5llU"l)U5a affuiualis. Xatlrai. Order: Boraginacecx — Borage Family. 



I R gardens, fields and roadsides everywhere furnish this 



loui^h perennial plant, which produces an abundance of sweet- 



stented purple flowers during the entire summer. The leaves 



ue long and rough, from which it has received in England 



tliL ii.ime of Ox-tongue, and the stem is covered with bristly 



\\d\\s The root is used in medicine, producing a gentle 



^--/'/*^^^ moistuie thiough the system. The root of one of the species yields 



^^i%^ the red d_\e that was so much used by the Athenian ladies as a rouge 



t/^-Pr- when that classic city was in its prime. 



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'T'HERETO when needed, she could weep and prav 

 ^ And when she hsted she could fawn and riatter, 

 Now smiling smoothly, like to summer's day. 

 Now glooming sadly, so to cloak the matter; 

 Yet were her words but wind, and all her tears but 



T7VE11Y man in this age has not a soul A glittering volume may cover 



■'--' Of crystal, for all men to read their actions '^ A story of sorrow and woe: 



Through; men's hearts and faces are so far asunder And night's gayest meteors may hover 



Tliat they hold no intelligence. Where danger lies lurking below. 



— Braitmont and Flrtcht^r. 



QO smooth he daubed his life with show of virtue. 

 ■^ He lived from all attainder of suspect. 



-Shakrsfear,. 



A/'ET there came a time Q*-^' '"end, be w.arned! He is not one 



^ To my proud love's prime. ^ Thy youth should trust, for all his sm 



When that proved base I had deemed sublime. Frank foreheads, genial as the sun, 



By the cool stream's bed May hide a thousand treacherous wiles 



My flowers hung dead, And tones like music's honeyed flow 



And the serpent, hissing, upreared its head! May work — God knows! — the bitterest w< 



—Mary E. BraJUy. Paul H. Ha\ 



