The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-02-19
THE NoNPAREIL MAN

THE N0NPAREJL MAN
The Defense of Mama-A Loud and VII
brant "Hoer" Put Up in Behalf of
Grandma's Daughter-Papa May Throw
Us Down, but Mama Brings Out the
Pie Between Meals
Something in defense of mama? Well,
should rather think so! Several mamas.
it seems, felt that they were Sighted in
the article written recently for this col
umn in defense of papa, and they have
demanded Justice for mama in the name
Of an outraged family and public opinions
AS if mama needed any defense! Her
acts speak for her. What is it the poet
says:
For the hand that rocks the cradle
Is the hand that spanks the world
No. indeedy, it was not that we over
looked mama, but because she needs no
defense, that she was temporarily for
gotten in the contempla ton of the Great
Glory of papa.
However papa may go astray or forget
hmself-and us, too-mama never for
gets us. She is right there when we are
born into the word; she stands right by
us thru life's thick, and thin, and if We
die first she does not forget that we ever
were, and she never ceases to look Tor
ward to meeting US again. 1t is mama
who croons. the first song over our noisy
|tlittle crib, and it, is mama who drops the
last tear on our very quiet casket
Right here we wish it distinctly under
stood that we put up loud and vibrant
"holler'' for mama. Every kid knows that
his mama would stand punishment in his
place if she could, and would take it like
a man." too Every young fellow goes
| back to mama to tell her of his first
| joys, sorrows, victories, defeats, hopes and
| fears. And you old cuss, grayheaded or
| baldheaded or not very much headed any
way-it having been nearly knocked off
| in butting up against the World-now
wouldn't you like to have Time turn back
ward IN its fight SO you could just go
! and tell mother all about it and hear her
say: There, there?' Perhaps you may
remember the old song about
/ The needles eye that doth supply
The thread that runs so true,
! There's many a lass that let pass
| But now have caught: you
| We are willing to let most of them
pass, but we catch mama! Maude Nor
rison Huey in the National Magazine has
| a poem on this old song. She sings;
What magic in the measures ..'..-
! Your feet go tripping to
Oh, ve-dream ever new!
| +r Oh, memory ever true.
| 10 flush an old cheek rosy, ...-..
! To flash a dim eye blue. .....-
| Feeble fingers hutter -..... .-
| For the touches that they knew. 49,
Trenluiously tender. .,..-. ~
| The old lips Grooming thru -.-.-
| t'Ihe needles eye that doth supply
| " The thread that runs so true o.. 20 a.
Papa is all right but if there is pie in
the pantry and you kids. are hungry,
papa says mo eating between meals!
and you go hungry. But after papa goes
out to smoke his pipe. mama goes in and
brings us all cut a generous hunk of pie!
Stand up for mama.
Senator Quay, the willy one, recently
expressed the opinion that "a young fell
low rea ched the age of discretion when
he removed from his walls the pictures OF
actresses and substituted therefor a por-
trait of his wealthy bachelor uncle"
The man who wrote the story about 500
y Russians frosted to death on Lake Bal
: kal and the man who saw the 900 Jap
anese sabered by Russians in Korea could
not meet on the street without winking.
The czarevitch says that the japanese
are pills. They must be Little Early
= Risers.
: Late Foreign News-The Japs ! have
e taken eTorpedovitcI,--Tte Yaboosl1y:; was
/ sunk zyesterday-Ten thousand Japanese
e troops are ato=Yap-The, Russians have
: taken Torpedovitch--rhe 1ahoosky was
e struck a lost mine yesterday and Wen
r down-The Lalapaloosky was dynamitet
Friday. -..
Y. Herbert Casson in the New York Ameri
u can questions whether money making
: pays. The money maker has become to-
= common to be conspicuous. He is NJ
q longer the little tin god of the populace
The more his money has piled up TIL
more his satisfaction has gone down. Hi
friends have changed into flunkeys. III
has neither privacy nor freedom. He ha,
built up a great business organization am
now he finds that he is inside of it ant
II cannot get out.
~ The pains of dyspepsia, are not much 0
: an improvement upon the pains of starry
l. alton. He discovers that wealth does no
- bring security, as most people foolishl
~ imagine. In fact, ne feels as if he wer
lie surrounded by enemies who watch for
II chance to snatch something.
q. This may be true Of some money max
" ers. but what of the money makers VIII
10 find their pleasure in the game itself
i They are the boys who love to see til
Z cards running for them, or who love t
J. foresee the other fellows moves and t
llg surprise them by jumping over into tn
l. king row. If you like games money max
ing is the longest 1iercest and most eX
citing game in the world 1t beats wa
all out and out. And football is merely
5 o'clock tea. ...-'
, If you do not like games, then woe be
is tide you if you try to butt into the none
u making game, because somebody is boun
ls to step on your neck.
ms We regard the money making gam
ne with respect but not with affection. Will
y, the terrific contest and fierce slaughte
V! of the pawns is going all about us W
T. would like to reach into the fray with
no long pole with hook on the end of
CT and drag out enough to buy us ten acre
re IN tho 11nne,. lake with 2 MIG on if and
few fruit trees and berries, and enous
to run it comfortably when there was
bad season s.
And if we can't get this simple littl
1r. pile out? o Well then. We'll worry alon
l'somehow. We alwaysahave! "A. j. r.