The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-22
Relating to the Pretty Idea And
 There is PdnSieS, ThdtS for Thought
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE
X A ND there is pansies that's for
 "A thought" she quoted from the


 ( A hapless Ophelia of MT. Shake speare's Hamlet" and stood entranced to watch an aerial swarm of delicate white butterflies lowering over bed of lovely blossoms in an old time flower garden.
 The storm had passed upon its wet and windy way. leaving the great beds of multi-colored pansies that held in the heart of each flower a jeweled tear-drop, ] unabashed.
 There were yellow pansies that seem to have borrowed the gold from the sun, and lavender ones that had stolen their tints from the modest violets, there were pur- pie ones and amethyst ones, rich and royal as the velvet robes of bishops and others wholly white. like the ghosts of elfn people,
 They are like the beautiful upturned faces of children wet with tears," she remarked as she looked closely at these sunny-faced little flowers.
 'Or like elves bejeweled for a sylvan ball." said her companion. Certainly they seem to be crying and laughing all at the same time" she agreed, and then as the fragrant wind passed over them, she added: Now they are all lowing together to the butter flies; and they are elves, while the little white ones are graybeard flower gnomes, looking out with dark eyes from the flower company" Have you noticed this year how many pansies we see?" asked her companion. Another consequence of continental war rare. Where there used to be so many tulips, now you see pansies because most of the tulip bulbs are imported from Hol- land and there have been no importations from Europe this year. In fact, to quote the poet:
 We have no Haunting tulip bulbs,
 And that is why sweet pansies
 From Holland far away;
 Are blowing here today'
 IT you are going to drop into verse, Silas Wagg like" said the first speaker, T shall drop this quotation: T never loved the tulip flower
 Of vivid gold and red. l far prefer sweet lavendar
 And white and plum instead"
 "Very good Eddie, shall quote to you as they do to the youngster in the play of that name," said her compan- ion And now since you quote poetry to order and are so knowing, why are pansies call hearts ease?"
 Perhaps Oberon. King of the Fairies. explains this in A Midsummer Nights Dream, when he says: Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid
 fell.
 It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with
 loves wound, And maidens call it love-in-id -idleness. Fetch me that flower, the herb I
 showd thee once The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it
 sees."
 "Elizabethian poets and dramatists seemed to dote on the pansy, anyway" she returned. Don't you remember that George Chapman in All Fools wrote: I pray what flowers are these" and was told:
 ''The pansy this
 that for lovers thoughts
 Her companion replied:
 Milton in Lycidas' wrote of the pansy frocked with Jet and a later poet, Sarah Dodwney, quoting him in verses entitled Pansies,' says:
 T tell thee that the pansy frocked
 with jet
 Is still the hearts ease that the poets
 knew"
 "Also our own Bret Harte wandering in western mountains found, and said of this flower:
 ""To feverish men thy calm sweet
 face uplifting Thou stayest them to tell