FLORAL TRIBUTES.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXII, Issue 12845, 1 December 1905, Page 7

FLORAL TRIBUTES.

ADYICK TO WOMKN. To the Itffitor "'of the Tiiriaiu Herald..'" Sir, -I see by your report that Mr "Rollestun was, at his meeting last night, "pelted with roses." Ladies at their old game of trying to xp;;il a good man and a good cause! In their enthusiasm the-r seetn to overlook the fact that: they arc putting the young man in a very ridiculous position. If he really Mas* "pelted •with roses" as your .reporter states, how inwardly (if he. is the num I take him fori' he must have blessed the pelters' empty heads. Can you imagine what would be the effect of pelting Mr Hail-Jones witii roses? or the dark dignity of Sir Joseph Ward's personality with ' rosubuds ? . Ov what would the country say to wreathes of daisies being- flung around the portly form of Mr Seddon? The supporters of these gentlemen would take immediate steps tohave the guileless enthusiasts secretly assassinated at once. For, however disagreeable - immediate contact witii broken eggs must be, especially »ii not new-laid, they would be infinitely "mors likely tV assist the candidature of the pelted one. than the innocent rose-leaves t-ss-J as a tribute by the admirers of Mr Rolleston. To pelt a lawyer in arrv case ■with l)lossoms is too funny; unless it were •with the bush .namesake" that is such & nuisance ,at picnics. What a pitv that the, women don't leave; the men to fight their political" business out fair and souare as they a.ie in the habit of doing: and stay a: home, employing their time in puttin.T their flowers in the vases or the csbba.-<e in the pot. " "°" Mr llolkston's position jeminds me of that of Mr "Willie" of Melville Castle. f hope everyone readme iliis will-look' fh*ii graphi.; old ballad up and Fee if I am nor ri-ht. . ■ I am. etc.. ' -••■ '■.:■ ALPHA.