336 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



THE REAL HOME. 



What makes home is the light of love kept constantly burn- 

 ing on its altar, and which welds the tender, sacred ties of the family. 

 Persons who are too busy with the daily affairs of life to find time to 

 adorn and beautify their homes will soon permit the lamp of love to 

 burn low and dim on the altar of their hearth-stones, and then, blindly 

 ignorant of the cause of their unhappiness, they bewail at their lot and 

 marvel at their own wretchedness. The way to be happy is to make 

 your home beautiful and attractive, within, of course, the limit of the 

 means at your command. Intelligence, love and refinement cannot be 

 found in a home where there are only bare walls and floors, where 

 there are no books or papers on the table, no flowers in the yard and 

 no music in the hearts of its inmates. 



J. G. Holland. 



A FEW FACTS FANCIFULLY FORMULATED. 



.SILEXT PLEADERS. 



While traveling o'er the prairies wide, 

 We see along the highway side 

 Poor beggars ranged ; though not a word 

 They utter, yet our hearts are stirred 

 With tales they tell in mute despair. 

 They lift their shattered arms in air, 

 And tell of ills which they have known, 

 Of scathing blasts so often blown ; 

 Of piercing cold, of dearth and flood, 

 Which chill, or drj', or taint, their blood. 

 Their mangled trunks and broken limbs 

 A sight presents which well nigh dims 

 Our eyes with sympathetic tears ; 

 For sweet Pomona, many years 

 Hath nurtured with unsparing hand 

 These once fair products of the land, 

 Which now stand stark and almost bare 

 Of the rich dress they used to wear. 

 The luscious fruit they yearly bore, 

 Is found not now as 'twas of yore. 



As human beggars on the street 

 Placard their woes — as seemeth meet,. 

 In printed words hung on the breast. 



