Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1884 — Love the Flowers. [ARTICLE]

Love the Flowers.

“Love the flowers, my darling; always love the flowers,” said little Pierre’s mother, as she held the child in her arms to wave good-by to the lady who had been to see them, and had brought a bunch of flowers and a rosy apple for the little boy. Pierre’s mother lived in a country village in Fiance, and she dearly loved to surround tho cottage with the gayest flowers she could. The little garden was full of them, and you found them on the window-sill and on the chimney-piece, and wherever there was room for a bunch of flowers to be' placed. They took up a good deal of room, those flowers—some hours almost every day had to be given to them; but, then, they made the cottage so bright that the good woman never grudged the time. And she hoped that some day Pierre would grow up to help her, and, perhaps, be a great gardener himself. Who could tell?— Exchange. ' In France nearly all, the railroad ticket and signal clerks are women, who are paid as muck as men. They are preferred because of their sobriety.