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^[[#4194]] ^[[Ans 8/25/24] [[stamped]]AUG 11 1924 [[/stamped]] For Prize Contest After years of life in the city, Fate took Louise to live in a suburban town and gave her a flower garden. Everyone laughed to hear her say she would raise flowers, as she had no experience, but she bought three dollar's worth of Burpee's seeds and followed the directions absolutely. She specialized in her favorite flowers, Asters. Stakes were driven near the flower beds, and brood-hens were tied thereto. The baby chickens were allowed to run around the plants. and they effectually destroyed all "bug" life. One day a florist called and offered buy all the flowers, paying four dollars per hundred for the long stemmed, large ones and half that price for the others. Late in October this florist paid Louise, in full settlement, Eighty Seven Dollars and Seventy Cents. Can you imagine the joy and pride she felt in her great success? She had lived out in the sunshine in a world of rainbow colors where birds, bees and butterflies had given her a new song in her heart, and also her radiant health. Surely, a great compensation, financially, physically, spiritually, for her labors in a Burpee flower garden. (Mrs.) Louise Bowen [signature of Louise Bowen] Box 256 Madisonville, Ohio (Sta. Cincinnati)