The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-23
TIE MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL,
THE NONPAREJL MAN

TIE NONPAREJL MAN
How Taddy Licked the WaII--A Childish
Habit That Led Little Brother Into a
Very Hot, Peppery Trap Set by Willy
Papa Story for "Parrunts."
Taddy got an idea the other day-the
kid is just old enough to walk around and
to keep in mischief-that it was an agree
able occupation for leisure moment to
run his tongue out and lap off few
yards of red kalsornining and tinting from
the dining room walls. Not knowing what
the ingredients in the kalsomining might
| be, the kalsOminer not having advertised
| it as a health food, Taddy's habit caused
excitement in the house and every at
tempt was made by the old folks to keep
the boy from turning to the wall for nutri-
ment. Among others, his little sister Jane
was set to watch him.
Now Jane and Brother are two "of the
finest in block 5. If anybody living in
| the block thinks blue or discouraged
| thoughts or begins to feel that bankruptcy
/ and the poorhouse are staring him in
the face, he goes over and watches Jane
i and Bro. play a little while and he comes
away full of optimism and joy, convinced
that this is the best possible of worlds.
i So Taddy had to watch his opportunity
! to get a taste of the wall when nobody
! was looking. Everything would be quiet
i about the house and suspicion Of <Taddy' S
intentions would die down, when sudden
Ily the voice Of Jane would ring out in
i the Stiffness:
Mama! Mama! Taddys lickin' the
| wall!!"
i Then there was feminine outcry and
Taddy was forcibly separated from his
banquet Of housewall, plaster and red
kalsomine, and his little wrist slapped for
I disobedience But before you knew it,
there he was again with his little face
plastered against the side Of the room.
Finally Willy Papa took the case. IT
was painfully evident that something
must be done or papa's wall would be
licked bare to the lathing. So Willy Papa
took red pepper-violent, hot, base burn
little paste Of it and applied it to the wal
that was Taddy's favorite buffalo lick.
The next day at morning, when the sur
was shining and the birds singing an6
mating in the branches of the great oal
and when all nature was glad and joyous
| Taddy licked the wall! Alas, yes, Tadd!
licked the wall
, He came running to mama with an ex
preston Of painful interest on his little
features and about foot of little req
tongue hanging out where it was cool
Mama took Taddy to the sink and washed
off the little hot, unruly member AM
since then Taddy has never licked tn
wall.
s There are now 40,264 Daughters Of tn
Revolution. The families of the oil
heroes of '76 must have run largely t
girls.
/ That was the kind of rain that take
] off the ice and snow, pulls the frost out c
| the ground by the roots and dries up tn
:, mud. Get your seeders ready and put !
u a whale of a crop. There's a big war or
j. It is not pleasant to think of a $40, 900
n 900 fire sweeping thru the wholesale dis
trio of Minneapolis. 1t might be well t
see where the new clerk throws his cigar
cite stub.
ia A Florida man tells of an oyster WI
forgot himself in a most disgraceful wa
ly It seems that a flask Of whisky had bee
lg broken and a large Blue Pointer was four
Fe lying in a little pool of liquor, just drur
70 enough to be careless of consequence
!. opening and shutting its shell with
ng, devil may-care air, as If he didn't vail
is anybody a little bit, but was going to
es as riotous as he possibly could. A fe
prohibition shellfsh laid around tt
~ beech and wagged their shells in sorrow
T. full way. s>f's s -
- One of the unpleasantest things that CT
~ happen to an old sea dog is to have h
ship turn turtle" Imagine the hou
-, suddenly turned over on its roof and "
- may get an idea Of the resulting conf
- sion, to say nothing Of the added disco1
~ fort of having the affair occur where. t
,;s water is two miles deep.
n. Editor Pease of Anoka thinks that t
~ students have gone trife too far. ]
- says:
c Every time I read about the fghti
,es scraps occurring between the classes
~ - the state university, my dander gets. l
~ !. and 1 ask why are these students allow
~ to pound each other, and no arrests f.
~ low? Are they any better than other
II They are breakers of the peace and
70 such should feel the force Of the law il
NC as much as any people who indulge
fighting. If the faculty cannot preve
these disgraceful proceedings, then
ler city authorities should step in and put
stop to them. They are a disgrace a
ms everybody knows it."
OF AS long as the boys merely break
- Icollarbones, legs and noses of one anoth
L
-. lessor Ivanoff Of Moscow, in Russia, he
FOR ing opposed certain reforms demanded
the students Of the Fine Arts acaden
found a bomb under his bed and a let
IN sentencing him to death. Those Russi
IN boys just as soon use bomb beft
zen breakfast to pick off q professor as
raj freshman. When we get to that st:
the Of affairs 1t will be time to call out
It artillery.
zen
The Deadwood Pioneer Times comp1a
because some Of the yellow papers play
- the lack Of war news with red headlin
he The PioneerTimes says:
Little scraps with outposts
Now and then shot,
en- Make the mighty battles
TO That are being fought.
ON
80 the little skirmish-
Three men on side
;ate Looms up in tall headlines,
Ifo Seven columns wide.
10y Little bits Of runDors
leld Caught upon the wing,
nor In blood-red printed
De Wars an awful thing. ga 49, r