The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-17
In June.


Now that tho golden month OF all
1.-The year has come and gone. we can
look around us and see that all nature
lcles and treasures OF beauty, wisdom
Ilove. from millions Of seed calyxes,
germs, protoplasmic cells, each con-
tanning one kind of tree Hover frg ~
confusion has there been, no muddle
no mixtures, no haste. no waste; the
Voice that first created the world and
icreated all these wopderful things mas
mand. Such unity and perpetuity and
Variety! surely 1t is thing to be
deeply grateful for. We might nave
different flowers. trees, grains, Nege.
all know and love. But then we should
have no associations, no hallowing
memories, no experience OF values ano
effects, and our poor, tired. human
hearts and heads would feel oppressed
tby the riches of such creations AND
Overwhelmed by the attempt to know
anything 4'ont them. and - restless .,.es,s
r., sds ,s ey tnE sa'n poomtns me u nset
our mothers window, strikes us only
the more sweetly and deeply because
we have seen II come out every year
from childhood to old age. The white
she and he We're sweethearts blooms
for a woman forever. The lilies mat
lsacrecily, wet with tears and with
.groans that cannot hr uttered. are laid
crate all lilies to the sorrowful sur
iviNor. There is not an incident OF I'M
lportance in, our lives, from birth TO
death, that Is not in some way bound
up in our private floral calendar. Altar
END home, friends and country, a:e
set in every petal of them for all
flesh And all this we should lose had
not the good God made and given
these things to us, as He has Done
from Himself down, forever, without
vHria bleness.
Wordsworth.
The great English poet tells us in
one of his letters of his rapturous de-
light in bean field In bloom Only
once in his whole life did he smell
anything, and IL was that bean field
He was all his life long 50 grateful
heaven!" he says. Never shall for
yet 1T while l live. nor the sweetness
and goodness OF God that sent me
through that field that day" Wher
jLinnaeus found a new flower and in
hailed its perfume, or was given "a,l
old friend in new dress" he would
'bend his head and worship our
Maker" his family said. Like all deep
natures he was as full OF reverence
and faith as of simplicity and the
insight which IS both intellectual and
moral. But how numerous are tne
coarse cruel, stupid natures that TAKE
all from heaven and give nothing back
in either love or gratitude; that SEE
no beauty or poetry anywhere IN ln'
world, that miss all the sweetness o
the marvellous world around them.
is no bad test of woman TO onseIS
how she treats flowers. Some wome
like them best blooming sweetiy an
happily on their own bushes and stems
mot liking to see them fade and die $
coon after being cut. Some VIII Iak
10 nj Ma
vase for several days to prolong the
trail lives. Some Will tear them recR
tlessly from a bush with four or nv
unopened leaves and BUDS, ana pu
them to pieces and throw them on, III
ground Some will give droopin
overburdened stalk a prop to lean Q
with real pleasure. others VIII on
care for them in the windows oil II
house, TO advertise the house and
owners, or stuck in stiff, enormo'
Punches in their dresses, to say thi
ithey have caught a beau TIC
beau at that. Some girls VIII STICK ,,
spray of honeysuckle in the belt,
rose in the hair for pure enJoymel
OF them, and nothing more becomes
sweet woman.
Our Grandnothers ana ''Greats.
These women found themselves IN
new country. without any flowers I.
all, save the wild and unfamiliar on
( in the woods. So they Went to VOL ,l
with will saying; 4 cant nave i've w son
mowers" or 81 will have some flowers
while they still lived for the most pa
IN log cabins and had to Keep loadt
gun handy and an eye on the adjacel
forest for indians, too while the
planted their gilly flowers, roses, lille
!honeysuckles. lady slippers. bleedit
hearts and jonquils along the fence
iunder the Kitchen window. The
Thought nothing of riding twenty
thirty miles to get root. plant, blu
or slip They had their "simples," to
flor medicinal and Kitchen use, and
1.-THE years went by and the country sc
tiled up It was for her garden and h
Kitchen that the good housewife. W.
Inoted Great was her pride in
Thorough her knowledge of both gre
difficulties had she overcome to get
THE captain of every ship that we
ITO England was charged to be su
mot to.foseet the Ivy, clematis, crap