Show THE FINDING FAULT FAULT ROSE I Oh dear dearl Here It Is June and I Ilave have lave only onty Just bloomed grumbled a rose Now if it I had been a violet I should have h bloomed with th the first days of ot spring and could have had a along l ong long happy summer April was so o fickle this year but buthen t then hen he always is and it is mostly his f ault fault that I 1 have so short a time Ume to see seethe t the he world and have a good timeO time Of O course couise May is some to blame biame as well for my hard luck she comes along and tells you ou What she has in store for or you and then then she lets a cold old wind come along and hold you yO sack back back so your buds will not open Ohl Ohi dear how I wish Ish I could get ahead of ot April and May and bloom without them But June Tune makes up for tor all aIt the others others oth oth- othera ers era did not give us said a flower lower blooming near the foolish rose Just f feel eel how warm the sun is Is and how l lovely ovely you are are Rose You are in full bloom today toda I That is Just It I am in full bloom and ready to blow away If It a chance chane wind should come this way I could not l last ast a a. minute and there is so much I want to see see and nd I want to enjoy myself myself myself my my- self it is not right Look at Hollyhock He can see everything Oh Ohl why wasn't I a hollyhock Instead of a rose Then I could live longer and see over the fence too But Hollyhock gets all the wind that blows and sometimes he breaks of off short shor and dies before his time said the meek little flower You are PO oo 0 beautiful Rose and so BO sweet why I f M 11 y- y yI I I dont don't you OU throw your sweetness ls over the garden arden and be happy How can I be happy said the lose rose I 1 need rain to make me sweet and there has not been a drop this month That is the way with June- June she Is so dry and hot she kills all aU my sweetness Oh Ohl It Is hard to be arose How I wish I had been a dahlia Then I 1 could see the fall taU of ot the year Oh how I should love to live ive in the fall It must be nice to have cool days and lots of ot room to look about too for there are not so many flowers in the garden then Yes but the frosts are arc liable to come in the fall of ot the year said the little flower and then you would n not t get a a. chance to stay long 1 If the frost came early earb and the dahlia is not as beautiful or sweet as you are Rose Be happy and enjoy the things that are given to you ou Oh I how can I be happy when there is so much to bother me grumbled the rose I wish I bloomed bloom d dIn in a hothouse There they tell me roses live all the year round and they i ie e see e everything because they live in a I glass house Oh I how I wish I lived there But yo you would not be so Bw sweet et as you are blooming here her and it sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times is too hot in those glass glas houses I 1 am told and the roses do not grow well here you have havo the good tr fresh sh air and the natural earth to grow In tn surely there can be nothing better than that which God has given ri to us Do be be happy Rose your time is f hort send us sweetness before it Is too late pleaded the little flower lower again I But it was o of no use The rose was unhappy and grumbled all day long and Just at sundown along came a brisk wind and blew Its breath upon the rose in full bloom and away went her petals all aU over the garden Copyright 1916 1918 by McClure McClur Newspaper Newspaper News News- paper Syndicate New York City |