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Show Counterfeit Flowers. The orchid and American beauty rose are the two most difficult flowers to make. A skilled worker can construct only about : American beauty roses In one day. and this number only when the leaves and petals are all ready to pui together fhe small flowers like the sv,,Uimc m-e also iliflleult to make, and only skilled hands 1 an, be intrusted with this work The majority of the smuii and delicately made (lowers Imported foi millinery uses are made In the prisons pris-ons of Prance. The work of making flowers is pleasant and, for Skilled hands, lucrative, the girls receiving all the waj from J.: B week for beginners to JL't for the best workers. Much of the finer grades Is given out for home work, women and girls taking huge ' boxes of flower petals and leaves to put together. One morket for artificial flowers is that of the harnessmakers, w I i del' bunches of violets and other small flowers and resell them to grooms for the decoration Of their horses on tally-ho trips and other gala occasions. Many of the handsome corsage bou-qUOtS bou-qUOtS of orchids and violets so much admired at the theatei and opera are at titiciai. Leslie's Weekl) , |