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Show The Children's Flower Hcds. Most children seem to have a natural desire to cultivate flowers and have somo of their own, and if this propensity was duly encouraged it would beeomo a permanent per-manent trait of their characters. It would make them observing and familiar famil-iar with the laws of nature. To know the names of the different flowers and plants of one's country and the wondrous processes of their growth is almost equivalent equiv-alent to a liberal education. Such knowledge knowl-edge unlarges tho mind and softens und refines tho nature, and therefore we should allow our children, boys and girls alike, to have their little flower beds in pleasant and well prepared pbwes instead of in out of tho way spots, as is usually the case. If our boys were taught to love and cultivate flowers they would not when thoy become husbands, as husbands now sometimes do, begrudge their wives sufficient land for a decent flower garden. Mrs. Burton W. Potter in Springfield Homestead. |