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an rose up i'll the back of the house and
said: ''rhere was one. I've often heard
of her. but she is dead now. She was
my husbands first Wife.
BE prepared for imperfections. Man,
are you looking for an angel? How
would you 'ook alongside of an angel?
When real life comes To the best and
happiest pair. with its trouble and Ats
care the tower of romance will fall
leaving MS in the mudhut OF everyday
reality.
Man and woman are like the two shells
of the oyster--they were made for each
other.
\ crusty old bachelor. hearing that his
friend had gone blind, said: Let him
marry. and II that does not open his
eyes. nothing else will But that sneer
has been conftited by the experience OF
many blind scholars, like Hood, famous
authority on bees. and Fawcett. political
economist at Cambridge. and England $
most famous postmaster general, whose
highly qualified wives were eyes indeed
to their husbands.
Many men think they arc seif-made
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teen hundreds. carried them on camel
back and by other crude methods of NOV
ing freight and finally succeeded in get
tlng the mower growers of southern
long before the naturalized flower be-
came money maker, and there are many
and many families scattered around the
mouth of the Rhone river who can thank
their stars that the hyacinth caught on !"
Here's secret about hyacinths. Their
fragrance is always strongest between IL
pm. and midnight. Doesn't that sound
fine and oriental? Any one with an i'm
agination can make up all sorts of Haroun
al Raschid tales with just. that little
whiff of seci ct to start on.
That wild mountaineer. the rhododen-
dron. comes back this Easter under new
guise II. too, has been to Holland and
returns with colors in its flowers that Ii
never dreamed of before. For thousands
upon thousands Of years rhododendron
has been making the mountain chains of
the eastern part of this continent beauti-
full. and no one ever thought ii needed to
receive European education. But some
how it went over. with it's very pretty
pink and white complexion fresh as could
be. and now comes back with blue flow
ers. and purple flowers. red flowers that
look like peones-in fact, all sorts Of col
CrS, cOmbina tiOnS and shapes. That Dutch
crop of rhcdodendrons has the florists all
wild and they are setting the pots out In
front SO that the passing show will rec
ogniZe real novelty when 1t sees one.
The new lhododendrons. in their pots
Lave very much of the same squatty look
as those dwarfed oak trees which the
Japanese love much and about which
there Is such a mystery as far as the
process of dwarfing is concerned.
:.
Speaking of Japanese. another of the
Easter shrubs that ought to catch on this
spring, even if trifle too late to be right
in the full bloom of the bower of Easter
bouquets. is the little Japanese cherry
tree. The Japanese cherry blossom. when
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of Methodism exclaimed: THANK Goa
the catalogue is complete.
With such experience, Mr. wesley was
competent to give good conmsg, s,,t ,,S ~nd. ad.
vice about the choice OF a Wl1e-one
woman was sweet tempered. but not q
protesting Christian. the other pfoiess-
ing Christian with fiery temper-Wnlcn
Marry the woman with the sweet us
position"
Marry a. good housekeeper Young peo-
pie think they must not be troubled with
such common places. but the newly mar
red will not be long within their own
doors before they find that something
more than tender sentiment is needed 10
make their home life a success.
kE
The Greek philosopher, walking at night
and gazing up at the sky, stumbled and
fell His companion observed: "One
should not have his head in the stars
while his feet are on the earth" Some
women set their eyes on romantic Ideals
their eyes and head are among the stars,
while their feet are on the earth, neglect
ing the real duties that come close to
their hands, in which the true secret OF
domestic happiness lies. and there is lit
tie wonder that they do stumble.
Even II girl should never be required
to do the work herself. she ought to
know whether the work is done in a
proper manner or not.
Unless parents can give their daughter
fortune when she marries they perpe-
trate fraud upon the young man, If. by
her lack of domestic training. they make
her unfit for the position OF wife in the
home of the young man who has to make
his way in the world.
The state of life into which it has
pleased God to call our daughters Is
MAINLY for the most parf that which
tails the duties of the housekeeper and
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of dollars spent on flowers in some OF the
big churches uptown. SO the women were
very much discouraged. Ihey wanted
the biggest show possible for the money
preacher that they would make that little
building q perfect bower of white. They
talked among themselves a whole iot
and finally asked me what | could 90 IL
l decorated the church entirely In greens
with perhaps just suggestion OF Wni'e
here and there ] said that for SOD
could bury the place in green. And dld
/ got three wogonloads of this iittie
green spearmint, and about Dusnel OF
wild sweet clover, and that little cnurch
is Just about as pretty as any catne0rai'
as far as flowers go.
The big churches uptown have all had
contracts let for their decoration for some
weeks past The florists who have those
Jobs on their hands have studied care
fully lust what they could do with the
flowers which are most prominent this
year and the result has been wonder
full Because Easter falls at a time when
the flowers are at their very best, tle
church services today Will be conducted
in bowers of color that are beyond de-
scription. One big florist, who was asked
how many lilies would be used In the
city today, said that 1t was absolutely
impossible to tell.
why, any one who undertakes to fig-
IRE the thing out would have to work
for weeks, and would then get it wrong.
Lilies are putting out new flowers every
day, and some are dying every day.
have 10000 some of them are going out
Of the city, though l understand that
two other florists in town have even more
than / have"
Even If each of the florists has only
10000 that means 10000 lilies between
the three and with the great many small
florists, each with from 80 to LOCO lilies,
the Easter lily assumes an enormous
size.
The rich folks did not buy lilies to any
great extent. They wanted TO get away
from the ordinary and went In for the
novelties in flowers. There is such keen
competition in the flower business now
that the greatest ingenuity has been re-
sorted to in order to get floral combina-
tions that will appeal to the rich. One
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A BOWER OF BEAUTIFUL BLOOMS.

it blooms out in orchards that cover hum
dreds of acres, makes up for all the faults
that the western traveller can possibly
find with the mikado's country. The beau
tiful pinkish. reddish tint against an old
green is beyond description. In addition,
it is said that a snowstorm occasionally
catches a cherry orchard in bloom too
early, and that the combination of the
snow and the flowers is something to re-
member forever The peach and cherry
trees brought over this year were very
small and their beauty will not be fully
appreciated perhaps until another year.
Any one who is wise enough to buy sew
eral of these little trees. treat them well
and place them on well nourished lawn
will probably have a fine show by next
year Their cost ranges from one dollar
up-way up
The white lilacs which have made
Easter beautiful from the time when the
memory of man runneth not to the con-
trary are not natives of America. either.
France claims them. and the florists call
the finest plants Fancy French"
THE common or garden variety calls
Asia it's home. and was never seen in the
Easter festival of Europe until about the
year 1900. Then Viennese florist intro
duced the plant to his country and from
that time on it has been great favorite
With the cultivating and forcing that
the lilac family has been subjected to. the
original Asiatic flower would scarcely
know it's latter day descendant.
linen the Olu IdNOIllc, LILO lily,
probably as long as Easter is celebrated
on earth will be the typical flower for
church decorations. ought to have some
attention. With all the novelties in the
way of flowers. decorations and fancy
baskets of plants. the good old lily seems
to retain its popularity. 1t is very easy
to obtain the figures in connection with
this plant. because orders for it have been
placed with the dealers for some time
About sixteen thousand Easter lilies Will
be sold this year in Washington. That is
sixteen thousand plants for OF course
some of the plants have more than one
flower The dealers sell them to the re-
tail buyer at a rate which Is hxed pS lne
number of flowers on the plant. There
fore. dealer who gets number or lily
bulbs that produce one flower each IS NOT
going to have bank account as rat as
the man WHO happens to get more 1ruit-
full lot of bulbs.
Probably every one believes that all
the Easter lilies always come from ber-
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from the plain little red and green berries
that grow in the sWamps of Virginia all
the way up to the very expensive ana
always popular American beauty roses, is
greater today than 1t has been on any
previous Easter 1t is true, too, Tor
tour through the markets and through
the greenhouses has shown that nature
has outdone itself In this, the nrst year
of President Taft.
All kinds of people have bought flow
ers To begin with the two old V1r-
ginians who in carrying back hve or SIX
dollars to little old cabin across the
bridge have experienced the cOmplacent
feeling that comes of great wealth. there
has never been q year within the memory
of the oldest inhabitant of the market
when natural flowers have been so Eas-
terike. Los of people get their Easter
flowers exclusively from the stands out
side of the markets. There nave been
hundreds OF wagon loads OF field noWers.
There have been bushels of daisies. early
enough for them. it is true, but the
greenhouses that have forced their dai-
sizes 10 appear for this Easter have not
beaten out some of the warmer fields OF
the Old Dominion. There have been pam
sizes grown in dooryard gardens. ana
which have sold for prices ranging from
10 cents to 30 cents a pot. There have
been the little punches of green's that
flourish at Christmas as well as at Eas-
ter. and which have been made up by
country children who will buy bit of
bright ribbon for their Easter outfit.
). 4
The market stands on the inside have
sold practically every flower that they
have had on hand. The lilies will ap-
rear today as the most popular flower
that the market florists have shown, and
they have been sold for 30 cents plant
for the smaller stalks to 81 for the larger
ones Almost every woman who did her
marketing yesterday bought some sort
of plant. The COMMUNICATIONS went
in FOR lilies principally. the Just-plaln-
Americans seemed to divide their interest
between lilies and hyacinths. and the
esthetics Of all bloods picked out tulips
That is what a dealer in the market told
a Star reporter
TheTeupon the reporter started out 70
find how many flowers were to be sold
Tor Easter. and it would take a mathe-
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maticIan with real high brow to figure
out the result. An old colored nanny
told him.
Law. chile. don't ask me. Eff I done
sell jes bout fo' dollar wuff disher truck
Abs lucky
A nice-looking young girl, who thought
the reporter was trying to get fresh told
him she did not know. and then said
100 pots OF lilies. 200 tulips and ANY
number of hyacinths." ANY number
might be ten, suggested the reporter.
whereupon the young lady said:
We'll, you know what l am driving
But he didn't.
A man florist who has been in the mar
ket a long time said that he just lived
for Easter. because he made enough
money to send his wife to Europe every
year. -,
because she was born in Holland
he added.
do you go with herr"
"Oh no. I just stay behind and watch
the greenhouses
Does she look over the Dutch tulip
market While she's there?"
Sure she does. Some of the best tulips
I ever saw she brought over here her
self"
What the plants?"
mo: the bulbs Then / plant the bulbs
over in the greenhouse, and In a. season !
have some tulips that cannot be equaled
anywhere.
He showed the reporter row of tulips.
They were fine, but hardly looked as L
they were worth trip to Europe.
There was another florist in the market
who undertook this year to decorate a
little South Washington churcn. he toio
the story:
..Some of the women came to me ana
told me that they had made 500 seilins
fudge and wanted to know what coula
do. 1 told them that lilies were the most
fNpc
th5t the kind of lilies they wanted would
cost them about 81 apiece. Fifty lilies
would not go very far, now would they.
when you come to think of the thousands
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what would happen? There is enough of
this heather blooming in French earth
here in Washington to make a Scotch
man homesick. Probably a thousand pots
of Ii are ready for sale now.
X
A beautiful plant, new to Washington
and very new for Easter celebrations.
comes from the banks of the Nile and is
a direct descendant of plant that was
favorite at the court of the Pharaohs
before the pyramids all had their top
pieces cemented on. 1t is the golden
locust. The books call 1t the Thurman
citus, but, regardless Of it's name. it is
wonderful plant that runs toward the
umbrella in shape and is covered all over
it's rounded top with golden flowers.
There are not many of these plants in
Washington. A foreign friend from the
Philippines that probably would never
have been seen here if it had not been for
the American guns on board the ships Of
Dewey's fleet is the Boganvillii sanderii.
1t has no American name as yet, but it
will probably be christened with some
very appropriate name before the spring
is past. 1t is really "creeper, some
thing like ivy, and grows in great pro-
fusion ON the old Spanish walls in the
Philippine Islands. 1t is especially beau
tiful when it has put forth its mass of
orchid-colored flowers, and the combined
delicacy of the flower and the peculiar
green of the vines leaves are very strik-
ing Some of the plants are eight feet
high. growing on trelises.
There are a dozen new varieties of aZa-
Ieas too. Seven thousand plants are
ready for distribution. American beauty
roses, leading the whole family In I'M
portance at this time. are getting ready
for rose show that has never been
eaualed OF course the rose Is always
the florists pride, and no matter how
many novelties are introduced in a season
the rose always stands supreme The
American beauty, too. holds its glorious
head high above all the rest: and If there
is any one who is ashamed because his
country does not produce the tulips and
hyacinths and heather he can balance his
sorrow with the pride in the American
beauty rose. Eight thousand of them
will be sold for Easter.
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muda. If that were true there would be
no lilies in American churches this year.
for Washington florist said recently that
a destructive blight had settled on the
lily fields of Bermuda and had practically
wiped out the entire crop. The lilies this
year were grown in hothouses In the cities
where they are sold, and the bulbs came
over last fall from Japan and the island
of FormoSa.
In passing 1t might he interesting 10
learn that Easter lilies are one of the
$500 kinds of flowers that claim relation
to the great family of iiliaceae. Really.
the tulip and hyacinth are lilies. but no
one ever speaks of them as such. and
probably the cold and aristocratic Ia ster
lily turns up his nose at his poor rela-
tions. such the sturdy and strong
onion. Garlic. too, claims relationship
with the Easter lily: SO does the aspara-
tables.
The Scotch heather is going to be popu-
lar this spring. As an Easter present
for brides and brides-to-be 1t is abso-
lutely without a peer. for, according 10
the Scotchmen. a piece of white heather
given to girl assures her the happiest
kind of life The florists are putting
up spriGs of growing heather in little
pots and Just now the little plant ia
blooming as splendidly as ii ever bloomed
when Bobbe Burns walked through 1t.
The heather is not grown in America,
either but is the genuine. real stuff.
pulled by the roots right from the side
of some rugged old Scotch hill There Is
a bit of trickery played on II. though. be-
fore il is allowed to settle down In peace
in its little pot. The shippers pack II up
in tiny paper cones. with plenty of Scotch
dirt for the roots to spread in; but when
II reaches Washington the greenhouse
men shake off the dust of Scotland from
its feet ed stick 1T in pot full of very
soft and peculiar earth from the south OF
France. If ever Bohbie Burns knew that
the heather was blooming on French soil
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the home maker. and for those duties the
learning acquired in the schools often
does much to unfit them.
The man who prizes woman chiefly be-
cause she is capable of performing well
her domestic duties does not deserve 10
have a good wife, He should employ
a housekeeper and pay her good wages,
and at the same time the woman whose
idea of duty stops with good house
keeping has very low conception OF
her proper mission Yet womanliness
and good housekeeping 20 together, and
what we need today is more young men
and women who will he true TO them
selves and unmindfu OF what the world
will say. and begin their married life In
a humble way and. like our fathers ana
mothers realize the dreams of youth by
working and rising together.
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A Footnote to History.

9TH open season is at hand. and now
in all the angling clubs tall stories
are to be heard, said Commissioners
George NJ. Bowers of the bureau of fish
cries in Washington.
Il heard group of anglers boasting
ard wrangiing the other night. \ pale.
grave man. after listening to them for
some time, said quietly:
Gentlemen, did you ever wonder what
finally became of the whale that swal-
lowed JONAH
What's the use wondering about that?
Nothing definites known. said trout
fisherman rudely. Boys, he went on,
she tipped the beam
Look here. the grave man inter
rupted. 1 know what became OF that
whale
"IIumph. what?' said the trout fish
erman.
For the rest OF his life he made a
bore of himself telling all the other
whales how the largest man he ever
caught wriggled loose and got away"
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Wordsworth paints the woman you
want:
\ creature not too bright good
For human nat ture's daily food:
The firm. the temperate Will
Endurance, foresight strength and skill,
4 perfect woman nobly planned.
To warn. to comfort and command,
And yet q spirit still and bright.
With something Of an angel light
Don't marry for beauty alone. \ Seau-
tiful woman may please the eye, but the
good woman will hold the heart
The highest style of beauty found IN
the human form is animated and lighted
up by the intelligence within.
Love Is the great beautffier OF the race.
However shaggy the brows, oblique the
eyes, longitudinal the nose and strag-
Cling the mouth, 1t is possible for even
such a woman to possess an inward
beauty which perishes not, which VIII
flash out in the eye. glow In the face
tune the voice and wreathe the counte-
nance in charms. The beauty which Is
only surface deep is likely to prove as
evanescent as the passing cloud.
VIC do not say that there may not be
some legitimate aids to natural forces.
but Lasting beauty of face or person must
come from within. The best way to
beautify the face Is to improve the dis
position. to set behind the face feeling
OF kindiiness toward ALL
This leads us tn say: Look we'll to the
temper of the girl you think Of marry
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A Ii Kinds of People Have

A LII Kinds of People Have
"A Bought Easter Flowers
Natural Flowers of the
Modest Kind in Great De-
mand - The Rhododendron
Has Visited Europe and Re-
turned With Many New and
Fancy Shadings-The Tulip
Remains a Favorite, While
the Lily Is as Beautiful and
as Popular as Ever.
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tie who sits by day out back or the Cen
ter market smoking a pipe-and the two
of them were talking:
"Cm-um. All reckons we all git dat
pig. sho'.
Vas. indeed. white folks done suttiniy
spread 'emselffs dis Eastah."
They meant that the people who buy
Faster flowers have this year exceeded
all previous records and have bought
and bought until the spread of beauty.
Evening star., 1909-04-11

ATE last night an
old wagon, COW
cred over with tat
tered and patched
canvas, dro N e d
across the long
bridge into Vir-
ginia. 1t was
driven by an an
cient colored man
and by his side sat
his wife-the kind
of old colored Aun-
- I--1~ @c tha Tnn
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but a shower after thunderstorm But
then Socrates was philosopher and
philosophers are very rare indeed.
Solomon, whose ma alrimonial experience
was rather multitudinous, had a different
view of the matter. "It is better to dwell
in the corner of a llousetop than with a
braWling woman in a wide house.
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BY Or. Madison c. Peters.

I. + c L l. r + II
inquired dramati-
cally. Can any
one in this room
tell me of a per-
feet mani" There
was a dead silence.
HAS any one,
he c on I | n u e d +,
heard of a per-
feet " o m a II =
Then a patient
looking little wom-
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John Wcsley's wife used TO sit in the
middle aisle in City Road Chapel, Lon
don. and make mouth at him while he
preached. One day he said that he had
been accused OF every crime in the
calendar, except drunkenness. whereupon
his wife arose and said: "Mr. Wesley
you know you were drunk The founder
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ing. Socrates said he married Nam
tippe and endured her for self-dscipline.
1t is said that when his wife scoded him,
he walked out of the house sat on tue
doorstep and laughed. whereupon Xa,'
tippe rushed upstairs and poured Il buckle )
of water on him. He walked away and
laughinSly said: What can you expect
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who are really marriase-made. Ma
po!eon won his greatest victories while
Josephine was his wife and while he
loved her. When our country's interests
hung I'm the balance At Valley Forge.
Martha Washington fastened to her
George and urged him on and on to vic
tory.
Whether a man shall be made or mar
red in marriage depends altogether upon
his choice.
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and there are several new varieties this
year. A safe estimate, based on careful
inquiry among the greenhouses. would
place the number of pots OF hyacinths
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COWAN ITEMS

The School met Monday, and voted
not to grant the petition for an cleo
ton ON the removal of the school
house.
Bert E. Moore and Nellie Tanning
were married in Glasgow on the 18th,
by Rev. l.. j. Christler. Mr.. and
Mrs. Moore are visiting now with
friends but will soon be at home
at his ranch at this place.
The Smash Ca1d Company is a
new enterprise launched here by John
and Virginia CoWan and Charles
Mead. They have a printing outfit
and will soon be turning out work il
their line.
w. Macarthur and several men OF
the Boundary Survey were here last
week, laying i'll supplies and other
wise looking after business. Th'
courtesy of these men makes us Wisl
we might have them for permanen
customers.
II, G. Cowan's muskmelon patch il
proving quite a profitable venture
Beside finding ready market for tn
fruit, he is negotiating with som
prominent seed houses to handle til
seed.
The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1909-09-22

,rars puls, in Green mythology, is d
sea monster which three times a day
sucks in the sea and DISCHARGES it in
whirlpool. 1t was depicted as a
maiden above, but ending below in the
body of fish begirt with hideous dogs.
Opposite her was the other monster,
Scylla. In later times they were placed
in the Straits of Messina Scylla being
identified with projecting rock on
the Italian side. The recent earth
quake is believed to have changed the
nnsition of the famous whirlpool.