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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



EVERLASTINGS PINNED HEADS DOWNWARD. 



or to add beauty to a dainty waist, to 

 express an unfading' friendship or, if 

 you please, a regard that shall be deeper 

 and more permanent than mere friend- 

 ship. 



If it is my good fortune to be, like 

 Curie or Marconi in their specialties, a 

 pioneer in the domain of everlasting mil- 

 linery, 1 will try to bear the honors meek- 

 ly. If 1 am to go down to oblivion amid 

 the laughter of the ladies, I will thank 

 them, before I vanish with my splendid 

 flowers, for their kindness in listening 

 to me as I have tried to entertain them 

 during a leisure moment, and have tried, 

 too, to suggest a floral display for an un- 

 occupied corner of tde garden. A gar- 

 den bed of straw flowers may contain 

 possibilities and suggestions not to be 

 even dreamed of with less novel growths. 

 Everlasting bonnet fixings' Unfading! 

 ( )nly one payment needed ! Think of 

 the economy! Married men, flee to the 

 garden and plant the seeds of straw 

 flowers. And when you hear murmurs 

 tnat connote a new bonnet, lead her gen- 

 tlv but firmly to the back door, and with 

 tne proper gesture, say, "There you are. 

 mv dear." 



THE PLANT THAT SITS ON A ROCK. 



While weeding in the corner of my 

 eold frame I was about to pull up what 

 I at a first glance supposed to be only a 

 strange looking weed, but upon second 



thought decided not to disturb it. Then 

 1 carefully removed all the commonplace 

 plants and studied the interloper. What 

 kind of a plant you are, I don't know ; 

 but 1 am sure you are not a weed — -not 

 "a plant that grows where it is not 

 wanted," for this glass-covered bed is 

 for experiments with new things, and 

 you are a thing new to me. I purpose 

 therefore to add you to the list of my 

 experimentings. So the plant, then only 

 about an inch in height, was not only 

 allowed to grow but encouraged. 



About two weeks later I was again 

 weeding the frame and by chance, bad 

 luck as I at first supposed, but really by 

 good fortune as it turned out, broke one 

 of the straggling branches then about five 

 inches long. This I placed on the exam- 

 ining table in my laboratory. Other 

 matters claimed my attention and I was 

 absent from home for more than a week. 

 Imagine my surprise upon going into my 

 experiment room to see the branch as 

 green and succulent as when I picked it, 

 and actually developing new branches 

 and tiny "cabbage head" buds. I went 

 to the cold frame and examined the orig- 

 inal plant, There in the earth it seemed 

 to be doing no better than the branch on 

 the table. But the examination brought 

 to mind the name. I recalled that the 

 previous year in another part of the gar- 

 den T had planted some "live-forever," 

 bought from a florist at the suggestion 



