A MODERN MIRACLE

Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 4

A MODERN MIRACLE

Something almost as marvellous as the j blossoming of the Pope's staff in ' Tarm- ] hauser' has happened in Ascension Island. j That volcanic rock has a surface that I varies only from bottle glass to coke. • Rain rarely falls, and few herbs grow. j But this year the rain fe'll abundantly, j and. a strange, tall grass grew. It spread j like a blessing, and covered tho rocks an ', in the Isle of Flowers. Happy horses on j Ascension wallowed in real grass for the | first time in their lives. The amazed [islanders got into communication withKew j (says a London correspondent). Kew reported, gave the grass a learned name, and suggested that the seed came on the wings of the south-east wind or. on those of the sooty tern who haunts that part of the island_ where the welcome grass was first seen." It is a desert grass, easilv wafted about, and found in many region's loi desert Africa. No doubt the' conjunction of the rain, the first in the memory of, the oldest islander, with the advent of' 6ome blessed bird, painted Ascension green.