The following is taken from the advertisement of a Philadelphia florist in a city paper. It has ever been a puzzle with intelligent people that black should be a mourning color for dresses and funeral accompaniments, while the flowers should be purely white :

"It is noticeable that the popular taste is running more and more toward the use of colored flowers in funeral pieces. A few years ago nothing but pure white was tolerated. One day Pennock Bros, sent out a pillow with a few Safrano buds in it, only to have it returned by the indignant recipient.

"Since that time, however, not only Safranos, but the deeper yellow Perles and Sunsets, have become popular, and some recent funerals in high society have even shown pieces made of the deep-colored Jacqueminot roses.

" Perhaps there is a change in the sentiment as well as in the color. White flowers suggest the cold cerements of the grave; colored ones, the bright fields of Paradise".