Show THINKER HAS GOOD WORD FOR THORNS serve to keep the individual within bounds the rose have accomplished so much in the development of blooms that chave I 1 have often wondered why they have not been able to do away with the thorns said mr cato perhaps it Is impossible or perhaps in some instances they have succeeded but the roses of the garden still have thorns and vicious enough they seem to the amateur who when he prunes his bushes oi 01 his climbers should be sheathed in plate armor even the experts do not escape unscathed I 1 unde understand estand I 1 have sometimes hadtke had the feeling when I 1 was applying an antiseptic solution to ray my lacerated arms and hands that roses be allowed at large but that their cultivation should be wholly within guarded boundaries where they could do no harm barm and yet a rose in bloom Is a rose in blooml bloom I 1 ati and d as long as such blooms are produced it seems highly probable that well endure the thorns in horticulture rose thorns are menacing in literature they are monitory many of the classicists for many a century have recorded the discovery which has been made by so many any other people that there Is no rose without a thorn and then with their usual ignoring of facts the talk of rose strewn paths as the ways of delight and beds of 0 f roses as couches of luxurious comfort fellow amateur who has done some of his own rose pruning would you I 1 like I 1 ke to walk along a rose strewn path or lie on a bed of roses you answer ill answer for you certainly not I 1 let us then bear all this in mind as we contemplate the superior blessings of our more fortunaot fortu natt fellows those ways lead along rose strewn paths must often find them rather painful to the feet and those who lie on beds of roses probably have a good deal of difficulty in adjusting their posture so that tender parts of their bodies will not be painfully pierced all of this of course ts Is merely another form of a most comforting philosophy a comprehension that there are flaws in the advantages that are enjoyed by thle most enviable buek back 1 I 1 said eald referring the subject ai as I 1 do most puzzling questions to a man who has ideas dont you yea think that with all the advance horticulture ti has made the experts ought to be able to develop a rose without a t thorn h or n caps 1 1 ap rh 1 he be perhaps e responded but why should they why because thorns hurt people they are bad things that servo serve no good purpose As usual you are wrong he declared thorns serve a very good purpose they keep people within bounds in fact they ought to be on a good many other things than roses accelerators for instance in dlan dlana apolla polls news |