The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-04-23
FLOWER LOVERS
Can GET SEEDS
The Idaho Republican
Still Has a Few
on Hand

seeds at the Republican office
Since we made the announcement re-
Gently that we had some, we have
had SO many calls that we have
| 'rackaged" couple of quarts more
OF two kinds Of seeds that We were in
doubt about people calling for. They
are the delphiniurns and hcllyhocks,
and since the first installment that
we put in packages has been carried
off, we put the rest in envelopes and
obeled them, g few hundred envel-
opes, enough to fill couple of shoe
boxes, and they are ready for any
one who calls soon. We are house
cleaning and are going to dump and
burn everything soon that does not
help us to make newspaper We
are intending to speed up little in
news service and any flower seeds
that are left on the first of May
will probably go ilto the furnace.
Colols That Soothe
1t is quite some JOY to supply
flower seeds to people Who care
enough about them to drop in and
say so. If one seed out of every
fifty that we have passed out to
people grows and makes bloom,
this old county will take on some
dainty color in streaks and spots.
If you will notice when you are driv-
ing out over the coutry, you will see
that the prevailing colors are gray
and green-sage, dust and alfalfa,
and they are very monotonous. 1t
leaves people yearning for something
and they may not know what it is,
but go into flower garden where
there are colors galore and you will
feel sense of relief to know that
gay colors of flowers really help to
satisfy that yearning. OF course,
you may be needing food, but after
the necessaries there comes sense
of hunger for some of the things
that affect the temper and DISPOSE
ton. Flowers soothe. Try 'em!
Beauty in the Hoosier State
When Indiana was being settled,
there was man who knew the value
of apples and acted on his convic-
ton of their value. He said that
| they were one of the most delicious
foods in the world, were the best of
medicine, good tonic, kept the
teeth clean and sweet, were a cleans
er of the digestive organs, made good |
cider and best of vinegar, furnished
pumace for the stock, bloom for the |
sick room, fragrance for the air and
! for bottling for perfume the trees
furnished the best of resorts for the J
court; apple blossoms furnished the |
most sacred engagement tokens |
when wreathed in a maiden's hair |
or pinned on her bosom; green ap-
pies furnished punishment for boys
who disobey, ripe apples can be |
"scraped" and eaten by the old and |
the babies; apples can be made in
to butter and jelly, pies dumplings |
and preserves, they can be canned
or baked, they make hens lay and
horses sleek 1.-The parings when cut
off all in one strip can be used to
foretell who will engage and marry
oh, there were so many uses for
apples that this man of much appre-
citation preached apples and apple
trees on all occasions. He saved
the seeds of every good apple he ate
and handed them out at "shuckin
bees and log-rollings, at timber
drives and camp meetings. He took
them to church and slipped them to
his friends and to the new settlers.
He taught the young folks to count
the seeds" in their apples as they
ate them at parties, and name the
apple for some youth or maiden
in whom they we're interested. At
ter the seeds were counted, they
would say the legend:
lone love, two ! love,
Three love they say.
Four ] love with all my heart,
And five ! cast away.
Six he loves, seven she loves,
Eight they both love.
Nine he comes, ten he tarries,
IlcFcu uc COuTtS anu IWcINc Iucy
marry"
Presaged Love and Marriage
If the apple proved to have eight
seeds, for instance, they both loved
but the legend left them in the dark
as to the outcome of the affair. Each
number from one to twelve showed
some progress in the case. Each
seed over twelve counted for one
heir in the new family. Our apple
friend was nicknamed Johnny APP
ple-seed," and he taught all these
various things to interest people in
applehs and to get them to save the
seeds and plant them. There was
one feature of this love legend that
Johnny did not teach but it went
along with the rest. If a girl was
pleased with the way the count turn
ed out and wanted to make sure
that it woul eeme true, she took the
seeds after the fortune" was told
and chewed them slowly and swal-
lowed them, thus sealing it by max
ing the seeds part of her blood.
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