Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1904 — An Elusive Water Lily. [ARTICLE]

An Elusive Water Lily.

The water lily of the Amazon has very elusive habits. The buds open twice—the first time just a chink at the, tip, in the early sunrise hours, a sort of premonitory symptom. On the following evening it spreads its four sepals with such alacrity that you can aee them move. But the big white bud among them remains unchanged until 4 o’clock in the morning, when it hurriedly spreads its blossom Wide open, remaining in this condition only half an hour. Within the hour it has nearly closed, and by another hour and a half the entire flower has been drawn under water by the coiling of the stalk.

“A man dat walks right up to de Job of reformin’ de whole world,” said Uncle Eben, “very often balks at so simple a matter as breakln’ hisself of chewin’ tobacco.”-Wasbington Star.