Word: flower
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect. "The Point of View," by J. G. Cole sC., is a pleasant sketch of a not very ingenious sort. The plot...
...undergone its spring cleaning and re-labelling preparatory to setting out a large number of plants. A number of herbs and shrubs are already in bloom, as are the horse chestnuts and the large magnolia beside the main building. The magnolia is already covered with large pinkish flowers. In the green-houses a large number of tropical orchids have just come into flower; they have been raised from seedlings sent to the garden from different parts of the world...
Holly Hocke (a flower girl), J. L. Valentine...
Jack Minnow (a flower vender), G. H. Scull...
WANTED.- To rent for the summer, a nicely furnished detached house in good locality. Family of three. Can give best of Boston references. Call or address Henry C. Flower, 45 Milk street, Boston...