Show sweet from some jim dim and misty c orner corner of memory comes a waft of pennyroyal A hillside thickly carpeted with the sine line pungent growth a group of children at play a summer afternoon blue sky white clouds the sound of a splashing brook and the freshness of life before it had known sorrow or guile all are blended with the homely pennyroyal ny royal aromatic and fragrant its later associations are with adirondack Adiron dac camps and nights when gnats and mos bombarded the veranda but its first and dearest memory is of happy vande wanderings rings in lovely woods and fields it was once part of every matrons matrona mat rons care to gather bunches of catnip mint sweet fern and other herbs and store them away for future use many a bit ter decoction potent in times of illness or fever was brewed from these dried herbs and perhaps from very terror of the nauseous draught araug ht the invalid lid hastened to get well of the lavender which made sweet the linen closet of the bay leaves used for flavoring of other sweet herbs which grew for pleasing and for healing ws ve have I 1 agreeable recollections though the fashion of gathering them has largely gone out except among the auz quaint and patient shakers who find it profitable to dastil distil remedies from the herbs which hide the secrets of natures heart liniments elixirs elix irs cough and potions galore are compounded of st sweet beet smell ing and bitter herbs erbs by these kind peo pie harpers dazar bazar |