The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-03
THE NONPAREIL MAN

ish Colorado beetle larvae, showed up,
and the sound made by their "chomping''
as they ate up the vines could be heard
for 500 feet and kept the hired help
awake nights 1t was necessary to act
at once and to act quickly.
All kinds Of things in the poison line
are recommended for potatoe bugs, but
the very best thing in the market is
stout man and two shingles. IS an un-
pleasant job, for one hates to take life.
But we planted those bog oranges and
the bugs didn't. Warning is hereby exc
tended to all potato bugs to- keep off our
upper 40.
The Contemporary review contains a
most interesting article written by an
English lady. the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand
Russell, who put on an old torn black
shabby sailor hat, and secured employ
ment among a lot Of other girls In a
rope factory. The work was simple, but
the hours were from 6 a. m. to 5:30 p. M,
with internissions for breakfast at and
lunch at 1. The wages "for= skilled
hands, were $3.50 a week! Mrs. Russell
states that intemperance was the great
fault Of the girls, and that love was the
theme Of their conversation. She writes:
every girl had bIoke (sweetheart), and they
wanted to know If my bloke ever cit me-" as
theirs constantly did, they said.
''He's out of job,'' was Obliged to answer.
els 'e in one Of them unemployed process
sions?
NO." answered; 'he's too grand for that"
"a good job e isn't; they said ''They'rs
all boozers They goes to theInext pub and gets
drunk"
Mrs. Russell thus sums up her observations:
The girls who belonged to cubs-and there
were about ten Of them out OF forty -fve-were
decidedly superior to the others In behavior and
ideas. One Of these Ellen, who total abb
cto irar dacn fl,o1 e. Oh.
with kind landlady, to whom she paid es q
week ($15O) for small room food and wash
ing.
The landlady called her at 4:3o and gave her
cup of tea and bit of toast at 5. At $50
Ellen started for the factory with tea sugar.
five slices Of bread and butter and Sd (e centsj
for her dinner, handed to her by the landlady out
Of her 6s. OF this Ellen spent only 1kd or ID
on her dinner. adding the other penny to her IS
a week spending money. At o'clock in the
evening the land1ady gave her tea, more bread
and butter, with occasionally ''rasher" or bit
Of fish. Three evenings week Ellen went out
with her 'bloke,' and the other evenings to her
club. .r-- s-@
'Polly was another girl who described her life
| to me. She was very small and thin, with sew
Grad teeth out and on enormous bun of hair
at the back: She was 20 and had been married
seven months to q sober chap, who only drank
beer once a week for his Saturday dinner On
Sunday Ter chap gave her cup of tea in bed
at o'clock, and then she got up and got break
fast. She spend the morning tidying up NV
chap says I'll die with broom in me and she
said. Then she got dinner, generally a meat
stew. After dinner she had lay down. while
her chap read his paper, the weather being too
cold to go OUT
It would be interesting now if Mrs.
Russell would put on her rich clothes and
visit the mansion of the man who owns
the rope factory, whose argument neces-
sarily is, "Am my brothers keeper"
and hear what he has to say. "The
rights Of property" "a free field and a
faj ~ o1,o s1oi FOL
whatever he has to say is wrong and
must be denied and changed.
o, it's coming! 1t may take good
many years, but it's coming! 70"