The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-17
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e DRIVE IN New York. 1t is a little more elaborate than any we
have yet built and has cost %$5,O00,000. I rang the front
door bell and Charlie came to the door in his shirtsleeves.
Why, hello, old man, come in and see my new house.
1t isn't exactly what we want yet, but Mrs. Schwab thinks
it will do until we can get around to build again."
Passing thru the magnificent openwork bronze doors Of
the main entrance one enters a great hall, with a stained
glass ceiling, which ends in a ceremonial staircase, dividing
to the right and left at a broad landing, with a chapel recess
brilliant with stained glass and furnished with a grand organ.
There is an echo organ on another floor, and the hall skylight
is so arranged that the distant strains can be heard on the
main floor. 49,
The floor is a shining parquet of rare woods, bordered
with delicate mosaics. The woodwork is carved mahogany,
picked out in gold; the walls are covered with soft green
canvas and the ceiling is ivory white. To the left is a splen-
did mantel of Sienna marble. There are lunettes represent
ing "The Renaissance and "Faith and Charity - from the
brush Of Albert Mantelet.
''This looks very cozy,' I remarked critically; 'does
your roof leak?'
"Not yet, - replied Mr.. Schwab, "and the ceiling hasn't
cracked so far as Mrs. Schwab can discover. But darn these
contractors E .
To the right Of the hall, in the front of the building, is
the Louis XVI drawing room, all white enamel and gold,
with a marvellous ceiling nodded in pure white-the center
occupied by a painted alegory Of "Eden''-antique statuary
on the dainty mantel and two tapestries representing Bou-
cheers "Love Message, woven in America by French artisans
from cartoons prepared by Arthur Thomas. It is not a very
large room, and the epoch feeling is preserved strictly, even
IN the specially preserved rugs and curtains and the tapestry
There is not a piece of woodwork in the house, not a rug
or curtain, or dish OF ornament, that was not first drawn on
paper to scale, and in its proper color, before it was made.
ACIOSS LIE Hdll, opposite II QTaWUgfOOn1, Is the main
library, in the style of Henry II, with walnut woodwork, old
red canvas walls, an ivory white ceiling, and a copy of the
famous carved mantel at Fontainebleau which reaches to
the ceiling.
In the rear of the library, facing the south, is the Louis
XIV diningroom. Its old carven mahogany, gided bronze,
antique green marble and dark epoch furniture we'll sets off
five magnificent tapestry panels woven in America from
Louis XIV designs, representing the four seasons and
"Abundance.'
After detecting a Ayspeck on the tapestry panel il. the
d1nlngroom, l offered Mr.. Schwab %$4,5O0,000 for his place,
hut bo ro,JI, u call ,Lo.4 G d. ~ -11 II
together. AS I left, Mr.. Schwab was running the lawnmower
over the greensward Of the front yard and gazing critically up
at the house as he stopped to wipe the honest perspiration
from the brow of toll.
j. W. Park, a patriarch of Balsam Lake, Wis, has been
growing the same whiskers for forty years. For forty win
tiers ice has lodged in Mr.. Parks beard and the zephyrs Of
forty summers have murmured thru its foliage. Ten United
States presidents might have gazed upon Mr.. Parks growth
Of raffia had they seized the time from their arduous duties
and run up to Balsam Lake. Those whiskers have looked
upon Wisconsin as a frontier state and have beheld Gov
ernor La Follettes s mighty commonwealth.
But the winds Of Balsam Lake moan disconsolate, for
Parks has reaped his forty-year crop.
, There was a reaper whose name was Park
And with his razor keen
He rope the whiskered beard at a breath .~
And the hayseed in between.
There is something almost like vandalism in the moving
of a whisker that has grown undisturbed for forty wears.
MIR. Parks friends hardly know him now. re
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The Rev. Samuel B. Lnde, of the First German Baptist
church Of New York, having labored YEARLY in the vineyard
until the heat OF the day, betook himself to Coney island to
bask in the sunshine and drink in the invigorating breath of
the sea. When he became entangled in the 'sbridge crush''
the pastor was smote by Edgar. M. Howell, a drygoods sales
man and knocked over. He had Howell arrested. When the
case came up, the magistrate said to the pastor:
IL should think a man of your cloth would be willing to
show a forglving spirit under the circumstances. The crush
at the bridge is trying to peoples tenpers at all times. I
know all about it. We folks who are up against this strenu-
Gus life every day get used to it, and altho we lose our tenn
pers sometimes, We recover them quickly. There was no need
Tor you two men to get into a personal encounter, but it seems
to me that you should not press this complaint"
The Rev. Mr.. Linde could not see any argument in this
and persisted in his case. Howell was fined 81.
Now the point we wish to make is this, Is not Brother
Lind guilty of heresy? Should he not have turned the other
cheek, when smitten?
A Chicago wife advised her husband to Ego iumn into
the lake and drown himself He took this advice and to
all external appearances is getting a little Of that repose
that was denied him on earth.
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1t is. proposed that the prince of Wales visit Toxic on a.
British ~battleship to confer upon his imperial majesty of
Japan the insignia of the most ancient, noble and puissant
order OF the Garter. And the mikado' socks are not down
at the heel either.
The taking of life is not a cheerful nor an enrolling oc-
cupation, but it is difficult to think that you are making a.
serious mistake when you hit a mosquito. A. J. R.
MILK AND MUSIC,
\AIRY farming approaches nearest to perfection in Swift
- erland, and there the milkmaid with the sweetest voice
commands the highest salary.
The relationship between good singing and good dairy
Work was proved several years ago at a farmers congress at
Interlaken.
At Interlaken, in a milking contest three days long, the
same COWS, MIXED in silence, yielded 200 quarts of milk:
MIXED by maids with fair voices, they yielded 900 quarts of