Show THE ISLAND CONTINENT australia Is a land of Lovei loveliness iness through all the seasons there is nothing we are told that astonishes tonis hes the stranger iger visiting aus st seralia ralia for the first time fo much as the variety and beauty of its flowers au baralla bt raila ralla is indeed a land of floral coral loreli ness less and nowhere has nature bee beer more lavish in her gifts of bud and blossom than in new south wales the landscape is an endless panorama panor amk of surpassing beauty there is a plethora of color in the flowers that everywhere meet the gaze they are am not placed here and there only to give g ive one the impression of limit they cover mountains and valleys in all kinds of forms and shades of beauty climbers in rich crimson and interspersed with every col orare multiplied hy by million millio and scattered scatter edwith with a prods proal iral tend hand that knows no stint nor bound save bilat of infinitude itself until every shrub s and plan and bush robed in splendor makes the country gay with blue and gold and many colored dyes the gorgeous coloring of the australian floral kingdom is hardly to be excelled anywhere among the favorite native flowers is the stately waratah or native tulip as it is sometimes incorrectly designed it grows to the height of four or five fire feet the slender tem stem bl being ing surmounted by a large dahlia balili a shaped flower of the deepest crimson it is sometimes grown as a rarden irden flower but thrives best in the ush the native rose which has no est save in its delicate pin int to the favorite garder flower is exceedingly cee eee plentiful the blossom is small and modest but wonderfully enduring and forms a charming addition to in an australian bouquet the rock lily illy of which a beautiful men im bedded in ice was lately sent to the tha queen is so called from iu its being most abundant it in rocky country where its masses of yellowish white blossoms stand out in picturesque relief from the dense background of darl daa green foliage the gigantic lily is perhaps the most magnificent magnifies mt of australian native flowers pittsburgh dispatch WOMAN FLIES KITES champion lady at 31 the sport anve invents 6 a ne kew nind hind barrel kites are the novel invention of miss nell nellie le ross of fruit vale cal I 1 says the tha ner york world three months ago zhe ehe demon demonstrated stra ted their practicability and since sin then ha has s i proved as she claims that they fly higher than any other kites ever made on the pacific coast A recent visitor to what miss rose calls her aitery ki tery saw simply a very clean and neatly whitewashed back backyard yard against some deserted henro leaned some queer cloth and bamboo balabon ba laboo objects that looked like flattened balloons with the ends knocked knocke dout out the largest were five feet ligh by four feet broad and they were of all colors color thee the string ring used in flying them is about two miles long the young kite flyer who ho holds that every woman should have a hobby and j who thoroughly enjoys hers bers makes all her ber own kites then she flies nine or ten at a t once 0 n ce to the great edification em cation of the surrounding neighborhood aag and to the delight of the small boys who arc am always willing to help haul them in each 1 kite ite is named and Ife mckiniry ROnley and grover compete with those bearing less famous names to see which can climb the highest barrel kite flying is said to be as pretty cis as it is success ful and Cali fornias fornies champion 1 kite ate alver brears ars her distinction very gracefully f |