The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-07

Woman Threatens to Rise-HoW to
Develop Your Figure, SteruIze Your
Baby, Remove Your Wrinkles and
Massage Your Face.
Those charming old chestnuts about
superb womanhood' and glorious man
lood,' ETC., find expression to-day in a
called Beauty and Health that
some one has kindly sent this column,
linking perhaps that we need one or the
'ther This is a mistake. We were inter-
eSted however, in peruSing the magazine.
Tor we learned much therefronl. One
writer says passionately:
Why, woman has been oppressed ana humili-
itcd and ground down for so long that she has
become accustomed to it, until it has become like
second nature to her, SO long that she has
tually come to believe that it is natural and
proper to be thus oppressed.
Now. what do you think of that?
OF course, there are some women who
do not know how badly off they are. This
writer takes them up. She says that per-
maps some woman will say, why, have
all the freedom l want! | am Just as free
as any one! I have a good home and a
good husband to support me, what more
Against this hideous heresy the writer
pleads thus:
The trouble with that woman is that she doesn
not know what freedom is. She has never known
it, How can she know it: Take a bird that has
has been raised in cage from the nest. and
and suddenly set 1t free in the open air and you
will see 1t futter about helplessly for a few
as If bewildered and finally aIisht per-
haps on your shoulder. or If you will allow it to
DO so, it will soon futter back to its prison
Why Is this? Why does it not fly away into
the trees like another bird would? Because it has
reyer known freedom
II Is just the same with the average woman
She has never known perfect freedom, and does
not know what the term signifies.
Now, isn't that painful?
After reading it, the mind is prepsred
to go on to articles and advertisements on
How to Develop Your Figure four
llsure Is $4,000, and when we develop it.
we intend to retire): How to Have Your
Wrinkles Removed how to steriize and
pasteurize your baby and his little food.
now to get strength from eating how to
practice facial massage etc. etc. till
the ordinary male reader is tempted to go
out and develop an alcoholic bust him
self
And the advertisements. Say. when we
read those ads we felt, as the little girl
SAID, we felt as If We should sink
we Will close with this literary gem
from another leading article:
Biousness is met with in all walks of life,
tlo NOT nearly so frequent among the poorer
Glasses as among those who are well 20 do
If we meet it in our walks of life. we in
tend to look the other way.
The Adrian Democrat saws that in Will
mar the other day a f1eshy girl was mar
ried to wellknown young man. and tho
editor wishing to say something to please
all concerned, spoke of the groom and his
elegant bride. Then the printer made it
THE groom and his elephant BRIDE It
! caused some hard feeling.
Bishop Huntington deplores 'noisy lew
lty. excessive display or inordinate merry
making at q, Christian marriage We
! trust those friends of the groom who tag
the baggage. tip over the house shoot al
the officiating clergyman and try to wreck
! the train, will take this gentle hint.
| This brigandage of those young Chicag &c
ruffians was really getting to be almost
as fatal football before the police broke
them up.
The Brooklyn Eagle says, there is un
easiness among our Indians" Then lei
them take a bath
Radium is said to change into helium
i This stupendous fact leads US to keep .
heavy paper weight on our radiuni.
Mile Cuesdon, the Paris clairvoy
amt, says that Martinique is goin,
20 be swallowed up and that
) flow of lava will destroy Naples Tha
settles it. We don't buy any Naples rea
estate this winter.
Crude oil slipped up a couple of notche
in Pittsburg when Rockefeller was look
ing the other way, causing him much sor
row.
Speaking of the horrid slaughter of ami
mails the Petoskey Lyre tells of a woods
: man who got out Of his tent in the nigh
5 and saw a pair of eyes looking at hin
from the woods. What happened then /
best told in his own language. He says:
y took down my rifle. aimed square be
tween the two orbits and let 'er go. Whe1
: the smoke cleared away / looked agail
and there was eyes staring right at me
l took a better { i'm and blazed away tn
, second time. But with no better success
them eyes kept gazing at me like tw
balls Of fire. I kept shooting until tn
magazine Of my gun was empty
, and locked the door. The mex
} morning bright and early 1 went out ant
: what do you think? There was ffteel
deer piled one on top Of the other
Theatrical events thruout the state thi
winter. If one may Judge from the ex
: changes. are punctuated here and ther
) with something pretty villainous in tn
way Of plays. At Winnebago City las
week there was an event with two vii
!, lains in the star parts. Speaking of thi
! sad affair the Winnebago City Enterpris
means sorrowfully over the degeneracy o
the stage. The man" says the Enterprise
carried revolver. a package of cigar
: cites and other deadly weapons. The Wo
man had her hair loaded with daggers,
The Enterprise adds:
- When these two couldn't find anything else
fight about. they would pull out their weapons
shout 'todsbodkins." and make lunges at eac
other. Fortunately for both. some one alwa?
came in just In time 10 prevent one or the othe
from being klled-to the great disappointment
2 of the audience The story of the play reTolvc
, around a wharf rat" and his rapid rise fror
i snap box residence on the water front to
: castle on the Rhine completely bewildered th
small house.
= "The Lester Prairie News also suffere
in reporting a similar show last week. Th
Critic stayed the evening out but 1t tool
= great determination. He says:
If the play contained solitary pleasing par
;. we failed to notice it. 1t was clear case o
. highway robbery Il refined scale. and tn
| effects Of the visit of this outfit will be fel
| on future show attendances for some time
: come. Altho the News aware of the fac
E that this troupe coming. 1t said nothin
about it i'll its last issue. they brought no rec
: concentrations. and We were unable TO find any
entertainment might prove medocre-but it wa
had-frightful fierce, in fact the worst ever.
, There's nothing so terrible as the f1ar
4 actor. "A. j. r.