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Golden Bay Argus, Volume 2, Issue 6, 8 July 1892, Page 7

"Pretty Dlcfc."—Gur pet canaries an often troubled with a wheezing in the oheat, which, from its rese nblance to what is known as asthma in human beings, is given the same name. It is not, however, asthma, but an effect on the lungs. The cause is not far to seek. Canaries can bear great extremes of heat and cold, delicately framed though they be; but they oannot stand sudden transitions from one to the other. When they are kept in a room where the temperature is very variable, perhaps close to a draughty window during the day, with a hot, vitiated atmosphere from burning gas in the evening, and later on the other extreme of cold, we must not wonder if the lungs are affected. It is therefore important that care should be taken to prevent sueh a state of things, and this is best done by hanging the cage below the middle bar of the window, or, what is better, standing it on a table some distance away, and then, when the gas.is lit, the cage can be covered over, and put on the floor in one corner of the room, as the temperature will be more equal there than higher up. If such a plan be adopted, the so-called asthma will be prevented; but if it is found, a little tincture of aconite is the best remedy, say a drop to a teaspoonful of water divided into two doses.

Language of Flowers.—Yellow roses, of whatever species, mean coquetry. White roses mean silence, withered white roses despair, pink roses bashfulnesa, and moss roses love. Stripped of its thorns a rose says, " Everything to hope," and stripped of its leaves, " Everything to fear." A single roseleaf means, " I fear to presume." The ordinary fern that florists sell, means sincerity, but maiden-hair means discretion. A bouquet of white roses and maiden-hair fern would signify "Be silent and cautious." A bouquet of tulips is tantamount to a declaration of lo7e. Narcissus means uncertainty, and a girl who wears wMte hyacinths deolares herself frivolous. Hydrangea conveys a reproach for coldness, and ivy is a request for friendship. , White lilac stands for platonio love. Violets, of oourse, as everyone knows, Btand for modesty, and panßies say," Think of me." A gift of scarlet geraniums implies that you think the person to whom you present it is behaving very foolishly. Silver-leaved geranium means that " you take it back," and a tube-rose deolares that you won't " give it away." A little bit of smilax is an entreaty for confidence. Clematis is considered to convey admiration of intellect. Cedar,or ever* green is emblematic of constancy, and common grass means submission. ~