The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-08

For several years we have heard a
great deal of talk about prosperity and
every one has been wondering what
particular class the good times have
benefited, and at last it has been dis
covered. 1t is the landlords who are
more prosperous. THE wages of work
men. in ANY line have not perceptibly
increased, but rents have been steadily
going UP in ST. Paul and this Sep
TENDER they intend to soar little
higher. The families with children will
soon have to erect tents in the woods,
for no one desires children about their
property. Another class that will soon
be able to retire are the owners of
laundries. They have advanced until
men of ordinary means are obliged to
wear cellulOid or one linen collar week.
Ice took advantage of the summer
time coming and went up in the spring,
and, as for meat, unless one is in the
Carnegie class, meat is a rare luxury.
If mans salary remains stationary
and his rent goes UP each year prompt
ly, his finish is only question of time.
A man somewhere dragged his wife
into court the other day and told the
judge that she beat him almost daily.
There Is nothing strange or ludicrous
about this statement on its face, but
when it becomes known that his wife
in question was just five feet tall and
her husband six feet, it will be seen at
once why the judge looked surprised
and why the few persons in the court
PIIf ha h1JC no nd
not see the joke, and said in all serious
ness that he desired to be protected
from his wife who was a termagant
and should not be judged by her size.
When the court interrogated the small
but determined locking woman, she re-
Piled: Eyes, judge, did beat him and
I'll do it again, he spends all my money
and stays out nights and is generally
a bad man." The man shivered and
looked embarrassed, and when the
judge asked him about it he admitted
the staying out nights part of it, but
added that he was afraid to go home.
The court looked him up and down
and said he had never known of case
exactly like this before and it was the
greatest instance of the influence of
mind over matter that had ever come
to his notice. The man seemed to real
eze the contempt of those present for
a large man who would let a small
woman beat him, and the judge dis
missed him with, the remark that it
was not a case for judicial interfer-
ence and he gave the large husband
a meaning glance. The undermining of
marriage is going on slowly.
There is a possibility of our losing
the Count Cassini, the Russian am
bassador, and, still worse and more of
it. of losing Mile. Cassini, his niece,
who has added so much to the gayety
of nations and the illustrated papers
during her sojourn in Washington.
There is hardly more than hint Of
strained relations as yet, but it is pos
sible that Cassini did not know that
we are the moral cenSorS of the entire
world. and feel it pieus right to send
little notes of protest to all nations who
do not act not as we do, but as we
think other nations should. We do not
like other nations to interfere with us,
but that does not prevent us from eX-
pressing our pious horror at the cruel
ty of other nations. Our cruelty is our
A returned missionary from China
says they have no hospitals, orphan
asylums or insane asylums in China.
The civilization over there must be a
step ahead of ours.
The new workhouse tower is valua
BILE in giving tramps a lesson in look
ink UP. not down. NAB.
st. Paul, July Z. 1903.