The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-05
whether he ought to laugh or cry.

whether ne ought to laugh or cry.
Mr.. Hobart Chatfield- Chatfield Tay-
lor, of Chicago, who for some reason ia
always associated in peoples minds
with Spain and the Spanish since the
Worlds Fair, has been devoting his at
tention lately to- Germany, and has
written a nice, long article about Ger
man diplomacy for a weekly paper. He
tells what very clever minds the Ger
mans possess, and how exceedingly
shallow our training for diplomacy is
compared 10 that OF our brothers over
the sea. He makes it very clear that
there is only one man with an intel
lect sufficiently colossal to cope with
the problems that are sure to come IN
in diplomacy and the reader is left
to guess who that man may be. There
is only one thing that would tear the
| writer of this remarkable article away
from the golf links, where he has made
so distinguished a record, and that
would be to show some foreign court
the real thing in diplomats.
A young lady in Wyoming wrote to
the answers to questions department
of the Ladies' Home Journal to know
whether she should allow young man
to kiss her the first evening he called,
and signed her letter, Maud. WE'LL
Maud, we think that is rather soon,
you should at least wait until he has
called the second time; but it is pleas
ant to know, Maud, that you did not
address your communication to Eddie
w. Box, but only to one of his hired
menials, as Eddie would have been so
shocked that we fear he would have
thrown up his publication. Any girl
who has been reading The Ladies'
Home Journal and all the incompatible
wisdom contained in the departments,
and does not know how soon she should
let young man kiss her, is not per-
son of much perspicacity. We are
sorry to call you that, Maud, but you
should be pleased that you are not
spoken to more severely, and that you
did not fall into the hands of the
righteous Eddie, who would not be able
to understand how anyone could want
to kiss anyone else.
DR.. Christian Fry, of ST. Paul, may
be very nice mainland he wouldn't
be on the school board if he wasn't
but he doesn't know everything. Few
men do. When he rose at the meeting
of the board the other night and roared
about teachers going to declarations of
womens clubs, and being paid while
they were gone, 1T was painfully evil
dent that he was so excited he hardly
knew what he was talking about He
said the women went to these conven-
tons to show off their clothes. If DR..
Fry had ever been to one of the meet
ings he would know how thoroughly
women rise above such Incidental
things as clothes, and how absolutely
they throw themselves into discussion
Of matters relating to reform, and
questions pertaining to measures which
may in time improve even school
boards. To say that these meetings are
not educational is to evince a pro-
found ignorance Of the subject, and if
DR.. Fry will go to Albert Lea-and the
federation will cheerfully pay his ex-
penses-and can say truthfully when
he returns that he did not learn any
thing-well-all the doctors conten-
tons will be admitted. But If he per-
sists in his antagonistic attitude the
clubwomen will be able to say
We do not like you, DR.. Fry.
And know full we'll the reason why.
A Methodist minister by the name of
Wolfe has been breaking UP homes in
Illinois, and now every man. in the
small town where he prowls IS engaged
in an endeavor to keep the wolf from
the door.
Candidates for the coming election
are to be limited to five minute
speeches in extolling their own fitness
for the place. No candidate could do
himself justice in five minutes
i st. Paul, Oct. 5, 1902.