A Romantic Message

When the petals of the great aurel magnolia are touched, however lightly, the result is a brown spot, which develops in a few hours. This fact is taken advantage oí by a lover, who pulls a magnolia flower, and on one of its pure white petals writes a motto or message with a hard. sharppointed pencil. Then he 3ends the flower, the young lady puts it in a vase of water and in three or four hours the message written on the leaí becomes visible and remains so.