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Show EVERY FLOWER HAS A STORY ALL ITS OWN li thi: POPPY. Consolation and oblivion Is the M-niflcance M-niflcance of the poppy In the language Of flowers. Even the ancients recog- I nlzed the narcotic qualities 1 of tho plant, for Hypnos, the Kod of sleep.' and Thanatos, the god of death, are always represented In old art as hold-in; hold-in; S poppy The Greeks and Romans used the pedals of the poppy to test their love. One petal was placed In the palm of! one hand and If upon being struck I by the other. It snapped with a sharp sound, the loved one was faithful. oi.I Indian LEGEND. . An old Indian legend Klls of a der- vlsh living on the banks of the Ganges river, who had a pet mouse He was, very fond of It and ga e it tho glttl of speech. A cat living In the neighborhood, however molested the mouse, so the dervish changed it into a dog. Th. animal was still dissatisfied. So ii was transformed into an ape, then a boar, an elephant and finally Into a beautiful girl whom he called I'osto-manl, I'osto-manl, meaning poppy-seed. KING MARRIED HER. One day as she was In the garden, the king passed and having fallen In love with her. Insisted upon being married at once by the dervish, and they lived happily. une day, however, how-ever, Postomani was standing by a well, and becoming dizzy, fell In. To console the king, the dervish told hln. the story of Pwtomnnl, and gave directions di-rections that the well bo filled with earth. He toM the l ing that out of her grave a plant would grow from Whiob would be obtained a drug which would make the person using It he mischievous like a mouse, savage like a dog. filthy as an ape. wild like a boar and slow as an elephant That Is the effect the drug has to the present pres-ent time. |