Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1880 — “Please Give Me a Flower.” [ARTICLE]

“Plea se Give Me a Flower.”

Many times daring the pleasant months when the garden, .the field and the forest are yielding their floral riches, this request is made by some little one upon the city street to the passer-by who happens to have brought to the haunts of business a bouquet of wild or cultivated flowers. There is oftentimes something pathetic in the request; there is always that tone which indicates a heartfelt desire to possess one ot the beautifni and fragrant blossoms, and there is in the uplifted face a look that makes it almost imDossible to deny the request. They must be deaf and blind who ao not hear and see all this, tor to do so requires no exercise ot imaginative powers. And there is in it a suggestion which we are sure would be carried out by hundreds of our readers who have gardens or live in localities where wild flowers abound. How easy it would be to gather a tew blossoms before proceeding to business, te carry them along, and. to make glad the heart of some little one who might happen to come in the way. There is something in flowers that exerts a good influence, and there could be no sweeter mission than to bring to the city child, hemmed in by brick walls throughout the year, perhaps, a glimpse of the beauty and a breath of the perfume that are fonnd in forest and field and garden. Many of them ask for flower* when they see them, and the greater number or these, not daring to speak, ask only with there eyes. They desire not merely. to see and to smell, buttqoossess a flower. Because they can be gratified so easily the matter is worthy/the consideration of kind. hearted pedple. Missions to the children of the destitute are' noble, the “country week," is k charity that does immeasurable good, but here we have the suggestion of a simpler mission, the carrying on of which requires only a moment’s thought, the slighest possible amount of work, and a heart that finds happiness in conferring it Why should the city children sav, “Please give me a flower” in vain when there ao many flowers that might be so easily given?—Boston Journal.