The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-15
the others have with
drawn their smiles, is pre-
sented as the Emblem Of
this Enviable Disposition.
Henry Phillips, 1926.

II11S E11V1dbAS DASkSOSh! AOAA.
Henry Phillips, 1926.
X TOW this is the story of how
I'M the chrysanthemum became
/ ragged, as it was told by
Kiku San. the Cat With the
Yellow Eyes, as he sat before the fire
d in the night after the Great Disap
pointment. Thus spake Kiku San:
you must know" he said, that
there was Beginning of all things.
In the Beginning there was Great
Prince who lived in most Beautiful
Country. and he was the Son of the
King. Now in this Beautiful Country
there were all kinds of Flowers ex-
cept only Golden Flowers, and in all
the Land there was no Yellow
Flower.
But the reason why there was no
Yellow Flower in all the Most Beau
tiful Country was because He Who
made the Most Beautiful Country in
all the World wanted to teach Great
Lesson.
and this is the Lesson He taught
when the Prince grew up and was
to come to the throne he knew from
his teachers that there was no Vel
low Flower in all the Kingdom that
was to be his He said to them,
There shall be Yellow Flower, and
the name of this Yellow Flower shall
be Cheerfulness.' s -~ 9-r
But said his teachers, and they
were very wise men, there is no Vel
low Flower, and there is no Cheerful
ness, no, nor Happiness, except you
go far away to find it,
$50 the Prince said, 4 will go i'll
search of the Yellow Flower, which
is Cheerfulness and Happiness And
he went away into Far Countries.
Nov it CHANGED that beside the
door of the House of the Prince there
had sprung up a little plant, and it
grew and blossomed, and the blossom
was a great golden blossom, all
smooth and yellow, and there were
only five petals-just as the bios
som of the Cherry Tree is to this
day.
And there came upon day Little
Maid who loved the Prince, and she
plucked the blossom, and said, 1 will
keep it and wear it till My Prince
comes home again
But the winds blew, and the North
Wind broke the petals of the Yellow
Flower, and the East Wind broke the
petals, too, and then came the South
Wind, and He breathed on the petals
Of the Yellow Flower and made them
all round and smooth, till they looked
soft and sweet and comforting. But
the other winds, the North and the
West and the East, they had broken
the five petals till there were sixteen,
or maybe more-though sixteen is the
number there should be after the
West Wind and the North Wind and
the East Wind had been all through
with the breaking of the petals of the
Yellow Flower.
"And the Other Names of the Winds
were Trouble and Disappointment and
Waiting-a1l except the name of the
South Wind, and that was Hope.
But always the Little Maid sat at
the Gate of the Castle, and the Wind
whose name was Hope breathed on
the poor petals of the broken Yellow
Flower, and she was very happy.
"Stil1 the Prince journeyed into far
countries, even into farthest India, and
all the lands which lie over against
the West and the East and the North
and the South, but nowhere could ne
find the Yellow Flower of Happiness
and Cheerfulness.
"Then, when the Prince was old, he
came again to his own castle, there to
die. And there on the doorstone was
seated the Little Maid, and in her hand
she carried the Yellow Flower, rag
ged now, and torn.
''What do we here? asked the
Prince
"T have found the Flower of Happi-
ness said the Little Maid, and it
was growing by your own hearthstone
all the time.
$50 the Prince knew that the Vel
low Flower of Happiness and Cheer
fulness was in his Own House always.
"But it was not until afterward that
the Little Maid told the Prince how
the Yellow Flower became ragged"
After the chrysanthemum is potted
leave it for little time in the shade
Then give it all the sun that is pos
sible.
The chrysanthemum was introduced
into England two hundred years age
from China. 1t was grown first II
Holland after its emigration.
The chrysantbemum is one of the
easiest of garden flowers to grow. bu
it needs careful tending afftter it il
brought into the house in pots wher
the frost comes.