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Show Price of Rosea. A small flower shop in the humbler quarters of a Southern city. A younj hospital nurse, still in training, is asking the price of roses, her rounded cheek, Itself a rose, half turned to the open door. The daily tasks of the hospital training school are exhausting. Bu! she has managed to embroider a work-bag work-bag a wedding present wrought b? her own hands and she seeks to adorn tltj package with a few buds. To the question she puts there 1? ao reply; only a thoughtful look. Such voice as is "an excellent thlnj in woman" repeats It. Then the woman wom-an of the shop, quietly : "I heard you the first time, dear, and I've heard your voice before. You were good, so good, to my Alice at the hospital. How she suffered! Ani how patient to the end !" Then, turning to the boy, she bids him give the lady all the flowers she may need. And she herself pins a white rose on the young nurse's bosom. New York Independent. |