26 EYE SPY 



came from the " florist's," and cost twenty - five 

 cents, with five cents extra for the pot. 



A certain thrifty granger of the writer's ac- 

 quaintance was recently converted from the error 

 of his attitude towards the " tarnal weeds and 

 brush." He was one of the tribe of blind, mis- 

 guided vandals who had always deemed it his 

 first duty " after hayin' " to invade with his scythe 

 all the adjacent roadside, to " tidy things up," re- 

 ducing to most unsightly untidiness that glo- 

 rious wild garden of August's floral cornucopia, 

 that luxuriant tangle of purple eupatorium, the 

 early asters, golden-rod, vervains, wild-carrot, and 

 meadow-rue. 



He was converted in the sanctuary, where one 

 August Sabbath he beheld by the side of the 

 pulpit, dignified by a large, beautiful vase, a great 

 bouquet of this very tall, purple thorough wort, 

 meadow-rue, and wild -carrot of his abomination, 

 and which had actually fallen before his scythe 

 on the evening previous. " Well, there !" he ex- 

 claimed; " I didn't realize they was so pretty!" 



The beauty of the commonplace often requires 

 the aid of the artist as its interpreter, a fact which 

 Browning realized when he expressed, through 

 Fra Lippo Lippi : 



"We're made so that we love 



First when we see them painted, things which we have passed 

 Perhaps a hundred times, nor cared to see." 



