Last summer, when we reached California for a year's sojourn, we had the good fortune to secure a house with a splendid garden. A few weeks ago, after the early warm days of a California February had opened up the first blossoms of the season, our little five-year-old discovered that the garden furnished a fine outlet for her enterprise, and she soon produced two gorgeous—I will not say beautiful—bouquets. Barring a certain doubt about her mother's approval, she was well satisfied with her achievement; she felt a sense of completeness in what she had done—and well she might, for she had not left a visible bud.There is a strong tendency to go at business the way Helen went at the garden. She knew what to do with bouquets; raw material for making them was within her reach. What more natural than to turn it, in the most obvious and simple way, into the product for which it was designed? From her standpoint, such a procedure was entirely correct—she was making bouquets for herself and her friends; everyone in her circle would share the benefit of her industry.