The Minneapolis journal., 1902-10-11
lust BETUEEN TOU IND NE

JUST BETLUEEN YOU .AND ME
THERE is fun and fun, there jokes and jokes
Many Juniors, girls well boys, unable to
distinguish what is real fun and what makes joke:
1t is fun and joke lay trap trip
carrying load especially that load happens to be
something breakable. an
papers this week on the topic LAS Entered -":
I'VE put thin copper wire across the floor Just then
the farmer walking toward us with some eggs.
singing gaiy and gazing at the Head first he fell
smashing two dozen eggs broke half glass
jar cut his hands the glass and doctor bill cost him
five dollars
Then the writer proceeds to voice his gee this joke 90
He he think of it without laughing If the
farmer had only administered good spanking
the implement perhaps
the other side to the question. really
ing boy girl would look this incident in the light
good joke What STILL dsgusted to think that
writer for the
become party to such weakened fun by accepting
description of it for publication.
Some time ago I suggested pastimes travelling
by day the when reading unwecome there
suggestion in similar vein to be played party
when driving especially the drive be long and there
be several children who require less
to keep things going smoothly The divided into
two parties those sitting the right of the carriage play
ing against those the left The game is to look for
animals their respective des and those who count
soonest to 1000 win In short ride the is less.
Every horse met counts ten Any beast in fact counts
cat in window which Poultry
birds do not count. Cattle sheep distant hillside
count though they be hardly than specks
1t like trying time
go out driving going to tryno matter how dgnihed
the company go with may think itself.
Wanted-Information to good nutting grounds Some
time said hard for to be housed in
office this beautiful Indian Now
really something awful will happen in
woods tramping pretty 1t pleasure
aimless tramp There must be object toward
which footsteps bent Perhaps only wildfowers
making it worth while to the button of
kodak This Of the it is nuts that should
like to start out: for 1t does not make difference
whether or not get them only need to think may pos
sibly find them It has been since gathered
brush that stretched for
the territory included between Nicoe and
Second s. and from Twelfth street out. I
having pretty buff dress that proud Of
and of cracking hazel nuts day when
ing it. The next weeks wash turned that pretty buff dress
into thing of despair and spotted with black
had stormy. with bottle of
To this day mothers face she the
ruin of the cherished I really do not remember
whether this was one of the times was spanked or not
certainly deserved present
question But really in earnest about wanting to know
nuts that might pick if happened
early the Where can I go?
Last week, little letter thrown my desk
by the man various people
office. It had been directed merely "The Journal
and naturally opened by representing The
Journal" paid attention to it, had important work
hand What did attract attention that the man
fingered around, talking to the assistant editor and smiling
his face with the has when he is
expecting joke to fall another asked what
about but received noncommitta repes-and
went with work. In half-hour took mail,
and the first to be opened was
popped skin of tiny gopher, called it, but
what Junior correspondent claimed it
to I startled its unexpected
ance, and consequently made sound,-and then
that it expected would scream,-and several
= people wanted to- hear
have seen hundreds OF gophers Dakota
praires while counted the stripes, noticed
dots the stripe down back
posed 1t gophers only that striped, that
woodchucs plain, rich tan. Bart" of al
ways makes gophers with stripes and spots,
am have thirteen stripes This little
skin had only nine The authority also tells me that
Woodchucks stripes Of the Junior naturass
know anything this? should like to
the but wish they would be Of their
facts before writing It would be nice also to tell
thing woodchuck that you know
by personal observation Perhaps get
of it. But they must be real
thing that writer's have seen for themselves.
! 3 =. =E.~ ~ -,.... . THE EDITOR.