The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1900-06-23

his words-so many New York men do
that dreadfully nowadays, don't they?-
and big, strong hands, and that sombrero
| style Of dress tina. makes you think of
Harry Castleman and Ned Buntline stories
that you read when you were little.
| "Well he walked up to the counter like
| a man does when he goes into a cigar
store, and his eye caught sight of bunch
| of bride roses that was swaddling with
white ribbon.
e" How much are those?' he asked me-
| Fifteen dollars a dozen,' told him.
| How many dozen like that have you
got in the shack?' he inquired.
About ten Dozen I replied.
| All right-Tll take EN-, he said, and
| then he began to look at the other flowers
When he saw a vase of American Beauty
roses as big as double chrysanthemums
! he asked me, Whats the figure for
| these?
Two dollars apiece told him.
Put about fifty of 'em with the others,
| he said.
Then he came to a tray of violets.
How much?' he inquired
Dollar hundred said I.
Got plenty of them?'
""Thousands'
"'I.ll take about 1000 of 'em,' he said.
Anything else?' I asked him.
We'll. don't know he said, rubbing
his chin. like a man in a quandry. What
| do you think?'
"sWell,' I said, you've already bought
| quite a few flowers, you know. What is
it to be-dinner, 5 o'clock tea, ball, recep-
| ton, wedding?'-
emo, no, no, not a wedding-not just
yet, anyhow he said, hurredly, blushing
like a dig schoolboy. Later, maybe. Hope
So and for moment he looked so awk-
| ward and sheepish that I felt sorry for
him. Then he shook himself together
again. -. 49,
"'No, it's not any of those things you
| MENTION he went on in a confidential
tone I just want to send some flowers
up to her house, you know. I'm only
! back here on visit from the ranch, you
understand. Well, while I was up at her
house last night, two or three punches
| of flowers came to her from young snipes
| of Willie boys she seems to have become
acquainted with since I went away. 1t
struck me that hadn't thought to send
| her any flowers-oatfits are too far apart
| for that kind of thing out in the cattle
| country, and there's nothing but prairie
| flowers, anyhow, and so fellow for
gets, you see. And SO only want to
send her up few flowers ST..
.s.A few! said 1, and I really couldn't
| help laughing.
| roor man, with an apprehensive look on
his big, good-natured face. Haven't
picked out enough Is s-t's-s -
oh, quite enough said I, and just
| the right kind, too,' and just then the
proprietor came in, and the big man from
| the West handed him $500-bill. The
! flowers were sent up to the home of a
debutante of last season, in special
wagon. The announcement Of the engage
ment was made few days later. Now
didn't he need a guardian?-don't they
all need guardians? Goodness gracious
me, do so pity the poor thtngs!" and the
girl with the wavey chestnut hair again
| belied the pity she said she felt by her
| smil IS.
! .'.And what do you think of man who
sends flowers, and beautiful ones, too, to
his wife every day in the year, Sundays
and holidays included?" she went on,
matching heliotrcpe orchid with piece
Of heliotrope ribbon. "yvell, we have
such a customer. He first came In here
| a little over year ago and ordered an.
expensive box Of flowers to be sent to the
| home of a lady who lives across from the
park, and who had Mrs prefixed to her
name After that he dropped in, rain or
| shine, every day, and selected beautiful
I lot Of flowers TO be sent to the same
| Mrs. He, of course, never had any ocS
casion to give his own name, and, of
course, none of us in the store dreamed
that he was sending the flowers to his
| wife. So Eope1essly improbable, that, you|
know. All Of US girls decided that he was!
bachelor or widower-1e was middlej
aged man-caItivatin the good graces of:
IN attractive widow, probably wealthy
and we wondered If she were cookbook
ling and all that One day, after he had
been sending her flowers regularly for.
seven months he failed to come in, and
so the proprietor cent up handsome:
basket of flowers to the address Of the
| Mrs anyhow. The next day he came in.
My wife was trif1e indisposed yes
terday." he said to the proprietor, and,
af course, could not leave her. thor
l,ushly appreciate your sending the dow