The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1906-12-21

tumn's cider when cold weather shuts
off the drinks.
Well, 1t begins to look as If the
Yankton & Norfolk outfit really meant
business this time.
At the present price Of eggs, town
women are searching for cake recipes
which require none of the elipsoids.
"A sensible person will begin to train
his stomach this week, so that the
Christmas fruit cake won't leave such
a bad effect.
People can always endure good
deal colder weather in their own
homes than they can stand for in any
body else's house.
Now that the turkey dip" dance
has been doomed by the band man
agement, those who never heard of it
will break their necks to find out what
it was.
The governor did ache to take a shot
at the Norfolk hospital and he took
1t. Then he backed down. Now he
admits that the west wing was mighty
we'll built.
Governor Mickey was apparently try
ing to emulate President Roosevelt.
Wholesale criticism may get space in
the newspapers, but the man who gives
the utterance bears a responsibility
which few of the so-called reformers
seem to appreciate, but which is really
grave one.
There is man in Norfolk who is
quoted as saying that he likes to have
certain domestic in the house be-
cause her quiet ways have good in
| fiuence on his wife.
This era of reforming the public
conscience is accompanied by lot of
knocking, done for knockings sake,
which inevitably does damage and
which can have no good end, in the
| first place.
The $1,000 which has been accumu.
lated by the Commercial club would
go long way toward making better
| roads out of Norfolk, and doing other
| things that ought to be done.
The same article of the Commercial
club constitution which provides for
the annual election on the first Friday
of January, also provides for meet
ings at stated dates throughout the
year.
Tastes in boys are keeping up with
the times and toy automobile that
runs creates no more of an impress
sion this year upon a small boy than
stick of striped candy did fifty years
ago.
Wanted-A mascot with ability to
| remove the Sick Hoodoo that has men,
aced The News Office for months, keep
ing one or more members of the force
under its influence practically all the
time. A new deal is needed.
One young man in Norfolk wanted
to know what he could buy as a Christ
| mas gift for his sweetheart, but re-
| fused to ask his sisters advice because
he considered that her Judgment was
so poor with regard to men that it
must be equally poor with regard to
gifts.
The man who is putting out poison
for those fine dogs at Bassett, ought
to get taste of it himself. The cur
dogs will pass up the poison, while
the finer bred animals, with keen nos
es, will smell the stuff block away
and always are the victims.
All the enemies we have, were made
on Monday. No difference how well
we behave on Sunday, we feel like the
Old Harry on Monday. We try to be
a Lovely Character six days of the
week, but can't make it on Monday.
And anyone who will hate a man be-
cause he is cross on Monday, would
hit child.
There is rejoicing in the Sturgeon
family over the return of a lost tur-
key, and the prospects that there will
be feast instead of famine in the
household are good. An ad. in The
News last evening located the turkey
at the home of neighbor, and the bird
is again in the Sturgeon barn awaiting
the holiday festivities.
The great trouble with indscrimi-
nate criticism of things in general is
that the censure is pretty nearly al.
ways nisconstrued. Governor Mickey
didn't intend to do any injustice to
anybody when he took occasion to
criticise construction work on the Nor