Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1913 — ANOTHER SIDE TO MATTER [ARTICLE]

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One Man Has Discovered That Offering Floral Bouquets to the Living Is Not All Joy. “There has been a good deal in the paragraph section of our exchanges for some weeks to the effect that you should give the bouquets now; not wait to lay them on the coffin lid.” says Tom Thompson In the Howard Courant. Ella Wheeler before' she was a Wilcox wrote a poem on that theme; Chancellor Bradford at th 6 Chautauqua dinged it Into us, and most of us have been affected by it. Bjxt say, my brother-sister, have you tried it yet? I have—twice. First, I tried it on a very dear friend of the other sex, and she began to get nervous likei she thought I was trying to flirt with her. Then I quit, for I am pre-eminently no flirt. Next I tried it on a brother in my lodge and Sunday school, and he shied off like he expected me to ask him for a loan. So after this I shall water my flower beds and raise nice bouquets for funeral occasions exclusively. Very few people know how to receive floral offerings, anyway.—Kansas City Star.