The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1922-11-24
SENATOR REEDS ELEC-
TI0N AND BIRTHDAY

On November 10th, Mrs. Jas. T.
Bradshaw, of 1927 Troost Avenue,
Kansas City, Mo-, presented to Sena-
tor Reed at the Hotel Muehlebach
huge bouquet of wonderful garden
flowers of her own raising, the occa-
sion being his election to the United
States Senate and his 61st birthday.
The following letter accompanied the
beautiful flowers:
Senator James A. Reed:
My Dear Senator Reed: These
flowers l am sending you for your
birthday and in honor of your return
to the United States Senate for your
third term, were grown in my own
garden and bloomed in their unre-
strained splendor and perfection upon
election day.
Since August l, / have nourished
them very carefully for you, believing
and hoping they would survive an
election-day frost which might try to
wither you and blight my blooms of
promise. In the garden of my heart,
flowers of thought come to me as l
gather my posies in my Kansas City
garden almost the middle of Novem-
Der, their unusual life so like your
own.
Like yourself, they are the survival
of the fittest after great and won
derful election day, its setting sun of
gold, its balmy air of spring, making
of November the end of perfect
day.
My Reed flowers grew in the open,
hlnOmal in fhn nrJ noJlo,I
in the gentle breeze as though in sa-
lutte and celebration of your great VIC
tory at the polls. They have come
through scorching summer campaign
unframed, and now in their prime,
they owe their success to their I'M
daunted courage. fearless of any hob
COLLINS hiding under the bushes or
maybe pillowslips. They were una
fraid of the outlaws of the garden,
and were good mixers on equal terms
with orchids and holloyhocks and GER
tainly were not clannish. The only
snap dragons they know are grand
mothers kind.
My Reed flowers grew in the open,
few weeds tried to choke them but
they couldn't; then came along some,
snakes in the grass but none in bot
ties, some thistles bobbed up to de-
stroy but as they blew with every
wind, they only destroyed themselves.
Thorns pricked, poison vines trailed
about, but after all they proved to be
just grape vines which the wind made
sing bedtime stories to these sturdy
plants.
Nothing seemed to wither my
flowers for they had a backbone of
Reed which was unbreakable. 1t
wouldn't even bend but remained up
right with faces toward the sun
awaiting the harvest moon of Aug. l.
Then the great flower hearts bloom
ed into their own to reach maturity
November Z. Each petal tells story
of another heart tender and true for
whom they were named. A great man
who won victory of achievement in
the service of his country as a United
States Senator two terms, returns
now for his third term and who will
be the next president of the United
States!
May the fragrance of these flowers
shed their incense of blessing all
about you in a halo of glory, and
here's to him whose great mind and
heart attunes to the finest chords of
nature, who loves her verdure, her
rocks and mountains and fowery
dells.
With heartiest congratulations
dear Senator Reed, l present this
shower bouquet.
Sincerely and forever,
Your friend,
MRS. JAS. 7. BRADSHAW. !
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