Mary Monday's Opinions. FLOWERS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XI, Issue 875, 13 December 1876, Page 7

Mary Monday's Opinions. FLOWERS.

Sir, — Some months ago Mr " Reformer " wns goo-1 enough to pifceh into our Farmers' Society fi r the hart style it was conducted m. I wonder why he don't try his 'baud now at the Flower-

parfc-of-fche-Sbow-iu-p.irlicul.if. Ifc was a very bad nue, Mr EHtor. OF'conrsp. ihe s^nm-..' •••an't been all ifc should, hnt Lord h\r** y w. Sir, that has as much to do with it as »;y ihiim' 1 ii --' t> do with morals. I was a little curi- us t< m.i!i« out how it was we put. m such a i.rilshu- tliis'fc:n>f. Sri [ went round and conversed with some of our. " enterprising townsmen,": a3 the saying is.. Mrs A. didn't show because Mrs B. was going to. Mrs C. didn't send her beautiful pot plants simply because " that stuck-up Mrs P. wmild be there a runniu of 'eiu down." Mr P. was prevented from sending his' fruit because Mrs P. had raten all the best the day before — it wps terribly aggravating, he said. ■. Brown didn't send bis encumbers because " that idiot Jones will be there fingering 'em. '!;• Mrs Potts kept her best bouquet at home for her best dress, ns Mr Bangs was coming to tea that evening. The other lots were, not worth making up. Master Tommy Loder eat Mr Ben . - Loder's exhibition peas. Master Tommy has found his chair uneasy since that. Spooner didn't ' choose to exhibit while that " infernal jackass'" Boodle was on the Committee. Tompkins didn't show up because he had nothing to show; about the most absurd reason of all. . -.. . Sparks thinks there's something raddicly wrong about the management ; till the whole affairs rearainged he will not send his rbnbarb. I never m all my life Mr Editor heard such stupid nonsense as the saying is as what I heard about the . Show from reveral folk. There's nothing like judging others kindly, as Mr Hunks lately tiJd us m a wonderful discnurse, bnt our folk here seem to forget it. Some things are too mean to quarrel about, such ;>s who played the. trump card m the fourth trick etsettery, while others are too beautiful. Of course my eldest boy says no girl can be too beatiful to quarrel with another feller about her, but he's very young and will soon find out. that love don't generally pay the washerwoman a's the phrnse goes, but flowers arc- really too beautiful Mr Editor to quarrel about.. I dont know' that there's a si»ht on earth more beautiful than some good flowers, oV a sight more innocent unless its a yonng man m his store clothes vowing awful to a girl and believing what she says. It was after Beeing our enterprising townsman as the saying is that I went "home and fell asleep m my arm chair and had a curious dream. In the middle of E wart's Hall there was a beautiful rose a queen among all the others. Everyone admired it and amongst others came a young man and a young "irl. She was pretty aud he was not an aachorite.

"By George ! there's a oncer," said the elegant young man, and he stared at the rose till she blushedtill herface-was rudjy as a cherry. He then put his lips down to the rose but the smell of smoke .made her curl up her delicate leaves and she took his kiss very ungracefully. In this she set an example to young ladies. The young man was evidout'ly a notable one m the community as he flourished his stick with more than tolerable grace and he pawed his moustache with the true nobleman air. He also paid some compliments to the young lady with a very passable air, which the lady admired rather too much.

It being near the end of the Show the. young man obtained permission to take the rose from its stand. He gave it to the young lady who fastened it m her bosum. Though it pined at the loss of its companions the rose strove to look its best m its new position and — theu 1 woke up Mr Editor.

Now isnt this an example to us ? Why on earth must Eliza refuse to send anything to the Show because Marian means to, and is Alice to ignore the whole concern because she don't like Julia and Julia has a lot to do with the Show. Lord bless you Mr Editor, Thomas has'nt done laughing yet at the quar.elling about the Show. He says it is the old story of the Belly and the members. " Bless me Mary " says he, anything pretty should'nt raise quarrelling eh ?" " Ask Miss Potts " says I. He shut up pretty smart, Mr Editor. Mr "Reformer"! Wake up! Leave the farmers a bit to their crops and ask the. ladies if they can't imitate the Eose— just do their best no matter what happens. Mahy Monday.