The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-05-06

ons. Beany knew it was cold, so
1e> just wet his head to keep from getting
he cramps and went in all at once,
'Plash.' Me and Beany grit our teeth
md waded out 1t was a frost, but we got
1nder and then all came out again and
Beany he shook just like a poplar leaf
after the frost. It didn't take us long to
lress an then we all went up to the place
Ind had glass of sody and a vernilla iceil
cream apiece and Pute had a cigarette
TO keep EN- from hurting him.
Was it fun? Well, we were the first
fellers in this year, by gravy! y And we
don't have to go in now until Decoration
Day.
The laboratory sharps are all the time
discovering new illu1ninants, but we notice
that the gas bill continues to come with
disgusting frequency
The Geographic news, owing to the Jap
anese censorship. is very weak on those
coups de mules that we used to get from
South Africa when lighting was dull.
The first real work on the Isthmian
canal will be to clean up trife, to get a
water supply and to slap the pestilential
mosquito. This will take nearly year.
BY that time Uncle Sam will be in posi-
ton to move the dirt.
a FtOcHeSteT, MIMI, woman gave the
city council notice Of suit for $500, she
having slipped on an icy sidewalk and.
the council referred it the committee on
alighting, of which Dodge is chairman. e
In the Ladies' Home Journal Mr. Box
tells his readers how much alcohol there is
in the leading brands Of patent medicine.
He also alludes to drugs of various de-
grees Of potency, and suggests that to adj
minister them in the doses prescribed on
the bottle is little short Of murder. AL
ready one patent medicine company has
sued Mr., Box for 5000, 900 damages.
The Apostle Smith family baseball team
is sweeping everything before 1t in Utah
this spring. 4
Uncle Joe Cannon says it is decidedly
mean to run him as vice president when
the. head Of the ticket is so disgustingly
and flamboyantly healthy.
The Russians are falling back on Mos
cow. In the language of General Sassyno-
WITCH "All is lost save BREATH
Somebody wanted to know why we
walk. Well. we'll tell you. Coming down
in the car the other morning, we noticed
one of the aristocracy of the Lowry Hill
district-which runs from Hennepin ave-
nue. to Notwithstanding in the aisle
Of the car talking to some ladies who were
seated near the door. With one hand he
was attached to the strap, while the other
hand held toothpick delicately poised in
the air. Since then we have walked
Doc Bixby of the Nebra ska State Jour-
nal has been elected president of the
board of education or superintendent OF
schools or something Of that trivial char
acter for all Lincoln, Neb Doc is not
much on pedagogics, but he knows a
| fad" as far as he can see it, and he
can spot a cheap teacher whose mind is
all on personal adornment and chewing
gum, hence he will make a valuable Of
fetal. Doc is also opposed to banging
small children with a baseball bat He
says in his paper:
We would hate to own being the parent of a
child mean enough to deserve beating. In our
opinion the most cowardly thing on earth is for a
grown man to strike little child.
That's all right, but what are you go
ing to do when the little child" throws
nice, rich, red, ripe tomato against YOUR
clean. white schoolhouse? Doc would
probably say: why, wash it off" Per
haps that's right.
Doc is also, Sound on the female
teacher question. He says pointedly:
Woman has no cause to complain that she is
IN public school work. All the men EMPLOYED in
the grade schools of Lincoln are women, since
Pentzer resigned. and our only regret is that
Lincoln Is not larger and richer 40 mat we
| might employ more women and nay better wages
We hold the Moseley commission and members
4 Of that New York association Of eonceited dolts
i ton women are entitled to first place from thf
kindergarten to eighth grade A, and then on thru
the, h1gh school and the subsequent stages Of
mans intellectual development until he is ready
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undisputed level.
The Moseley gang, of which the doctor
complains, was a British educatfona
commission which investigated the teach.
| err question and found that only mer
should be employed for teachers of boys
above 10 years of age. The report was
Endorsed by the Male Teachers associa.
ton Of New York city, Doc does MOI
care for the Endorsement. either holding
both the commission and the New Yorker
In the same profound contempt.
II Doc Is going to rule over a systen
| of lady school teachers, he shows pro
found wisdom In publicly taking thi.
strong position.
That an argument can be made for al
most anything is generally conceded an,
nnds exemplihcation in a book recentl
! published on the Kaffirs Of South Africa
The author, an Englishman, seems to con
slider that the polygamous condition i
which the natives live is q pleasant one
The women as a rule favor it, too Some
i times woman who has a dozen o:he
sisters, as they call fellow wives, will E
to woman who is the solitary wife Of
man and ask her If she does not feel lone
1 ~. The writer then goes on to say:
No one can visit large kraal-sucl
for example, as the kings kraaI in Swat
land-where there are hundreds of hut,
and not feel that there is certain char
IN the social life Of the place. 1t is
sort OF college life and frequently M
thoughts have reverted to my old varsit
, days, and 1t has struck me that if on
Il could imagine a set Of men living in til
: old court at Trinity, surrounded BY wive
: and children, with a social circle in whic
every one was related to every one els
one might get some idea Of the sheer jo
: Of life amidst 1000 relations,'
1t was one of Lewis CARROTS s'Inproye
{. Euclid propositions that ian argumer
Z can be started on any point at any dis
!, lance from that point An argument f
i polygamy for its social value NAV
4 worm consideration "A. j. r.
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