Show ORIGIN OF FLOWER The name has been applied to similar species of lilies for hundreds of and probably arose among fables of the ancient Ovid relates that a son of alone of a large attacked and destroyed a wild which Diana in her anger had let loose to devastate the country ruled by 's The hero is described as a chivalric who on one occasion defended Atlanta an attack from several powerful A who had been driven from home by a hard-hearted was by and employed to superintend a flock of guinea guarded the birds with singular care and and on one when a mighty tempest had dispersed he walked so long to gather them together again that he was overcome with fatigue and In those we are the gods made flowers' out of human beings whom they especially and so pleased were they with the devotion shown by to the interests of his that turned his dead body into a i whose petals this day resemble the weathers- of the birds he had in ARE STRONG In his Moore makes a pretty reference the likening its beauty to the state of the chief's daughter who was happy enough till the young infidel Hafez came into the region and stole away her thy unheeding child all this bloomed and Tranquil as on battle plain The Persian lily shines and Before the combat's reddening stain Has fallen on her golden Lilies are universal They have a three-fold appeal to the sense of beauty their their their Like Horace's plain in their neatness they are truly elegant in simple They are with us at all the potted bulbs of our houses bloom in fall and the wild lilies in the the garden lilies in early the mountain water lilies in late summer and early as Caroline May thus expresses the popular flower is sweet to me The rose and The the sweet Heartsease and And hyacinths and sweetest are the spotless A A fortnight ago the writer journeyed into far in order to illustrate to some fellow teachers how they might give les- sons from bird and from rock and in a from object and rather than from the printed This was in the uncertain month of A brief snow of only a few ush- oral the high 1 unusual darted swiftly over the sage floated lugh in the air above our pebbly were so on tiie poles or fences along the that we were never ot hearing range ot ox silvery enormous flocks of mallard ducks swam over some great ponds or basked in the sunshine on feeding grounds within good view by means of our field glasses kil-deers were frequent and a great blue heron flew leisurely across pur path and slowly faded lo a speck in the a mar-v bled godwit stood motionless before us for fifteen minutes in a springy pool a rod from our while we studied it with the inches sang delightfully from the tree-tops in every the gentle-mannered blue birds were there and red-winged blackbirds we're but the crowning glory of the day was the behavior of a This beautiful whose spotted breast at first led me to believe a was flying high in but when near our he descended with a whir the fence beside there he stood and sang and disported and repeatedly darted to the ground to overtake some returning each time to his where he continued his variegated and interesting he finally flew after this delicious the writer found himself on the ground amid carpets of the finest of all the Sweet the mat-forming Phlox flashing in olive-green and gray rugs of dense which it all among the sage brush and scattered of the earliest of the by hands unseen were showers of violets And a bell-like as of a heard from a river This combination proved too much for the and it became clearly impossible while penning this reminiscent to keep out some original to say nothing of certain truly poetic lines that came thronging to memory and demanding for themselves a place among these hasty and humble efforts to record what was seen of nature that day among- the Wasatch hills and vales of Rich IN UPLAND Midnight and my books lie But their power to charm has flown i-ir tower And torrents foam Through my the clock-strikes Lonely I am in t Still the birds and their songs seem Bringing sweet Hillside blooms gleam everywhere Even the hum of that wilding bee Wafts a hymn that is perfume The or balm to the Ill And when the heavens aglow With the rainbow's lovely Through the sunlit snow Of April's threatening Arouse a sense of the sublime that Laughs our strength to IV And the soft sunshine Floods with gold the snow-capped While the breath from a warmer clime The coolest summit And in of early the voice of springtime speaks-V Where the scarlet brighten Till flames the upland c Whereon j In their p JJ Through the tic sighs 1 Of the bell-toned H j And is Defeats my resolved VII And when mountain hm flushed j With the setting sun When kildeer pipes are I And magpies scenes like strange joys f This dulled heart f j know r Why do birds in their Because they I out if they did 1 Why is coffee like a dit r It must be ground before It be are your nose and j I chin constantly at I so many words pass bete |