The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-12-20
M1AT HlLDA LARSON SAYS:

move without putin your foot in sonoe-
bodys secret. S0'--0
Ihere may be a right and wrong wav
TO celebrate, but however, we do it we
can't help but get some of the Christmas
spirit an|~that's what it's for, seems IT,"
~ ISM only the women an Children
mno re 1ussln over Christmas, an
know one or. two men who re wonder;n,
II they re goin' to get their presents done
on Tune. It doesn't seem les. right for an
ao!e-bodied man to sit down with q. needle
az al. threao' out II he wants to do it there
lsh any law or reason again it, seems If.
men, an seems if it was more natural for
EN- TO go out an spen' money stead of
stayln IN with sewin' an crochetin, #
lsa I Iack or money has set Mr.. Bell Tn
WORK. He's got notion in his head that
WHAT'S made Is worth moren what's
pought. 1t isn't his mother an sisters
mes Work1n' for, the stores have thinps
good 'nough for them, but it's. the eir1 hes
soln WITH There's all sorts of Wavs tn
win woman, but 1 never yet heard Of a
man dom 1t with a needle, but thera.s
a mrs time for that as well as evervtlin,
else, seems IT, -f..,, -
Mr.. Bells making baskets. He got In.
trested when he heard Miss Lee admire
EN-, an he got his sister to show hin
"A,
work basket, but he started a waste paper
basket as big as a sewer pipe TO give
Miss Lee for Chris mus He does so MANY
rows every night after he comes home
an his sister says the language It comes
from his room some times when he breaks
the ratfla makes her hide her head under
the covers Miss Lee may appreciate tho
American Beauty roses he's goin' to put in
the basket, but she won't the basket itself
but man hasn't any right to expec' too
much seems If.
Rosie Gammons heard of the shawl 4
John Lindquist was crochetin' for Nav
Nelson an she's been naggin' Tim to start
one for her. =.
"'You can do it yourself in half the
time says he.
But I'd think so much more of it II
you made it, says she. you re as smart
as John Lindquist, an, there isn't any rea-
son why you shouldn't.
Rosie jes' naturally wants everythin'
she hears of an she can't understan' why
she can't have 'en1. Some people are
made that wey, with their hands open.
It's natural for John Lindquist to do
Womens work. His uncle on his mothers
side could do as fine 'broidery as any one
ever l saw, but I never thought any more
OF him for that. though Mrs Linduuist
was proud as If he'd been lected deacon in
the church when she showed me a table
cover he'd made for her. 1t had a nat
tern OF peacocks on it an I mus say he d
shaded EN- up well, but I couldn't help
but think It he'd ha' looked better chop
pin wood n shadin' peacock's tail.
| I'd be willfn' to bet plum puddin,
again a mince pie It Rosie don't get her
shawl, for saw Tim a-lool<ir' at a mani
cure set in a green plush box. 1t a be
,nough sight easier for him to get the
box n to make a shawl an man jes,
naturally takes the easiest way, seems if,
Anyway, I hope he don't take to crochetin'.
Rosie can't expec' one man to be every :
thin, even though he does stan six feet
! in his stockin's, an If she wanted one who
was handy with a noodle she ought to
have looked 'roun' for tailor.
There s some things. as I say t are
mems work an some t are wonen's, an
you get the bes' results by each stickin,
] to his own, seems it,