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...wards) has its private bath, its individual refrigerator. Rugs, chintz curtains and pastel-tinted walls give a cozy atmosphere. All beds are of wood. All medical and surgical equipment are of course the most modern and efficient. Patient-guests have at their convenience a barber shop, tailor, florist, public stenographer, telegraph office, newspaper & magazine stand, drugstore, gymnasium, library, solarium, a roof garden, restaurant, lounge rooms, private reception rooms...
...Story. Escaped from board school, with three Shakespeare plays as the sum of his knowledge, Edgar Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper...
Thereupon pompous Wesley Dexter offered himself richly in marriage, and Missie dared not disappoint her grandmother by marrying the florist's son instead. Wesley proved unfaithful, unbearable; but Missie did not divorce him in spite of her love for an excellent man, the successor to the florist's son. The reasons: her sacred marriage vows, her duty to her son. That the son should turn on her years later seemed but the fitting sequel to a selfless, pathetic life...
...decorations for the Living Room and Dining Room have been entirely arranged for, being in the hands of Thomas F. Galvin Jr., florist. The two rooms are to be decorated in spruce trees and smilacs. There is to be a bower of flowers at the entrance to the Living Room while the fireplaces will be entirely hidden behind a screen of smilacs...
...wouldn't want to wear a flower!-and any man can who wishes to; that is, any man who is sure of himself. . . . PAUL T. OSTERBY II ("Osterby the Florist") Stamford, Conn...