Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1937, Page 27

Nature’s Children American Pasque Flower (Pulsatilla patens) BY LILLIAN COX ATHEY. OUTH DAKOTA elected for her flors] emblem a flower that is rich in legend and folklore. Flowers have lots of character, once you take the trouble to find out their little schemes, characteristics and habits. ‘You would be surprised to find out how many flower mothers have de- veloped clever gadgets for their off- spring. If the wildrose mother had not developed thorns, the cattle would have destroyed her long ago, and if she had escaped the cattle, the ants would have stolen all her valuable # pollen. So she spiked her stems and put fine hairs on them, to the despair of the industrious armorclad ant tribe. There are flowers adopted by the States to represent them. There are not so many for you to remember and you will have a very good idea of the reason why each State selected from all her other flowers the one she did. It was a flower lover who discovered all the interesting things about the pasque blossom, and what a lot he found that was well worth retailing. They prefer dry soil and when they bloom the prairies look like a great canvas rather than desolation. They come along in March and April, when one longs so for the bright faces of | the flower children. The pasque holds her place with any flower. well-known crowfoot family. Some of her cousins are the virgin's bower, or clematis, monkshood, buttercup, lark- spur, wood anemone, goldthread and columbine. Look at the leaves. They give you the key. When the first warm days of March arrive the pasque opens her dainty purple flowers. Fields of them viewed from a distance look like a gorgeous misplaced purple sunset. The stalk grows longer day by day, and the furry leaves spread out their slender fingers. The ant strolling by cannot scale the fuzzy stem or the furry leaves. She tries, but finally goes on her way. This furry little scheme of hers has earned for her the name “gosling plant.” Admirers of the pasque claim the fruiting plant is far more charming than the flowers. They are beautiful with their fringe bonnets, and each seed child has its own dainty plume, and can they fly with the wind? That 15 the reason the prairies are covered with the blossoms in Spring During very damp seasons the stems grow and grow. One of the things you can try (and you may purchase garden varieties) is placing a short- stemmed flower in a glass of water and watching it grow tall. Out of Brain Twizzlers BY PROF. J. D. FLINT. L. CARPENTER, & man of con- | siderable wealth, had made his She is a member of the | the water, sunshine and air, it gathers food. You may find this flower from Illi- nois to the Rocky Mountains and from Canada to Texas. There is a cousin in England that resembles the Ameri- can type very much. Many think this flower of South Dakota is the direct descendant of the English pasque. In flower folklore books there is a legend that the pasque first was seen on the battlefield where the Danes fought for their liberty, and many call the flower “Danesblood.” | flower of Eastertime and was named pasque for this reason. Others main- | dved by making a strong decoction | of the dainty petals. Every version has some connection with the history of the flower, and whatever we hear, | we know it only adds romance to | South Dakota’s cholce. 1 (Copyright, 1937.) | Some flower lovers insist it is the | | @ small box of Barbo Compound anc tain that the first Easter eggs were | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Bedtime Stories BY THORNTON W. BURGESS. ETER RABBIT had had a nar- row escape. He knew it. No one else did, but he knew. “Hooty the Owl would have caught me as sure as the world if Jerry Muskrat hadn't seen him and given the alarm just when he did,” thought Peter as he sat in the alder thicket over at one end of the Smiling Pool. “He could have caught me with no trouble at all, for I had no sus- picion that there was danger of any kind near. If Mrs. Peter knew about 1t, she would say that I had no busi- ness to be sitting out there in the open. I don't suppose I had, but it certainly seemed safe enough. Whether he knows it or not, Jerry did me & good turn that time.” Peeper the Hyla and his friends, those tiny Tree Frogs, who in the early Spring sing in a mighty chorus in the Smiling Pool, had stopped singing the instant the slap of Jerry Muskrat's tail on the water had been heard, and it was very still now. Peter, listening for the first notes from one of the little singers, who had recovered from his fright, heard instead a song that was in truth a real song, a de- lightful one. Peter couldn't recall ever having heard it before. If he had heard it, he had never noticed it. The Best GRAY HAIR R Remedyis MadeatHome OU can now makeathome a better ay hair remedy than you can buy, by gllowing this simple recipe : To half int of water add one ounce bay rum, onefourth ounce of glycerine. Any druggist can put I:hi- up :: you 1 1€ ac very little cort. Apply o wwesk el the desced thade #s obtained. Barbo imparts color to streaked, faded or gray hair, makes #csoft and glossy and takes years off your looks. It will not color scalp, is At first Peter couldn't place that song. That is, he couldn't tell where it came from. He cocked his head to one side the better to listen. For a minute, perhaps, there was no spund. Then came some clearly whistled notes from somewhere back of Peter. They seemed to be rising in the air, going up, up, up. Then Peter heard the beginning of that mysterious song he had heard a few minutes before. He heard only the beginning, for just then the Hyla chorus was re- sumed, and it seemed as if each little singer must be trying to make up for lost time. So loud was the chorus D. C, in Peter's ears that he could hear nothing else. It drowned out com- pletely that song of which he had heard the beginning. For some time Peter sat there listening. Once or twice he thought he heard those whistling notes, and, as before, they seemed to be coming from above and going higher. He couldn’t be sure, however. Several times he changed his position in the alder thicket. He could hear nothing but that great chorus from the Smii- TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1937. press his impatience, he thumped the ground with his stout hind feet. Instantly the singing in the Smiling Pool ceased. “I'd forgotten that I can stop that noise any time just by giving one of those little Frogs a scare,” chuckled Peter. “Scare one, scare all.” Once more stillness prevailed in the dusk of early evening. Then again Peter heard those clear whis- tling notes going up, up, up. They ended, to be at once followed by sir, that song was coming from above him, from way, way, way above him. There was no doubt about fit. “Now who can be singing way up there?” muttered Peter. “I know that a lot of the feathered folk coming up from the Sunny South travel at night. Often I have heard them calling as they flew high overhead, but I never have heard one sing, really sing, and that song I just heard was a resl song. I suppose it must be one of the 8pring lravelers, but which ing Pool. There are times when Peter is sadly lacking in patience. Finally, to ex- He began to lose patience. Timely Sale of $3 Blouses 2.59 Crepes, in lovely plain shades. 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