The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-27
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Some Of the Wild and Reckless Pleasures
OF Life In 1.-THE MetroIopIs Disslpations
Attending the Case Of Fifty Feet Of
Heavily Taxed Earth In Our Block-The
! Gay Life of $3.50 a. m. and Of 1850 p. m.
Talk about your fast life and the reck
less pleasures of the great city! Why,
there is something happening on our block /
all the time. Several men we know are
enjoying the giddy whirl Of pleasure that
comes from raking the lawns. One frisky
rounder even had a bonfire in his back
lot the other night at which eight or ten
small boys gathered with whoops of fierce
joy and stepped several times on the
sweet peas. Another papa INDUCED in the
dissipation of cleaning out his basement
and wheeling the winters ashes into a i
depression. If there is any
thing that makes a man feel sporty and
sort O. gay like it is this willy game of in
ducing the ashes to come up out Of the
cellar. Bowling is nothing to it. Then
there's the old boy who is spading up @
quarter Of an acre Of garden. Whoop!
There's the fellow who is culling the flow
ers of life fresh from the celestial fields.
Dyspepsia and low spirits may look this
man over, but they never pfeempt any ter
ritOry in his consciousness. Then appears
on the scene the man who is "swiping
earth" to fill depression on his lot. All!
The joy Of getting something for nothing
and dumping it on your lot! Few, indeed,
know this gladstone art. The man who
is skirnishing after boulders to build a
stone wall feels in his veins the predatory
blood of the old vikings, those pirates of
the seas. He knows the joy of the life
of the bee, who, loaded to the guards with
flower juices and sweets, makes a stagger-
ing flight for the hive to deposit them in
the common store. And did you ever
take off your own double windows and
doors? Or did you ever pound your
thumb or drop the hammer on the wild,
free bunion Of the previous winter, or
have the clothes line suddenly interfere
with the strenuous ak in midair?
What's wild Bill or the life of the
plains compared to the fierce morning
and evening activity Of our block in
springtime? Better get out Of that fiat
and get home.
While you were working in the garden
did you ever have tree agent come
along and try to sell you prune tree
about four feet high, warranted to bear
two bushels of prunes the first year, no
matter if the climate came right down
from James bay? If not, you do not know
what you have missed. Compared to the
tree agent, the insurance man is the
trembling zephyr of eve signing thru the
branches of immemorial elms. When the
tree agent comes around it's us to the
cyclone cellar.
The Panama commission is now on the
isthmus. Such reckless haste seems al
most indecent
A little more of this weather and the
amateur gardener will wish that he would
get run over by the big red zizzy wagon.
reporter for Success, who was sent
up the valley Of the Hudson to interview
that horny-fsted son of toll, Judge Par
ker, found that he had hair on the back
of his hands! Isn't that great!
Mr.. Rockefeller's new book may be
condensed into three words, II never
ether
When the report OF the complete de-
struction of a Japanese column comes
from ST. Petersburg. we feel pretty sure
that that is where it came from.
| A sad story is printed by the ST Louis
| Republic of man suing for divorce on
| the grounds that his wife Kicked him
so hard that he never recovered from the
effects" No doubt Sweetie had grounds
for her fierce footuary act. We know men
| The brute!
| A southern paper asks the question
| what happens at Central when a sub
scriber gets mad?' and then answers il
| thus:
| ut makes all the hello girls feel rested
and brightens their lives
| If you want to do little something fol-
Central, do not talk googoo nor sing tt
/ her over the phone, nor send her violets
| every morn, but just let out good LOUD
! 'holler" about the mean service you are
getting. That's what makes the dimples
| come.
David Graham Phillips, writing in the
why the Price of Food Has Beer
Raised" tells Of small manufacturer il
the town where he was raised, who many
years ago, went abroad to study churcl
= architecture with view TO helping his
church house itself properly. On his re
turn he cut the wages Of his employees Il
pay the expenses Of the trip and of hi
subscription. to the new temple. Doubtless
he would have raised prices If he could
but those were the days when there wa
still some competition. Now the Workmel
have organized SO that he cannot Gu
wages without great trouble and expense
but there is less competition and thu
people have not vet organized so that h
cannot take it out of them; hence, tn
phenomena Of the present day.
"A. J. R.
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