The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-03
KNOWS ABOUT THE GIRL.
From the Flowers Sent Her It ISN'T
Hard to Guess the Story.
Chicago Tribul


The girl behind the florists counter
smiled and sighed sympathetically as
she tucked the card handed her by her
last customer IN among the fragrant
sweet smelling blossoms filling the huge
box
81 hope they'll be happy" she said.
I've stood behind this counter for
eleven years" she explained 70 the fel-
low worker, who INDUCED in a ques-
tioning grimace, "and I've learned TO
recognize proposal symptoms at sight
That man, for instance. began sending
flowers to the girl who is TO receive
these gorgeous beauties more than
three years ago He began with huge
costly American Beauty roses. One
day the girl happened to come into the
store with him-I knew she was the
girl because he called her by the name
j always placed on the boxes and be-
cause of some remarks she made about
the floWers-and I saw at once that she
wasn't that kind of a girl i knew, in
tultlVely, she'd prefer viOlets or small
OdOrOus white blossoms. BY and by,
too. he found this out. His orders be-
came less lavish, but more frequent.
Then I knew that he'd settled down 90
steady alteration. And I knew, too.
that she wasn't being too easily won.
BY and by he stopped sending her
flowers suddenly-never gave US an or
der for weeks and weeks. Then he
began sending the huge red roses again
but 20 another girl. A little later the
first girl came into the store, by acct
dent. seemingly. and slipped into con-
versatiOn with me. She was looking al
most as thin and troubled as the man
who no longer sent her flowers, and I
was willing to help them both il could.
So when, after a long and roundabout
season Of chatter, she asked me II the
young man who had used to send Miss
s. flowers ever came into the shop.
I said nothing about the new address
Of the big red roses. But i eXpiated
upon the fact that he'd given US a
funeral order a week or TWO before and
that he didn't look we'll or happy. The
girl looked happy as she went out
again, and-two weeks later they made
up their quarrel l knew it, because he
stopped sending the other girl red roses
and began % order viOlets and white
roses sent to the old address.
He's never missed many days since
his renewed happiness, and Just now
he rushed I'm, his eyes all shining and
"a beatidc smile on his face, and ordered
flowers enough to decorate a dozen girls
sent up i'm a great hurry. So I know
he's proposed and been accepted, and I
only hope that the wedding blossoms
viii come from here"
The girl who had been guilty Of the
questioning grimace smiled grimly
why not carry the matter to a def
nite-aud freQUent-cOnclusiOn she
inquired. "a flower movement, repeat,
crescendo climax, diminuendo, retard-
andO, fun stop-the latter when they've
been married a year or two. Can't you
carry your sign reading as far as that?
It's the way the blossom march
goes, according 70 my way Of thinking"
mot always" returned the cheerful
optimist. stoutly. Il had a customer un-
IN lately who always ordered a bouquet
Of mixed flowers, just the same kind OF
flowers, for a certain date every year.
Some Of these flowers are expensive and
hard TO get IN the winter, but he never
minded paying for them, although he
was by no means a rich man. And he
always ordered them a week or so be-
foreband. so that no single blossom of
his list might be missing He told me
once that he'd ordered just that kind
of a bouquet annually for forty years.
1 believe be would have taken a trip
across the continent, around the world.
for that matter. sooner than miss that
bouquet
Gle didn't come so early as usual this
year, and I wondered, for I've learned
TO know the date But just as ! was
getting nervous about him, who should
come I'm but q sad looking woman ia
widows weeds who ordered the identi-
cal bouquet the missing man had liked.
I couldn't refrain from drawing her out
little. and I learned that the man, her
husband, had just died. She told me,
moreover, that the dead man had made
up for her a dainty bouquet OF bios
SONS. plucked Ia her fathers conserva-
tory. the day she had consented 10 mar
rv him. And every anniversary OF that
day he had marked with a bouquet OF
lust such blossoms. This year. as he
could no longer bring the dearly loved
flowers 20 her. she had decided to place
them on his grave"