Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 21, Number 6, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 2 August 1890 — Page 1

Vol. 21.-No. 6.

THEJV1AIL

PAPER FOR THE PEOPLE.

"Notes and Comment.

"Few men are BO mean aa painted in life, and nono so good as they are colored after death." Nothing could be nearer gospel truth than this.

It has been found that there are five or six varieties of the mosquito. But all science

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failed to discover more than

one variety of the bite.

English audiences go to sleep over ^bakosporo, a trait quite in keeping with the disposition of the people there to go to sleep over every thing.

Speaker Reed wears a black «aab. No wonder a Texas member was led to remark: "Well, I'll be hanged! Look at Tom Reed wearing a dude belly band."

A gain* of poker much resembles Congress. lu both "a pair" counts for very Mttle, a "bluff game" goes a long ways, and "full bouses" are few and far betweeu.

Tbequestlou which now presents Itself 1n: Will the Louisiana lottery company be able to bribe Congress Into the defeat of a measure to exclude lottery literature from the mails?

There is one man whose word Is nevor to be doubted, whose eye la unerring, whose whole life is but an exemplification of righteousness—the ice-man. That is from his view of it.

Lady Montague said: "The only thing that reconciles me to being a woman is tbo facit that 1 can never marry one.' Ami Wliittioraald: "If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone can restore It."

In •Switnerland tho Mormons are expolled from the country. In America tboy are deprived of all political power. Botli methods seem quite effectual in creating within them a decided tendency to move on.

Philadelphia has 8,000 vagrant children under 12 years of age, who are without wny fat*my tie# whatever. Would it not be interesting to know the futures of these little waifs? How many are to become srlinlnals and how many re apeotod citizens?

The Louisiana lottery company has sont ft lobby to Washington to work against tho bill excluding lottery literature from the mails. The danger such a bill would present to the company's in tere«ts is thus oloarly acknowledged, so Congress could do nothing bettor than adopt such a law.

A French writer says: "As long as there are two men, broad, money and a woman, there will bo war." Yes, domestic war, but not international. The prediction is ventured that there will never be another groat International war. A little fighting between South American baby States Is not to le counted. _____

Lord Salisbury has o?t been able to hold his own in argument with Jas. G, Blaine, an:l now stands in the undignified attitude of sulking on that account. He should not feel so badly. More capable men than he have gone down in debut® before the Plumed Knight, and he nhould be proud to identify himself with them in defeat.

Baltimore ban three colored physicians, they are members of the State, Medical Society, and consultation is never denied them when they seek it. There are also five colored member* of the Baltimore bar and they are treated with courtesy as intelligent members of tho profession. Does this not suggest a practical solution of tho race problem?

Gath says: "Thosystem of threatening to drive a man out of town or shoot him from a blind because he exorcises his own views and ballot, will always keep those who do the bulldozing in a minority." Such a sentiment is applicable In the North, but hardly true In the South. Every Presidential campaign bears testimony to the correctness of this opinion.

New York has three female dentists. One, a handsome and business-like Jew. en*, makes *4,000 a year, and has three months' vacation besides. She waa originally a typewriter with hours from S to a, tut now works only Ave hours a day. There is nothing an energetic typewriter cannot do, for she has the inside track no matter in which direction she may be traveling.

den. Palmer is now an avowed mndidate for the V. S. Senate, subjeet to the will of the Illinois Legislature. It Is mid of him that he I* In hi* second childhood. If this be true he t* wnlnently fitted to assume the exacting duties of the position to which he aspires. Second childhood seetSit the predominating feature In the Senate, and in consequence the standard of states* manship la on the dsellne.

The Beaton Globe aay* the tolling of bells at funeral* la a relic of the earliest ages, and originated In the pagan Idea

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that the sound of bells frightened away evil spirits. Certainly this is no excuse for the continuation of the practice at this advanced stage of civilization. Frequently the tolling of bells suggests thoughts and recalls memories that mar hours and days of happiness. Why should the bells be tolled?

A Lafayette divine is of the opinion that church members who buy beefsteak on Sunday morning are on the road to hell, and will get there if they continue the practice. Perhaps they will, but if this constitutes the crime for which they are to receive eternal punishment, then there need be no doubt that the absence of regular Sunday services in the place of their final abode will not be owing to the fact that ministers of the gospel are wanting.

"I never would allow my boy to learn to swim," said the mother of an only son "and I never could bear to have him in a boat. Skating I always detested, and ball-playing I consider vulgar. He had a horse for riding, and waa always allowed to walk as much as he chose." Yet, no doubt, such a mother expecta boys to be robust and healthy, an impossibility according to her standard of life for them. Few mothers who allow their boys free indulgence in all athletic sports ever have reason to regret it.

Town Talk.

JUST A LITTLE J'WIT LI An.

It strikes ono not versed in all the ways of sustaining life as being somewhat singular that so many well dressed, apparently well fed and to all outward signs well satisfied professional gamblers could survive In a city where gambling is positively forbidden. Everybody knows

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closed for haven'tjthe faithful police repeatedly given assurance of this fact? And yet these men of leisure live. How la it? Are they super-humanly endowed in such a manner that food is not necessary to their health, or are they now living on the interest of their earnings of days gone by? It is surely one of the two for the police have said there Is no gambling and of course their word la authori6/ To insinuate' that they are possibly mistaken would be Ingratitude to the powers that be. And yet the mystery is hard to explain. The res trot us work to live even if the perspiration does interfere with our comfort and happiness, while theaomenof loiaure a'ud luxury take frequent buggy rides and got enjoyment out|of standing before saloon doors and eyeing women as they pass. The comparison seems to convince ono that all men are not created equal, our noble declaration of in dependence to the contrary, notwlth standing.

A SUOOBSTtOJf.

The fair association is constantly on the lookout for new and startling features for the fall exhibit, and presuma bly will thank any one for suggestions which will enable thom to interest the public. So this idea is offered. How would it do to secure an Edison phonograph and arrange some sort of a talking match between it and one or more of our gossips around town. It is said this machine is the only real opponent a talking woman has but there are people In the city who have begun to doubt the truth of the ability of even this wonderful little mechanism to hold Its own. However the matter could be easily tested. Tho association might offer a prixe for such a contest as mentioned, and If there is any doubt as to the evenness of the race a handicap might be given the phonograph. It might be worked by steam, and intermissions of a few seconds might be granted it in which to change cylinders. This contest would be a good substitute for the marriage ceremony of last year, and would undoubtedly draw people from far and near.

WltRMS WIS STAJfD.

This little Item of state news is worthy of general perusal in Terra Haute: "ISvaasvHle has .secured $40,000 to build a Y. M. a A, building and Is after S&M3Q0 more.

To It might have been added: Albany has il-SOPQ for the same parpoMe and Is after $12,080 more, inaiaoapolls niraKty bsw a magnificent bonding. Term Haute hms neither a building nor a cent miiI moreover, has not a thought of a Y. M. C» A.

The comparison, if not odious, isn't exactly pleasant. It la not a surprise that Indianapolis should have a flourishing society, for there not even the corner groceries are allowed to keep open on Sunday so far does the christian work extend. Nor la It unexpected that New Albany should be doing so well, for she la the "City of Churches" in Indiana. But II la an overwhelming surprise that JSvanavllIe, the city that has rivaled us In base hall, immorality, commercial enterprise, and la almost everything, should be well to the front. This very spirit of rivalry, If not re! Igloos remorse, should drive n» to shame, for sneh a Y. M. C. A. showing Indicate* that In one direction we are at leaat far behind. Yet it is difficult to sss how such a disadvantage la to be overcome, for one and possibly more of the ministers of the city are knswy to oppose such an organisation aa a Y. M. CA. The argument la thai It detracts

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from the work of the church, and has a general tendency to demoralise' the young men in their religious belief. This may be partially true

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one idea ia held that a Y. M. C. A. Is to promote Christianity alone and is expected to do the work of the church in converting sinners. But there are other uses to which a society oould be put, and these are arguments for an organization. One of these, and it is hot the least, is that the young men of all the churches would be brought into association. However, these matters have surely all been considered by the various churches, and a decision reached that a Y. M. C. A. would not be a beneficial organization, else one would have been

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formed long before this. LtTRURIANT HERBAGE. It Is always pleasant to be criticising even for those who write let alone those who read. It gives the Impression that one is a constant growler and an altogether disagreeable person. But there are times when to growl Is only to secure what is due you, or those around you. Just now it Is

time

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the leniency showed careless property owners in permitting them to allow the weeds along their sidewalks to go uncut until they reach an Inspiring height. In some plaoes over the city, not excluding the most fashionable and beautiful residence streets, weeds have grown along fences until they now reach the hips of the passers-by and yet no sign of cutting them can be observed. The beauty of the surroundings is not only sacrificed, but the health of the residents endangered. This should not be allowed, and especially since it causes such unfavorable comment from visitors. Last Sunday delegations were here from a dozen cities of prominence and from morn-' ing until evening very little besides unfavorable comment was heard from them. A little previona effort on the part of property owners would have prevented a large portion of it, for much' was directed against carelessly kept lawns and sidewalks. %,,

A QUESTION!

Why are property owners so reluctant to take down their fences? Experience has demonstrated that the cow Ordinance is being rigidly enforced\a4d tbweeaiis4SP,^wviatVg^r^f?bnfttvSopr6(i*.'i tlons if the unsightly barriers are removed. Too little effort is made to beautify the city, and it is time attention were called to this fact A few progress sive residents have set the example and now their homes offer pleasing contrast to* those around them. One fenceless yard in a square, however, does little good in beautifying a whole street.

SA UCJC FROM OTHER SANCTUMS.

Exchange: Doctors, like mules, de pond largely on their heals. Texas Sittings: A pawnbroker, after all, is but a poor, loan man.

Judge: /There are times When you cannot trust to eppearanoes, as for instance when you see a woman smiling and singing merrily as she sews the last year's trimming on her now summer hat.

Revolvers and cashiers go off wheif loaded. Texas Slftings: We complain that life Is short, and yet we never lose an opportunity of throwing away a greater portion of it watching the home team trying to play ball.

Soaieraville Journal: A flirting woman can cause more

trouble

Puck: It might save

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than a devastating army, but she istfery much nicer than the devastatingIrtrmy after all.

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strike until they are sure their wiv can support them. Peoria Transcript: Barber shops iti Philadelphia are not allowed to keep open on Sunday. This is right. For one day in the week, at least, the ministers should be allowed, to do their share of the talking.

The following story of Abraham Lincoln is now going the rounds of the press, for its excellence commends it: Secretary Stanton was onoe greatly vexed because an army officer had refused to understand an order, or at all events* bad not obeyed *1 believe 111 sit down," said Stanton, "and give that man a piece of my mind." "Do so," said IJncola, "write It now, while you have it In jour mind. Make it sharp cut him all up." Stanton did not need a second Invitation. It was a bono cruncher that he read to the president. "That's right," mid Abe, "that's a good one." "Whom can I get to send It by? mused jthe secretary. "Send It!" replied Lincoln, "send It! Why, don't send it at all. Tew it up. You have freed your mind on the subject, and that is all that to necessary. Tear It tip. Yon never want to send such letiem I ney^rj^"

Mrs. Mary Frohman, of New York, pot ont a big washing" the day her huaband died. Afterwards she had the parlor shades drawn up, and placed In the window pleton* of herself and husband, draped in red. whit* and bine. In the basement window were displayed a pair of scales and bologna sausage, also draped In red, whits and Una.

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frothing is more disappointing until you become used to her than the London woman, writes an American from abroad. I mean, of course, what is termed in a general way a "lady" At the first glance she appears to be badly dressed, large footed, awkward in her gait and dowdly in every sense of the word. When you get accustomed to her you discover that her feet would look smaller if her boots were made differently, and that if her clothes appear commonplace and comfortable It Is because dresses she In accordance with the climate in which she lives or In harmony with the occupation or deversion which she has in view. Now that I know them better, I have acquired an intense respect for the English woman, even if I cannot compare her in any way for grace and beauty with tho woman .born under the stars and stripes.

I used to be under the Idea that the English girl was of a beefy, robust condition, and that her teeth were noted for their firmness and whiteness. There never was a greater mistake. Twothirds of the young women of England are long and thin and their teeth are far more faulty than those of the fair beings wio haunt the oandy districts of Philadelphia. Indeed, it is the exception and not the rule to find an English woman with good teeth. Her feet, really, are in accordance with her size, long and slender, but she has a way of encasing them in broad-soled, flat-heeled, sqoaro-toed gaiter, and, consequently, the con trust to the natty little French footgear of our own belles is a little trying.

Next, the English girl or young woman, has a mania for incongruity of attire. She loves to wear a yellow straw bonnet, with a fed rose on it, a blue thin silk or cotton gown and a heavy fur boa round her neck or a fur tippet over her shoulders. I have, met pretty young

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TERRE HAU^E, IND. SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 2,1890., Twenty-first Year

Beauty Wanting.

TIILED ENGLISH WOMISN UNABLE TO MAKE ANY CLAIM TO BEAUTY—ESPECIALLY IS THIS TRUE OF

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Rotten Row In riding habits complete in evory detail, but spoilt by a short skirt showing yellow tanned shoes.

The Royal Academy, or a flower show at which the young English woman congregates in her hundreds and tens of hundreds, is a sight of weird and marvelous costumes. Some of the girls will be dressed as though they had stepped out of pictures in the sixteenth century, while others of equal rank and wealth will.look as though everything they possessed could be purchased for a few shillings. Generally one will see an overdressed, trying-to-be-young-look-ing mother, accompanied by two girlsi clothed In garments constructed from the material which an American servant girl would scorn to wear, but they are quite comme ilfautfrom an English point of view and so are nothing remarkable in their own circle. In fact, the dowdily-dressed girl is a fashion set by the Princess of Wales, whose distinct mania it is to appear young. The Duchess of Fife being married is emancipated Irom her mother's trying gowns, but the Princesses Victoria and Maud still appear exactly alike In simple stuff dressos on occasions when their mother is wearing all that Worth's art can produce.

What a fiction it is to talk about the beauty of any member of the English loyal family! There could not be a mor^ commonplace lot of women. The Princess of Wales is slender almost to io&aciation her eyes would be doll but Jot the make-up which sorrounds them: her cheeks are rouged and a wig always covers her head, which, I am given to understand, is completely bald. She has little If any bust, she limps as she walks, and she is almost stone deaf so, on© way and another, It Is rather sickening to read the mass of gush that Is to be read dally in the British newspafiers about the beauty, etc., of England's future queen. She is, no doubt, an accomplished, amiable, virtuous woman, but in appearance she is an absolutely commonplace and altogether uninteresting person.

Ail three of the Princesses of Wales have indifferent teeth, bad complexions and wretched figure. Nobody would kKk at them twice but for their exalted position. The daughters of the Princess Christian are equally plain-looking and their ia no promise of beauty in the young daughters of the Duchess of Edinburgh. As for Princess May. of Teck, who has so often been described as a beauty, all she claim* to possess is a passable figure and good eyes. Her face, however, ia spoilt by the way In which her upper lip protrudes and by a nose which suggests an Hebrsic strain somewhere orothsrin the familyi,

Of the many vaunted beauties of Loaded society only the Duchess of Leinster would perhaps pass as a lovely woman ail over the earth. Lsdy Londonderry also comes under Owl head, and so does Miss Wolsely who made her debut this year. Lady Dudley Is now completely paasee and ia much made upas sn opera boofib prima donna. All the duchesses

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are plain-looking women even the two Americans duchesses, Marlborough and Manchester, are two far beyond their youth to claim affiliation with Yenus.

The Duchess of Portland look like a well fed dairy maid and the Duchess of Newcastle bears a marked resemblance to a younger edition of Mrs. Cleveland. The Dowager Duchess of Montrose is a sight for the gods, with her flaxen wig and canary-colored garments, not to mention her enormous proportions. She reminds one of the better»half of a sud-denly-enriched German brewer from Chicago. She certainly would not be permitted to enter a fashionable Hotel until her rank had been explained..

The Duchesses of Rutland, Leedt, Cleveland and Richmond are old women, while the Duchesses of Abercorn, Hamilton, Argyll and Westminster are absolutely plain and undistinguished.

In fact, the far-famed beauty—and it still exists—of England is only to be found in the middle and lower olasses. The aristocracy are absolutely ugly In a general sense, and the ugliest of the lot are the maids of honor generally In attendance of her Majesty. On the other hand, the shop girls, the waitresses and barmaids of London are often absolutely beautiful in both face and figure. The trim black dresses which they wear, free from tritfctiling or adornment of any kind, and their showy aprons only enhance their charms. The contrasfeaometitnes of a bevy of waiting women in attendance at ono of the great mansions is so strange that one begins to wonder how it is the lady cannot discover the seorots which enable her maid to possess and preserve her good looks.

In tho course of the last two months I have been present at two balls. One was in Islington, given by a local dry goods merchant to his employes and to which I was taken in order to see the lower middle class girl at her best advantage. The other was a dance given by the wife of one of her Majesty's Ministers. At the first ball I felt as though I were in a Mahommedan's paradise.

The other ball, as far as the cushing, lack of breeding and scramble for food were concerned, might have been a sec-ond-rate oharlty ball any where In the United States but for one fact, no flgty In the Union could ever have orought so many ill-favored women together. But your Englishman doesn't know what the word "ugly" means^ What we term a "homely" face he calls "(iistlnguished," "so aristocratic-looking, you know."

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"There is not ono man or woman in ten thousand who can afford to do without seven or eight hours' sleep" writes the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmago. "All those stories written about ctreat men and women who only slept three or four hours a night make very interesting reading but I tell you, my readers, no man or woman ever yet kept healthy in body and mind for a number of years with less than seven hour's sleep. Americans need more sleep than they are getting. This lack makes them so nervous and the insane asylums so populous. If you can get to bed early, then rise early. If you cannot get to bed till late, then rise late. It may be as Christian for one man to rise at eight as it is for another to rise at five. I counsel my readers to get up when they are rested. But let the rousing-bell be rung at least thirty minutes before your public appearance. Physicians say that a sudden jump out of bed gives irregular motion to the pulse. It takes hours to get over a too sudden rising. Give us time after you call us to roll over, gaze at the world full in the face, and look before we leap." The sensible portion of the world will agree with the great divine in all this.

A collision between a Big Four and E. fcT. H. freight trains occurred in the E. & T. H, yards Monday morning, and resulted in the killing of George J.' Krapf. The accident happened about midway between M/un and Poplar streets, and was unavoidable on account of the curve in the tracks at that point. ^fThe trainmen saw the danger when too late, and both engineers reversed their engines, but to no purpose. A coupling on the E.*A T. H. train broke and several cars came on, meeting the Big Four engine which could not stop. Fireman Keefe jump^d in time and saved himself, but Engineer Krapf remained at his post too long and was caught between the tender and cab just as he was in the act of jumping. His body was badly crushed and life was extinct in a few seconds. Mr. Krapf was one of the oldest engineers on the road and had the reputation of being as careful as oould be asked. It was a strange coincidence that the day of his death w«* bis sixty-third birthday. The deceased WHS born In Baltimore and came to this city in 1IIS7. Since that time he has been aconstant employee of the Big Four road and aa engineer was given the foil confidence of the officials. He leaves two daughters and two sons, Walter, a fireman on the Big Four, Aivan, a fireman on a southern road. Miss Kate and a younger daughter of about elgM years. The funeral ocenrred Thursday afternoon from the family residence on north Sixth street and waa largely attended. The remains were Interred at Woodlawn.

Geraldines Letter.

MY DKAK RUTH: I wonder if you are seeing and enjoying the wondrons beauty of these mid-summer nights nights so enchanting they seem to restore tho original beauty of Eden, so tender they seem to woo every soul to a willing surrender of every feverish longing, and so holy withal, they seem to fall like a broad ^iiediotion over all the world. One grudges the time that has to be given to sleep—loth to be away from the magical spell of the moonlight.

A bunch of water lilies, with their cups of snow set in green without, and gold within, are on the table before me. Tho pond lily is nature's symbol of coolness in these hot mid-summer days. When we were children wo had a calendar of our own. We knew the spring had come, not because the almanac said so, but because the arbutus blossomed on the hillside. It was April and May because the blood-root, the anemone, the butter-cup, the violet and the daisy told us so. It was June when the roses name, and the the fourth of July meant pond-lilies just as much as it meant fire crackers and torpe? es, and all along through July and ^gusfc how we revelled in their wonderful beauty. How wa spent happy mornings floating along the shaded banks of the river where they grew, coming home with the boat laden with their fragrant blossoms. Noother flower lasts so long, no other flower has an anoestry as ancient, and for this reason 1 have always thought the pond-lily should be called tho queen of flowers, for It has an ancestry as ancient and glorious as ahy princess of tho blood royal, be she Guelph, Bourbon or Hapsburg. Its history goes baok to the earliest of recorded days. It was called tho lotus iu Egypt and was a sacred flower to the Egyptians. Pictures of Osiris show the lotus interwoven in the headdress of the god garlands of it were wreathed around tho sacred bull, Apis, a single bud hangs over the forehead of the queen of Rameses the Great, and Egyptian belles carried bunchos of it in their hands. It was the national llowor of Egypt, the rose of Egypt, and entered

largely into the, art of the country the capitals of columns, prowB of btiats, and many other things were fashioned in its shape. It was consecrated to the sun and the god of eloquenco. Cleopatra knew the flower well, and it doubtless helped to decorate tho Bplendid barge whereon she sat the day she sailed down the Cydnus to meet Marc Antony. The Assyrians for ages proudly wore the water-lily, and it was as highly prissod by the Babylonian maiden as by tho dark eyed beauty of the Nile. In thoso wonderful hanging gardens, built by Nebuchadnezzar for queen Amytis, there wore great tanks, looking like miniature lakes, on the bosom of which iloated tho pond-Illy. The Greeks dedicated It to the nympbs, from this it took the first of its botanical name—nymphma. In sanscrit lands we find the lotus again, and the Hindoo has woven its blossoms into his sacred legends. The Hindoo gods are often represented as sitting on a lotus, which sedms to be an allusion to their fable of the world rising out of tho midst of the waters. It is the first plant to mako its appearance after the spring overflow, and it is to the Hindoo a bright token that the plants beneath the waste of waters are not dead, but in time will come out of it again as luxuriantly as of old. One of the most poetic of their legends of the lotus is that which tells bow the creative god was subdued and persecuted by his enemy, the destructive water. He could find no rest oir shelter till he thought toconceal himself In the blossom of the lotus. The lotus kept him safe in her bosom until it the proper time he went forth In greater glory than ever before, and blessed all the country about with plenty arid prosperity. So outof bis great gratitude the Hindoo brings to the temple the blossoms and fruit of the lotus, which he heaps upon the altar of sacrifice before his gods. The temples are adorned with representations of the ilower, and the Buddhist priest turning toward them, utters dnily these words: "Om mani, Padme, Hum"—"O highly exalted is the jewel SQ the lotus blossom." The Hindoo also pictures Sri, the Kpddess of beauty, as being born of a lotus flower. All the sacred books of the Orient tell of the water-lily, and so too have the song writers of the Occident praised its charms and celebrated Its beauty. The island of Sbalott, the home of Elaine, was hedged about with water-lilies, and we read of her braiding them Into garlands as fair and pure as her own sweet self.

What an important part flowers have played in the history of the world. In all ages, and among almost every people, they have been adopted as symbols of affection and loyalty. The deities from whom the days of the week are named each had his special flower. The sun, Sunday, the sunflower the moon, Monday, the daisy Tuesday, the god Toi's day, the violet Wednesday, the god Woden's day, the bine monkshood

borsetalL The sacred days In the English church have each the flower or plant emblem, the principal, of which is the holly for Christmas. GKKALDIKE. "A

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