The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-14
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'Eye natures watks, shoot folly asit nles."
IA Few Judicious Observations Knocking that
Country Life and Putting in Plea for the Pave
nents-Carefu Balance Struck In Favor of the
Rus in Urbe of the Suburbs. @

NM ing city Life and knocking the country over
#fsv the knuckles when sand blast of asphalt
dust sifted in at the windows and settled In gritty
layer the copy paper. Asphalt dust, like emery,
is not recommended by lung specialists for breathing
PURPOSES but if it is all the street commissioner fur
nishes, why then, we breathe it and shut up So we
start all over again to ''knocz' this country life.
Taking pencil in hand to let you know that
we'll and to express the hope that You enjoying
the same great privilege Uncle Pease's Anoka paper
is brought and fevershly tear it from it's wrap
per what is doing There on the editorial page
stands Uncle Pease knocking city life to beat tho
Robhinsdale trolley He says: .-@$
sIive in the big cities in the It you please,
but excuse me. Breathe fetid air, filed with smoke,
with DUST with disease Walk the paved streets with
their ninety and nine distinct odors. Sleep in
where sunlight and good air never enter Ride In
tstreetcars, crowded and bad smelling. None Of this
for me. Give old Anoka with its shaded streets,
where the trees touch each other. Where you
have house, catching every breeze that floats
along. Where you have garden filled with fresh
and toothsome vegetables of every kind. Where all
nature unites in singing songs and praises. Where
every breath you breathe brings strength and healh
That s life, as want it and enjoy it, . e..
( Now, wouldn't that fill you with indignation7
almost any pleasant day when the city is full of
hustle, when life the avenue is round of in.
terest excitement, the naty form Of Uncle Pease
as seen strolng comfortably up Ncoet enjoying the
greeting his numerous friends and acquaint
Here and there he drops into store and drags
out thousand dollars worth Of advertising. When
e is tired Of this gay round Of pleasure uncle goes
home and knocks city life
No, sir, uncle doesn't really think So Turn him
anto his Anoka pasture without any city within
hundred miles, put up the bars and uncle would soon
be nursing a severe case of that lonesome feeling
Why, my goodness, boy, people gravitate together
Because man is social animal! Everybody likes to
bee bustle movement life, things being done, new
Buildings theaters and amusement parks. The noise
lpf the streets Is grander note than the Of
Niagara. After you have been in the country for
few weeks the odor of the streets is a sweeter smell
than you Inhaled from the blossoms of the linden
tree The grand old asphalt dust puts the grit into
your bones. You get your politics ready made at
She corner Cigar store There's music and flirting
Lot Shn laho havra fiaaI hat tho -
city life makes the smile of your best girl at all
perfunctory Is her appetite for ice cream sodas
at all affected by the propnquty of the great
of population.
= Loneyville is located 1872 miles away. Sometimes
the stop there the conductor may step down
and consult his watch officially. After the train has
pulled out you hear the clock tick; also the wood
tick; if the air is STILL the sheep tick and at OILS
pm. the bed tick. The groceries stare you in
the face at the posoice that you noticed there in
1889 Same old postmaster, too. The postmaster g
dog has thrty-two feas than he had in 1889,
however, and Henry j. Hanson has painted his barn.
Otherwise change, not for IS bill.
The library up at the house contains ''The Royal
Path of Life, ''Diary Of Amos LawrenceN and est
Elmo in paper It is restful and the cream
is pretty good and the berries right but we are
now dwelling the other side Of the picture. The
handsomest engraving in the place is at the depot
It is of several and reads 'sLonelvvle to Min
neapols.' It costs you 1896 and is called ticket
to town. What it calls for is quicker and easier than
walking, but contains less exercise. When you use
u ana reach the city, they tax you, and work off
Texas berries you and that has seen better
days, perhaps murder you, but the excitement is
worth it.
Of course Anola isn't Lonelyville It is neat
little CITY, but it is twenty miles away from the Rea
Thing. One of the finest bits of wellbeaten an6
travelled highway we ever made by Uncle
Pease in his hurried rush to get into Minneapolis.
- The ideal thing is what friend Horace @
Flaccus the poet referred to about twenty centurie
ago the in urbe country life in fine ctv Horace
had reference to hundred feet in suburbs will
o cottage on one corner and the rest of lot de