Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-10-09
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~ PERSONS AND THINGS So
As Seen by Gath.

81 want to thank Gath for using
that article about model wives. /
never saw anything so near the
truth. I think I could be just that
kind of a wife. especially for a man
who takes that description for his
ideal. Laura"
Now, Laura, don't cast any bouquets
before us, for we did not use that
dispatch on our own volition. 1t
was handed us by enc Of the con-
frmed bachelors Of the city who
says no woman can ever win her
way into his heart, for there is no n
who can come near the ideal Of him
self which is exactly like that
preachers. But here is Laura who
can just fill the bill. We cannot tell
the bachelor whether she is sixteen,
young, gushing and sweet, or
whether she is forty and built or a
plan If a western prairie, with false
hair, false teeth and a host Of other
artificial accomplishments. But she
thinks she can get next to che heart
of our bachelor friend so firmly that
a South Dakota divorce court would
be unable to remove her. If she
wants to be informed she might pro.
cure the bachelors name by calling
on Gath.
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We walked by a livery stable the
other day and saw a man currylng a
horse. That's a chestr ut, as the up
to-date slang goes. But the part
that interested us was how any ami
NAL could endure the raking that it
was getting with an instrument Of
torture like a curry comb and rot
kick. Never thought about it ?
What's the reason a good brush and
light currying wouldn't do as much
good to keep the animals coat clean
as all that raking with a comb far
worse than one owned by the wife
of the famous Bill Bailey? It
would certainly be more human.
"The other night at the minstrel
show, 7 had a thorough demonstration
of what the people who treat nervous
diseases from the mind standpoint
term sympathy" said a
gentleman. "One Of the popular city
officers who was present became
amused at something and during a
lull in the performance he INDUCED
in a hilarious fit of laughter. I did
not know what he was laughing at,
but I get amused too. And the funny
thing was I could not stop laughing
even when I got home. I believed
he could have given me the small pox
if he had wanted to. 1t was the best
illustration Of sympathetic ervou
contagion I ever saw
"Please send me the name Of the
gentleman who gave you the article
about the model wife. I think he
would make a model husband, for the
nan with such lofty ideals for a wife
must be willing to give equally lofty
ideals in a husband" So writes a
young lady. You will wonder why
know she is Young. I will tell you.
She don't know anything about men.
When she is older she will. This
marrying business is no equal swap.
It is like horse trading. You trade
animals and take the boot in money.
That's what Miss Vanderbilt did.
She paid the buot. The woman
usually does. Men require women 70,
wives who would be angels with the
edition of a few pinfeathers. They
give in return for purity of character.
a devoted love and her ambition il
life, a character that would often dis
grace a NANCY dog. They require
women to be like unto Ceasar's wifi
while they resemble Solomon. Tall
about their ideals! They are alright
But the poor, deluded woman who ex
poets such in return will be as badly
disappointed as though she had eater
a green gourd for strawberries. Yes
our correspondent is a young woman
As the happy father said when the
nurse said, Two, our troubles neve
come singly. Here is the Michiga,
City Independent, Il of the very bes
papers in the state, with the custom
airy exception, after quoting a "note'
from these columns, on the subject O
Burns popular poem, now so plenti
full in North Dakota, says: "But Mr.
Gath, what an opportunity to make al
impression, even though it be with a.
old time ''press." Yes the memory O
those old time impression on on
youthful heads! The memory of thel
myers still.
w. t " "