Show MAKING GOOD IN INA INA N NA A SMALL TOWN Real Stories About Real Girls By MRS HARLAND H. H ALLEN H 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 M i THE FLOWER GIRL GIRLA GIRLA GIRLA FLOWER VEn GIRL Is not always A an adjunct to a wedding cere cere- mony Often Otten she is Just some energetic energetic energetic ener ener- getic girl who has turned her fancy for tor flowers into financial success Fads and foibles do not always bring returns returns returns re re- turns but a flair for tor flowers if it rightly right right- ly directed te does A flower girl I ran across the theother theother theother other day became provoked when I used the word art In connection with her work because she he said Its all a n matter of ot business Later on on she admitted that she did Indulge her artistic tendencies a bit as she worked In her garden though sh she sternly repressed them when she marketed marketed mar mar- her wares True Tru garden-craft garden Is 18 market craft The stumbling block of at most country COUntr and small town girls in selling flowers Is their proneness to set limitations for tor themselves A girl is sometimes satisfied to carry a little basket of 01 flowers flower Into the city each day when she could be shipping out hundreds of at dollars dollars' worth of ot flowers dally daily durIng during during dur dur- ing t the e season One step such a s' girl may profitably take is the making of ot an arrangement with the hotel proprietor to provide his tables with flowers at t a fixed sum per month The proprietor may agree to display her fresh cut fresh cut flowers every morning where people will wUl see and buy them too Fu Furnishing flowers for the town cemetery may be another opportunity for her Sh She may put up flowers for funerals too A birthday book in which Is listed birthday and other anniversaries' anniversaries of ot as many women as possible Is a help The flower girl who keeps a book may ay call the womans woman's husband to Ito remind him of the event and to 8 suggest suggest- that he say It with flowers Of at course there is something else to the flower business than simply going goIng go- go Ing to the right places to sell them One must have a S salable product and that requires In this case an artistic instinct Now caring for a a flower garden Is essentially a ft work for which many women are eminently suited You must be both an artist and a business woman then It If you yon are amb am om b float ua to succeed as a flower gi |