| Show roses cover up variety of sins takli rg ns as her text getting citing awn away y with lt it a woman writer of note delivers the following short sermon which wo we think our readers will ad mit contains some foot food for thought 1 I dont th think ink id like to see sec any of these men go to the penitentiary A yurl said that about a gang of who held field her captive in a basement for twenty nine hours until they collected from tier her father a ransom of they broke into her home and forced tier lier to go with them they shackled tier her with handcuffs and kept her in ill a basement they filled her father with terror with threats of tier her fate if he be did not pay they robbed him of and she would not like to see tiny of those these men go to the penitentiary wily why well they treated her with idith the utmost courtesy and one c of f them brought her a bouquet of roses so that she would harbor no III will hlll most alost of us would regard as a optimist a man all who thought he could prevent ill will on the part of a girl lie he had so injured by bringing tier her roses but it worked I 1 he le got away with it and in less extreme cases people are getting away with it every lay day and probably some of us who are loudest in ili our questioning as to whether that girl could really be so idiotic tire are ourselves playing the fool for rome gome one who covers up impo or abuse by bringing us roses ilow how many social parasites live on n the bounty of friends frienda and get away with it by sending them roses literally or the kind whose fragrance Is that of a delightful person allty and charming hattery flattery and we know that there are husbands who allow a woman to work and plan and skimp and deny herself out ot of all proportion to necessity it if they arel are sharing fairly and get away with it by sending her roses on occasions or telling tier her how beautiful or wonderful she Is and there have bew been sons and daughters too who used the same system with a foolish parent and ana got away with it it oh yes the of roses covers vi a multitude of sins they get 11 away w ay with it M 1933 bell syndicate service ioe |
