Show roses cover up variety of sins taking as her text netting away with it a woman writer of 0 note d delivers the following short ser sermon nion which we think our readers will ml al mit contains some food for thought 1 I dont think id like to see any of these men go to the penitentiary A girl said that about a gang of kidnapers who held tier her captive in a basement for twenty nine hoin hours s until they collected from tier lier fattier father a ransom of they broke into tier her home and forced tier her to go with them they shackled her with liand cuffs and kept her hep in a basement they filled her fattier father with terror with threats of tier her fate if he did not pay they ro robbed et him of and she would not lot like to see any of 0 these men go to the pe penitentiary 1 why well they treated her with the utmost courtesy 7 and one of them brought tier her a bouquet of roses so that slit she would harbor no III will acost of us would regard as it fatuous optimist a man mail who thought though he could prevent III will on the part of a girl he had so injured by bringing tier her roses but it worked lie ile got away with it IL aud and in less extreme cases peo plo are getting away with it every day and probably some of us who are loudest in our questioning as aa to whether that girl could really be so idiotic are ourselves playing the fool for some one who covers up impo athlon or abuse by bringing us roses how many social parasites live on the bounty of friends and get away with it by sending them roses loses literally or the kind whose fragrance la Is that of a delightful person auty and charming flattery and we know that there are husbands who allow a wo woman m an to work and plan and skimp aud deny herself out of all proportion to necessity if they are sharing birly and pet get away with it by sending her roses on occasions or telling her how beautiful or wonderful she la Is and there have been sons W ns and daughters too who used the same system with a foolish parent and got away with it oil oh yes the sending of roses covers a multitude of sins they get away with it 1931 bell service |