THE HEIGHT OF MODESTY.
A Tauranga lady writes: — "The most abnormally modest girl I ever heard of came to town a few days ago. I was in her bedroom. Some handsome flowers that I had previously seen there were gone. ' Did you send them out for fear that, as some say, they might have a bad effect on your health while you sleep ?' ' Oh, no, my dear,' she murmured. ' Botany was my hobby when at school, and I became familiar with the fact that there are actually sexes in plants — males and females in every species, don't you know ? Well, I found on examination that the flowers in this room were masculine, and they didn't seem quite proper in a lady's* chamber. Really, I couldn't disrobe com- 1 fortably, nor sleep in peace.' "
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 236, 21 March 1885, Page 3
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133THE HEIGHT OF MODESTY. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 236, 21 March 1885, Page 3
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