People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1893 — Sham Violets. [ARTICLE]

Sham Violets.

“Even the violet, that flower typifying all that is modest, chaste and pure, sometimes proves to be a sham,” remarked she to a friend, as she fastened an odorous purple bunch to her corsage. “I always get mine at a reliable place. Otherwise you are apt to be deceived. You select a bouquet, smell of it and it seems delicious, when after half an hour in the open air all the perfume has vanished. Why is this? Because its sweetness was not real, only borrowed from the extract bottle. Understand?” Whalebones which have become bent and misshapen can be made “as good m new” by soaking them a few hours in water and then drying them. In London the experiment i a being tried of a robed choir of girl*