The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-09
With the Long Bow
Eye natures walks. shoot fony as It files. y
Nights of Music and Poetry at Lake Harriet Undis
turbed by the Dark, Dreadful Ogre that Lives in
the Old Castle in the Great Wood Back of Linden
Hills, ......s .--|
CHUFFING and a chooi

CHUFFING and a chooing is everywhere, roar
II of big machines on the grades, the rockefeller
perfume and much dust in the air, countless
myriads of small bugs and insects ready to give up
their lives if only they may die in the public eye;
the right and the left the simmer of lakes and the
long lines of shore lights reflected in the water above
countless stars at hand the white headstones
of the citys unforgotten dead; and the quiet
water great red moon climbing the sky Hundreds
of boats carry happy people who fight mosquitoes and
dip white hands into the soft water. Spread music
it all and set the night in the heart
of the great mysterious nature of trees and soft
dering airs, and you have Lake Harriet at night
scene grander and more souenticing than the
Tribune's account of the opening night at the Audi
torium
On this summer night of memory and love- how
softly break the crackle of peanut shells and the per-
sisten Of the rackerack boy in his eternal chase
for the everlasting public nickel. ..-.-
Laying aside the tender young lawnmower, and
leaving the weeds of the garden to flourish like the
cedarso Lebanon during wet SPELL we climb into the
great automobile champing its foaming gasoene and
The cucumber PATCH recumbent in the growing twilight,
knows us no more.
The air is full of our graceful form as we hit the
crossings and wonder at the street commissioner Hang
ing to the seat like small boy attached to the hori
zonta bar take the grades slide the tops Of
heaven kissing hills slip thru the cool spaces of beau
tifu valleys skid around the curves like father carving
the duck at Christmastide, until the towers and nina
1ets of Linden Hills appear on the horizon.
On Linden Hills dwels the beautiful fairy princess
beyond in the darksome forest is the Castle Dangerous
of the Great Big Ogre against whom there ought to be
line makes for the lake. To the left the lake, the
music and the dream! So we chuf down the incline
with the sparker shut off, draw up the lakeside and
listen to the music in openeyed dream that all the
world is done with and has universal
ings bank account big large hotel and drawing
compound interest at per cent.
"After the ball is over'' light up the pinnacle
lights abaft the main spanker and dodge all the bug
gies the way home by about two inches. All, this
is pleasure playing tag with Sudden DEATH throw
but surely raising the price of cemetery real estate
And so the evening is over and as we reach home,
Eight the gas and take up the paper moment to
who has been killed during the day and as the canary
awakes and hops down from his perch to refresh
himself with bite of Seed we wonder if it is all true
or just kind of wonderland with all of just shoot
Ing the shoots and whooPing the whoops'
Kansas City went out to chase the tee the links
with the niblets they found large, mildlookng bull
let partakng of the clubs fresh, stubby grass It
exhibit of kind. At this show the bull had been
present by special invitation But he had become tired
of the society game of standing around to be looked at
and had broken away. This explained why he
eating the carpet off the links.
A difference of opinion among the members
Of the golf club the desirabty of driving the
bull from his PASTURE arguing that he should be
excluded, others favorng playing the game around him.
Finally it decided to invite the meat critter to
climb the fence. A member, accompanied by caddy
and bag of clubs, advanced over the lawn and re-
markell
j. Ogden Armours prey lifted his head and shook
It once or twice. uterng the deep meloW OF the from
'sGet out of here! Glong.''
The bull paved the ground with his right fore foot
and his rudder made handsome loop in the ali. The
member of the golf club retired to the veranda ami
wiped his forehead with his handkerchief, remarkng
that he had just the stayed where he
The grass too long anyway
g. Nobody else volunteering to throw the bull the
fence, caddy sent to the cattle show Even
the Of the critter had the utmost difficulty in
persuading him that he was a Taurus non gratus.
Nothing is clearer than that the great game of golf
and the cow do not harmonic in the same pasture
The same is true of any of the COW male relatives.
zr. "A. J. R.