The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-12-02
"A String Of Good Stories
AN ARTIST IN oooKRoAoHEs.
.tieaanot tell how tho truth may b,
JSsy the tale ~ sfWAs said to me-"

i ~ say to fsss saidio s
-
AN ARTIST IN cooKRoAoHEs.
ct ONCE fellow artist who had scheme for din
ing free, that worked beautifully for while,'' said
the tall, blase knight of the palette.
ellis quarters full Of cockroaches big they
and looked him while he in the bath tub and fright
ened him. He killed these animals and dried them.
'Then he filed small paper bags with them, and when
he went out to dinner put them in his pocket He always
went to table hoe dinners, where almost anything is
peced to happen
"When he had finished with his soup my friend would
cautiously extract defunct cockroach his little paper
bag in his pocket and drop it in what left He always
left little soup for that purpose drowned
the cockroach if it had been alive.
Then he called furiousy to the waiter Waiter! What
40 you mean by putting cockroaches in my soupq'
The waiter with meek and contrite air would
the and incidentally the cockroach, apologzing
The next course would follow in due time My friend
did the thing with handicapped cocroach in what
was left which generally little enough if the truth
told He would call the waiter and ask the old
indignant question: and again the waiter would retire apollo
giving.
by the time he had finished with his dinner It had been
full of eockoaches that the only thing for the proprietor
to do to beg him hmby to refrain from paying for it
not to speak Of it. and would he the careessness Of
the waiter, etc.,
'Tho he the only guest who found coclroaches
he worked that scheme with for many
became diplomatic at it, egocal and blatant even, he
sure Of himself.
"For instance, at time he happened to want
than plate Of soup He failed therefore drop cock
roach in the FIRST waiting for the second When he had
hed with the second plate he duly fshed out the cock
roach and put in Then he called out to the waiter with
weary and nonchalant air:
Waiter, have had two plates of soup Why only one
cockroachq'
tut waiter gotfoxy He fshed out one Of those old
cocroaches, took it and habue Of the place the cock
roach line to enoologst who compared the two and
found that they not in the class The Jig up
them &c Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- PHILOSOPHY OF RICHES
A PH1LADELPHIAN prasng the late Mary Mapes
| "A Dodge
t.Wise she was, he said, 'sMrs Dodge could
bring herself to that organized charity
only sort that did good She considered organized charity
rather cold She believed in the charity spirit which, she
said best fostered by the Direct personal contact Of
| recipient and giver. r. as~g. sr:zs
'Hence she never refused beggar And defending her
self from my attacks day. she narrated conversation
that she once overheard between two Maryland tamp
! peach plucks
.sTaese peach plucks, they lay under tree on a
| superb afternoon; philosophical.
q1!' bill, said the first why is it that poor people is
always yian help u.s. while folks always turns us
/ down? - -ss< .-~@t@-zs
| ttThe other, with mirthless laugh, replied:
sfThem that don't mind gvin away is the ones that
stays poor'
! 4 NEW AMER1cAN1sM
! uENRY JAMES has made, during his American visit, a
loection of curious phrases and expressons-he calls
At dinner in New York Mr. James, chuckling good
DEAL repeated Amercansm that had that day.
"A philanthropic lady, he said Zone of those ladies
whose delight it to do good paror maid and
! said earnestly:
4 tJane take real interest in your welfare. Now
tell me, there anything serious between you the
grocer's delivery man?'
ssWell am, Jane answered, bushng we are keep
! ing company - 1850
g Excepting company9 Do you by that odd phrase
| that you are betrothed?'
tlsNo ma am, not yet We've only got as far as waist
! ing. ,asel~
| .&"@% STRANGE ENGLISH