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Show A Wonder of Coloring In Flowers. The editor of "Notes For the Curious" Curi-ous" recently read a wonderful (?) account ac-count of a bunch of roses kept in a New York herbarium, which still retain their original color, notwithstanding the fact that they were cut from the parent stalk three years and one month before the signing of our Declaration of Independence. Independ-ence. The editor of the paper in which the notice appeared, he no doubt consid ering it the "eighth wonder of the V'orld, ' ' asked if any reader could give information concerning a case in which foses or other flowers had retained their natural colors for so long a time. We would state that we have seen well preserved wreaths and garlands of lotus, red and yellow poppies, and other unclassified flowers which were found on Egyptian mummies known to have been dead over 6,000 years. The red poppies were but a shade lighter than those dried and pressed but a month or a year before, and in the case of the yellow yel-low variety there was no distinguishable distinguish-able difference between those from the ancient tombs and specimens which had been dried but a week. If the editor who refers to the colonial roses as wonders will visit the Egyptian museum at Cairo, he will find dried colored flowers of sufficient antiquity to excite bis woo-der. woo-der. St Louis Republic Hate Field on the Bttnrage. Sixteen months ago, on the platform of the World's fair congresses in Chicago, Chi-cago, I stated that, never having believed be-lieved in universal suffrage unallied to universal intelligence and honesty, I had never publicly advocated woman suffrage. Logically I have always believed be-lieved that women had as much right to the ballot as men. I denied the right to both sexes. ,1 have always olaimed that suffrage is a privilege and should be granted as a reward of merit regardless of sex. If woman suffrage leaders had taken the same ground, I would have joined thein long ago. I was convinced that whenever a majority ma-jority of American women wanted the ballot they would get it I never met a man who did not assont to this conviction convic-tion and who did not second my assertion asser-tion that the worst opponents to female suffrage are women themselves. Why, then, did I experience a change of heart in Chicago? Because I had be gun to look into our naturalization laws and was terrified at facts. Because I discovered that the new states were in the hands of aliens, not citizens of the United States. Because I saw that female fe-male immigration was much less than male immigration; that ,h large majority major-ity of female voters would be American born, and that the sooner the forces of anarchy and rebellion were met by the oonservators of home and law the better for the country. I heard the threatenings of riot that broke out a year later, and it seemed to me time for women to come to the fore. What I thought 16 months ago I fixnj. ly believe now. |
