The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-24

"hen stroDg men drink together.
Yet merely moments consideration will show
that this poetry is not true to nature The poet
rather weakly and to have sat ND until morn
ing would certainly have used him up completely to
say nothing of the drinking excess which he advo-
Gates "double horn," which he calls for so flip
pantly at daybreak would have given the poet wife
day Of it con the morrow
AS rule, ''strong men, are not greeting the
dawn with double horn. They are sound asleep in
their beds, for liquor that hour ruinous on the
constitution. If they greet the dawn at all they
greet it at the furnace For this reason We would
suggest a slight modification of the stanza to read:
COMRADES %n , get good nights sumber,
W the the r1f daVg mus s6 BE shaken oak
Greet the dawn
With the alarm clock on
When strong men shovel coal together.
If this isn't holding the mirror up to nature and
obtaining much clearer reflection, then are de-
ceived to the character of the exercise taken by the
general public at
lady living in the livestock belt heard noise
her porch the other afternoon and on opening the
door walked in. Did she ask the COW to sit
down and take off her horns7 No, she hollered and
out the other door for neighbours boy, who per-
suaded his that she "lagged superfuous' in the
parlor and secured her attendance o'clock pink
bran mash in the neighboring barn. Some people do
not what their cow does.
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An epicure at Fessenden n. D., made some head
cheese this fall. About the time he missed his
pipe and thought that his wife had misaid it in her
eternal housekeeping. When the headcheese was
ready to it discovered it had rather high
flavor and finally the pipe located in the center.
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Willard Dillman of the Minnetonka Record, treat
ing of the problem, "shall man in an elevator re-
his hat when lady enters?'' says that our
a. he nn1v Tho had
the hat problem solved in the only way that ever
be perfectly satisfactory to the exactng feminine.
They refused to hats while there a lady
earth.
The Erie (Kan.) Record has struck on winter The
editor says:
''There is beauty inspiration in an ordi-
cold winter day The trees stripped of their foil
age gaunt and unattractive and the ground dull
and ugly brown, bears hint of the pretty green
covering it has the past summer. No, there's
nothing about this sort Of day to attract the poet
and the artst.''
Perhaps not for the poet, but were you ever in the
coal business9
A town in Kansas named Dexter, boring for oil,
struck hot air we'll The town is now offering a
bonus for balloon plant. we'll like this is well
equipped to be sent to the senate.
Breakfast at Christmastide! Not such bad ideal
The pressure of arising at am. is not so fierce on
you. You see the easement slowly grow glimmering
square before the necessity of connecting with the
cold floor is borne in you. There is in the air.
waited from far below, the faint perfume of
sage. And it is homemade sausage! It sizzles! Sage
is in it and pepper to suit the taste and summer
savory It is not the sausage Of the shops largely
without sizzle in whole link of it. It is sausage
There's baked potato the sde hunk of corn
bread, hunk of ginger bread, cup of Java with real
cream in it and three Jumps of sugar. Connecting
with this and lifting furtively slight lump of daugh
ters Christmas candy sort of benediction a man
feels that things aren't going bad and that he is
prepared to along in sustained and thankful
manner until dinnertde Hold your horses!! We for
got the four buckwheat cakes with crisp holes along
the edges. Tuck these in Immediately following the
sausage and be we thankful!
Breakfast at Christmastide? Well we don 4
knowl! A. J. r.