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Glue a bunch of three or five to the card, and write the 

 words: "Health, Happiness, Prosperity." Or this: 



" When sitting in the grass we see 

 A little four-leaved clover, 

 'Tis luck for you and luck for me. 

 Or luck for any lover." 



It is symbolic of "Good Fortune." 



Pressed sweet peas, tied across a large card, are 

 especially beautiful. Strange as it may seem, very few 

 poets have sung its praises. The sweet pea expresses 

 "Delicate Pleasures." 



Those general favorites, the pansy and the violet, have 

 been a source of inspiration for numberless effusions. 

 In the face of the heart's ease, or pansy, we read, ' ' Think 

 of Me ;" "Thoughts." 



The violet is emblematic of "Modesty." As Burns 

 says, " The violet is for modesty." However, Shakes- 

 peare says . 



" Violet is for faithlulness, 

 Which in me shall abide; 

 Hoping likewise that iVom your heart 

 You will not let it slide." 



A wealth of poetry celebrates the simple daisy. 

 " Those white investments figure innocence." 



" Briglit flower ! whose home is everywhere. 

 Bold in maternal Nature's care, 

 And all the long years through the heir 



Of joy or sorrow ; 

 Methinks that there abides in thee 

 Some concord with humanity. 

 Given to no other flower I see 



The forest through !" 



The forget-me-not, the flower of "friendship — kind 

 as love, and strong as Hercules" — expresses its own 

 sentiment. 



The lily of the valley speaks of "the return of hap- 

 piness." 



" Be thy advent the emblem of all I would crave." 



" No flower amid the garden fairer grows 

 Than the sweet lily of the lowly vale, 

 The queen of flowers." 



Oats are symbolic of " Music," the charm and power 

 of which Pope sets forth . 



" Music, the fiercest griefs can cliarm, 

 And fate's severest rage disarm ; 

 Music can soften pain to ease. 

 And make despair and madness please: 

 Our joys below it can improve. 

 And antedate the bliss above." 



Bittersweet is typical of " Truth." 



•' So every sweet with sorrow is tempered still, 

 That maketh it be coveted the more: 

 For easie things that may be got at will. 



Most sorts of men doe set but little store. 

 Why then should 1 account of little pain. 

 That endless pleasure shall unto me gain?" 



The gleaming Golden Rod represents "Precaution." 



" Love, wounded daily, till it dies, 

 The heart bereft that idly sighs. 

 The loneliness, the sense of loss,; 

 Of treasures ruined, the human cross 

 That every living soul must bear. 

 What wonder that it seems so fair 

 Beside man's weary world of sin, 

 Thy world, that no sin enters in — 

 O Kfngdom of the Clovery sod I 

 O peaceful realm of Golden-rod ! 



Poetry served as a "first course," is a sort of an 

 ."aesthetic salad," which is highly relished by all. It 

 offers to each one a suggestive theme for bright conver- 

 sation, at that critical juncture when, alas, so frequently, 

 conversational powers desert us and consequently 

 exchange of thought and words are stiff and awkward. 



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Should flowers, of any kind, be out of the question, 

 substitute poetry descriptive of the season in which the 

 entertainment is given. Or, per contra, make summer's 

 heat seem less oppressive by pen pictures of the cold, 

 dazzling splendor of winter; and let chill winter appear 

 less desolate, with glowing pictures of a "A Rare Day in 

 June," "Springtime, the only Happy Ringtime, " etc. 

 It is a capital plan to have a little scrap book for col- 

 lecting pretty verses of sentiment and poems on the 

 various seasons, sunset, dewy mornings, moonlight, etc. 



Anna Hinrichs. 



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