Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Lilies and Hogs. [ARTICLE]

Lilies and Hogs.

Talk about casting pearls before swine! In Louisiana the fair lilies that grow in the bayous, with hearts of gold breaking into freedom through the purity of snowy white petals, to be kissed by the sun, and which, when loosened from their moorings by passing boats, float idly down stream on restful green leaves, are gathered by farmers and fed to hogs 1 At Morgan City the lilies are ■ taken from the bay in quantities and given to stock. One authority says the lily bulb is very fattening. Lilies have been given to the world to teach purity and make human hearts glad with their beauty and perfume. That is their mission in sentiment. Commercially the lilies —with their stems and brcal leaves—are valuable because they hogs.