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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1932-07-14, Page 3Nature Says It With Flowers. ARCHIBALD RUTLEDGE in "America Forests".' once had a rather.inemgrable ex. -,, perience with a water -lily. I had been at a douse -party, and, to be frank, I had tired of the company one morning and had gone for a walk alone in the woods: 'Here I found a tiny pond, and on it a single perfect waterlay. Little gusty fra- grant airs out of the forest made its gleaming chalice slide veeringly on the black water. It seemed °yearn - Ing for wings. While I was admiring the snowy immaculate bloom, sailing idly, and perhaps imagining that the other house -guests, whose frivolities I had fled, would not have thus wan- dered to admire a lily,—behind me sounded a step, Turning, I faced the chief reveler. What could he be doing down here? He spoke for himself. "How did you find my lily?" he asked. "This is my fourth visit to her. `a`oo bad she can't just sail away as she wants to; • just like people — anchored to the mud. What?" Ever since that experience I've splendor. been far less sure of the originality Ono day in late June a friend and and the loneliness of my feelings. i were driving up a mountain vale The arbutus grows closer to the The day was cloudy, but I had chosen to bring this comrade out be- cause• he was depressed, • and the aspect of the hills and the unstain- ed beauty of the little dells beside the road would, I knew, heal his heart if anything could. It was in my mind to stop beside some scene of beauty, and let nature's quiet loveliness do its work, And my chance came. The road dipped into a dewy hol- low. On one side was a noble growth of oaks and hickories, under which stood. a fairy forest of maid- enhair ferns, On the other side was a mountain meadow stretohing away under massive scarlet oaks to the distant mountain stream. I saw the crimson turrets of tall cardinalis. Between the ferns and the scarlet towers I stopped the car. I pointed. out nothing to him, for the heart rejoices more in making its own discoveries of beauty. My friend, as was natural, saw the cool flames of the cardinalis first. Then he looked away to the tiny . Sherwood that the maiden- hairs made. His eyes were rested, his spirit oalmed. Who denies miracles? We stayed till sundown; and from that time of communion with natural beauty and peace my friend began what proved to be a complete recovery Ono day in 'that delicious: season jl i:Isa I4§ee, when the rosebays • were in bloom, :I nil 'halite's sand sweet -gums imagined that the fragrance came from the pink blooms; how cur- i rised I was when my mother ex, planed that the leaves. gave the odor, Wildflowers do not as a, rule take kindly to civilization. I have tried transplanting and improving arbutus, ladyslipper, chicory, black-eyed' Susan, and many others. But they pine for home—for the sweet wild- erness of nature. Chicory shows a heavenly blue in the starved upland pasture; but when set in rich. soil, fertilized, and otherwise peter, it went to stern and coarse leaves, The blossoms were few and inferior. It could not stand prosperity. Per- haps it comes to perfeotion as long as it is anybody's flower; if we try to appropriate it, its charm. fails. One of the most startling and at the same time beautiful wild -flowers in all nature is the regal cardinalis —the, bloom that, in damp wood- lands, lifts its gorgeous red spire sunward, seeming to carol a scarlet madrigal. Where nothing obstructs the view, its crimson spire can eas- ily be seen for a distance of 200 yards. And its presence invests the wood with a princely charm,—as if royalty were approaching. There is about the beauty of this Sower ti.e ceremony of loveliness, a rite of earth than any other flower fo beau- ty and fragrance. It peeps forth with starry eyes from layers of dead leaves, and is the first bloom of the spring to woo one to the woods. When the great gray spearheads of wild geese .stream northward; be- fore the woods are misty with tints of coming green; before there is a single songster heard in the forest, spring's dealing recluse conies fra- grantly forth,—as fair as hope, as sustaining to winter -weary souls as fulfilments of love's promises. The great rose mallow is perhaps the most alluring of all wildflow- ers—partly because it persists in growing in inaccessible places! It is the love we never meet; the hope we never realize. A rose mallow has always been to me a vision of beauty unattainable, having the glamour of sunsets in it, and the lure of sad sea -horizons. The yellow jasmine is a child of the Southern forests; and a rejoic- . ing chi-: it is, Its beauty and its • ",fragrae a are such that one could hardly imagine grace more refined. If :you can't make love to a maiden, With, jasmine showers above; There'ta, no such ,thing as romance, bsuch thing as love! oa ''"canopied with exquisite greenery of this delicately rioting vine, and I see ' starry saffron. showers stayed in air. And the springtime softly swings her censer iu my heart. . I dearly love the wild. columbine for at least two reasons: for its swaying delicate beauty; and for its blithe hardihood in growing out of had gone into a shadowy glen to see the pink and snowy blooms, glim- mering in the fragrant woods above a crystal cascade. On my way back, just at sundown, I met a little moun- tain girl, Dorsa Boone, whose people I knew well. Though only seven years old, she had her share of work to do, and now was driving a cow crooks—like the loveliness of soul ahead of her up the mountain path • springing out of adversity. It re- It was just that deep hour when a huge and thoughtful silence trances the world. "You been lookin' at the rhodod- endrons, ain't you?" she asked. I admitted it. • "Which do you. likeeb best?" she her asked, looking up at me bare toes played in the sand—"do you like pulling the flowers, or do you like leaving them where they are? I allus leave them." Doris was right, The way to go wildfiowering is not to gather them, but to love them, to leave them, and to bring their beauty home in one's heart. calls to me a certain meadow trout stream, and a prince of fishermen, Henry Van Dyke. It was long my ' privilege to fish this stream with. him; or rather, to watch hint, the old master, which afforded me more pleasure than angling myself. At a.certain point along the stream the bank is high and rocky. There are dewberry vines ambling greenly over the stones; there are hawthorn bushes; there are little white violets like babes in the woods. And there is wild columbine. Out of the rocks it grows. There will be a patch of soil not larger than the palm of one's band—thin and starved. But In this the columbine grows, send- ing its roots through cold forbid- ding crevices in the rock. How- ever fast the fishing, I never saw Henry Van Dyke pass the swaying red chimes of the columbine with- out pausing to worship unfeignedly at their delicate shrine. I could not have been more than six years old when I saw my first wild rose, growing in a clay bank. • There had been a shower not long before, so that the delicate leaves were coolly -pearled; and exhaling from the foliage was the most delict- ons odor I had ever smelled. $ Olympic Romance ) The King's Highway ghway I know a road whose ribboned • oats A plunge into the sea of matrimony will be taken by Mickey Riley and Georgia Coleman, two of America's leading divers. They're going to wait until after the olympic games, though. "What did the jadge do to that young man who stole the diction- ary?" "He gave him a long sentence to work out." Sunday Schein! lesson July 24. Lesson IV—The Deliverance at the Red Sea—Exodus 14: 10-16, 21, 22. Golden Text—The Lord is my strength and my song, and he is become my salvation,—Exodus 15: 2. ANALYSIS. I. STRAITENED! VS. 10-12. II. MOSES' CONFIDENCE, V5. 13, 14. III. DELIVERANCE, vs. 15, 16, 21, 22. INTRODUCTION—The passage of the Red Sea was regarded by Israel itself a:, the most ianportant eve_it in their history. Men of later generations, prophets and psalmists, referred to it again and again. It was truly a water- shed in their history. Before it they were a band of spiritless slaves; after it they were God's triumphant free- men. Let us cast our glance briefly backwards. Unser the last awful visi- tation of God, the destruction of the rstborn, Pharaoh's heart at last yielded. The Israelites were permit- ted to leave; indeed, the Egyptians were glad to see the last of thein. Out ii.to the wilderness they went, God himself guiding them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by right. It is difficult to follow their course with an;; degree of certainty; they were not trained in. the nice pre cisions of modern geography, At anyf rate they reached the Red Sea (or Sen of Rushes, as the Bible calls it) though at what joint they touched the' R.� Sea—whether the Gulf of Akaba, or the Gulf of F•nez, or Lake Timsach - -it is perhaps impossible t say. Here they were to see "the arm of the Lord revealed." length, Smooth surfaced as a door, Was once the route of cavaliers In stately coach and four. Here gallant beaux in powdered wig, And belles in ruffled gown, To many a party, ball and rout, Rode down to old Jamestown, How still it Is along the road, How most divinely atilt— The sunlit pattern of the leaves, The shadows on the hill! My motor parrs In warm content, A rabbit scurries by, A drift of crows with lazy wings Climb up a drowsy sky. I pass an orchard that has foamed To clouds of feathery pink; The air is thrilled with mating call Of thrush and bob -o -link. I catch my breath! Across a field Of wind-blown silvery wheat, The wraith of Pocahontas glides On Light elusive feet. Through field and wood and sleepy town, The road winds on its way, II. MOSES' CONFIDENCE, vs. 13, 14. White drifting clouds against the Before his timid people, well-nigh blue, paralyzed with fear, stood the lion- Frail butterflies at play. hearted leader, Moses. Only the sour- ageous can inspire courage; and the It winds with many a bend and confidence of Moses, begotten of faith curve in God, put 1••eart into the people. To cross a singing river, "Here, as so often in the story," says Professor MacFadyen, "the lonely Where pale green willow fringes figure of Moses rises up hisplendid trail, contrast to the people about him. He And tall marsh grasses quiver. saw more than the foe and the sea; 'he endured,' as Heb. 11: 27 finely If you are worn with city streets, says, 'as seeing the Invisil.•le,' he saw Or choked with dusty fret, one whom the winds and the sea must Ride down the road with Washington, obey." "Stand firm," lie said, "andoMatch wits with Lafayette! se: the salvation of the Lord." It was —By Florence Wilson Roper, in bvions that human power could avail Dallas Texas Kalei ikon. , nothing; it was just obvious that the glorious passage of the Red Sea Pollen Declared t® be was an act of God's "strength made perfect in weakness " I. STRAITENED! vs. 10-12. All through the Bible the Egyptians appear to have been a fickle and un- reliable people. Isaiah scornfully re • fers to thein as "this broken reed," Isaiah 36: 6. No sooner theadth Israelites left Egypt than Phar- aoh, true to the unstable character of his race, regretted that he had par- rnitted them to go. After all, the Israelites were very useful; they had made excellent slaves. A division of the Egyptian army—chariotry, cav• airy and infantry (v. 9)—were dis- patched to turn thein back to bondage. It is likely that this army comprised simply the garrison force stationed on, the borders of Goshen to observe and control the movements of nomadic tribes. The Israelites, seeing that they were purst.ed with a well-equip- ped force, lost heart. They began to upbraid Moses the first of their many murmurings against his leader- ship. Was it not a mistake, they ask- ed, to make this dash for freedom? Did not . slavery it Egypt, severe though it was, offer relative security? Better a second-best like slavery than this sure and awful destruction! Let us alone, they had cried in Egypt— the language of despair, of content- ment with the second-best; let.• us alone, cried the demon possessed in the synagogue at Capernaum (Mark 1: 24)—the ceaseless language of sin. They were indeed in despei to straits. Before they was the Red Sea, behind V. em the Egypjian army. They could go neither forward nor backward. All retreat was cut off. They were faced with nothing but destructio 1—or God' MUTT AND JEFF— By BUD FISHER Yt5+ 06.1 Nt3 Be(w C'D KNCES PLEADING "Jtu.i t.4RS. MUt`T ID FORGO) RIM WANTS to SE A 6003) Not* 10Y- UNtIk Title WEf -fli to G'I's 4041 III. DELIVERANCE, vs. 15, 16, 21, 22. Cause of Dreaded Asthma The rod, which Moses was bidden to Pollen—Pollen, the bugbear of hay lift up over the sea, had been given fever sufferers, is now accused of him by God at his call (4: 2) ; Moses causing asthma as well. had called it "the rod of God," 4: 20. A man of God, like Moses, was ac- In a paper read at the annual meet - credited with having extraordinary ing of the Canadian Medical Associa- pawer. It was the power of God's tion, Dr. George C. Hale, of London, Spirit dwelling mightily in him. This Ont., said inhalation of pollen was power was thought to be mediated one of the major causes of asthma. through his clothes or through his He named eating of ce;•tair foods and staff. Elisha parted the waters of the effluvia and proteins of bacteria as Jordan with the mantle of Elijah (2 others. ings 2: 12) ; Gehazi attempted to raise Asthma, he explained., was due in the Shunannnite's son with the staff of early stages to spasms in the small stElisha, 2 Kings his 4: rod1. When Moses bronchioles, small tubes running from obeyed itsd 'out sover the sea, it the two main branches of the wind- hasebeyed Master. A later Psalmist clothed the event with poetic im- pipe to the lungs. Later it develops agery: "The sea saw hien and field," into continual spasms which lead to Psalm 114: '3. A.11. explanation of this changes in the small tubes even on more naturalistic gi:•ounds is 1 `li9ltiggesl;e• as>ukal'ers from asthma provided in v. 21—"The Lord caused after each attack should write down the sea to go back by a strong east everything the; did or ate on the pre - wind all that night." On the basis of ulcus day. After several attacks, he this remail: it is thought some that said, it might be found that some food the neck of the sea at this point was shallow as indeed is true of this Sea or deed appeared on : ery list and of Rushes as a whole, and that a that its elimivation would prove furious wind blowing all Light would have the unusual, but not altogether impossible, effect of driving the waters back, leaving the seabed comparative - 1 dry. It must be remembered that the Hebrews did not distinguish be- tween the natural and the supernatur- al. All natural phenomena were to them supernatural, for all were under the sovereign power of God and all exhibited his power. So the sacred historian recognized a natural cause, "a strong east wind," but, back of this again, and controlling it for his own redemptive purpose, was God. Whatever the nature or explanation of the event, it was in any case the Lord's doing. Mrs. A. wants to send me to a summer re- sort for four weeks." "Mr. A.—"Well, I dontt him." — "Tom, our physician blame America's Ulciest Because she is said to be America's oldest 'mother, Mrs. Nah-Thle-Tie, 109 -year-old Apache Indian of Oklahoma, received a gold medal from the Federated Women's clubs. A Grave World Issue By Stanley Baldwin (Lord President of the Council, In a House of Commons Speech.) The great importance of this June - tare of the Ottawa conference is that it comes at a time when we are defi- nitely at the parting of the ways. It will be impossible for things to drift any longer. We .have got to advance , in the direction of closer fiscal rela- tionship, or we have got to drift apart. There is no question about it. The whole evolution of the eco- nomic pull of the world is gradually to increase the larger units, and I hope we may see in Europe a great change in the future, or it will be all up with European trade. And if the dominions do not get into this eloser economic union with us, I need not in this House and with this audience point out the economic dangers which, for those who value the em- pire and the traditions of our race, lie between each different component part of the empire, .. . We have to remember there is no • such thing as isolating yourself from • world depression. Countries have tried it—particularly the United States. They tried to keep out other People's goods, and did influence world conditions for a time, but even they cannot do it. Their distress to- day and the disasters which have overtaken them—well, there 'is no country in the world which is suffer- . ing more. It may be beneficial from the standpoint of a single country to take measures to isolate itself. It cannot be done by all of them. We must do all we can to break it down. !Britain Heads List As Bir! + r,: , rlthr cite into Canada from Great Britain exceeded those from the United States in May, the first time fa his- tory that this happened in any one month. In May the imports from Britain were 170,967 toes and from beneficial, the United States 150,802 tons. In ' — May, 1931, they were from Britain, Why Worry? 141,911 tons, and from the United A Quaint morsel of graveyard States, 208,894. • philosophy written about 1875. The summary of trade for May . A hundred years ago or more Men wrung their hands and walked the floor, • And worried over this and that, And thought their cares would squash them flat. Where are those worried beings now? The bearded goat and festibe cow Eat grass above their moulded bones And jay birds call in strident tones. And where the ills they worried o'er? Forgotten ail for evermore. Gone all the sorrow and the woe That lived a hundred years ago. The grief that makes you scream today Like other griefs, will pass away, And when you've cashed your little string, And jay birds o'er your bosom sing, The stranger pausing there to view The marble works that cover you, Will think upon the uselessness Of human worry and distress, So let the worry business slide, Live while you live, and when you've died, The folks will say, around your bier: "He made a hit while he was here." MY OWN-YOutt. GVE.R-LOVING` AQG.StUS cANNoT EXIST At.ONs.' tut -moor You Ltee Wotil.4 BC A BIG'aoWL OF zGio. 114 D You1. IkcLPING Maio ib GUI•DG-- MY SCNE.MCS- T t"E utR..t YouR tN,TGi.LiGcNr BRAIN -ro AbVtS' Mc rN MY ntZoJtcTS r A8 SOW—MAN AM LOST wtT11otir fern SuPCRla BUSjNGGSS ACuMC.N'ta tc`uteTllete MY MAtex. PRO F ITAFl Lae p LANs, ' the. tuAY m FORGIVE. `(OUB MuTTs,C BY - *HAT 'PLANS FtAuE Yov? issued by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics shows that the balance with Great Britain was favorable to Canada by $3,743,6S1, and with the • United States unfavorable by $10,- 388,007. For the twelve months • ended in may the favorable balance was $32,891,398, •contrasted with an unfavorable balance of $77,737,551 for the previous period. The unfav- orable balance with the United States was cut from $213,859,398 to $S7,737,978. - 41 A True Test A true test of friendship: to sit or walk with a friend for au hour in per- fect silence without wearying of one another's company, 'Duty The thing which must be, must be for the best; God helps us to do our duty and not shrink, • And trust IIs mercy humbly for the rest. Owen Meredith. Faces are made beautiful by kind- ness. It is a divine sculptor. It requires a very clever tongue to get a foolish one out of trouble. An Impassioned Outburst Of Oratory. . sA P :7 • .r0 ea".- a" II neat i f '----urs Evi , •• f `-- a K �i , . ... Gp? jy Irl(Ar t, a� / i! , a