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Show WASHINGTON'. July In. MaybeJ after all. It is worth while for congress con-gress to distribute free garden and flower seeds. Members of congress have been he-rated he-rated and criticized on every hand for spending the public money to send out. those seeds, but if each member dls-patchCd dls-patchCd Ms allotment with the finesse :-l:ow;i by i . u u; i essin .1 n John 11. Small ot Washington. .V. C-. tlie harvest of I smilCB would be ample return for the few hundred thousand dollars they cost annually There's nothing so small about Small He Uses i lower seeds to carry Cheer and beauty to the womenfolk of his North Carolina district. What he wants Is not a vote from the men, but a smile from the women. And that the seeds themselves, and tin posies they may produce, may be l'ii their proper poetic setting In I the minds of North Carolina womenfolk women-folk Small sends with each package a i letter of greeting and good wishes. During the early spring this year, for instance, the women of his district dis-trict received the following letter, demon-1 rat ing beyond cavil that at last one congressman has his mind above the mundane things of govern- ment. "My Hear Madam: As I glance through my office window today, I see no harbingers of springtime or I flow ers The skies are heavily over-icast over-icast The chill all of winter lingers I I-'og and dampness envelop the haro trees and obscuro the buildings. Even the ImposiiiK dome of the Capitol unwillingly un-willingly emerges from the humid j gloom. j "But the witchery of hope enables me to beckon the gentle zephyrs and j balmy BUUShlne of May. 'When spring (unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing laugh-ing soil' .jiid hangs lier Infant blossoms blos-soms on the tret-s.' It js of you and that glad hour that I am thinking i "II you love flowers and every woman does perhaps a tiny packet of id- ut forward by mail may, under Moving care, tempt :i smile more beuu-tlf beuu-tlf ul than Its bloom "Very sincerely, "JOHN H SMALL. "P. S. If this packet does not arrive ar-rive within two weeks, a letter will istarl another to you. " |