THE GOOD INFLUENCE OF FLOWERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XII, Issue 4408, 30 December 1875, Page 2 (Supplement)

THE GOOD INFLUENCE OF FLOWERS.

A parlor without a blossom in it in the summer time is apt to have a desert aspect, a want of life and cheer. For wherever flowers are seen in one there is always as much sense of companionship as if the little flowers peopie themselves came visibly with the flowers to inhabit the house. And m a "way they do. , For certainly the delicate spirits of grace, of gentleness, of taste and. beauty are everywhere indicated where a vine adorns a bracket, where a dish of flowers fills a table, where a rose blossoms in a! vase, with a mirror repeating and refining it in fresh loveliness. We know, when we see these attempts at simple decoration, be they ever so bright, that there is some one in the house: ta.whom. color and contour and fragrance appeal; some one who loves nature as much as upholstery, sojhe one'who makes an effort after the ideal, the love of flowers seeming so often to .accompany the finer traits, the sweetness and quiet and pleasant habitß that make a home as happy as the flowers make it beautiful. . That they do make home beautiful no one ■will dispute, and the choice between a room furnished in the simplest straw chintz, with plenty of fresh flowers,.and, vines about it, 'arid aroom gorgeous with gilding.,and velvet; and without a blossom, is for themqstoius' -something like the choice between a house,of' I light and- one of lonely dreariness.