The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-04-12
On Flossiie's
Advice

bulbs, they did bloom at last and
they are pretty. But don't you ever
let any one tell you what F1ossie told
me about them, for II isn't true"
"Chinese lilies or narcissus?" asked
her visitor, as she slipped on her pin
less hat and warmed her blue tipped
fingers against the tea coy, all set
for gentle brewing.
I'm sure l don't know. ! bought
? both kinds OF bulbs and they got
mixed, and now every bowl has some
flowers with yellow centers and some
that are white and everybody tells me
q different story about which is which.
But that doesn't matter nearly SO
much as the rest OF it." Young Mrs.
Tomlinson sank into her wicker chair
and began to arrange the delicate tea
cups, and after that she uncovered
pile of cheese sandwiches.
1T Is all lovely" exclaimed her
friend. "An-tea, cheese. sandwiches
and flowers. / am cold and hungry,
so hurry the tea, and do tell me what
Flossie said that wasn't true"
None OF It was tTue-about the
bulbs" declared young Mrs. Tomlin-
son, sternly And she started me
on them, you know. She was here last
summer when we gave our rubber
plant to Aunt Sophie because Harry
said 1t was too big to live with and
fused 80 about It, ] was sorry to see
1t go, for II was the only thing ] ever
made grow, and / have spent for
tune on ferns and various kinds OF
plants. They die the minute ] touch
them. So FIossie suggested bulbs.
They we're quite cheap, she told me.
"'Just get some cheap, plain glass
bowls said Flossie. and you can
gather enough pebbles this summer to
fill them. Then get the bulbs-at rs
cents O dozen-and you have flowers
for the entire winter. Plant them two
weeks apart and then keep them in
the dark for two weeks. In six weeks
they bloom and you can keep taking
out your bowls as the old flowers die
IT sounded delightful, 30 l decided to
try 1t.
THAT was in July. We we're going
north for the rest of the summer, SO
] just made a note OF II and watched
| for pebbles. Whenever we were In
swimming or we're walking by the
lake made everybody pick up peb-
bles for me. Marry said his pockets
were full OF stones all summer long.
and he got awfully mad once because
! emptied the cigars out Of new
cigar box to put stones in, though l
covered up the cigars and they weren't
hurt a bit.
Il brought back four boxes OF stones
perfect beauties, blue and white and
, yellow and pink. Then ! began to
look up bowls. Flossie said the bowls
would cost almost nothing at all, and
I began to look for plain glass bowls.
The cheap ones were dreadful pressed
glass things and the only pretty ones
were 81 each, 30 got two Of those
and then looked at pottery bowls.
Harry says that there's where lost
my head, but ! looked on the bowls
as, an investment. ) And got some
1 beauties. They cost more than the
others, but thought they were worth
the money, and the japanese clerk
was such dear about choosing them.
Then got the bulbs. And instead
OF costing rs cents dozen they were
three for quarter. Flossie said |
went to the wrong place, but didn't
know that, and had bought six
bowls, so i had to have plenty OF
bulbs.
About October l began to set
them out SO they would begin bloom
ing about November Is. never have
! got over this part OF 1t. Harry has
I always given his cigar boxes to a
neighbor boy and he came over to
play in our basement one day and
! found my pebbles in those boxes and
threw them all into tho alley!
! Harry wasn't at all sympathetic.
He simply refused to go and gather
more pebbles by the lake, which he
so had to go back to the bulb store
and buy little ugly, commonplace
/ stones for ten cents quart.
Il finally got one bowl started in
I the dark In the coat closet There
Harry found it before 1t was week
old and spilled II all over. the slk
lapels OF his new tuxedo. or course,
his tailor could fix that, but he insists
on counting 1t in as part Of the ex-
pense. He never seemed to care for
my bulb ambitions.
THAT bowl was broken, and OF
course 1t was the incest, and the little
tender sprouts were harmed, so had
to begin again. took all the things
out of the closet and had the tanitor
put up some shelves, and 1t didn't cost
much and was a splendid place for the
bulbs.
But ell winter Harry has said that
he hasn't been able to find thing
in its proper place. lie quieted down
a bit after the bulbs got to blooming
until he got his newspaper in bowl
one night, and then you really should
have heard him rave, though 1t was
Just his own careiessness.
"Of course, have learned lot
about bulbs tell Harry that next
year, since I have my equipment.
averyfhfnR will go much beffer II in