Show THINKER ER HAS GOOD WORD FOR THORNS Serve to Keep the Individual Within Bounds The liThe rose culturists have accomplished accomplished so much in the development of blooms that I have often wondered why they have not been able to do away with the thorns sal said Mr Cato Perhaps It Is Impossible or perhaps In some Instances they have succeeded but the roses of ot the I garden still sun have thorns and vicious I enough they seem to the amateur who when he prunes his bushes or his climbers should be sheathed in plate armor even the experts do not escape unscathed I understand I J have sometimes had the feeling when I was applying an nn antiseptic solution to my lacerated arms and hands that roses shouldn't be allowed at large but that their cultivation should be be wholly within guarded guarde boundaries where do no harm barm And yet a n rose In bloom Is Is-a Is a rose In bloom I And as long as such blooms are produced It seems highly probable probable probable able that well we'll endure the thorns In horticulture rose thorns thorng are menacing in literature they are monitory Many of the classicists for many a n century have bave recorded the discovery which discovery has been made by so many other people that people that there Is no rose without a n thorn and then with their usual Ignoring of facts the talk of strewn rose-strewn paths as the ways of delight and beds of ot roses as couches of luxurious com com- com I fort Fellow amateur who has done some of ot his own rose pruning would you like to wa walk along a strewn rose-strewn path or lIe He on a n bed of roses You needn't answer Ill I'll answer for you Certainly not I ILet Let us then bear all this In mind as we contemplate the superior blessIngs blessings blessings bless bless- ings of our more fortunate fellows Those whose ways lead along rose 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 adjusting ad ad- their posture so that tender parts of ot their bodies will not riot be painfully pain pain- painfully fully pierced All Ali of ot this of ot course Is merely another f form rm of a n. most comforting philosophy philosophy-a a a comprehension comprehensIon compre compre- hension that there are flaws claws In the advantages that are arc enjoyed by the most enviable Buck I said referring the subject subject sub sub- J as I do most puzzling questions to a man who has hns Ideas dont you think that with all nIl the advance horticulture horticulture hor hor- has made the experts ought to be able to develop a a rose without a thorn Perhaps he responded but why should they II Why be because ause thorns hurt peo pee pie They are ore bad things that serve servO no good purpose As usual you are wrong he be de do Thorns serve a very good purpose They keep people within bounds In Iq fact they ought to be he on ona ona ona a good many other things than roses Accelerators for Instance In V Indianapolis In In- News |