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The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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THE LADIES' SECRETARY. 



RITING materials must be collected from their various 



hiding places about the house, and when at last the busy 



mother sits down at the table with pen, ink, blotter, 



paper, envelopes and stamps about her, she is pretty 



sure to find that the children have been trying her pen 



and spoiled it, or that the ink has grown thick and dry. 



Then somebody joggles the table, and she makes a 



great blot on the very first page ; she forgets what she 



wanted to say, and by the time the letter is finished and the envelope stamped 



and addressed, the discouraged woman hopes she may never have to write 



another letter. 



Now in this age of the world, it ought to be as easy for any woman to write 

 a letter as to make a bed. But, in order to do this, she needs convenient 

 arrangements for writing ; not a portfolio or little desk which she must hold on 

 her lap and bend over till her back aches, but an escritoire of good size and just 

 the right height. 



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All the large furniture dealers 

 keep on hand a variety of beautiful 

 escritoires, or will make to order just 

 such a one as any particular person 

 may fancy ; so that with a full pocket- 

 book, there is no difficulty in suiting 

 one's self exactly. But the impression 

 seems to prevail that such an article of 

 furniture is beyond the range of possi- 

 bilities for poor people, or those who 

 have very little money to spend. So 

 they put up with all sorts of incon- 

 veniences, not knowing that a pretty 

 and convenient secretary may be had 

 for a few dollars, while a home-made 

 one, equally serviceable, need not cost 

 much more than the labor of construction. We urge every one of our readers 

 to claim for herself the privilege of owning one of these useful articles which she 

 will soon consider indispensable. For the benefit of those who must study 

 economy, we give an illustration of a desk which may be easily made. — 

 Orchard and Garden. 



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Fig. 889. 



"You will fall in love," they said. In affright 

 I fled from each chasm to peaks above. 

 And when I attained the Heavenmost height 



I found they were wrong — I had climbed to love ! 



— Marjorie Scott, in January Ladies' Home Journal. 



