Less than ten years ago the torch lily was considered solely an autumn flower, but great improvements have been made by the Dutch hybridizers, and there is now a longer-blooming variety known as Pfitzerii,[…]

[…] he would no more have thought of asking a young innocent girl to cast in her lot with him for better or for worse, than he would have sat down to play piquet with a boy who could not count the points of the game. Neither did the taming of a lioncelle tempt him a whit.

It is played by children of all ages. Boys like it especially, but it is not unusual to see girls and even adults playing Gilli Danda!

These ads showed a wild west, be-stetsoned, industrial woman.