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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 cheek. Itself a rose, half turned to the open door. The dally tasks of the hospital training school ore exhausting. But she has manage to embroider a work-bag work-bag a wedding present wrought b her own hands and she seeks to adorn the package with a few buds. To the question she puts thfre Is no reply; only a thoughtful look. Such voice as Is "an excellent thine In woman" repeats It. Then the woman wom-an of the shop, quietly: "l beard you the first time. dear, and I've heard your voice before. You were pood, so good, to my Alice at the hospital. How she suffered! And how patient to the end !" Then, turning to the boy. she bids him give the lady ail the .lowers she may need. And she herself pins a white rose on the young nurse bosom. New- Vork Independent. |