St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-19
a NEWSPAPER MANS VACATION.

NEWSPAPER MANS VACATION.
Habitues of the Windsor hotel have
probably noticed tall young gentleman,
with all intellectual head and very bland
face. who has lolled about in chair on the
sidewalk or held confidential conversations
with the compounder of settler lemOnades
during the entire summer-taking occasion,
at frequent intervals, to wipe the perspira-
ton from his brow and lurl an imprecation
at the glorious climate OF Minnesota. This
popular and entertaining gentleman is none
other than Mr.. John Magnus the able city
editor of the St. Louis Post-DiSpatch. He
secured leave of absence on July Is aud
started off to spend his vacation in the
Northwest, intending to fish and hunt
and battle and enjoy himself
until the 31st of October. He
expressed his unbounded delight at being
able to get away from the arduous duties
of newspaper work for even so brief pc
ried, and intimated that he would not re-
turn before Nov. l, if Henry Moore, the
managing editor, didn't send posse after
him and take him back by force. 1t was so
seldom. he said. that he got away IRON sultry
old st. Louis that he was determined to
make the most of his vacation and enJey
himself to the full in the cool climate OF
Minnesota. He had heard of the delight
fully cool nights and pleasant days up here.
and he wore his winter Undertaking and
brought along his overcOat and pair OF
blankets. He didn't want to run any
chances, he said. of taking cold
or being caught in a Minnesota
blizzard. His sole aim was
to get away from the torrid zone and loiter
in some place where he could keep cool,
st. Paul had been recommended to him as
the place where such bliss was to be found
and he concluded to make this his head
quarters and 60 upon frequent excursions
to the numerous summer resorts, intending
always, of course, to take along with him
his overcoat and blankets. His programme
embraced trips to Yellowstone park and
the Lake Superior region. He had plenty
of spare time on his hands and was not
particular as to where he slept on any GER
tain night. He could drop an occasional
line to Henry Moore. he said. informing him
of his whereabouts so that he could be IN
formed by wire if the office burned down.
He was determined to lay aside all business
cares and devote himself to
pleasure-and stay away as long as
he could. Magnus must have Brought
the hot wave with INN, for on the very
mometer went up to So in the shade, and
for weeks it hovered between that point
and LOG. Maybe. Magnues wasn't hot
about it himself He laid aside his winter
undertaking, had his overcoat and
blankets slowed away in the check room.
and wandered about in such scant attire
that the police came near arresting him.
His complexion became more florld day by
day. and he was literally bathed in
perspiration. He stood it manfully, how
ever, waiting patiently for the cool wave
daily predicted by the signal service, when
he would visit Superior and Yellowstone.
He could not think of venturing out while
the weather was so hot. There would
be no pleasure in it. He would
prefer to stay around the Windsor ard alb
SOrb settler emOnadeS. He always came
in late to his meals and had waiter girl to
stand on each side and fan him while he
ate. The balance of his time he spent in a
favorite chair on the sidewalk on the shady
side of the house, reading the weather re-
ports and representations and cOncOcting
plans for his trip when the cool
wave came along But that
awfully hot wave hung On
through August and into September, and
Magnus swetered and swore and suffered
but stuck to the hotel. He said the
meals were good, anyhow. and he didn't
! like to take chances of doing worse some
where else. Finally. along iii the early
part of September-after Magnus had lost
| twelve or fifteen pounds OF flesh
and had argue ed himself into the belief that
he could start fE the Yellowstone i'll few
| days, politics began to get lively i'll st.
Louis and three or four men were killed at
| the primaries. Magnus read the accounts
! in the ST. Louis papers and became
very much excited. He said that, under
these extraordinary circumstances. he felt
| that it was imperative for him to
| be at his post OF duty, and,
after two or three Starts-on one Occa-
sion purchasing his sleeping car berth and
then concluding to stay over another day
| he got away for st. LOuis-three weeks be-
| fore his vacation expired. Aside from an
afternoon trip to White Bear lake and a
| ride about st. Paul in a Herdic with Henry
| Lucas, of st. Louis, who was here on a brief
Visitor few hours, it was not known
| that Magnus stirred four blocks from the
Windsor hotel during his Stay. People
who have been accustomed to making the
| rounds of the summer resorts and wasting
their energies and impairing their health,
may take a profitable lesson from this ac-
count of the eminently conservative and
beneficial way in which newspaper man
| spends his vacation.
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE.
| Judge Laughlin, of st. Louis, passed
| through ST. Paul few days ago, returning