Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1906-08-23
ThoRoEARE.


| Blessings on the man who first invented
sleep, said Sanchr Parza. Some one else
has said, Blessings on the man who first
invented the scarlet geranium, and thereby
| brought the humming bird TO the widow
lsill." have seen loads Of scarlet geran-
liums this summer, but not a humming-bird
among them all. Perhaps we live TOP near
| the road in Thoroiare, and the automobiles
brighten them away. They might frighten
ALMOST anything, think / used to watch
them-the humming birds, / mean, by the
hour, in my grandfather's garden, when a
child, and there were no scarlet geranlums
there They would hover over the roses
and pinks, and sometimes dye deep into
the cup OF the old fashioned, fragrant white
lilies / should have said that they liked
the fragrant flowers best independent of
their coloring, but / thought them more
beautiful than any flowers and | was too
young to attempt study Of their whimsi-
cal moments. Now, / might call their
movements inspirational, but then / was
like many older people whom | have met
since. had most respect for that which |
understood least, and / desired most that
which Icould not have. Should, by chance,
the thing for which wished be given me |
have spent good deal OF time out-of-
doors this summer, with the children, and
as | haye viewed the landscapes o'er''
haye not pitied the farmers so much as /
should have done, because the rains have
kept the earth so fresh and green, and now.
after the middle of August, the only hint
OF the approaching Autumn comes to us in
the ripening fruits. In the midst Of an
asked by two and three years OF age, re-
member wheat field which gave me SUI
preme delight as child. 1t clothed the
side of a long but gently declining hill, the
top of which was crowned with pines and
oaks and other forest growths. The trees
have always stayed green, and the wheat
has always waved in golden pillows in the
wind just as it did then, and an ideal farm it
is in my mind, one which grows wheat. We
were behind the times in our part of the
country, and the grain was threshed out on
the barn floor with fails in those days, the
rhythmic motion and sound Of which made
another childish delight feel so sorry for
the children Of the present age, they seem
to haye so few real amusements. The
grains of wheat which we liked to gather
and sifb through our little palms were not
heavy, yet they were, and are a ponderous
weight that rules mans world. Wherever
they are there is empire. Rome thought
more in her latter days of grapes and oys-
tiers and mullets, that change color as they
die-Rome is no more, and the lords OF the
world are they who have master-ship OF
wheat.
s'Thus answer all my critics who are hooking
at my ways,
Let me have q past to dwell on
In the Winter of my daysi'
Miss Katherine Dick and Mr.. James I.
Callahan, OF Philadelphia, were married on
Wednesday, August Is, at six o'clock, p.
M, by the Rev Thomas A. Farley, Of
Thorofare.
Mr.. Charles W. Curtis, Of Wyneta, visited
Mr.. Charles B. Leonard on last Sunday.
Mrs. Eva Lodge and son, Walter Lodge,
Mr.. and Mrs. Isaac G. Low and daughters,
Margaretta, Mary and Florence, and Miss
Carrie Murrell, all went to Ocean City on
last Friday for week, for glimpse Of the
'shrinY,i'
The Misses Alice and May Gibbs will
play at Berlin Park next Thursday for the
Fischer Piano Company.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles c. Leonard and
uaugnt5I Lizzie, arc speuuinS S0'oiaA uaS 2
in Atlantic City. they may be found at
the "Braithwaite."
Mrs. Cummins, from Philadelphia, has
been spending some time with Mr.and Mrs.
Aaron Windish.
Mrs. Cornelia DeHart- Burlingame and
daughter, Miss Jeanette Burlingame, from
Moline, Illinois, were visitors last
week in the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Il. A.
DeHart.
The Farmers Picnic held at Washington
Park last week was well attended by
Thorofare people, and some fine exhibits
were made. Mr.. Fl. A. DeHart had some
cut-under Ishelvings, and fine carriages on
view, and did thriving business.