Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . THE ASSAI STAND. Ouem vein para Para parou;Oucm bcbcn Assai ficou : Which is, being interpreted,— Who came to Para was glad to stay;Who drank Assai went never away. From the market they drove to the Botanical Garden, where Vic-toria, ordinarily undemonstrative, lost her heart to the palms. Why dont you make them your specialty, this summer, Delight PARA. 41 asked. You will have a grand opportunity lor
Three Vassar girls in South America : a holiday trip of three college girls through the southern continent, up the Amazon, down the Madeira, across the Andes, and up the Pacific coast to Panama . THE ASSAI STAND. Ouem vein para Para parou;Oucm bcbcn Assai ficou : Which is, being interpreted,— Who came to Para was glad to stay;Who drank Assai went never away. From the market they drove to the Botanical Garden, where Vic-toria, ordinarily undemonstrative, lost her heart to the palms. Why dont you make them your specialty, this summer, Delight PARA. 41 asked. You will have a grand opportunity lor studyini;-them, andthere are at least two hundred ditlerent varieties in South America. I will study them, \ictoria replied; but only as an amateur, forthe love of them. I never ^r^^^si could be a specialist, as youunderstand the term. I wantto roam all about this greattanirled garden of the worldand study just what I like,because it amuses me, and. not because it is going to beof any special use to any one ITse. The Doctor regarded herwith a respectful pit}, at leastit seemed to ^Nlaud that bothof these conflicting emotionswere mingled in his glance. It seems to me, he said, that the keenest amusementis found in things that are ofthe most use, and in stud}-ing the nicety with whichnature adapts them to our ^Jneeds. Take, for instance,a discovery recently made inthis verv country. A patient of the great French opthalmologist. , had been treated for Paniuis, a disease of the e\e, and hadonly been partiallv cured. While travelling in Brazil the malady cameon again, and he was told of the ycqiicriitx bean, which the Indiansused in a decoction for similar trouble. lie tried it, was completelycured, and sent some of the beans in a letter to Dr. Wecker, who TKOFICAL PLANTS. 42 THREE VASSAR GIRLS IX SOUTH AMERICA. also experimented \\\l\\ tliem, and announced the discovery of anentirely new remedy. It has already been accepted
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