BEAUTY EVERYWHERE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20988, 26 September 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)

BEAUTY EVERYWHERE.

THE CHARM OF QUEEN STREET. FLOWERS FOR A " SONG." All along the main streets of our city are flowers, offered for a song. Flowers in shops; arid flowers on trays borne by men who, in this day of " hard times," have no better job than selling their wares for a mere trifle. Old men, young men, middle-aged, feeling the pinch of the times, and worst of all not too warmly clad, holding out odorous violets, at sixpence a bunch. 'lrays of them, fragrant and with I lie rain still glistening upon 111? m; bunches of golden daffodils, all " ablooming and ablowing " with their spikv green stems. Or perhaps suddenly evident, are scarlet ranunculi and purple anemones, brilliant, adorable things, tempting dangerously the beauty lovers. So if our city is not quite so affluent at the moment as of yore, she at least has still her fill of glory, for nowhere in our land is there a city so full of lovely gardens. Out from the various tea rooms and emporiums music flows, lilting haunting strains to cheer and gladden the oppressed long after the shops are closed and the streets asleep.