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Busy Hands Create BeautyBf Cl a© KorritA BUSY life can't be beat. This haa been the philosophy of Mrs.Mra. Cornelssen fiaa never made a practice of selling her flowers.Every place she goes, people have flowers she has made fortBusy hardly describes Mrs. Cor* boughs for the background she al* nelssen's life. She always played so makes memorial wreaths and the organ in church before her sprays, joldest daughter, Hermine, tookKatharine Cornelssen, 76, of Ba* over. Since hotels and cafes were The flower making procedure is them. Hutchinson is no exception, zine now visiting at the home of scarce she boarded teachers and|aimo8t mechanical with her Mrs. sh® has accumulated a large groupto8h„r, Mra. Ton, “ tfXTZ.'FtSSSt321 East First. ,store for 12 years about the time3aP‘n£ aud fixing them takes g^e likes fresh flowers too. For EAside from mothering three chil*;of World War 1. A hired girl help*,very little time. She now gets a many years she's had one of the c dren and keeping house all thesejed out with the housework but:special duplex paper, leaves for years, Mrs. Cornelssen. has kept!there was always more than!each type of flower and centers busy with paper flower making,;enough work to go around. |to give them that real” look. Aft-h,51dcrocheting, knitting, sewing and fishing. She began flower »makinger cutting the petals she uses her But Mrs. Cornelssen was never jthumb to give them the shape her main pastime, when just a too busy to forget about making:they should* have. The procedure child. flowers. When crepe paper became lt;starts with winding green paperWe just didn't’have many freshcommon flowers were made from'around a wire and then placingflowers0 in* those days, stores did-ithat kind of paper. Her style ofjthe center on the stem. She adds n’f hnv* artificial ones like theviP°sy making has changed with im-:a petal at a time securing it tohave now and gUenhouse* approvements in pape? and equip-Sthe stem with a bit of glue. When florists didn't exist in our partjnient anc* with newer ideas.;the flowers are made they are of the country’* Mrs. Comelssen i Formerly roses were mtde by fold- j dipped into paraffin wax which explained pieces of paper one on top'has been melted on the stove. Theiof the other and then opening the leaves are dipped separately intoHomeexistentlargest flower gardens in Bazine. Now that spring is around the corner she is anxious to return home to check on her garden.Sine her husband died 15 months a go Mrs, Cornelssen spends most, of the time visiting her children, Mrs. Ann Niedens in Great Bend, Ernest Cornelssen In Dodge City and Mrs. Campbell.iA women of many Interests,when Mrs. Cornelssen isn’t making flowers, she's crocheting, although her eyes limit too muchdrcaSPwas Francis Kas a non-'center a bit with a hat pin. Now the wax and then attached to the [hand work. But now that spring’s community now, then lo«!she petal patterns according j flowers. approaching she’s all ready to gocated ImNess county. From Mich- to the type of flower to be made. . Poppy centers from her gardenigan, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Nimz, came as pioneersAfter looking at a picture of any flowers at Bazine are saved to use _ kind of flower she cuts her own:in making paper ones. There’s at^Francis’whenMrs. Cornelss'en!pattern free hand. Roses, tulips,(lot of work involved In making a was about five years old. She re-1 poppies, lilies, gladioli and peo-!bouquet but Mrs. Cornelssen works members when talk of Indian mas-!nies are most -.v.ade variUes. Ho\v-,quickly and after so much exper-sacres was common. Her father'ever, this veteran fiowermakerjience she claims its no trick at started a- crea.mery and grocery !concocts almost any kind of flower all to make a bunch in an after* store at Francis, the only business!wished for. By using evergreen noon.building there.Times were hard, but the Nimz family didn’t think too much about hardships because all of the settlers were in the same boat. They didn’t have any dishes at first. Dinner procedure at the Nimz home was carried out by passing the main dish, cooked in a big 3 kettle, from one to another in the family. With plenty of hard work, the family began to accumulate t household goods and the going became a little easier.fishing.“Land ye*, fishing is one of my hobbies too,” she says. At Bazine, I almost always get a mess of fish.”Although she’ll be 77 in September spirits still get a lift when news of good catches start circulating.11ofc8FiiecI1t*r- v-1ait While still very young Mrs, Cor-ijnelssen started making flowers from tissue paper purchased at a printing office in another town. Much later she made use of these flowers after she met a young farmer, Martin Cornelssen. When they were married the bride and the bridegroom stood unddr an arch decorated with her homemade posies banked in greenery at the Nimz home in Francis.The made their wedding trip to Ransom with horse and buggy. Mrs, Cornelssen laughs now when she recalls that she had $40 of her own when she got married and considered herself a rich young woman.Itcra«cJsSyN-B JjPIC!VETERAN POSY MAKER—Mrs. Katharine Cornelssen of Bazine has scissors in hand to start another bouquet. Pictured flowers are among those made for friends while visiting at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Tom Campbell, 321 East First.
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Hutchinson News Herald
Hutchinson, Kansas, US
Sun, Mar 20, 1949
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