Show THE LOVE OF FLOWERS As the twig Is bent the trees inclined is a trite saying the truth of which we sometimes forget near nearly y three thousand years ago tho the wisest of men declared train u up a child in the way he should goans boand when he is old he will not depatt depart from it most mosi persons are born witha with a natural love for flowers I 1 never yet saw a toddler whose eyes did not light up with pleasure at the sight eight of bright blossoms and whose whom fingers lid did not itch to hold bold in their grasp the pitty flowers aid small boys show fully za AS much liking as their sisters it is con the proper thing for our girls to wear flowers to love them and care for them and so encouraged and trained the majority of our girls grow up into flower loving women on the contrary in many homes the boys are made to feel that the love of flowers is girlish 11 and trust our modern boy for wanting at all times to be f mannish 11 so our boys smother their natural liking with a forced indifference which later alas becomes a second nature ninety nine one hun bun of the men and women who manifest this indifference never had their tastes cultivated in this direction while young it Is ie freely admitted that there is a refining llevat elevating ng influence about flowers why then hen should not parents ii feel it a duty to encourage the love of the beautiful in bud and bloom |