The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-11
With. the Long R0ap.

I'm July 25 ultimo poet wandered by the house Eat
y $40 in the morning, Mr.. Dooley might
plain and by using diplomacy and running him up against
the great glory Of the flowers and keeping the lawn
in dgnifed retirement secured him for gentee literary
Is O'Clock pink breakfast made up Of OF mocha,
glass Of dew shaken from the flowers Sweet Pea Pollen
breakfast food two deseeded raspbees with and
canary egg toasta
The gentle winds of waved the trailing vines
the porch and blew in the open door, the morning sunshine
lay in great yellow patches the floors there blue
mist the distant hills the coal the cellar and all
serenity and great peace f
the breakfast progressed and the conversation turned
to lighter Subjects discussed Brownings poetry and dis
agreed like gentlemen The Poet-atBreakfast Brown
nge and his opponent exBrowninglte. Or course
conclusion reached.
Walking down to the office alone at 1880 the mind
burned the thousands Of better arguments you know
how your best IDEAS like your big fish, usually get away and
soon had the poet who not there completely crushed
Lowry Hill to Fourteenth street spent this solemn
and solitary walk trying condense the argument against
Browning epgram to throw at the poet the next time
he showed poetic foot the heath Finally by laying
violent hands part Of gram some one else had
seen FIRST and hoping that would remember 1t,
turned the following of which Unfortunately proud:
''The birth of Browning, the poet the result Of
unhappy marriage between Dferena Calculus and Cal
.Nope, the of inspired verse;
Wash that good! Don't you wish you had done that
first?
About thousand people have asked if this Of the
paper had been on vacaon No, there is always what
Mrs Darlington would call "a ackass of all trades"
newspaper, usually several of them When member OF
the staff gets SICK Europe has him by
deceased aunt of these jacks Of all trades is called IN
to fill his place until he returns victim is found who
prefers work to farming
Aunt Ems eyes pretty poorly Of late and she
has not been keeping up with the newspapers Sitting at
table the other day with her nephew she heard
parties at the next table talking about tainted money
20 Tainted money! said Aunt En- peerng thru her
glasses 81 had been laying it to that foreign cheese
fine little North Dakota town held sort of fair
last month, which the street parade thing to be
SEEN visitor sends along the OF the parade
Erst the band bearing down hard followed by the
mayor city officials and the president and directors OF
the Turf club portion Of the program made OF these
Features:
Bankers of city; fashionable ladies in autos.
Gentlemen drivers lady drivers, gentlemen equestrians
Draft team in harness. general purpose horses all kinds
horses, standard bred horses
Miscellaneous, anything that wants to be
feature would to be comprehensive enough
to satisfy all desires.
Sioux City prophet Of hoary antiquity who has
been ncarnated again. confesses himself The
Of this Iowa incarnation is George L. Hunt and can
make pretty shrewd guess what that L. ought to stand
for George has the proper bunch OF prophetic
around UNDER beneath and above his face as extensive and
uxuan those Of Aaron Of DID, These whiskers seem to
that George is prophet because all prophets have
whskers Besides this George without honor in his own
country another prophetic mark In fact Mr.. Hunt has
made but very slight dent the heavy maerialistlc
thought of Iowa, the farmers, seemingly being much more
in the crop and not exhibiting
ness about the judgments that George freely foresees for
them When the and the oil and the wine abundant
prophets usually ''on their upper and just now Prov
dence smiling the Iowa farmers crops in way that
makes prophesy about useful telephone in deaf and
dumb institute We would feel sympathy for George
diuS
now parts Of the country to nothing Of
Europe and the antpodes not of them putting
q plea Of "mltiple personality in justification Of this
Flahrcal superabundance. A j. R.