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THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C
Friday, December 13, 1963
Buds
AND
Blossoms
By
MAMIE MILLER
“And suddenly there was with
the angle a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and
saying. Glory to God In the
highest, and on earth peace, and
good will toward men,”
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winter, and spray them after
pruning. Muscadine grapes may
be cut back—all the growth
from last spring.
Make candle boards and Della
Robbias for Christmas gifts.
These may be made up In ad
vance. Use some artificial
fruits to give color and shape
to the wreath.
Cones and drift wood are nice
gifts. Gather some of these for
colors In the fireplace. To pro
duce certain colors of flame,
add the following: yellow-
sodium chloride salt and po
tassium nitrate; red—lithium
chloride and stontarlum nitrate;
green—copper nitrate; blue-
copper sidphate; orange—cal
cium chloride; violet—potas
sium chloride.
You may also buy prepared
drift-wood crystals. Gather
cones, put on a little glue or
shellac and sprinkle with
chemicals. Let them dry and
pack In cellophane bags. Tie
with colored ribbons.
Do not put polnsettlas In a
draft. They drop their leaves
when exposed to much change
In room temperature. Cut poln
settlas do well each time the
stem Is cut. Seal It by placing
It over a flame.
Send gifts of evergreens to
the friends who haven’t anyway
of cutting them.
This week, for our Buds and
Blossoms poem, we have selec
ted “The Ready Artists” by
Edgar A. Guest.
The green Is In the meadow,
and the blue Is In the sky.
And all of Nature’s artists
have their colors handy by;
With a few days bright with sun-
Popular songstress Connie
Francis heads the cast of Metro-
Goldivyn-Mayer’s “Follow the
Boys,” in which she plays a
bride who follows her ISavy
husband to the French Riviera,
Connie sings four songs in the
new romantic comedy, filmed
in Panavision and co-starring
Paula Prentiss, Dany Robin,
Russ Tamblyn, Richard Long,
Ron Randell, Roger Perry and
Janis Paige.
shine and a few nights free
from frost
They will start to splash their
colors quite regardless of
the cost.
There’s an artist waiting ready
at each bleak and dismal
spot
To paint the flashing tulip or
the meek forget-me-not.
May Is lurking In the distance
and her lap Is filled with
flowers.
And the choicest of her blos
soms very shortly will be
ours.
There Is not a lane so dreary
or a field so dark with
gloom
But that soon will be re
splendent with Its little
touch of bloom.
There’s an artist keen and eager
to make beautiful each
scene
And remove with colors gor
geous every trace of what
has been.
Oh, the world Is now In mourn
ing; round about us all are
spread
The ruins and the symbols of
the winter that Is dead.
But the bleak and barren pic
ture very shortly now will
pass.
For the halls of life are
ready for their velvet rugs
of grass;
And the painters now are wait
ing with their magic to re
place
This dullness with a beauty
that no mortal hand can
trace.
The green Is In the meadow
and the blue Is In the sky;
The chill of death Is passing,
life will shortly greet the
eye.
We shall revel soon In colors
only Nature’s artists make
And the humblest plant that’s
sleeping unto beauty shall
awake.
For there’s not a leaf forgot
ten, not a leaf neglected
there.
And the tiniest of pansies
shall the royal purple wear.
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