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


When the cars are crowded 10 the very
doors; and even a. thin man couldn't get
his finger in the rear .vestibule, then the
cigarette fiend with a, smile of rare pleas
ure lights up his oiled wooden rag. Yet
they say we should love our neighbcrs
We violate no confidence in stating that
Venezuela is being run by tack-headed
hoodoo. ~.-
t'Patriotic demonstrations are reported
at Caracas. Caracas reminds one strong
ly Of six large active lunatic asyluns in
eruption, a bunch Of college yells, a foot
ball celebration, a pink tea and an Alfred
Austin poem all off together on a time"
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader tripped
upon weather editorial. It complained
of the heat" and mo winter trade but
when the papers got out among the peo-
pie a blizzard was in progress and the
mercury was hunting the bulb. Don't
monkey with the weather. The Pioneer
Press should have been sufficient warn
ing. @--.. -.
If Santa Claus is sensible this year he
fame.
AS the ex-mayor casually looked out of
his Louisville hotel window last week he
started suddenly and remarked, Hello.
there's two Of them old slcuths disguised
in clean collars and two fresh shaves.
Charlie, run out and buy me a ticket to
Boston and Wen go to- New Orleans to-
night" ~
Great Britain and Germany ought to
lit, No. Mott IN nd all
President Castro that he is a South Amer
lean cypher with the rim knocked off. She
could fix him in a minute. He's just her
size.,y. II 49,. .5.
The merger testimony yesterday was
very interesting. 1t showed that the
scheme is working as tremendously as
two Italians with one dancing bear.
The following letter was received by
this department to-day from a young
man who has evidently mistaken the pa
per: s% .4..aE . >'-
Dear Miss Tewfacts: I am a young man of
IT and am in love with young lady of 20.
She refuses to allow me to call on her until
grow yhiskers Do you think that she loves
But we will answer it as best we can,
notwithstanding. Ea2
Dear Willie, we fear the worst, i. e.,
that she does. Her age shows that she is
willy and she knows that the best way to
rope Willie B. and drag him at her char
lot wheels is to appear to hang off and to
set him some apparently impossible task.
Have you tried Hooligan's Ouisler Balm?
Julian Ralph in the Booklovers' Maya
zine severely arraigns the prevailing
femininity'' in the current literature of
America, He laments the absence of ''the
>koSS . 1or ~ IL,
door of the magazine editorial room. He
says: -.
These editors have laundered our literature
out of all It's strength and sent forth books as
| neutergendered as our dolls. They are the
wardens of the gates OF Bookdonl, and apply
the nod to all who came with showing of
muscle blood, crude manhood, passion, or sin
among their wares.
Then we say, good for these editors! If
there is any moldy old chestnut in liter
AZURE tits the passion and sim note that
Mr.. Ralph calls for, If any author wants
this kind Of thing let him go off and sin
by himself, but why in heavens name
should he parade it to the world after
wards and call it literatur or thin!. Of It
as strong or "virile.',e
| Nay, Pauline, the time is going by when
authors can back their garbage wagons
up to the publishing house door and get
the contents published as book on the
ground that it is "virile' when everybody
! KIN 3Ws that 1t is simply nasty.
When the slaughter house or the bawdy
house plays appear on the stage, this col
umn always ducks out of the side door
| at the end of the first act--and sometimes
| before.
/ Not because it claims to be any better
| than anybody else but because it is sick
Of such Internal rot posing as ..virile''
or strong or artistic when it would,
| in fact. knock down a stout horse if he
understood it. "A. =. r.