H, I hope there will be no cruel or adverse 

 criticism of those who are growing flowers 

 under glass! I know of a great greenhouse 

 maintained at the correct temperature by the 

 use of wood, old stumps, discarded logs, etc., that could 

 be utilized in no other way and when dipped in crude oil 

 proved very satisfactory for maintaining a proper green- 

 house temperature. Flowers comfort us, of that fact I 

 am absolutely certain, A little mother whose only child 

 is "Somewhere in France" received a letter from her boy 

 a few days before her birthday, begging her to have near 

 her the roses she knew "boy" would give, were he near 

 enough to do so. "Why mother I'll know if you haven't 

 your birthday roses, just as sure as I live. Something will 

 tell me and I'll be wretched, my lonely "Little Muvver"; 

 so make your "Laddie's" peace of mind assured by having 

 your roses. It will be the first time since I can remember 

 I haven't handed them to you myself. Feel my arms 

 around you, best, most unselfish of Mothers, all the day of 

 the Twenty-fourth and remember, that You, precious, are 



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