The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-03
THE NONPAREIL MAN
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dumbbells and attend the dairy gym
nasium.
Hon. Cole Younger Of Missouri and Min
nesota recently fired out with contumely
one OF his wild west show employees for
playing the short change game on the
rural patrons of his show.
There is plain robbery such as holding
up banks and there is meanness such as
the short change game. Cole will not stand
for the latter.
Last March the Canadian congress sent
an address to the king referring to the
fact that it had three times humbly petit
toned his predecessor for the adoption Of
a reasonable measure Of home rule for
Ireland and renewed the request Of him.
The answer has just been dispatched Ed
ward informs the Canadians that he will
listen with great respect to any sugges-
lions from them regarding the affairs of
their own dominion. We may be wrong,
but this looks like a diplomatic way of
telling the Canadians to go, over behind
the fence and lie down. Will the sturdy
American pioneers who have gone up into
the Canadian northwest to pioneer the
country stand this for a moment? They
will ....
A gentleman recently sent to this office
what might be called the Mean Mans
FOe1n. : IL redQS TWO ways. On It's sur
face, it is in praise of woman. But it
has a Donnelly- Bacon cipher concealed
! in its pocket that throws woman down
| hard. Here are the first two stanzas:
Happy a may pass his life -
If he's directed by a wife;
| If free from matrimonial chains
| He's sure to suffer for his pains.
No tongue is able to unfold H.
| - The virtues In woman you behold: -
The falsehoods that in woman dwell
| Are almost imperceptible. :
Now, that sounds we'll, and your wife
will tell you that it contains immortal
| truth. But the game is to read, In each
stanza, the first and third lines, followed
by the second and fourth lines. That puts
altogether a different face on the
matter. Your wife will be unable
| to see the humor in it. It
is good game to cut out the poem and
get her to read it aloud. Then you can
say, why, it didn't read that way to
me- after which you spring the second
method Of reading. The two concluding
stanzas are as follows:
In womans heart you'll see appear
| Truth, darling Of heart sincere; -
| Hypocrisy, deceit and pride, FL. -
In woman never can abide. 80
| Destruction take the men, say
Who no regard to woman pay;
| VINO make the woman their delight,
l. g, Keep always reason in their sight.
=. Now, don't you go and lay this at our
door. Thou can'st not say did it, never
shake those CORY locks at me-
An Iowa paper says that there are
many people In the rural districts of that
state who are afraid of fresh air after
dark and who sleep in tightly closed bed
rooms. The paper adds that lit is all
;poppycock that night air is bad air"
This wonderfully foolish idea Of pure air
tnbeing bad air is not confined to the coun-
try. There are people in the city who
believe that night air or even fresh air is
bad for them. The might air scare dates
back to the very settlement of this coun-
try. 1t was given voice in an old
maxim of Ben Franklin's that I often
heard quoted when I was a boy. 1t was
Ithis:
avoid the night air as you would the
plague
l. DR.. Franklin was a very wise guy, but
his light that was In him on the subject
of night air was darkness.
A good Samaritan who was visiting a
sick woman in Minneapolis two or three
years ago found the windows tightly closed
faltho it was summer time. The air in the
house gave evidence that they had been
closed for a week.
| Good heavens!' exclaimed the visitor,
why don't you open the windows and get
some air. You can never get we'll in this
atmosphere
Mrs. Blank" said the sick woman, i'm
rpressively, II never. did like that out
doors air. 1t amt healthy"
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