The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-20
The Nonpareil Man
: Casually observed.

Casually Observed.
DR.. Ohage has again marched indig-
nantly out of the; ST. Paul city council
chamber. They had slapped a picking
factory too. near the sacred baths, .
The archbishop of toronto, says he does
not desire annexation to the United
States. If we can get, Canada, we can
worry along without the archbishop.
Judge Hogan, of Chicago, has decided
that this is free country and that girls
may smoke cigarettes. Sure, they may!
But they ought to be obliged to have their
breaths laundered afterwards.
May wheat in Chicago is worth about IS
cents and Mr.. Armour is now likely to say
almost any day:
John, feed the boys out a little wheat
to-day. ~ r.
If Peter Power pays $500 costs on his
suit he will have to sell that 100 shares of
N. P. stock.
The young gentleman who Marty lost a
lung by toting a black-eyed girl up nine
teen flights 81 stairs in Chicago will have
a chance to show what he is really made
Of when he narries the girl and has to
carry q tub full of wet clothes UP stairs
from the laundry
A morning paper quotes a Californian
as claiming "the most fertile climate in
the world" and yet the papers printed
in foreign languages say that the English
language is coming into such general use
that they must soon adopt it themselves.
The Railway Age complains Of fear that
J. J. Hill is going to make too low railroad
rates. No kicks from the shippers on
this score have been received yet.
When Italy was sliding by the Jumping
On Place as the great planet whirled
around in space yesterday, little Princess
Mafalda, aged one day, leaped aboard and
was cheerfully received in Italy's royal
circles. OF course, everybody wanted a
boy, the other little one having been a girl,
but nevertheless everybody smiled and
tried to make Mafalda feel right at home.
Girls have never been very successful as
kings, to be sure, but they make the finest
queens ON earth. ~ 49,
emmy Lou, Her Book and Heart"
Emmy LOU about the dearest little
girl ever, called on us yesterday and left
her new book entitled Emmy Lou, Her
Book and Heart" AS the New England
Primer says:
my book and heart
Must never part,
so it is difficult in thought to separate
Emmy Lou and her book. Readers of
McClure's Magazine will recall some de-
lightful sketches Of Emmy Lou school
days. It is these and others that have
now been gathered into the book of EN-
my Lou and Her Heart.
Emmy Lou first appears in the primer
class and her struggles to understand what
it all means and to adjust herself to the
primer world are pathetic indeed. Emmy
is not one Of the bright and quick little
girls like Kittie McKOeghany but her
dominant note is sweetness and genuine
ness. George Madden Martin has writ
ten the Emmy Lou Book and he has done
it well. You forget the art in the thing
portrayed. The book is very bright.
"Once Emily had been hazy about the
word wit writes Mr.. Martin, but now
she knew If you understand at once, ii
is not wit; but If, as you begin to under
stand, you find YOU don't. that is apt to
be witt
The first 200 pages Of. the book are de-
voted to the Emmy Lou not yet conscious
Of selfajust the sweet little girl. But as