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Show Price of Roses. A small flower shop In the humbler quarters of a Southern city. A young hospital nurse, still In training, is asking the price of roses, her rounded ffcxcJi-JitSelf a rose, half turned to the open door. ' - The daily tasks of the hospital training school are exhausting. But she has managed to embroider a work bag a wedding present wrought by her own hands and she seeks to adorn the packnge with a few buds. To the question she puts thero Is' no reply; only a thoughtful look. Such voice as Is "an excellent thing 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 thei hospital. How she suffered I And how patient to the end !" Then, turning to the boy, she bids: him give the lady all the flowers shai may need. And she herself pins a,; white rose on the young nurse's' bosom. New York Independent. |