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Show THE "FLOWER GlKL" A "FLOWER GIRL" is no always an adjunct to a wedding ceremony. cere-mony. Often she is just some energetic ener-getic girl who has turned her fancy for flowers into financial success.. Fads and foibles do not always bring returns re-turns ; but a flair for flowers. If rightly right-ly directed, does. A "flower girl" I ran across the other day became provoked when I used the word "art" in connection with her work, because, she said, "It's all a matter of business." Later on, She admitted that she did indulge her "artistic tendencies" a bit as she worked In her garden, though she sternly repressed them when she marketed mar-keted her wares. True garden-craft Is market-craft. The stumbling block of most country and small town girls in selling flowers Is their proneness to set limitations for themselves. A girl is sometimes satisfied to carry a little basket of flowers Into the city each day, when she could be shipping out hundreds of dollars' worth of flowers daily during dur-ing the season. One step such a girl may profitably tnke Is the making of an arrangement with the hotel proprietor to provide his tallies with flowers at a fixed sum per month. The proprietor may agree to display her fresh-cut flowers every morning where people will see and buy them. too. Furnishing flowers for the town cemetery may he another opportunity for her. She may put up flowers for funerals, too. She should solicit this trade herself, pointing out that flowers flow-ers received from the city are not always al-ways fresh and attractive, as hers would he. A "birthday book," In which Is listed birthday an. other anniversaries of as many women ns possible, is a help. The (lower girl who keeps a hook may call the wj nan's husband to remind blm of th : event, and to suggest that he "say It with flowers " Of course, there Is something else to the flower business than simply going go-ing to the right places tn sell rhem One must have a salable product, and that requires in this case, an artistic Instinct. Even in business, one enn't "say it with flowers" unless she understands under-stands their inn;ninge. which is. after :ill. an artisrie one. Now. caring for a flower g:irden is essentially n work for which many vomen are eminently suited. You must he both an artist and e insiness woman, then. If yu are am dtious to succeed as a "flower girl." |