Floral Fete for Children of the Farm Schools on the Fourth of July

  We would again call the attention of our citizens to this truly kind plan for casting a gleam of light over the dull and mechanical existence of these poor little beings. Poor children! Severed from all those endearments and daily enlivenments of which the worst home offers some to rouse the faculties and cheer the hearts of young human beings! If they are in one sense better off than in sordid or vicious homes—if shelter, food, clothing and some instruction be provided for many who would otherwise have none at all—yet, how far this is from being enough, their forlorn and lack-lustre looks declare. Here is a chance to give them some of the feelings awakened in the hearts of other children by visits and affectionate, disinterested attentions from relatives which form so valuable and so well remembered a part in the schooling of young years.—We hope a multitude will go, buy the bouquets, and take with them “something nice” for the picknick. We have never heard of an occasion when that “something nice” would hold so honorable a place as on this.*