The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-04-05

JUST BETDEEN you IND ME.
fY-7 SMILED all over my face Tuesday morning my
lIlH Office to think how nearly was caught
b@AA1 with clever little April Fool Work had been so
ldsoS very catchy days forgotten that it
t9 Day anything, in fact very busy
day where live there is
lawn early the morning Of
Tuesday, fat little looked sharply at it and
it would be to have to hunt up
decided to let else find it. Perhaps
reasoning what thought
of hardly expressed in mind,
suddenly realized the day of the month Then
began smile that lasted all the down town
only wish that had begun the smile in time for the April
the other of the string it.
gardening my early spring
time That little applies only to the things
with but also the size Of the plot of ground In the old
country, especially Germany Holland England
people succeed in making pretentiou and lit
tie spots out of piece of land hardly bigger than the
pocket handkerchief You will understand what
better reading the following description Of of
thing, leveled, would have made single
lawn Yet this little patch of garden contained al
among side through these set the
that the hottest days the garden sufficient shadow
by the time the mornings work done There little
enough for basket chair and There
opposite the back
this hedge in the place give
the lucky long glimpse valley with dim
woods the opposite hill"
magnificent distances great America
that have not yet learned how much be made of small
plots is not at all likely that Minneapolis gardeners could
English plot but it shows what be with
small You ought to be by make much
the limited yards may have.
Miss Portia Washington daughter Of doing
school at Tuskegee that
most in her college life
Wellesley college girls
manual labor At Tuskege the girls work all day long, either
washing cooking sewing, when not at Rotations
happen to be reading Booker Washingons up From sa
ery,'-the
his picture of slavery he remembered 1t as child he makes
beginning of the civil manual labor
had be considered degrading White
taught to look after their homes
to do anything else of domestic nature for
Hence the close Of the civil in cases.
better fitted forth for themselves than
their former masters messes 1t be for this
that so much practical training is given at Tuskegee
Washington says negro girl
refined and gentle lacking the force that the
northern college girl The school girl prefers music
literature and manual labor while the northern girl
to athletics and the like At the time she
that the college girl to be seeking for the best in
life and to become active useful woman
Washngton's story may a the
helpessness OF white at the close OF the civil the
the south evidently have turned leaf since
then it will be consider them sitting
with folded helpless hands, while gates hang dapidated
hinges other shfess traits Southern
oday decidedly things
distincvely American initiative alerness ability and
willingness to work AS for their houseWey accomplishments
really friends approach
the southern women know in this respect
Somebody in North Dakota recently wrote of the peculiar
being the thing
Judging knowledge of this mud,
should that the word bes probably should be followed
question mark However have phrase to fit the The
next time stranger makes the quality the
Dakota mud just is "a metamophic matrix Of
azgoarenaeeous composition. ought
ters,-one way another.
Sometimes Juniors send in Sorytele the regular Junior
topics These editor
the topics other than the regular 300 word limit
these Soryteer might have been
the required number Of words without spelling
Then they would have of being printed they
good However the writer's this
cutting down. for the editor will 1t time
thing and again. is hardly fair toward
Juniors who have complied with the rules before sending