Evening star., 1925-08-15

of it thing of beauty and JOY for.
| ever.
In a small garden. any one. for a
few dollars, may have a profusion or
blooms, ranging the rainbow, Of al.
most unending fascination Of form
and appearance.
No two of them are exactly alike,
each having a slightly different shap-
ed blossom and characteristics, yet
each Is based on the wonderful stand.
ard pattern. / never look at a Gladio-
lus but what I think the Creator had
wonderful thought here.
It's shape Is the same idea as work.
| ed out in a score of other flowers,
notably the entire lily family, the
| Gloxinia, the Digitalis, etc. In it's habit
of blooming up the spike, starting at
the bottom. 1t particularly resembles
the Foxglove CDigitalis).
| What man has been able to do with
the Gladiolus is only second to what
| God did with 1t in the first place, and
| justifles the claim that He made man
| Sin His image"
A modern Gladiolus garden Is a
lesson in what man may do, working
under laws laid down, in changing
and bettering the creations of Nature.
A Glad Is best seen in the garden, it
seems to me, as all flowers are. / am
| not cut-fower fan" although ad.
| mitting their place at the bedside, as
outlined above.
All flowers do better, remaining
brighter and fresher, when reposing
on the bosom of Mother Earth from
which they sprang. To take them out
! and put them into vases is second
only to caSing wild animals in Zoos.
| r X x
at Is queer, but It is the little
things in life that give me my great
| est faith"
| Wordsworth held flower from the
Granny in his hand, and said II he
could really explain 1t he could tell
what God and man is" Blake saw
eternity in a grain of sand. The
soldier in the hospital sees faith in
| God in a Gladiolus.
The little things in life ought to
play larger part than they do. Why
do we need to be constantly astound-
ed. amazed. "hit squarely between the
eyes" fiabbergasted. stunned?
! Such exploiting OF the emotions has
8 wearing as we'll as a wearying eff
| feet, leaving far too many OF US "all
played out" emotionally, unable TO
respond when the little things Of life
make their large appeal.
DO not long for the old days" de
/ Vial bitC dUSASuc plCldIc
ad, going on to add that the days OF
the "nickelodeon' are far in the past
and that bigger and better" pictures
are on the way this Fall and Winter
The trouble is--we do long for the
old days! The very fact that such an
'ad" was printed proves it. Progress
and keen competition bring forth
many fine things. but they also leave
| some OF them behind them. l am sure
that the old 'nickelodeon" was one OF
| them.
Such a place, compared with our
! great picture palaces Of today, Is O
little thing" in the sense 1 mean
and had a charm all its own. Do you
remember how you entered it with
your best girl and saw a clean little
| play that you enjoyed together?
Yes, we do long for the old days!
So 1t is that the little things of life
| perhaps do count as much as they
| ought-how do I know? AS a group
the public seems to demand to be
| amazed and astounded, but as individ
uals perhaps it is content with the
| little things.
There is hope for this Nation, de.
| spite Mr.. Mencken's lamentations, SO
| long as flowers, children, bulldogs
| cats, base ball and sunshine please us.