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Show pai ls of their bodies will not be pnfn-fully pnfn-fully pierced. All of this, of course, is merely another form of a most comforting philosophy a comprehension compre-hension tlmt there lire flaws In the advantages thai are enjoyed by the most enviable. " T.uc!;,' I said, referring the subject, sub-ject, as I do most puzzling (uestions, to a man who has ideas, 'don't you think that, with all the advance horticulture hor-ticulture lias made, the experts ought to be able to develop a rose without a thorn?' ' 'Perhaps,' be responded ; 'but why should they?' " 'Why, because thorns hurt people. peo-ple. They are bad things that serve no good purpose.' "'As usual, you are wrong,' he deflated. de-flated. 'Thorns serve a very good purpose. They Ueep people wilhin bouiv's. In fact, they ought to be on a good m.i;iy other things than roses. Accelerators, for instance.'" Indianapolis In-dianapolis News. THINKER HAS GOOD WORD FOR THORNS Serve to Keep the Individual Within Bounds. "The rose culturists have accomplished accom-plished so much in the development of blooms that I have often wondered why they have not been able to do away with the thorns," said Mr. Cam Ninetails. "Berhaps 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 or his climbers, should be sheathed in plate armor; even the experts do not escape unscathed, I understand. I have sometimes had the feeling when I was applying an antiseptic solution to my lacerated arms and hands that roses shouldn't be allowed at large, but that their cultivation should be wholly within guarded boundaries where they could do no harm. And yet, a rose in bloom is a rose in bloom! And as long as such blooms are produced it seems highly probable prob-able that we'll endure the i horns. "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 other people that there is no rose without a thorn; and then, with fheir usual Ignoring of facts, the metaphorists talk of rose-strewn paths as the ways of delight, and beds of roses as couches of luxurious comfort. com-fort. Fellow amateur, who has done some of his own rose pruning, would you like to walk along a rose-strewn path or lie on a bed of roses? You needn't answer. I'll answer for you. Certainly not ! "Let us, then, bear all this in mind as we contemplate the superior blessings bless-ings of our more fortunate fellows. Those whose ways lead along rose-strewn 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 ad-justing their posture so that lender |