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Show o PIN-MONEY AT HOME. Your call for articles on pin-money brings to mind the efforts of one girl ' who not only earned money through her own efforts to give her schooling J for two years, but also helped at home 1 f during her father's illness. 1 During a visit to a general store, a f lady was making inquiry for ferns. The dealer said he had frequent calls for ferns, but was unable to supply them, as few people cared to take the responsibility of their raising. This was the start she needed. Writing to her uncle, she explained her plan and asked the loan of twenty dollars. The answer came, full of encouragement and accompanied by the draft. Not a few hours were spent in studying fern catalogs, which resulted in an order for 150 plants, at ten cents apiece. The express on them amounted to a dolkir and a half, and the remainder was invested in jars. Seventy-five plants were potted at once, the rest being left bedded in tubs. She tended them cartuilly, keeping sufficiently moist and occasionally added emul sion. A' notice was inserted in her home paper, the same bit of informa- 1 lion given those Qf the neighboring towns to the effect that she would take orders for ferns to be distributed the first of September. The best of success rew -ded her first n.ffots, sixty-seven dollars b'ing cleared. By this time she ' '' had1 onsidcrable experience, ex-perience, and c- the nuxt growth she netted even more. This particular girl went, from this small beginning into something larger in floral culture. |