The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-13

year. It's two diff rem things to make
basket cause you want to an cause you
have to, an it don't take a person with
very sharp wits to tell which gives the
mos pleasure.
II was workin, for Mrs. Shaw not long
ago. She lives in a fiat building, an three
school teachers are keepin' house together
In the fiat acrosst from her. They keep
a girl an are as comfortable as if they
had husban's to double thier worries an
pay their bills. They are away all day
and leave 'Melia pretty much to herself.
I stopped at the window to speak to her
when I came in from shakin' the rugs.
Seems if you mus have pretty easy
place." says to her, SEEM how she was
sittin' down with some fancy work.
Things aren't aIys what they seem,
says she, kind of short. I'D sooner wash
N start baskets. but when you're earnin
So week you don't do what you please,
but what you're told.'
I" An what's that?' asted, for alys
believe in f1n'in out all you can, for there
isn't any kind Of knowledge that won't
come in handy some day.
This says she, kickin' the bas-
ket beside her. 1t was fun of straw stuff
she called raffa an on the other side was
a pail with rattan a-Soakin'. Each of
my ladies', says she, has to start bas-
ket for each of the children in her school.
One Of 'em has 40 an one So an one 40.
of what I've got to do I felt sorry for
'em an said I'd help if I could. They
hadn't any doubts but what could learn,
an I did. I wisht I hadn't. visit
hadn't any fingers sometimes says She
pullin' SO hard she broke the rafia.
Let me try says I, feelin' sorry for
her an thinkin' I could do it as we'll as
little Tillie Schultz, who is under ten
ans made a basket that's goin' to Lon
don to be shown, you'd think to the king
an queen, to hear the way the Schultzes
talk. A little pride s a good thing but
too much s hard to carry, seems if
Start1n' baskets isn't so much a ques.
ton Of brains as endurance foun' out
an If you've got thick skinned fingers you
won't have much trouble, but if. you
haven't you won't have kindly feelin's
if you have to start 4S and So an 40 TO,
that many school children.
what says I, do the children learr
from maxim baskets?' says I.
Rithmetic an geography an agricul.
ture, they say says she, a-puttin' hel
finger in her mouth to ease it a bit an
patience, an perseverance an self-con.
troll e,:as
That's good deal to get from onf
basket says I, looKin' at it with more
respec'. AN how about the teachers,
What do they get from emp :
'Everythin' the parents oughter have
Miss Mollie says says she, speaSin' ever
more gloomy like. I've cultivated pa
thence an perseverance, an self-contro
from twelve baskets already this mornin'
an that leaves twelve more It I've got tt
do before noon,, when m to take 'em owe
to sciiool?' @ s.- ,-a.
well, says I, there's nothin' Xix,
dom somebody else's work to make yo
'preciate your own, an I dunno but wha
agree with you an d sooner do (;
washin' n start baskets
"It isn't matter Of CHOICE says she
with a sniff. a
81 dunno as it is right to rob tn
parents for the benefit of even the teach
4 ers. But the average ohil' has 'nough en-
ergy to teach patience at home as well a
at school, whether he's maxim baskets o
not, seems it,
I wouldn't be janitor of a fiat buildin
not If you'd make me queen of the Philip
pines an give me crown set with dia
mons big as hens eggs, exclaimed Mis-
Larson, energetically. ''The tensions ar
in a new big buildin' over north, an Mrs
Jensen tol me las night she'd heard s
many mean things bout her husban, sh
was beginnin' to wonder if some Of zen
weren't true.
"a man could get along easy 'noug
with one family says Mr.. Jenson, say
he, but when you come to try to satisf
ten or twelve, you might jlS1 as well max
UP your min to- hear com laints Their
aren't two women in the buildin' who,
have their double windows put on tn