The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-18

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a FATHER will sorrowfully correct his boy when he
"A catches him his first lie, but the angels veil their
faces when father hands in his tax statement
s When the sidewalks get real CLASSY fat man
bark of himself than woman falling
from stepladder in the front paror,
If every man acted as his critic and let other people
alone his life would be rounded and complete that
be standing to the existence of the Knockers
club. s. a1s.. s@$x. gzs$ ss. .l...
We sometimes think that perhaps the patent medicine
development and all this intense and sefsacrifcng med
cal research going may explain the longevity of the
ancient worthless. #.:
There are some married that they will try
TO get the last word =..@x4 #sz :es# go.
A good many Of the Rough Riders Of the Spanish
when they get into trouble apply the president who
ceives numerous letters from the boys every week.
3. This recently from New Mexico r#4 =
& Dear Colonel: I am in heap Of trouble,
II and write to see if you help me out Last
week when shooting at my wife another
lady stepped in range and hit her It was
accident. I wasn't shooting at her at all.
hope you will write to the judge and tell him to
let CO.. s-~r>o~ ,-.s 49, .5~..: H.. j.
Something ought to be done for distinctly
within his rights this victim Of circumstances: "
The Defense Of Mother. The Winfield (Kan Courier
the other day had interesting item chroncg the start
ling fact that certain reputable Winfield lady had just
given birth to her eleventh child the eleventh day Of the
eleventh month The item was simple statement Of fact
but it seemed to dispease MOTHER for she sat down and
nv 8te to the paper "Apologia pro Vita Sua:'' "
want you to understand that these children
all good looking, Of them deformed or
crippled in limbs or head, all Of them have tai
-. ent for music, some Of them very much So
Now in all the twenty-five years have been
raising these children I have never bothered T.
my neghbors with my parcel Of young ones.
Stayed at home most Of the time, kept my house -
and children fairly clean, and attended to my " ""
AFFAIRS more than some of my neghbors
have been doing, you would never have heard "
of me. I am proud of my children, have a clear
b: conscience and hope to hear that last great
@ day, "Well done, thou good and faithful
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Everyone reading this simple and straightforward
Apoogia will argue that mother needs defense either
on the part Of her herself Of another. Was it
the Roman maron who, pointing to her children, proudly
said, sEThese my Jewels So all the defense the Kan
Cornea really needs is the photograph of the family
sepadder of heads sent to the president who burst
wonder and admiration would send in return hearty
Amen and his autograph.
who has brought up good, stout, mean but
solitary kid is sometimes led to think that the mother of
eleven has done time in the Strenuous club but such
is not always the case The solitary little DEVIL find
ing himself the whole thing usually all over mother
and makes trouble in home than an entire family
of en the members Of which very shortly learn that
other bananas the bunch their
comparative nothngness Then in large families the mem
bers played off against another the big girl taking
Of the baby and the nbeween annoying one another
instead Of bullyragging mother - s""~-1' ...s
George Eliot, in beautiful poem, speaking of another
life expressed the hope that she would 'be born little sis
ter there So we, If had way be born the
eighth Of family Of thirteen and grow up and get rich
beyond the dreams of avarce in order mother might
rest her youthful and have all the comforts Of home
duction Of eleven children in twenty-five short active
years. 49, "> s@z>.5 @~.~s ..<.~s A J. R.