LET us try, "said Rose. " We can do it," said Grace. It was a beautiful room these girls were in. The side towards the street was glass, and a glass door led out to a small open veranda with steps to the side-walk. The house was on one of the fashionable streets of Detroit, and the lovely room so full of plants and flowers was the delight of the neighborhood. A large Latania Bar-bonica gave an aristocratic nod to a pteris in the opposite corner, and on the table was a vase of Jacqueminot roses. Even these lovely hued flowers could not make the girls smile, for they were brought face to face with the stern question, "What shall we do to earn our bread and butter ?" Their father had died not very long before, and after his affairs were settled, a few hundred dollars and the house was all. "We must not sell our home," said Rose. "Papa was so happy while planning this room, and only last birthday he gave us that lovely palm," and she nodded at Latania Borbonica. " O ! my lovely Jac," said Grace bending over the flower, " Help us to keep our home, and to succeed in our new undertaking".

The girls had helped papa for years as he worked among his plants in his leisure hours. They were often invited to parties, always noticed the flowers, and trimmed their home with the most exquisite taste, when it was their turn to entertain. When papa died, Rose proposed that they boldly take up floral adornment for a living. A modest sign was put on the house near the glass door that led into the conservatory, "Flowers arranged* for Weddings, Funerals, etc." A few more palms and ferns were bought as an investment. The room with its glass side was made bright with roses and rare flowers, and a brief announcement in the papers advised the pubic of the new enterprise. They made mention of the fact that they would make "designs," but their perfect taste made the designs quite different from the usual stiff monstrosities which nothing but the natural loveliness of the outraged flowers themselves render passable. Especially were their pretty arrangements for personal wear admired ; indeed, the making of hand bouquets and breast knots became a very paying business. They did not grow the plants, deeming that too much of an undertaking, at the outset at least; favorable arrangements were made, and the flowers were bought at a discount from the large greenhouses in the city.

The girls always remembered their first customer. The very morning after the sign was put out, a carriage stopped and a young woman clad in velvet and costly furs, came up to the glass door. Rose, with outward tranquility, but inward trembling, bowed to Miss Dora Morgan. " Will you come and arrange our table for the dinner party tomorrow ? And there are plenty that will want you, besides, for I have heard several say that you sisters have more taste than professionals. You are plucky girls, and will succeed." And succeed they did. After a few months, there was hardly a wedding, funeral or dinner party in high society where these bright girls did not attend to the floral part. And the girls were happy in their work, too, and health y - there was a wonderful difference between this varying, interesting occupation, calling out all the best thought, requiring deft hand work, and drudging in a school or store, with the meagre reward such labor brings. One day when they were filling a fifty-dollar order for a wedding, Rose said to Grace, "I wish other girls would try raising plants, or small fruits, or making floral designs.

How much more healthy and happy they would be, if obliged to earn money, than i n sewing or teaching ! In few other branches of work that women can do has taste so much of a real money value".

"And yet with such boundless opportunities for taste and skill" said Grace, "so few women avail themselves of the chance for a pleasant and profitable livelihood. The floral magazines cannot do better work than to arouse in girls an interest in raising plants and flowers. In no other occupation can they take a more lively interest or more easily make a commercial and really artistic success." And so thinks The Editor's Outlook.

Sister Gracious.

The First Order.