The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-30
THE NONPAREJL MAN

THE NONPAREJL MAN
In Which We Feel Called upon sternIy
to Lecture and to UpbraId the Little
Blossom Who Writes DeIicateIys
Scented Notes to the Matinee Idol
Who FoiIs the Heavy Villain in Our
Theaters-A Good, Stout, Worldly
Wise Mother Needed to Show the Girl
That She is Often Catering to Very
Cheap Skate.
A Philadelphia paper declares that those
fne-looking actors usually known as mats
inee idols, the heroes that rescue the
beauteous maidens from the hands of the
stage villain and then marry them, often
write sWeet-scented notes to themselves
as to get regulations with the manage
ment as lady killers. These actors are
supposed to draw big pay for this repu-
tation, and their friends talk seriously of
the poWerful-almost hypnotic-inf1uences
that they exert on romantic females. This
power is the stock in trade of the actor,
and he must have tangible proof of il
So ii the young women do not come up
with a bunch of authentic mash notes,
he sees to it that he gets the notes 1u
another way. The Philadelphia paper
says: il
The manager every afternoon brings
them to him-half a dozen pink and blue
and cream envelopes, smelling of violek
and orris. He takes them with a guffawss
reads them, passes theme around. Every
one pretends to be amused at their silly
| contents, but the minute the actors back
is turned the murmur passes back and
forth: They're fakes! He wrote them
| himself He spends two hours a, day writ
| ing himself mash notes. To tell the
truth an actor of this kind gets some au-
thentic mash notes. but nobody believes
it. It is thought that every note is a
fake"
Yes, the matinee idol does get the real
thing sometimes, as we happen to know.
| This story Is reproduced for the benefit
of those silly women who now and then
write these mash notes to good-looking
antecedents they do not know anything
about. 1t may deprive the girls of some
! of the pleasure of these literary escapades
to think of these notes, signed with their.
names, passing around in the theater or
| in the saloon next door, to- secure
the laughter Of the crowd Of men, who
will thereafter have a good story" TO
! tell on some particular girl. For, we re-
gret to state, men sometimes descend
to little gossip on the side, just to
show how wise they are and how much
| they know of the interior wickedness ''of
| some OF our first (and SecOnd) families. "
No, grille If you are thinking of writ
ing a mash note to that pretty matinee
idol, it would be roll of paper money in
/ your reticule to hire some good, stout,
motherly mother-in law, who knows all
; Of fathers shortcomings, to give you a
| talking to and to show you what a weak
little, namby-pamby two by four girlikin
you really are to give yourself dead away
| to a cheap skate who cares more for the
I,tc ,,1f1, y
| set of his fur-lined overcoat than he does
| for your peace of mind. ~
Mamma may not be quite SO roma ntic
as we would like, but when it comes to
| worldly wisdom she has Little Blossom
| faded.
The antitipping movement has broken
out in ST.. Paul. The only way to stop
the tipping evil in sleeping cars is to stop
giving tips. OF course. the porter will
make it very unpleasant for you and you
Will feel mean and small for time, but
it's the right way. The Pullman company
is rich enough to pay it's own employees.
and ought in all decency to do so.
/ Three revolutions are raging in San
Domingo. If anybody is left after the
tangle is Strengthened, out the United
States ships ought to land marines and
shoot him down.
Japan's war god certainly looks fierce
enough to eat up pretty good sized piece
of the map
The ladies who are. posing for a cheap
New York gang in the Madison Square
| Garden have the courage of their conr
Ivictions of their own charms. We couldn't
do it without a large stipend
! The death at the age of 1O4 of Robert
! {. Harper. one Of the grand old men OF
Minneapolis, shows what a man can do
who comes Of a long-lived ancestry IF you
want your childrens grandchildren to,live
long and be happy it's up to you to do
/ the right thing as an ancestor.
A creamery man writes this column to
announce that what we don't know about
hen raising and egg producing is a vast
sea. This column has made no pretense
to being a hen sharp. All we did was to
of Cornell university. The creamery MAJ,
goes on to add that if the farmers would
feeds their skim milk to hens instead Of to
pigs and poultry the hen would astonisf1
him by the facility with which she would
take on flesh and throw off eggs. 1t
seems that the Indiana state experiment
station made some tests Of feeding skim
milk to fowls and the air around the ex-
pertinent station was SO full of eggs tossed
off by the hens that the man who fed then,
had to approa ch the chicken coop under the
shelter of an umbrella. ;.
We do not vouch for this story but ii
might profit the hen fancier to feed little
skim milk, secure an umbrella and watch
results. A j. r.
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