The Lamar Register

Last year there was a lad working in a florist's shop here who thought he was not getting on fast enough. It occurred to him that many people of small means would be willing to pay a trifle to have small bouquets delivered to them every day for their dinner table. He spoke to his employer about it, and was sneered at. He got a friend to lend him enough money to send out several thousand circulars, choosing his names judiciously, and enclosed postal cards in each circular for an answer. He got so many encouraging reports that he felt justified in plunging into business for himself, and left his employer.

Now, a little over twelve months since he sent out his first circulars he is letting the contracts for a store and hot house which will cost him several thousand dollars. His idea was a good one, and he sends out several hundred bouquets a day, charging from twenty-five cents to ten dollars as fees for them.