The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-02-12
SCENES AND INCIDENTS
Taken From The Panorama of Every
Day Life.

| A farmer, who has titled the soil
for nearly twenty years, was sitting
about the family fireside one evening
not long since and in conversation
with FREE PRESS man who was his
guest he said "You newspaper men,
like great many people, think that
the man who puts in 20 hours ON the
farm is the man who makes the mon
ey. That is not so. 1t is not neceS-
sary that we farmers should be slaves
to drudgery and hard work. Intelli-
gence, with knowledge of how to
manage, counts for more than one at
first imagineS. 1t is too true there
are sluggards amongst us but they
are few indeed. During these long
winter evenings we spend the time in
reading and discussing subjects of
interest to our farm and household
| Not but what we talk of the general
news of the day, but that is secondary
to US. We live in world of our own,
as it were, and where can you find a
happier family than you behold here.
! We have time to work and a time
to enjoy the pleasures of ones own
family.
~
The incident attending certain
special collection taken recently in a
church not many miles from St. Peter,
reminds us of remark made by
writer on the Jackson Republic, when
he said that "The Lord loveth
cheerful giver but there's no use
chucking copper cent into contri-
button box loud enough to make the
folks on the back seat think the COM
munion service has tumbled off the
alter"
~
Travelling unaccompanied for thou
sands of miles, is not very strange
thing nowadays. A little five year
old girl babe adieu to her folks in
Sweden and crossed the broad Allan
tic, for the purpose of joining her
father who had preceded her, the lit
tie ones mother having died when
she was babe. Surely the good and
kind spirit that resides in human
breasts is not dead yet.
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What happier picture is there
presented than that of hundreds Of
pupils on their way to the school
room every week day morning. There
is such look upon the faces of the
young people that those who have
about run the limit of their life
course, seem to envy them.
~
There are a great many kitchens
that are not possessed of the luxury
of brush for cleaning potatoes. 1t
is next to impossible to wash potatoes
perfectly clean by hand, says the
Chicago Herald. The use of little
scrubbing brush, such as may be pur-
chased at from five to ten cents, will
soon make their Jackets fresh and
clean, so that they will be fit to be
brought on the table roasted. Roast
potatoes should always have little
bit of skin Clipped off at either end
to allow the steam to escape and to
prevent their becoming sodden be-
fore they are thoroughly done. Such
brush is also very useful in washing
beets and various other root vegeta
bles all of which are pro badly Just
as we'll cooked in their skins and
peeled when done the turnip being
the only exception to this rule, as it
acquires bitter flavor when boiled
in its jacket.
~
A gentleman, who has been spend
ing several weeks in Florida, writes
to friends in Mankato that when he
first arrived in the sunny cline, he
was fascinated by the view of some Of
the beautiful orange groves. He tells
an amusing experience of his with an
alligator but we will let him tell it
himself on his return home. He says
that at St. Augustine the hotels
charge Sc day and upward.-mostly
upward.
Two women and little girl mar
rowly escaped injury just before six
O'Clock last night Oh Jackson street,
near Fourth street. The trio were
going up the hill, when several boys,
on bob-sled, came flying down the
sidewalk yelling at the top of their
voices to clear the track. The women
had some difficulty in getting out of
the way, but they did so just as the
bod-sled went by. The little girl did
not fare so well. She fell into the
snow and badly lacerated her hands.
Now, it is time the police should call
halt on this reckless manner of
coasting. 1t is true the police cannot
be everywhere at the same time, but
/ they should make an example of some
of the boys by arreSting them and
having them fined. The FREE Press
would be the last in the world to
discourage the boys in the sport of
coasting, but there are hills other
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