PASTURES FAIR AND LARGE 



used in acquiring any other language, 

 namely, daily association with those who 

 speak it. Naturally, the closer and longer the 

 association, the more perfect the mastery of 

 the language. But a sweetbrier is such an 

 inspired tutor that in a few weeks one may 

 learn more from her than in months under 

 the tuition of a stolid instructor like the rub- 

 ber-plant. Like all great teachers, this 

 Hypatia of the pasture gives instruction by 

 giving herself, by the charm which is the 

 radio-activity of her personality, chemically 

 speaking. 



After enough causeries with her to catch 

 her code, one receives the suggestion that, 

 if absolute purity, innocence, and gentleness 

 could express themselves in redolent terms, 

 their fragrance would be that of the sweet- 

 brier. Other roses there are whose fragrance, 

 texture, and multi-petaled beauty can "tease 

 us out of thought;" but, compared with 

 the exquisite simplicity and fragrance of the 

 sweetbrier, their perfume hints of the so- 

 phistications of a hothouse. 



Deep-tinted, matronly roses one fancies 



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