NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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There is a delightful old legend in 
the Greek which accounts for the 
bleak and barren earth in winter and 
the beauty or glory of earth when 
the resurrection days of spring ar- 
rive, when budding trees and flower- 
ing shrubs foretell the pleasure of the 
long and pleasant day of summer. 
Only a personality can satisfy the 
legendary mind of the Greek. Some 
called her name Persephone; to 
others she was known as Proserpine. 
Playing with her companions among 
the lilies and violets Pluto loved her 
and carried her to the under-world 
through the opened ground beyond 
the River Cyane where his trident 
Gauyestirred (the ‘soil, Ceres’ had 
searched for her daughter until fa- 
tigue had overtaken her and she sat 
upon a stone nine days and nights 
where Eleusis now is. After a fur- 
ther search, informed of her daugh- 
ter’s asylum, Mercury was sent to de- 
mand Proserpine of Pluto. Unfor- 
tunately Persephone had eaten the 
sweet pulp of the pomegranate and 
could only be released partially so she 
could spend one-half the year with 
Pluto in the under-world and the 
other half with Ceres in the upper 
world. 
This Greek legend is the story of 
earth’s summer and winter. It sig- 
nifies the seed which ‘“‘cast into the 
earth abideth alone’ until Spring 
leads it up into the light. 
Proserpine has come again in all 
her glory. Although the season is late 
the gentle work of nature is accom- 
plishing its spring destiny. To a 
beautful red tulip the gardeners have 
given the name Proserpine. It 
throws the green of the stem and leaf 
into beautiful relief and the mass ef- 
fect is glorious. 
At the extensive Swiftmoor gar- 
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dens, at Pride’s Crossing, under the 
skilful management of the scientific 
gardener, what was an old marsh- 
land now blossoms in beauty with 
these tulips. On all the Shore there 
has not been a more inspiring vision 
than this blossoming hill aglow with 
narcissus and the open area leading 
to the sea planted to tulips. The 
green shores of the quiet brook are 
lined with daffodils, narcissus, violets 
and crocuses. The open avenue lined 
with tulips, edged with azalias and 
backed by the rhododendron, gives 
a succession of flowery beauty on the 
avenue leading to the spacious open 
area before the mansion. 
The gardener, John L. Chapman, 
has had exceptional success with the 
spring bulbs. The saintly white tulip 
is symbolic of purity itself. To the 
right the rubra maxima lift their fi- 
ery heads of flaming glorious red. 
To those who love quieter colors in 
the tulips of the field the. beautiful 
murillo will appeal with its exquisite 
white, delicately veined with the hair- 
lines of pink. 
Tulips, tulips everywhere and 
beauty all about. There is the pretty 
college maid, pink and white, not so 
beautiful as the murillo or as flashing 
as the rubra maxima, but delightfully 
pretty nevertheless. As one wanders 
among such glory rising out of the 
mystery of dark bulbs how can one 
help but delight in the beautiful leg- 
end of the fair maid who spends the 
winter beneath and the summer 
above. Surely the hand of the gar- 
dener is near nature and the myster- 
ies of God’s universe are in his skilled 
hand. He thinks after Him the 
thoughts of God and we enjoy the 
bounty of One and the skill of the 
other. 
Prof. Charles Zueblin of the Uni- 
versity of Chicago was discussing the 
Faster myths and legends. 
“The legends that are beautiful and 
immortal,” he said, “have in them 
truths that we all, according to our 
kind, take home. ‘That is true like- 
wise of immortal works of art—pic- 
tures, poems, songs. For different— 
people they have different messages. 
“For instance,” smiled Prof. Zue- 
blin, “in my native Pendleton some of 
the mothers used to cut the children’s 
hair. ‘They did it with shears and a 
bowl. ‘The operation was often pain- 
ful, and the result was never elegant. 
“In Sunday school a_ Pendleton 
teacher once told her pupils the tragic 
story of Samson and Delilah. ‘Then 
she turned to a little boy. 
““What do you learn, Joe,’ 
said, ‘from the Samson story?’ 
““Tt don’t never pay,’ piped Joe, ‘to 
have a woman cut a feller’s hair.’ ” 
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