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Winifred was next. A starving florist girl, she was so innocent she thought she had to go home with him because he gave her tea. She haunted his doorstep long afterwards, before turning prostitute...
...American Booksellers' Association met in Chicago, determined to organize a system of telegraph delivery like that which has long been a prop of the florist trade. "Books telegraphed anywhere," is the slogan. Booksellers hope that this will stimulate those whom life has parted to use books for the expression of a thought, a sentiment, as they now use flowers...
...hinted an astute florist once upon a time, "with flowers." Horticulture bloomed and boomed. Who will accuse the florists if, knowing well the market value of sentiment, they inspired devoted children to buy white carnations on what was named "Mothers...
...academic society at Ann Arbor must also exercise a due restraint. To produce a real, live poet at a tea is an end aimed at by every hostess, but it has a bad effect on the poet. He is rushed like a florist's fern from one glittering gathering to another, until the peace and retirement necessary to the practise of a great art becomes a myth...
...Athletic Association. Certain areas have been quarantined on account of a pestilence of European Corn borers, and New Haven is outside the quarantined district. Federal and State agents will be on hand to enforce the regulations against all of the above flowers that have not been inspected by a florist and certified as perfectly harmless...