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HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE 



THE SECRET OF 

 HAPPINESS. 



Would you like to know the 

 secret of happiness — a sec- 

 ret that no navigator ever 

 brought from the sea ; a sec- 

 ret that no merchant prince was ever rich enough to 

 purchase ? I will tell you. The secret of happiness is the 

 appreciation of the beautiful in Nature ; the apprecia- 

 tion of God's unwritten poetry. Ah ! you are disap- 

 pointed. You expected me to tell you how to make a 

 fortune, how to be famous. Do not be mistaken. The 

 secret of happiness is the love of the beautiful ; the secret 

 of happiness is the appreciation of unwritten poetry. 



I would say : Learn to read the book of Nature every 

 day around you — all is open before you ; and then the 

 books of men will be simple things. The greater includes 

 the less. 



Love and comprehend beauty ; for then you will love 

 and comprehend the world. — Joaquin Miller in The In- 

 dependent. 



The announcement conies 

 WONDERFUL FEAT from Paris that M. Lucien 

 IN GRAFTING. Daniel, a French botanist, has 



succeeded in grafting a water- 

 cress to a cabbage. This, remarks The Literary Digest, 

 is the first successful attempt, apparently, to extend to 

 herbaceous plants an operation that has long been fa- 

 miliar as applied to woody vegetation. Its practical use 

 does not apjjear plainly, but its scientific interest is un- 

 doubted. 



Writing of this remarkable feat in grafting, a con- 

 tributor to Le Correspondent, a Paris publication, sa\s : 



■'Mr. Daniel has grafted watercress on cabbage stems. 

 Of twenty trials, three were successful. His object was 

 to see what would come of the forced union between an 

 essentially water-living plant like the cress and a plant 

 resistant to drought like the cabbage. At the outset, he 

 reports, the grafted cresses all grew feebly ; the stems 

 and flowers were of a reddish brown like those of cress 

 suffering from drought ; the leaves were small and the 

 internodes very short, showing thus that the harmony 

 was far from being perfect between the subject and the 

 graft. Consequently the stem did not branch; it became 

 quickly surmoimted with flowers, giving a small, crowded 

 and abundant inflorescence, slightly developed, and poor 

 fruits and malformed seeds. 



"The fructification ended, the grafts withered ])rf)- 



gressively from top to bottom, keeping green for about 

 three to six inches next the point of union. In September, 

 on this green part and at different heights, appeared 

 numerous elongated shoots, which curved over, in the 

 fashion of a 'weeping' plant, on the subject and the 

 vertical stem of the graft, producing a somewhat singular 

 appearance. As for the subjects, they also suffered from 

 the unexpected guest whose presence had been imposed 

 upon them ; they grew hardly at all. 



"It is natural to ask what is the practical use of these 

 extraordinary and delicate operations. At first sight this 

 use is not apparent. According to Mr. Daniel, 'the suc- 

 cess of the graft of a cress on a cabbage shows that by 

 reducing the existing differences between the functional 

 capacities of two plants of dift'erent habits, by progressive 

 functional adaptation, we may finally succeed in obtaining 

 grafts that will flourish by ordinary methods' ; and he 

 thinks that 'the field of success may be extended by this 

 method be\ond the limits fixed by the processes utilized 

 hitherto.' " 



COUNTRY 

 LIFE. 



Among the many ways of 

 reaping the reward of an 

 honorable and well spent rec- 

 ord in the business world, 

 can anyone imagine anything more restful, pleasurable 

 and delightful than retirement from the din and turmoil 

 of city life, with its incessant strain and nerve-racking 

 responsibilities, to the quietude of some beautiful part of 

 the country where hills and valleys, beautiful winding 

 rivers, babbling streams and brooklets, an occasional 

 dancing waterfall that . tosses its snowy spray onto the 

 fern fronds and moss at its feet, and the music of its 

 tumbling water which is only made more enchanting by 

 the nodding flowerets, and the song of the feathered 

 songsters of the glen. Such a life as this is open to every 

 man of means in large degree, and to the man less blessed 

 in smaller proportion. \\'e can see in the wave of en- 

 thusiasm that is so clearly pointing in this direction, a 

 move toward the refinement and betterment of all things 

 connected with domestic life in this country. These peo- 

 ple are discovering the worth of useful recreation, and 

 are shaping their cour.se in the direction that will event- 

 ually lure a tremendous number of our successful city 

 men' to the delights of country life and its useful and 

 pleasurable pursuits. — Field. 



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