The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-15

TOW LHlS 10 SlOlJ VI iOW
nj the chrysanthemum became
ragged, as it was told by
kiku San, the Cat With the
Yellow Eyes, as he sat before the fire
in the night after the Great Disap-
pointment, Thus spake Kiku San:
You must know" he said, that
there wafi Beginning of all things.
In the Beginning there was Great
Prince WHO lived in a 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 a Great
Lesson.
And this is the Lesson He taught.
when the Prince grew up and was
to come 10 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.' -.
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
E go far away to find it
so tbs Prince said, L will go in
search OF the Yellow Flower, which
IS Cheerfulness and Happiness And
he went away into Far Countries.
Now it CHANGED that beside the
door of the House of the Prince there
had sprung up a little plant, and it
grew and bIossomed, 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 tie winds blew, and the North
Wind broke the petals of the Yellow
Flower, Snd the East Wind broke the
petals, tao, 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 otheS winds, the North and the
West anal the East, they had broken
the five netals till there were sixteen,
or maybe more-though sixteen is the
number there should be after the
West Wand and the North Wind and
the Ease Wind had been all through
with the breaking of the petals of the
Yellow slower.
And t9Ie Other Names of the Winds
were Trouble and Disappointment and
Waitingi-all except the name of the
South v ind, and that was Hope.
But always the Little Maid sat al
the Gate of the Castle, and the Wind
whose pame was Hope breathed on
the poor petals of the broken Yellow
Flower, and she was very happy.
Still the Prince journeyed into far
countries, even into farthest India, and
all the lands which lie over against
the Wet and the East and the North
and the South. but nowhere could ne
find the Yellow Flower of Happiness
ana III
"Thei;, when the Prince was old, he
came again to mis- own castle. there tc
die Ard there on the doorstone was
seated the Little Maid, and in her hanC
she carried the Yellow Flower, rag
ged now, and torn.
What do we here? asked the
Prince
IL have found the Flower of Happi
ness said the Little Maid, and 1
was growing by your own hearthston'
all the time.
$50 the Prince knew that the Vel
low FL wer of Happiness and Cheer
fulness lwas in his Own House always
But az was not until afterward tina
the Little Maid told the Prince how
the Yefow Flower became ragged"
After the chrysanthemum is potted
leave IL for little time in the shade
Then give it all the sun that is pos
stole.
The shrysanthemum was introduce
into England two hundred years ag
from China. 1t was grown first /
Hollan1 after its emigration.
The ichrysanthemum is one of til
easiest.of garden flowers TO grow, br
il nee1s careful tending after it
broughx into the house in pots whe
the fr4st comes.
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