FLOWERS ON DINING TABLES.
Nothing can equal the beauty and appropriateness of flowers at meal time, and during the season they should never for once be absent. It is a custom which should become universal among rich and poor. Even grasses and leaves and ferns add cheerfulness to the room, and to the hearts of those assembled around the board. Very pretty ornaments are made by uniting fruits and flowers. Such fruits as have long stems or grow on slender branches are better suited, such as strawberries, cherries, currants, gooseberries, etc. But no matter what the flowers or fruits or what may be used to put them in, let them be found upon the tables during floral season. Set the children to preparing the dinner-table bouquet; it will prove a useful lesson to them; and beget a love for flowers and floral ornaments.—Temperance Blessing.