The Minneapolis journal., 1904-10-03

Which the Fat Man In the Upper
Berth Backs into His Trousers-H He
Cannot Make Good With This Device
He Must Wear kIts When Travelling.
| a writer, evidently masculine one, in
the Ladies' Home Journal, complains Of
the TOP berth in the sleeping car. He
says ne has to sit on his neck in the
Derth to get his trousers on in the morn
lng' ana then he spills all the contents
| OF the pockets out. The writer may
] thank his stars that he is not Of heroic
size. Inc struggles, of the fat man in
the top perth with the mercury knock
ing around l02 degrees as the porter
llhes 70 nave it, are something fearful to
contemplate. Yet there is relief in sight
Inc Pullman company now has a design
IN hand by which trousers in the upper
oerth are to be suspended, feet up, from
nttle tunnel running up thru the top
| of the car. To get into his trousers,
| man will have to stand on his hands and
pack up into them in this tunnel.
IL 1nls scheme goes thru, it will be up
70 we 1at man to make good in the gym
SUM or. else. go into abbreviated kits
when he travels. - r.. -, " 80"
The Adrian Democrat had a piece of
-NASt~
10 step into his new So 500 automobile
| When three of the bedslats gave way and
| he awolse.
writer in Booklover's MAGAZINE
traces the history of some of the stand
ara jokes. Some of these, he says, are
really original with their authors. 9th
ers are worked over and over into vari-
GUS forms, new, yet ever old. There is,
Tor instance, the, joke which has been
| USED for twenty years or more on the
minstrel and. variety stage, One man.
referring to a woman says: "she is not
eHactly handsome, but she has a face
that' grows on one." The other speaker,
usually woman, answers; "WeL, I
am glad it did not grow on me-" The
! writer then continues: about four or
hVe years ago we'll known comic paper
printed That joke; did it purposely.
Ieao II, ana fell to wondering if the edi
tor knew how old the joke was; and I
mentally decided that he did, and that he
| mad printed the joke as a joke. About
that time certain doctor was advertis-
ing heavily that he could amend, re-
Vamp, alter improve. disguise =; and
cnange a the human features by grating
rms IDEA led me to Improve the old joke,
and made the second half of the an
sWer as follows: I suppose so. It cer-
grafted.' sold this for 81. A few weeks
later l heard May Irwin use it on the
STAGE W.
Kansas girl has taken to naming her
gowns In this way they are known to
her friends and family. Some of the
TeS Things arc; Rect Thoughts 6 tha ,,o of Strange
s21ss, Now $12.4e' e DO YUneT You Thtnk MaI 4t'I
Come Off 1.-The Kitchen Canarys
Dream" ''The Spinster,s Last Gasp."
Dressmaker's Meal Ticket" ,""Fair Japan"
and the "Glnny Sack 1t is difficult to
see why 9 dresses as artistic creations
slioulo not De named as well as paintings
Frank Day of the Fairmont Seminal
says that man of his county smoked
TWO p1pefuls of breakfast food the other
morning before it was light enough to
alscoVer his mistake. This brand of hu-
NOR SHOWS that Frank is not Worrying
much over the political outlook,
A Wisconsin girl, Miss Wilhelmina En-
teman OF Hartland, has. made a life spe-
claity or that cheerful and interesting.
bug, the small hot wasp Miss Enteman
entertains that fiery little midget on her
lnger and tells you his life history from
ewasp so is xnn not Sh1 disRs srstta that
1or trouble. All he asks IL toSibealet alonea
II one wishes toimakei the closer acouain-
lance or wasp, all that Is necessary is
to take drop of honey or syrup and
place 1t on the tip of a finger. The WASH
Will come and feed himself on the sweet
and he will never. unless an effort is
made to destroy him, sting the person on
whose finger he is. 80
MISS Enteman has a little wire cage
for her pet wasps and they get to know
her and if they do not cherish a. warm
liking for her >at least their actions evince
no hostility
When she went to college her wasns
Went with her, and she never lost touch
OF her wasp study even while engaged in
other work. She has travelled from ona
eilo OF the country to<the other collecting
thenn' and has found more species of the
wasp family than most persons dream are
~ eAistence. Every one of them carries
sun' put never uses it except for pur
poses of sself-defense or in defense of
home and mother
Wasps,' says Miss Enteman "oro
very bright. They are really as indus.
trlousS as bees and certainly as wise as
anus. You cannot fool wasps They have
tiie saarpest eyes Of any insect in the
good points about them. They are IN
tenlgent IN such an ingenious way that
they are always amusing to watch.'
MISS Enteman says these little hasa
~ turner's 40 not sting unless disturbed but
tns wasp s. IDEAS .of what constitutes dis;
turoance !, an may differ from yours. Therein
!1es @ the danger. boy cannot see anv
disturbance ttl In throwing a half brick at
the wasp's nest or shooting a charge ~
small shot thru it.. The WASH considers
these acts in the light of disturbances and
ne ne makes good on the person of the child
If he sees him. 'e o11iio
:, When PeWee Jackson was at his zenith
' there used to be a wasp's nest under the
poard sidewalk near the schoolhouse and
LII, .mG "asps M came up thru a crack in the
honn1 malm; In, Inc boys used to bang on this
poard with club and run. Is II to he
wondered at that the wasps now and then
lhaoe mistake and took it out on an in
i,oceht party passing over the walk :? :, One
Jay one or them reached for Pewee ana
raised notable bump on the surface
HeWee was heard for six blocks. Than
the boys filled all the cracks in tho side'
,"aaK misu win m sand. Now, was that fair?
j., MSS. MSS Enteman says. that wasps are as
INDUSTRIOUS as bees. The bee, howeve,
bump. erues