A VULGAR COLOR
To be an epicure in reminiscence and association is a tremendous help towards cheerfulness. Per example, . the sight of some ineffably forlon daffodils playing at spring, in-the middle of winter . just beneath ... my., windo w . might rouse an endj.ese train-.Qi sad-sentiments. Instead I choose that they shall remind me of a good story .told iby Sir Herbert Maxwell. It relates to a Scottish minister in whoso parish kirkyard was a -“great store of daffodils" which had long been ‘‘an annual delight to church-goers." But there came ft ‘ Bprihg ; Sunday when the congregation was shocked and-amaz-ed to find the .daffodils which--had been a sea of gold mown down and lying in spent waves of wilted bloom in . the morning sup. Sir Herbert-lost no. time in-complaining .to the-minister qj the miserable vafrfxallsnC only •to receive the amazing answer, “That, sir,'was’ done by my own orders: my wife dislikes yellow / which she considers-a vulgar color." .. ", . % - But if we. want to. .be- fashionable, London, Paris, and-New -York ;aU tell us We must wear yellow this summer — and like tho daffodils,;Tie' vulgar!
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 11
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180A VULGAR COLOR New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8180, 23 July 1912, Page 11
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