Mexico weekly ledger., 1905-02-16
Cottonwood Springs.

for the LEDGER readers but this cold
stuff froze them out and so VIZ had to
pass them ny. It's dreadful cold out
here at present, but the Waverly
guests by budding close up to each
other and keeping the faith and the
simple life have kept tolerably warm
and no deaths have as yetbeen report
ed to us. On the outside OF the LED
GER will be found orr items OF last
week and much other good food for
thought-pure and simple. 1t will
soon be the good old summer time.
David H. Robertson, a follower OF
Scion, it is rumored, will tour the
State in the near future in behalf OF
woman's suffrage. Right here we
want to say that woman's suffrage is
the outcome of the pestiferous howl
ing of leather lunged peruns drinking
spinsters whose desire to wear bifnr-
Gated apparel leads them to squeel for
any privilege that man exercises and
she does not, and when she is accorded
this privilege she Immediately suffers
from an attack OF mental mumps and
becomes strong on nacreous nerve.
"Deity sinks to the rank Of a dirty
duece." She has the brazen positive
ness Of q barking politician and all the
sanctity Of the home is gone. Her
assinine assurance concerning matters
that she knows nothing of Is positive
ly spectacular. She knows less about
what she is doing than q barber does
about Paderewski's hair None Of ii
for Dill.
r. +. Gulick went to Kansas City
Sunday. He was called there by the
serious illness of his daughter, Mrs.
Belfouy.
Mrs. Jacob Berry, west Of here, died
Saturday and was buried Monday.
Woods Matthews is better.
Oscar Bennett. though still poorly,
is much better.
Barney Hooten, after shaking hands
with old friends, has returned to Van
dalia.
Squire Williams says 1t is as cold as
whizzes. We don't know what the
word means but we guess its true.
The Peck Bros. in their own inimit-
able way, entertained their friend,
DR.. Pryor, at a 3 O'Clock dinner Satur-
day.
Our friend, Tom Thumb, in his
| Maple Grove items last week got rath-
er gay, but Thumb is always there
with the goods. If we can make the
deal with Tom we shall put in a patch
of mint on bis farm this ye~ar-proba-
bly, an acre, an acre and a half, or two
acres.
II our index toe was well we would
attend the fancy dress ball at the
Central Hotel and have a rattling
good time. We wish the managers
and all a jolly good time to a fare-you-
well.
City Cemetery Sexton Williams tells
us that In the past month there has
been II interments, IA In the city GEM
etery and 8 in the Catholic.
When the blue birds come again
! Robert B. Hooten will give q fancy
dress ball and all of the elite for miles
around will be there. Already society
is all agog and the ladies are making
their gowns and the gentlemen are
combing and brushing up their whisk-
ers. If you don't come you will not
be there.
We understand that Clubs are being
! denounced and we want to say vi are
with them, the denouncers, and then
some. IL hasn't been over a week ago
that a friend of the writer's lost five
dollars because clubs we're trumps and
n a fit of dependency over the loss Of
this sum repaired to a Budweiserian
studio and proceeded to get beastly
drunk, dontcher no. But this is the
smallest of the evils. In prehistoric
times when there was no civilization
but the fig leaf, clubs were n Of the
greatest factors OF society. No man
went abroad, day or night, that he
did not carry a nicely polished mahog-
any stick covered with good hard
knots. II a neighbor came in the
night to borrow bis friends Aeschylop-
edes Ia domestic animal Of that day
somewhat resembling a cross between
a kangaroo and elephantl he would
probably receive a crack over the hat
with the club for undue intimacy.
When the wife did not prepare the
evening meal of Mastoden hide Hastily
she received a love tap with the club
and in fact, in that day, the club was
most essential. To-day the ''anvil-
chorus" is an up-to-date form Of the
prehistoric club. So 1t would seem
we are in danger of returning to prim-
itive life and the knotted stick. OF
Mores, Oh Temporal, is worn to a whit
tied whisper from ages Of repetition.