Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-30
How to Group Flowers.

VASES, ETC.
| Not every one who admireS flowers under.
stands how to make the most Of them or even
how TO Go so simple thing as to group few
IN vase: Take an educated young English or
french girl, and she can at once arrange flowers
1or the church, the parlor, or the dining room
with exquisite taste, while 1t is rare thing on
this side OF The water to find girls who can
make the most Of few flowers. Is 1t not easy
to lind the reason OF this? We use our flowers
too much as we do our ''best things - instead OF
considering that no table is properly laid with
out them; and children are not accustomed, In
our busy living, to arrange little floral offerings
for their parents and friends as do the youn
people On the continent.
Let every meal have its vase OF flowers: not q
other OF the family; children, boys as wei as
girls, should be taught how to arrange flowers
e1ectVely, how TO make the most OF few. IL
IS common error to put too many in a vase
certainly 1t Is difficult to resist the temptation
10 add just one more beauty" out when you
have made good effect rest content; better lay
the odd single flowers by the plates than spoil
your center vase by overcrowding or mixed
colorS. Try the effect OF a vase half full of
mignonettes with few sweet peas, on another
das nave your glass filled with bright red gara-
NUNS and smilax: your cho. ce OF variety, II you
use but few at time. is almost Infinite. even
In small city garden.
We know dear old lady, who all the year
round made 1t rule to give her husband and
but bit OF heliotrope and geranium leaf
each morning when they started for their days
work. and It seemed to us that mothers tlow-
atmosphere and formed barrier delicate s but but
pure, against all ignoble dealing.
sE-An American girl who marries an Italian
marquis gets on very well until his serene high
ness begins to spend all her money and talk OF
"her father re shopkeepaire." Then she fires
up and gives him little 4th Of July.
HE- "A critic says that the best whiting is to be
found IN letters. He says "Take the letters Of
any one OF half dozen girls and you Will fad
that the English is bright, cheerful, free, and
reads the letters, what will She think OF them
es-A Well-Tisher-The man who Is doing the
digging.
rE- Doctors are like verbs. They are regular,
Irregular and detective
es-"HOW dare you say damn before meor
severely inquired clergyman OF loafer. GLOW
did | know you wanted to say damn first?'
retorted this bad man.
q John Fl. ClemenShaw was yesterday con-
yicted OF perjury In the Supreme Court. San
Francisco. He Is the witness who Swore 50
strongly That Chas. De Young fired a shot at l.
NJ. Kalloch.
ss-Mrs. Mary Ann Robins, Of West Chester
county, N. Y, committed suicide yesterday by
taking Paris green
lament from the British Medical Association,
signed by seven thousand medical men, against
vaccination.
IA Hans Makart's new picture, thirty feet
Wy twenty. REPRESENTS DlaIld anu U6F nyLnDnS
chasing stag. 1t has been sold to a dealer In
Munich for $4,000.
gs-A parish In New England has parson
who rings the bell, plays the organ, leads the
singing, and In winter cuts the wood He is
also his own sexton.
tE-A brakeman on an Indiana freight train
who permitted man to ride with him On the
top OF car, undertook to collect fare, and shot
the passenger for refusing to pay.
eg-"You couldn't hit the side of barn with
that pistol said Warren tauntingly to Jones,
you," retOrted Jones, and he fired at Warren,
1ntlicting mortal wound.