The Brussels Post, 1889-10-18, Page 7OCT. 18, 18b0.
HAVE PLANTS SOULS?
pgnsnNAL MAGNETISM iN REARING
HOTHOUSE FLOWERS.
'Khat Experts flay.; to Ray on the Someet
—.Too Frequent Watering Often tho
Oause or tbe'rrouble.
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Success in flower mature depends on,
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That Is the dic-
tum
mt, 1 tam.
Ir as or at least of
a good
of the fa e
tum
many gentle cullurista who have failed
or succeeded In making window gar-
dens, according as fate or some other
occult power decided. Whether per-
sonal magnetism has anything to do
with the matter or not, it is a fact that
some women can raise house plants and
others cannot. One woman will take a
few slips and Outs of plants, stick them
in flower pots, and pay but little atten-
tion to their care forever after, yet in a
short time her windowsill will be a
bower of beauty, rich in verdant foliage,
and blooming as a hothouse, while
another woman will make a start under
Much more favorable circumstances,
water her plants faithfully, sun them
with regularity, and coddle affectieh-
'ately only so nee them droop nod die
drearily. Why should such things be?
"Personal Dlagnetism in ono case; the
' 1lilsk of it is tire other," answers the fair
paycbologist. Are flowers eontiont be-
ings? Have they affectioge, likes and
dfslikcs? These aro quostlolhs raised by
'the assertions of the incomprehensible
soothers of masculine sorrows. Can
personal magnetism act upon so low a
form of life as a plant? Suocoeeful rais-
ers of plants say it can and their unsuc-
cessful sisters corroborate the statement.
Under such circumstances argument to
the contrary is out of the question. A
demure little housewife whose parlor
was a fragrant garden calmly assured a
Chicago Tribune reporter that flowers
had souls, or hearts, or some other organ.
capable of receiving impressions from
human beings. She had no doubt of it;
she knew it. Just look at ber plants.
Every ono of them green and healthy,
blooming and growing.
Then loots at bor stator's. Well, her
sister hasn't any to look at, but she had
t• tried and tried, over and over again, and
shed many tears because nothing would
'grow for her. (ler touch oven was fatal to
any flower. Let her lay a hand on ger-
aitium or chrysanthemum and in a few
hours it would wither and wilt as though
Jack Frost had nipped it. Nothing less
than the magnetic caress of one beloved
tna int.,' 111 131101111 \
ingitheground0 litde� WEPT too dry (heti IIL NV m 1.11 BILL
again, plants having numerous roots
often become "rootbaind" and "bot-
tom, dry." Tile roots would practically
till the pot, packing the earth 0o that 1t
was impervious to water, In such a
0800 the earth would look moist an top,
while below 1t would be as dry as ashes,
Sometimes the water would rum down
the skims of the pot and not roach the
roots at all, Sprinkling the loaves was
a duty that should not be neglected.
Tho leaves wore the luuga of the plant,
and Oulu varieties took as much nour-
ishment throe b their loaves as through
their roots. Pieuty of pure air, mois-
ture—not wata s—and sunebine were
os
the sources of life for plants.
Perhaps thoonost extraordinary planta
In Mono aro those composing the
group of Victoria regia waterlilies, now
to bo seen in lexurisnt growth fu the
lily ponds in Lincoln park. The Vic-
toria realm tomos from the river Ama-
zon, and the specimens In Lincoln park
are the only ones west of New York.
This plant le remarkable for its broad
leaves, which Ile flat on the water save
that they turn up two or three fuchos at
the edges, formlug a sort of fleeting pan.
The loaves are largo, some of them be-
ing nearly six foot in diameter. This
picture hero presented is n copy of a
photograph tattoo in Linoola park. The
boy sitting on oat of the loaves is not
part of the plant, but a plain, everyday
human shaver of 5 or 6 years. Ma
presence on the leaf is due to the pride
which Supt. Pettigrew takes in his
waterlilies. The Tribune reporter told
Mr. Pettigrew that he ilea heard
of a photograph having been taken of a
child sitting on a chair on the leaf of n
Victoria rogia in the Kew gardens in
England, Mr. Pettigrew said his plants
would float a child as well as any in En-
LADY SLIPPER PROM MALAY.
of flowers would restore to life again a
,of
thus blighted. It was the same
:with plucked flowers. The little house -
;wife could wear n flower in her hair or
1corsage of an evening, put it in water
lover night, and wear it again the next
,evening, and the next, and every even -
.ng for a week sometimes, and it would
Hobk fresh and bright until it fell to
`pieces. But let her sister adorn herself
with a similar flower and It would shrivel
laud wilt in an hour, and not all the
{Water in all the cepa of earth could ever
make it lift its drooping head again.
!This wan astounding doctrine to one
who had never given much hood to flow -
'era. and in order to receive further en-
,llghtenmont the matter was Paid before
aprofeeelonal florist who had been many
years in the business. As might have
been expected, the florist, being a man,
'and of coarser clay, was not on psyehol-
'ogicel terms with his stock in trade. Re
could raise flowers, more or leas success-
fully, and had become tolerably familiar
with their habits and requirements, but
it had never occurred to him that floW-
ere had souls. He knout that some wo-
man raised plants without trouble and
others went to a deal of troublo and then
couldn't raise them. However, he didn't
take must( stook in the personal mag -
notion theory. He thought perhaps it
might be gas, or an ecoi ant, but was
i mess. Per-
haps
concerning aou to
b s success depended more on a knack
'thin anything eleo. He was tucllned to
think it did. Gas certainly was bad for
Pmts. He couldn't keep pinata labia
store more than a night. The gas took
some element out of the air whloh the
plantrequired, or gave out something
that poleoned them. It also drove away
the moisture, and that no doubt leas bad
—still too tnuclt moisture was wl,• se.
A REPORTER WHO WAS VICTIMIZED
BY A SHAM CORPSE,
, In IIIc Rambles Me Stumbled Upon a so -
nary orale Mourner Sobbing Over a Wax
Doll 1n a Itutla Coffin.
It Is discouraging to a young man who
thinks bo is smart to blossom out
sud-
denly -
donlY into a low br0Y d driveling
chump in commuulty where
everybody
knows hint Tbat is what happened to
mo down here during fair week and it
will be n long time before I can catch on
again with the hold I had.
Monmouth was the home of my glad,
Joyous boyhood, and though there were
but few leafy -dell and babbling -brook
episodes strung through my early life I
waft glad to drop in on the old town. I
was also pleased to drop out again when
they got through with me. Several
years ago a thirst for knowledge drove
me out into the world to lay in a store.
On several oceesinns, the last of which
111E VIOTOIOLt RICGIA.
gland. Accordingly he directhd one of
his employes to put on n pair of rubber
boots reaching to his waist,aud pressing
a boy into service had himplaced as ho
appears in the picture. Mr'. Pettigrew
afteward said he himself had been afloat
on leaves of the water lily of his own
raising. Although the lily ponds in
Lincoln park have only bean in exist -
0000 since last spring their surfaces are
adorned with rich foliage and georgeous
blossoms of many hues, forming in fact,
one of the most interesting and attract-
ive features to be found in the park.
The "Lantern cr..,e.
There will be introduced in society circles
this fall and winter a new "fad." A number
of Chinese lanterns will be distributed
around a room in the house, and the young
people will select their partners and walk
around the room to the tune of a march,
which will suddenly stop. They will all
then be quickly seated and the young man
of the party will arise, and, bowing to the
young woman, reach his hand in the lan-
tern just above his head. If it Contains a
piece of paper, on it will be announced the
prize she has drawn. If there aro thirty-
six lanterns there will be nine prizes. Then
when the prizes have been secured the
young woman who has the costliest prize
will be expected to accept the company of
the man for future parties who has secured
for her. A lady from Philadelphia says :
"Last year she 'Lantern Prize' party was
the means of hastening several eugageaients.
and by the end of the season was produc-
tive of may pap tiler lane weddings. Very
often the names of the successful couples
W010 afterwards engraved on the prizes by
the hostesr, and in emus familiar Chu p izes
were very costly anti rich."—From The Mil.
waukee News.,
The 111odeet 7ltaokemlth,
ti
One great mistake in roaring plants
was watering them too often. Tills
mado'tlie gt'ound sour end docnyod tete
•
A son -of Vulcan—an his right
Gdod AM it wielded power's might:
Ms throne the forge: the nnyll's note
Resounded rythms while he smote
Whore in the fire's roily glows,
The braron thing with sturdy bloWs.
Tho damp looks cling above broW—
The hairy arm arid mliticles tense;
RIB calrrudated faao of A(31380
His boarded lips where apatite have donned,
The prettily g prayers of babes have formed.
'Philosopher of iron ago
Whose game have graced the equipage;
NO mOuld'rIng Wreath% decaying Pay
May crown Mir bero—fOr a day:
Your rice shalt last—though dead your
ep rice
Yon oh In the *world, the nation, barks;
And tnereagainst the nightorloomott hitt
Vour spark of ilre Is gioiwing stilt.
--Romeo at, Keller, In St, Louts Magazine.
neatn among 1110 lewlw, 0011 5
wept
l--
wept as i had not for years.
Some slight noise l made attracted 110
attention of the malt and he looked up.
Brushing the tears from the rough beard
with the back of his band he straighten -
ea up his (enuring farm endpoinliug to
the enfllu he said:
" litrnugcr, that box holds ail i had on
earth to love,—mv little alit, „ilo died
Last ulglit fur want of n moth lea carr,
end now I'm lett to go it (dune, I never
thought that den th wetted creep in a
hole like this end hake the sun -ante out
of a man's life, but it dial," and falling
00 his knees the 'pour num threw lila '
arias 11011:99 it and burst, Into a paa91e11-
atefl
t of weaning.
1 i
When he had he
unhappy father told the how hie wife
had run away with n stranger who paid
stealthy visits 10 t he 11 01140 Willie hr (4718
out in tile timber chnppine 01,0018,
1.1101
was three mouths ago, ue loud, and since
then the baby hadn't been very well.
She hnd diad the night before and ho
was gulag to bury her in the little gr000
under the r
ue oak tree in the nwnina,
When be had finished his story, which
was a long one, he resumed his old at-
titude of abject despair, sitting en the
stool with his head hanging low on leis
breast. Taking one last long ionic 01
tile little eorpse in the coffin, I quietly
dropped 66, all the change I and, into
the fatber's baud and loft him alone
with lie dead.
Night after night that uaby face
haunted me in my dreams, gulf would
often awake to find tears on my cheeks.
I never mentioned the matter to nay
one, for I was ashamed of my emotion,
but I asked after the name of the alliin
who lived there. Bill Rocks somebody
said his name wits, (tad be had O.
there a year or more. But as belied t
reputation of beiug a tough characterno
ono ever weut near him.
This happened ton days ago and heal
almost forgotten the baby unti1 yestef.a
day, when 1 wont out that way eget*.
In coming back I thought I would drid)
in and see bow Mr. Rooks was comb• g
on. Everything was ns it appeared pa
my former visit on the outside and the
situation, was the same on the inside.
But it changed abortly after I got in.
Just before turning off the rand to-
ward the house I caught a glimpse of a
man darting into the doorway. It was
Mr. Rocks, and when I went in he was
sitting by the same coffin in the same
old position with itis back to the door.
Tip -toeing over to the coffin I beheld
the same corpse of ton days ago, look-
ing as fresh as ever. In fact, it was too
fresh, and giving It a punch in the
stomach with my fist the blue oyes flow
open, then shut, while it gave out a
most unhealtby squawk. Mr. Rocks
stopped sobbing and jumped to his feet
just as I jammed another squeak out of
his wax doll. Ile looked at mo with a
devilish grin on his ugly mug while I
tried to forget tbat I had wept over his
imported $20 corpse. It was a failure,
however, so I said:
"Sir, hand over that 66 at once or l
will have you arrested and thrown into
prison.
"The hell you will," replied air.
Rocks, reaching back for Itis stool.
"Make a sneak, you underdone squab,
or I'll Jam your head so far down Into
your abdominal cavity that your folks
will have to get a derrick to hoist it
out."
I went. 'I complained to the authori-
ties and that's how the story got out.
'Squire Jim Clark. to whom I applied
for a warrant for Rocks, Bald he couldn't
issue it under law. If Bill Rocks chose
to sit in his own house and slobber over
a doll in a coffin, the 'squire said, that
was his business. And if some wall -eyed
chump wanted to drop in and damp his
money into Bill's fist and also help him
weep why, that was no fault of hill's.
He didn't ask anybody for money mud
there is no.law to punish a man for
playing funeral in his own house if he
wanted to.
Y _rte "I*
SUAIP(0NING 1115 WEAPONS.
was my advent into Monmouth on a
pass, I fells that I had both bands
clutched full of the earth's slack; but
later developments show that it was but
a frail tail hold on one of the tags. Be-
fore leaving home I occupied myself
during the winter in the plow factories ,
and the gladsome summer -time I toiled
with the section gang tamping ties with 1
the handle of an Ames No. 2. Atter a
lapse of years 1 suddenly flashed in on
the town attired in 630 suit, a repor-
ter's star, and wearing a patronizing air
which my folks said was very becoming.
Then I got bloated in the head, and
when not engaged in sharpening a hand-
ful of assorted lead -pencils on a street
corner I stood with ono hand under my
coat-tails and pressed the other on my
brow as though arranging my thought -
waves for fluent delivery. This course
made me very popular, and when I got
sucked in the peaple0all felt sorry for
me.
The way I got done up was this:
About ten days ago, shortly after com-
ing home, I took a walk ono morning
out to Cedar creek, three miles north of
town, where I used to fish and hunt for
hickory -nuts. While stumbling through
the woods in the vicinity of Payne's old,
ruined mill -dam I came upon a small,
one -roomed shanty, standing in a grassy
hollow a few rode back from the road.
There were no signs of life about the
place and a tiny, open grave under a
huge oak tree near the house, with fresh
earth piled up alongside of it, gave token
of death,
Impreeeed with this and the strange
stillness of the place I stepped to the
open door and looked in. There I saw
a sight which I thought would haunt
,me for years.
The room•was almost naked save for
a rickety bed and a cook stove. On a
block of wood in the middle of the room
stood n small, rough coffin of undressed
pine with the lid lanuing against the
foot. A big raw-boned, shaggy -looking
man sat on a stool close by the coffin,
with bis back to the door. He 861 with
his elbows on iris knees, and, with hie
face buried in his hands, be wee sobbing
s though his heart would break. As
he didn't seem to notice my approach, I
stepped gently to the coffin and looked
in. There lay the told and silent form
of a little girl, perhaps 2 years old, rad,-
antly beautiful even in death. The lit-
tle face, about which the golden curls
clustered in Nanny masses, looked like
long, wax in its 8111 lashes' rested is 11 vivid con-
trast
tract on the marble cheeps, and the pale
lips were parted in a peaceful smile, as
though ilio death slumber had been dis-
turbed by the soft rustle of an angel's
wing. Tbo tiny fingers held' a penoh of
flagrant wild flowers, -plucked and placed'
there by loving hands.
But what went straight to my heort
was the rude attempt to supply the little
corpse with a shroud. This was a rough,
shapeless gown fashioned by clumsy
bands from a pair of old blue overalls;
for the pocket, worn through from.ear-
riling rough objects, was visible on one
ode of the shirt. The inside of the
trimmedcoffin was bits of
flouur sacksta ked ou with old-fashiouned,
leather -headed, carpet tacks. Every-
thing about the place indicated that
gaunt poverty and misery had long
dwelt there. Never before did I expor-
A alx-DOT.I.ATt wmuur,
ienc0 such a tending 01(1,0al to the
human heart as this esthetic: mature or
A. Boston Triumph.
'Three
• a fashionable watet on a ring placed shore
The
• oafluehmo e, est of gowns
muslin, and lace.
And ono of thorn came from 08103100 town.
108, weep for her pitiful loth
ExGreat honw bee
tl It's frightfully k ot! trona'
Bald the maid who balled from New York
state
(Bho roared on high bor stately forint,
wait ls,tlnconsciousnessweight, gtt,deel a engly rm.
The Boston girl looked up flout her Loeb
('TwasDauto he was devouring).
And said, as she darted 1t scornful I•ook:
Tho sun's rays are o'erpowerinp."
.—Bassen Poet.
IN MEMORY OFROSCOE CONKLINC.
A Plain Substantial :Monument to mark
Ills Burial door.
A monument hes been erected in the
Forest Hill cemetery iu this city to the
memory of Roscoe Conkling, says a
Utica correspondent of the N ew York
Sun, It stands in the Conkling family
plot, a tow yards north of the monument
of Horatio Seymour. The monument
has two unpolished bases, a polished die
with four graceful columns, and a .mas-
sive pyramidal cap, cut is the rough.
On the front die is the inscription:
"Roscoe Conkling. Born Oct, 80, 1820.
Died April 18, 1888." On the reverse
side is the name, "Roscoe Conkling."
The base is 8 feet 1 inch in length, 5 feet
1 inch in width, and 1 foot 4 inches
high. The second base la 6 feet 11 inches
long, 4 feet 11 inches wide, and 1 foot 6
inches high, The die is 6 feet 2 inches
lone. 3 feet 2 inches wide, and 1 foot 10
inc..es high. The cap is 7 feet 6 inches
lengtb, 4 feet 6 inches in width, and
11,
ria<a.N7..tet.
R0800E CONN0100 5 MONUMENT.
2 feet 8 inches high. Over all, the
height of tiro monument is 7 fent 4
inches, the width 5 feet 1 inch, and the
leugtil 8 feet 1 inch. Tile material
throughout is Quincy granite, and the
design was worked out In the yards of
Reghe, b Evans, in this city, The de-
sign was selected by Mrs. Conkling.
N50.Rork Dndol(ngs.
A New York World reporter who has
been doing Atlantic City, says:
There are not many
New York men here,
though the place has
more sten than girls
as a rule. These fel-
lows are pretty far
gone on the road to
'Amine cludlein, One
O(\ -it Me'MAT 86.
••5
tsnid:
11
"Aw—going home
aaa %fV_flfa;to•me1•—"
"Atv—(long pause)
PItOM N(810 Your.. —AW."
"Yah9. Nab'aly heat. Going to the
Bran oh—try 10 win out, the two (hot(
drol ped hest week."
"Aw—lion about little Janrson girt?
- Nott en, van kung. D.w,.e't Lob?"
"N ,w? II"r, tI yl. knawr"
"Awsitet! liar."
T1101%9110 all, anti the swirl of the
crowd naught them up mid curried ibuilt
9.4703%
That is all the =eilstsatimt I got, ex- .
sept to sh.oW 13I11 11((eka up in his akin .t Chicago Girl's Odd Lingerie.
game and warn Warts from running up At an informal tea given last week the
against ,hlhislifuneral. 1 don't etre for alto art of ladies discussed a verycommon
SG. but do bate to weep far nothing.--. party
(hirao, Firem subject—dress—and of course considerable
was said • Ono vst visite told of a comfortable
That Odteus Old Shah.
The Shah gave an infinity of trouble at
Vienna. After the
Bret state dinner he sad'
'
n
denly started fromhis Beat ab table and
rushed out of the room, and the Archduch-
ess Elizabeth, who represented the Empress,
had literally to chorder him, in that they
might enter the saloon together at the head
of the guests. At the Sohonbrunn Menagerie
the King of Kings diverted himself by
knocking at the more savage animals with
a stick, which threw them into transports •
of fury, and at the imperial banquet ho kept
the Emperor waiting for twenty minutes.
On the last evening of his stay the Persian
Minister gave a reception and supper, but,
to the horror of the trembling diplomatist,
tho Shah positively refused to lee any of the
guests, insisting on taking his meal apart, in
the company of little Aziz, who created a ,
disturbance on the night of the gala par. s
formulae at the theatre, as, deeming himself
to have been tnaultedby ono of the Court
functionaries, he screamed, stamped his foot
and bawled, "Aliso, liable, bete I" ---Louden
Truth.
ut efll'r,•e\',( it el'.�
She: "Perhaps yen won't care to
marry (11e when I confess that I bane
boon engaged ton tints in mylife." Ile:1)rd
ten Worn your love's all their
pre:Mlle?" She: ":Tot ',"
a single ((84
Ile: "1Theu, dnriMg, I forgive you,"—
rare
r
costume which she knew wits worn by a
lady in Chioago, who was an expert steno-
s
graP her and whose business r out of took 1 e
doors a great deal. It consists of a fall
suit of black tights, a divided skirt and a
dross, the latter nit touching the ground by 1
three inches. In this raiment she is per-
fectly free, looks the same as any ordinary
well-droesed woman, and is not conspicnoae
many sense of the world. The chief cont.
fort to be taken with this style is the fact
that the woman is perfectly free. She dose
not fear a may day or a muddy street, her
dress oewp%% all soil at the foot and she
does not appear in the attitude of the
women who holds her dross up in one hand,
her umbrella and packages in thootber,
and then gets a drabbled skirt aft:r all,
— Prom The Indianapolis Journal,
X31
Pad
htanri areeinmts.
A Mormon elder who lately nrrivnll at
Sluff Jaiimeis00 from New Zealand sold
that lm and other Mormon missionaries
hal been at work among the nnlivee for
three years and it Itllf, and tint they
had over 3,000 ulcluhers in their churches
among the Maoris,
Mrs, Jason—" Jehfol. do you think
ratan is the only being that reagens?"
Mr. Janos 'No, 1 guess not Woman
has been known to rers0u 011 0 in a
great tvhllt.'--- Three 11dutcx1rlt res,
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