COLOR ARRANGEMENTS OF FLOWERS 



I had decided to make the change; so, com- 

 ing down very early, I found the gardener, 

 went with him to the garden, and gave 

 directions that every pansy and sweet 

 wiUiam be pulled up, the beds and borders 

 edged, and that all must be done neatly 

 and immaculately before the men went to 

 dinner. 



Then I fled, to return only after my orders 

 had been carried out. At first the little gar- 

 den seemed bare and shorn of much beauty. 

 But the daughter's criticism proved to be 

 right, and now only gladioli grow among the 

 roses, while all along the edge of the border 

 is a row of tall tuberoses, which grow three 

 feet in height with heads of bloom a foot in 

 length, and perfume the night air deliciously. 

 Every one approves the change. 



We often reproach ourselves for fickleness 

 when we find that we regard with aversion 

 people whom we have long known and liked, 

 because, in the lapse of years, they seem to 

 iave acquired unpleasant peculiarities, for- 



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