| Show si ki K S SA air i ir ay i afa thy t hy bf flower paris rather than florence should be called the city of flowers in evory quarter you may see a tall handsome kiosk a blender and graceful corner built of wood and glass in which a pretty flower girl has her shop she has a witty word for everybody even for the ladies who make her haul over her whole stock in trade and then go away without buying more than two sous worth of violets sells little breast knots of flowers ti the work girls going to their toil at eight in the morning and kinds home bouquets and cut flowers ordered b ladies out chopping in tho afternoon she sees a long procession of gallants pass before her and her incomes depends largely upon her popularity when evening comes she has the strangers and the flan curs for patrons and it is generally midnight before she packs her baskets closes her kiosk and g aea home these girls often work fourteen or fifteen hours daily since they havo to be at four or five morning flower auction at jbf hallos |
