelve pretty
flowers painted on long curtain and
in front of them was an old gardener
teaching pretty little girl her first
| lesson in flowers. lie told her their
origin and how they got their names
| and whenever lie mentioned one of the
| flowers that was on the curtain and
pointed to it, that flower disappeared
as if by cnchantment and in its place
there appeared the face of pretty girl
or woman, who sang song that fitted
the flOWer--such songs as "OnIy a
Pansy Blcssom," "The Last Rose of
Summer" "Pond Lilies" GA Bunch
of Daises," etc. At intervals between
the songs, the old gardener told his
pupil how Clyta fell in love with Apollo,
the god Of tho sun, and she gazcd upon
him 80 continually that he got tired of
it and turned her into he!lotrOpc, for
this Greek word means turned by The
sun. And how Apollo's cup bearer
was very handsome boy and Apollo
loved him SO much that another boy
killed him through envy and his dead |
body was changed into q hyacinth.
The Greek spelling is Yacinthus and /!
Apollo stamped the Greek letter Y on !
every petal, and it is there yet. And |
how very vain and handsome youth
spent all Of his time looking at him
self in a fountain Of clear water and |
one day he fell in and was drowned |
and Apollo changed his body into q
narclssus. And how the carnation
was always pink or flesh color for the
Greek word carnos mean flesh, but now
il is of all cOlOrs. And how dandclion
means lions tooth from tho shape Of