Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1898 — The Committee. [ARTICLE]

The Committee.

“We’re a Decoration Day committee,” began Lilly. ” “And we want some of your flowers,” sald’Milly. “To trim the school house,” said Tilly. Miss Eunice laughed heartily. Then she looked sober. "See here, my dears,” she said, kindly, “I think it .isn’t a nice way for little girls to beg, if it is only for flowers. “Beside, when you get the flowers so easily, you hardly care for them. A little girl/isked me once for a sweet red rose, and what do you think? She ate it before she got to the gate!” * "Oh, but we wouldn’t do that, Miss Eunice!” said Mil?/.

"You wouldn’t love them as If you had grown them yourselves,” persisted Miss Eunice. “Now I*ll tell you what I’ll do for you; I will give each of you some plants, so that you can raise your own flowers for next Decoration Day.” “Oh, that will be nice! Lovely 1 Splendid!” said Lilly, Tilly and Milly all at once. “But what shall we do for to-morrow?” asked the little girls. “I have promised all my flowers for tomorrow,” said Miss Eunice, “but I will show you a garden that does not belong to anybody, where you can get for tha pickingall the flowers you want.” So the three little sunbonnets bobbed merrily along behind Miss Eunice, as she led the way to the woods end fields. “This is the garden I meant,” she said, looking around. And sure enough, there were whole flocks of milk-white daisies, and troops of bloodroot and trillluma. Lilly, Tilly and Milly ran to gather them with a shout.' “Take care, my dears!” said Miss Eunice, as the children up the violets by the roots. “Pick the flowers and leave the plants.” “I thought you said these were nobody’s flowers?” said little Tilly. “To be sure,” said Miss Eunice, "but they are too pretty to be spoiled. Leave them to grow, and other little girls will find them here waiting to surprise them. So the lovely wild flowers z will keep a great many Decoration Days.”