The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-04
Men, Women
and Things

Is QNQ i nlngS
There is one little boy on the Hill
who Is not going to have any Fourth
| of July today unless the neighbors
! take up collection for him. and it
| is all because he celebrated prema-
| turely. His father, who is most in
| dulgent and fond Of giving all the
little boys in the neighborhood good
| time. has been putting in fireworks and
firecrackers, pin wheels, rockets and
everything to make the day glorious,
and storing them in the stable to be
ready for the great event. A night or
two ago the father and mother of
| the little boy for whom all these beau
tiful things had been purchased. went
out to dinner, with many injunctions
to Willie to be very, very good until
| their return. With a Buster Brown
/ assurance that he was going to be good
| for the rest of his life little Willie
watched them go and wondered how he
would put in the time until the hour
for retiring arrived. In an evil mo-
ment he thought of the fireworks stored
| in the stable and it was the work of
| but short time to collect few more
angel boys" in the neighborhood and
conf1de in them plan for very good
time. At last it was decided to have
one large ear-piercing celebration near
the stable door, setting off everything
at once and then going quietly to bed
Immediately afterwards. The first part
| OF the celebration went off per scheme
but the last part was entirely i'm
promptu. The last act was the arrival
of the policeman on the beat with a
threat of the patrol wagon and night
in the station, and the immediate sum-
moning of Willies papa, who had to
square matters with the police. He
squared them with Willie later and
that is the reason he is going to spend
a quiet Fourth.
A small. five-year- boy on the
Hill, whom we will call John. had an
addition to his family recently in the
shape of a small brother, and all the
ne1ghbors talked to him about little
brother and what a fine boy he was,
and finally the five-year-old became
exceedingly weary. He stood it as
long as he could. until a grey-haired
man who lived near by passed one
morning and said: so you have a
brother? 1 suppose he will grow up
and be bigger than you are?"
"Oh. cut it out. cut it out." replied
the fVe-year- old.
The ethics of plagiarizing-ha re-
has been discovered that geniuses in
different parts of the country. or even
of the world, are likely to have the
same brilliant thought at the same
moment and later on when the idea
appears in print in two different books
one is accused of stealing from the
other. 1t only goes to show how uni
versal is genius. and yet in this con-
nection. it might be taken also as an
evidence Of the scarcity of originality.
IT you have witty idea. you should
at once copyright it. no matter what it
relates to. and then only will you be
safe. Many a man will see a bright
idea in print. and instead of saying
to himself, why did 1 not think of
that he will say. Il might have
thought of that; it is worthy of me-"
7 1t was a Frenchman who said: Il take
my own wherever / find it."
( On account Of the numerous divorces
i in New York things are becoming so
embarrassing that the hostess who en-
! tertains much feels almost obliged to
send list of her guests with invita-
tons so that each one may know who
she is going to meet. Some former
husbands and wives speak and are on
fairly good terms. but it is one thing
TO see each other at a tea and quite
, another to be seated at bridge table
together. This sort of thing affords
much amusement to some persons, but
to others it is cause of the keenest
anxiety. A story has just been told in
New York which illustrates what is
likely to happen. A man in a club
dining room said to another the other
day: Il say. old chap. if you've moth
ing better to do run up and dine with
us, tonight. 1 am going to have my
first wife's third husband and his fourth
Wife. My third wife and 1 will make it
pleasant for YOU" The relationships
IT. the smart set have become so mixed
that not even a. Philadelphia lawyer
could straighten them out.
Specialization is the order of the day.
If you write a book it must be about
some one thing and you must know
that thing perfectly. There are books
about women in different walks of life.
the business woman, the club woman,
the wife, the daughter, and how to be
that thing you aspire to. But where is
the book about the husband? There
are tremendous possibilities for the
writer Of "a handbook of husbands"
Where caught, how young, how to
Keep him and what to feed him.
Whether captivity agrees with him
and how much liberty he should be al
lowed Then there might be expert tes-
IIiiiOAJ elpOuL rare ana strange luS-
bands. Those that could be allowed to
go out alone, and sit up and beg for
food, as we'll as all the other tricks of
husbands. Then there is the oId-fash-
Toned tame husband who eats out of
the hand and comes when you call him,
chapter devoted to him would make
good reading for husbands who go the
other way when you call. Then, in the
end, there might be chapter or two
on what the husband may become,
headed the future of husbands" an
other on husbands l have had" by
some expert from Sioux Falls. Such p
book would fill long-felt want.
We thought if Mrs. Nation ever
struck Minneapolis she'd find it hard to
get away
Chicago has cornered the Bible
Wonder is lost in hope that some good
may be done.