The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-02-27

| Norquist, Harbert, Smithers, Chap
man, Peeler, Winston, Welch, Con-
nor, Dr. and Mrs. Mcdonald, Weight
man, Bishop; Mesdames Monteath,
Kleinschmidt, Bogart, Brink Rogers
and Brodie from Skagway, Chester
of Libby.
| Misses Brown and Talbot of Col
umbia Falls, O'Brien, Schaffer, Trum-
per. Heinlin. Ferguson, Peters, Force,
Bell Chester, Rosencrans, Adron, In
slis, Tetrault, Maloney, and the
Misses Weightman; Messrs. White,
McAllister, Richie, Chester, Sailing,
Tobe. Baker Grimmer, Jacoby,
Brown, Tansel, Monteath, Grubb,
Hand, Wright, Price, e. Dickie, c.
Dickie. Ferguson, Rostad, Bishop,
and Doctors Wiley. Lamb. Maloney
and Houston.
The season of fasting and prayer
is here, and the sable curtains of
Lent have dropped around the world
of gaiety for forty days. We now
have only the memory of pleasant
hours in the past
Monday was generally observed as
,, a holiday. being George Washington
birthday Tuesday was carnival day,
or pancake day. All over the world
carnival is known as season of
fun and frolic, feasting and merri-
ment. The main reason why it is
, called carnival day is because that
Shroye Tuesday, the day before
Lent, people are supposed to eat as
much as they can and get fat and
comfortable before they begin to
> fast This i movable feast of
the Roman Catholic and Epicopalian
churches. and occurs in February Oh
March.
Ash Wednesday there was religi
Gus services in these two churches
and next Sunday, which is the first
: one in Lent, will be an important
, date in the church chronology:
= Quiet and peaceful this period o
> penitencc and fasting should be. ant
there are numerous ones who fall IL
y the procession of sackcloth ant
y ashes and observe Lent in one wa,
:. or another, and feel that they ar
~ compensated for doing so; but man,
- Of the ancient customs are not ser1
. ously considered nowadays.
- The management of husbands i
~ one of the stock questions nowadays
but so far as known, no solution ha
y been offered nor have wives been Ell
lghtened. Strange to relate. me
. scarcely ever discuss their wives O
- The management of them. This ma
!! be due to the fact that they neve
manage them. then it's true. as Their
. are no two women alike. it would n
20 qure adifferent method in each ind
- vidual case and, therefore, no systel
:, covering a sufficient number OF case
y. to make foundation for discussio
-. could be devised. However. an e!
pertinent in the management {
W wives is being tried in Hawaii. an
y" it was this report which suggeste
IA to the writer the idea of a new styl
~ in management At the very leas
:. it has the merit and virtue of novelt
'e whether or not it brings practical r
10 suits. Here is the story:
~ Sugimura, native Hawaiian, Ii
ing in Waikea, was thoroughly infat
ated with his wife, and as he was
IN man of honor, he loved the truth.
W The Sugimura household was fl
~ of internal dissension. growing o.
n' of jealousies and misunderstanding
THE husband believed that his wi
-" had told him an untruth. He thee
fore wrote her sweet little note, i
closing his little finger. which he h,
lly neatly cut off with an AK. He to
IN her she had been guilty of ten lie
zee that he had ten fingers, and wou
ub cut off one each day until she pro-
ry ised not to tell another falsehood.
NJ The reply Of Mrs. Sugimura is n
IRE recorded. nor the number of finge
of sacrificed up to this writing.
ad Husbands who contemplate ado
ed, ing this plan for the management
w. their wives would, perhaps, do W
s. to await further advices from w
er, kea, Hawaii.