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Show FAD8 IN FLOWERS. Florists' shops abroad art much different dif-ferent from the onei In this country. In London, for example, ex-ample, funeral freaths and emblems em-blems are displayed In the windows, with their prices attached Soma art attractive, others very hideous. Lichen U fashionable there for crosses and wreaths, and from this grisly-gray background calla lilies and white rosei peer. Btl pieces, tho "gates ajir." broken columns and floral pillows, are always painful, for. In the first place, tba natural nat-ural grace and beauty of tha flowers H destroyed, and In the next there It no excuse for the emblems. Flowers for the dead should be scattered In careless care-less bandfuls then only art tbey comforters, com-forters, with their graceful beauty unimpaired. un-impaired. Tho modern custom of adding add-ing to n death notice the words, ' Friends will please omit flowera'nity be traced to the reluctance of the survivors sur-vivors to be confronted with tboit ghsstly set pieces which havo raged is long. The best artists have always recog-nlied recog-nlied that flowers should bo allowed to arrange thrmselres. Uaskettuls, arm-fuls arm-fuls or great bunches of loose flowers are Justifiable, but crushing their beauty beau-ty Into any systematized outline li unforgivable. un-forgivable. Florists abroad have a frightful habit ot "making up" bouton-ntera bouton-ntera tor men's coats and these bunches of three or four violets a spray of fern and a branch of forget mo-nots are seen on the lapels ot tho men who do not appnicltte true fitness. A single gardenia tuberose or a knot ot mignonette mig-nonette It better than one ot these horrible hor-rible mlitur- |