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society produces multitudes of women who like 

 to be taken to the altar by men whose hands, 

 incased in Jouvain's latest style, are almost as 

 diminutive as their own. They may soon see 

 the day, however, when they will wish that the 

 man who offered his hand had offered little more 

 in that line. But let her put him in the garden a 

 while, and the lily ringers will soon grow more 

 capable of wielding the weapons of life's battle. 

 But it was not with the Spartan idea of dis- 

 cipline and manly development that I first re- 

 ferred my garden as ministering to the sense of 

 touch. It can do this as delicately and pleas- 

 urably as the viewless perfume. Pick off the 

 opening leaves from a lilac bush, and their 

 silken softness is as exquisite as their perfume. 

 Varied foliage is as different to the sense of 

 touch as to the eye. What sensation is more 

 delicious than that of pressing your lips into 

 the cool velvety centre of a double rose ! It is 



