There is no prettier or more characteristic sight in the streets of Paris than the barrows of the flower-sellers heaped with the lovely trophies of the Spring—the tribute of the sunny sout This year owing to the mildness the flowers are ticularly early and the lilies and tulips and daffodils alternating with the purple of the Russian violets and the yellow of the mirness introduce bright note of colour into the drab of the streets. Flowers are especially sought after this year by reason of the revival of the fashion amongst women of wearing them in the front of the corsage. With the fashion, however, has sprany up that delicate industry which concerns itself with the copying of the nat ral flower se exactly as_to deceive any but the most observant. It has ti vantage, that it allows women of limited means to follow the fashion without completely ruining their husbands in the purchase of perishable cut blooms.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.