The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-05-13
FOND MAN ATTHE FLORISTS
ECCENTRIC BEHAvIOR BEFORE ~
GETS MARRIED.,
Wholesale Purchases That Marked ths TsxAst
tourtinE-A Man who Sent Flowers - NE
wife Livery Day In che Xsar-A Casteo
About noutonnIcres Just From LoAANa.

SosrtinE-A Man Who Sent Flowers - HE
wife Livery hay In che Xsar-A Castsn
About Houtonnieres Just From Loudea.
The girl in the Broadway flower shop-the
girl with tho wavy chestnut hair and the very
white hands th,t are acutely observed and mem
tally a?plauded when she pins the hithe carnae
ton 10 the masculine coat lapel -lapsed Into
revere OF words the other afternoon.
Il do feel 50 sorry for men sometimes abe
SAID. IN a tone that wasn't at all sorrowful
The poor things are so very amusing and yetso
unconsciouslv pathetic that-wel do you know,
often think that few Of them. saving your
prcsence-nothing pcrsonal-are. what dye
call il exactly right all there correctly ID.
listed properly geared on straight
For why?"
Oh, the do such funny things, and they aro
,'rh very. very easy money. MY little br other
iaught Inc That aud | can't help II. They are -
extremely iractable before. youknow. and, from
al that | hear. 50 utterly fractions after. that its
a wonder 10 me thoy--"
Before and after what"
why, the church affair OF Iohengrin music,
geaps. and rice. Of course. True. | only knoV
II the fra"i iousness OF the after from hearsay.
out have been here for two years and l do know
he tractableness Of the before like I don't know
my catechism. Oh, they are 50 dead easy!!s
and the flower shop girl with the wavy chestnut
hair picked up a loose strand Of the same and
deftly tucked it behind her left ear.
IAN Of them. you know, are more or iess
mentally unhin ged during the before STAGE
she went on. Blu a man who came In here dufs
lng the noon hour on a day a couple Of weeks
aco-I waited on him. for the proprietor and all
Of the girls except myself had gone for luncheon
had about the worst case Of IL I've yet seen.
lie was such a sensible. fine-loooking man.
too-a giant from the West, with a bronzed face
and that fine prairie way OF talking, Ike 10
knew he wasn't in church and didn't have to
whisper nor humble his words-so many New
York men do that dreadfully nowadays, dont
they? and big, strong hands, and that som.
brero style Of dress that makes YOU think o! the
Harry Castlrmon and Ned Buntline stories
that You read when you were little.
We'll. he walked up TO the counter like a man
does when he goes into a cigar store. and his eye
caught sight Of the bunch of Bride rose 5 that I
was swaddling up with white ribbon.
How much are those he asked me?
Fifteen dollars a dozen, | told him.
How many dozen just like that have you gos
IN the shack he inquired.
About ten dozen ] replied
"All rtght-Il take EN-, he said and thsn
ne began 10 LOOK ~ tUN OlItI HoWct1s
When be saw a vase Of American Beauty roses
As bug as double clr-sanlhemrms he asked me.
What's the figure for these
1.-TWO dollars apiece | told him.
Put about fifty Of EN- with the other8 -
said,
Then he came 10 the tray OF violets.
How much he inquired.
Dollar a hundred, said /.
".GS nlentE of'hemY'
IN take about 1000 OF EN- he said.
AN tlinR else. | ask cd him?
Well, | don't know, he said, rubbing he
chin Ike a man in a onandary' what 20
We'll | said, you've already bought quite
a fey flowers, you know. What is i 10 be
dinner, 5o'clock tea, ball. reception SEEDING
anyhow he said. hurriedly, blushlns like
o. % and fS1y a moment E2si he sI looked 50 awkward
and sh.epish that ] felt sorry for him. linen
he shook himself together again.
NO, it's not any Of those things you men:
ton he went on in q confidential, tone,
inst want to send some flowers up TO her houss:
YOU know. I'm only back here from the rsnc9
on a visit, you understand, Well, while !
was up AT her house last night two or tnres
Dunches of flowers came TO her from. youh6
,nipes of Willie boys she seems 10 have becofne
acquainted with s,Lce ] well, away, II STUCK
me then that ! hadn't thought TO send hsr
and of thing out in the cattle country. and
heres nothing but prairie flowers, anyhow
" nTIr so Ho1 a i ,a ssnd I2 SeT np s q few se fiows Ana
'lle wan w F'hl " w y - 49,. -. 81
"A few said |, and ! really couldn't help
laughins,
man. with an arprehensive look on his big
.ood-natured face, Haven't l picked ous
| 'nuugh'-
Fame in. and the big man from he Wssth anoed
nm a ve-hundred-Gollar bill. Tie lowers
we're sent up TO tn" home OF a deoufan'e o.
few days $ later. Now. didn't he need q guar:
G@1Sneis rrac Iosy ms all I do or Sc pity, y"s shs poo,
air oeain belled the pity she said she fell BY
And wba, 90 you think of a man who SENDS
lowers, and Beautiful ones, too. to bis wife
very day in the year, sundays and ho!dsyS
ncludedy" she went or. motchlng a heliotrope
We lave such a customer. He first came 10
here a little over a year ago and ordered on
Of a lady who lives across from the Park enc
who had Mrs prefixed 10 her name. Aitef
hat no dropped IN. rain snow, or shine; every
lay. and selected a beautiful lot Of flowers
never Mad any occasion to give his own name,
and, Of course. none cf us IN the store dreemsd
SO lopelcssly. Improbable that. ,yoY know:
All Of us girls decided that he WAS a bachelor, or
widower-he was a middle-aged man-cult-
waiting the good eraces Of an attractive Widow:
we're good-looking and all that. One day.
after he had been sending her flowers regu"
,arly for seven months. be failed 10 come IN,
and so the proprietor sent mp a hancsomS
basket Of flowers 10. the address OF me Mrs.
anyhow. The next day he came In.
My wife was n trife indlsposed, yesters
day, he said 10 the proprietor, ana, OF COURSE
Colld not leave her. | thoroughly appfe-
r!atr your sending the flowers without my OF"
drrllC them. and so does my wife
TN. proprietor looked nt him IN rainier Q
puzzled sort pi way.
Had | but known at the time o! your we'd
ding he began.
'Weddinr,T said the regular customer. I
don't believe | quite
'Surrlv your marriage has been quite re-
cent? the proprietor said, and then an ex.
crodinrly Wcll-bred chuckle came from our
regular customer
I'm give you the order TO decorate our
house when we celebrate our silver wedding
carly next year he SAID. between very broad
smilcs. and then he went out, He has been in
every day since with his order for flowers Tor
his wife, and
aud, tl"r"tore. presumably stands in need
of q gVardian?"
'iIayr ! not inst been telling Won that he 70
married And then the poor sl'ies-I mean
tho Young ones IN the before stage a~rain-dye
know they really and truly believe the girls
when ~. girls tel EN- that they press every
flower vou +and me in my copy or Tennysonr.
Actually bnlieve every word OF H. they DOL
They never stop "a think that no volume, of
Trnnyson NJ big n the Doomsday Book has
oyer been published How'll they PRESS" 4
the question that lots Of tia. poor. deluded
- ~ $500 -. tIA,. N 10 HtNltnn nlf TnQAA