The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-11
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The Approach OF the Summer Vacation
Causes a Slight FIutter Among Us
+ Teachers - General Regret Expressed
That the Happy and Successful School
Year IS Drawing to a ciose-What Are
4 You Going to Do This Year, elrls7
Only six weeks more before we teach
ers VIII be thru our gladstone school work
ana on on our vacations. Some Of JUS are
gong to hold down our timber claims,
others VIII rusticate at the seashore, yet.
others will camp out at Mile Laos or at
Mddnnetonka and still others OF us, O heav-5
ems, Will get married and cease school
teaching forever! Some ridiculous people
nave, or pretend to have, the idea that
all we teachers think about is getting
married. How perfectly ridiculous! Per-
sonaliy we would not dignity these slam
GERS py notice, much less by denial. OF
course, If just the right man. handsome,
wealthy wealthy and all that, you know, came
around and acted foolish, why, we'll we.
might consider the matter from a prac-
tlcal point Of view. But, on the whole, we
are very comfortable and happy, thank
I Beautiful weather, isn't it?
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You remember that the old Persian
Ientmaker once expressed to his Best Girl
the wish that they might tear this old
material world to pieces and remold it
to their hearts desire. Yet looked at thru
the right kind Of eyes, it seems to some
OF US that this is already about the best
possible of worlds. Why people should
commit suicide is in reality the wonder of
the ages, unless YOU stop and think upon
what q distorted world they are looking.
et, from the gardening point Of view,
there are some changes that we might
suggest. S
Item-2A caramel tree Situated in one
corner. OF the garden with robins nest
In 1t, we might ask for a beautiful, frag-
rant blossoned tree that bore chocolate
caramels. And we would have three or
four little girls, say 6 to 8 years old.
sitting under the tree and waiting for the
ripe caramels to drop.
ltem-A chocolate cream radish. We
would grow radish in these famous gar
'dens with leaves like the ordinary radish,
but on being pulled each plant should have
chocolate cream as it's root. I.
And In this garden. as another item all
the rocks and stones should be made Of
peanut candy. You would go along and
take a bite off Of the stone fence without
exciting special wonder. Then the lemon
ade fountain-but why enumerate? You
can see at glance what a valuable bit Of
real estate it would be. !.
AS between Collins and Dunn, we figure
that almost any good democrat is likely
to get beaten Sto a finish.
An eighth ward man whose wife Is an
amateur gardener claims that he has to
send out a man with crowbar to pry
his wife past the seed and bulb store.
Lumberjacks report that the Indians
this winter were manufacturing a drink
out of alcohol and molasses that was
about two war whoops distant from total
paralysis. Yet there are white men who
will drink it.; .f5e
+ Problem In gardening IF there are sew
enty-five or eighty half dormant hornets
keeping nest under the summerhouse, how
long does it take a 'thoughtless gardener
to shin an eight-foot fence?
j., The farmer instead of standing around
with a bunch Of Whiskers under his chin
and cussin the government, has decided
I togOTganize,l build a few lines of elevators
and go into the wheat business chimself
with view, to having a hand in grading
his own wheat and fixing theiprice thereof
| so far as possible. The common people,
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have to adisorganize and quit eating alto
Fgether to Set even. ,s ~
| We suggest the following as a tariff
plank Ito be submitted by Senator AL
drich:. .ss-<- .-..ss.
THE tariff schedules are sacred and
should not be touched. But if they are
revised they should be revised by theil
benefciaries.''
We don't. care If the merchant, who
sends his clerk out to beat his store rugs
on Nicollet avenue at 7:45 a. M does
advertise. We wouldn't buy his stuff.
The Panama canal will be running In
1914 II some big nation doesn't commit
suicide by coming over and jumping on us
T. Chicago is already taking steps to pre-
vent the insane bedlam kind of a celebra-
Etion of the Fourth Of July. A few tender
youths who let off pound of dynamite
at q crack would ornament the Jail beau