The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-03
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Annual Tea Fight and Biscuit Worry
Held In the Office Yesterday-A Frlvol-
GUS Function Of GIttering Lights, Flow
ers Taken on Subscription and the
Whoop OF Artificial Joy Filling With
Gay Life the Corners and Corridors Of
the Historic Old journal Building Built,
AS It Is, on the Site Formerly Occupied
by Parcher's Livery Stable.
The Society Departments of this paper
gave their annual five o'clock Tea Fight
Samover Scrabble and Biscuit Worry yes
terday, to which frivolous Function we
sent a handsome bunch Of assorted regrets
in large, brown paper, sachet scented
envelop warranted to hold eigh-
teen or twenty fierce regrets with
out crowding. The office desks
and other evidences of higher civil
rooms and in their places f1oated the de-
generate odor Of tea and flowers. Vari-
colored lights, the loud society whoop of
artificial joy and the steey glitter Of dia-
mond tiarararas and red coral beads
usurped the corners and corridors sacred
to the dust and scent of newspaper work.
Resplendent in our business suit Of dull
gray with going-aWay trousers in regle
with fringe au natural We sat in our hum
Bile corner and did our daily task careless
of the pomp and glitter of society, as it
were at our very elbow. These startling
contrasts of life in great city, combined
with regular and reliable return Of salary
day, are what make up the novel and
dramatic interest in this artificial and mar
row routine, else we would retire to our
farm and risk being kicked by the risky
horseradish as it leaps from the soil with
tho oh, ~
spring,
| The failure Of the Ice crop this winter
will necessitate slight increase in prices
next June.
| We pant for July
Spring could play very popular stunt
in our back yard.
streets.
| General Wolseley says the American
army is the finest in the world. In the
! sixties the European experts referred to our
battles as flights between undisciplined
mobs." They are beginning to see that
every man was not only fighting like
thunder, but thinking.
The negroes in Africa who are resisting
the German seizure Of their native coun-
try are called ''rebels" at Berlin. That
makes it all right to kill them.
Since the sultan Of Morocco made these
in-sultan remarks about st. Louis, didn't
know where it was,' etc, the ST. Louis
Glibe-Democrat has been calling on France
to invade Morocco and annex 1t.
! Many people think that the world does
not advance and that it Is useless to agi-
tate for reforms. Yet it was only as far
back as 1920 that the agitation for the nor-
NAL school education of women began.
The amount of prejudice at that time
against the advanced education of women
is evidenced in the case Of Rev. Charles
Brooks, a cultured and refined Unitarian
minister, who went all over Massachusetts,
lecturing on the higher education of wo
men and who was actually mobbed in
some communities by what We're then
called the better clas ses, and an effgy of
him, with a Ounces cap. was exhibited,
bearing the legend: "a fool going to the
legislature to ask for money for a normal
school for young girls Now there is no
fear Of the educated woman in Massa,-
chusetts, that is unless you are planning
to hold her hand.
Will Chamberlain, who does little literary
stunts on the Vern1illion, S. D., Republic,
sometimes turns from hunnor to pathos
and hands out a very warm one. The fol-
lowing called "The Prayer Of a Child has
been copied quite extensively and de-
serves to be kept going on its mission:
When q little child. whom all consider
, beautiful whether it be or not, kneels down by
its bed to pray, If there be any angels in the
skies they listen. and if the spirits Of the dear
departed ever come near to earth they are not
far away at such time. There is something
supremely holy and touching and sweet in the
] tn x,ofhI fok, hn1-o aIS
sadness Of a funeral service above the caskes
OF one who has gone forever; we have been moved
by the pathos Of a mother yearning for a way
ward son or a Maynard daughter; we have felt
the tender eloquence OF priest and preacher. but
each and oil of these together have not lifted up
our hearts to the kingdom Of God does one
prayer of an innocent cherub Of tot. Before
such simple scene the wisdom Of the philoso
pher, the fancy Of the poet and the skill Of the
and amen. Beyond the domain OF faith
' not prove that men shall live again, but when
one of these tiny mortals knees down before
us to ask for the care of everlasting arms while
it slumbers. are that this world would
= lision. '' ''N "N'' AN 'D ~'''
Professor G. T. Patrick in the American
Journal of Psychology has made one of
;, those freak professional discoveries of the
why of football. A football game, he says,
is an imitation Of savage life. 1t repre-
sents a lower state than prize fighting be-
a cause 1t represents brute force more than
: skill.
It shows how the earliest savages had
to fight for their food, without any wea
, pons. It pictures the way that they
:, crouc11ed under the bush or behind a rock.
:, and then suddenly dashed out and grabbed
!, a hunk of meat from a wolf or from some
: other savage.
The grabbing and holding tight Of the
ball. the mad race for safety, the fierce
pursuers, the wild scrimmages. the crash
n of one strong body against another. the
e limp, motionless bodies Of the injured-all
e these show how the first savages had to
t struggle for life when there was very little
: kindness and very little reasoning in the
g world.
t The more strenuous and violent the
: game becomes the more peacefully your
IL higher self slunbers and rests. Football
: gives the "nlost perfect rest of the high
er brain centers," says the professor
Whoop! but that's good! When We
: long for rest for our higher self we will
t go out and jump fiercely on our neighbor
t and swipe his wine and OIL
d The thought presents itself also that
e possibly the trusts. the ':unfalterins
s trusts are resting their higher brain CEN
n tiers by leaping out and slapping a few ex-
ira cents on the prices Of coal, oil and
flood. "A. J. r.