The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-10
With the Long Bo,D
Eye natures walks. shoot folly as it files
Ingenious Cleveland Lady Invents Patent Stair Step
that Registers the Midnight Husband Unless He
Crawls Up the Banisters. a

tn HE Cleveland Plain Dealer tells of stair step in
i vented by a. Cleveland woman. This patent stair
makes her husband register the time he comes IN
at night when he steps on it, AS it can be applied to
any stair hubby is in good deal Of quandary and
may be obliged to crawl up the banisters hand
hand or to climb up the water spout and drop down
into the attic thru the skyght. We once knew a
husband who so terrified lest his wife meet him
the landing that he went home at all until the
next evening. Of course she had forgotten it by
that time. a.. .@%
A very rich is always credited with twice
much he has Everybody thought that Alfred Belt
had hundred million. Russell Sage credited
with the comfortable Their deaths cut
these amounts down half Accused of being
billionaire Mr.. Rockefeller says that he hasn It half
that amount. - ~
Recent hostile activity of the tax assessor in this
town brought to light the fact that large number
of people who live like princes are, if the
known, in debt for the gasoline in their garages It
may be laid down law that man is rich
as he looks to his tax assessor. E~%>@" w."
There is of busy activity for the matri-
monisl club of st. Louis. recent advertisement
A. sslgotice-The Matrimonial club is to have picnic
at Maple Grove next Saturday. Object matrimony.''
Thu object of the Matrimonial club is to give
series of matrimonial picnies and balls to bring the
unmarried element of st. Louis together in
genial, friendly gathering " ...~
Strange it may seem, the Matrimonial club is
the work of the young gentlemen The prospectus
says: r.:
instead Of being permitted to remain at home to
beautify the household for the stronger and add
to the sunshine and happiness of lives, for which
hearts
''Our first attempt to get the willing together
will be at this picnic, and want every unmarried
person to be there wearing their best smiles we'll
as their best clothes. We want to what is the
market.'
~ If a man can attend a function like this and
remain bachelor there is something wrong about him.
s. An ex-eartoonist and a newspaper man, Ralph
Bergengren fails to any wit, fun or art in the
colored supplement- In article in the Atlantic he
despars of the future of the republic because of the
barbarous immortality of the supplements teachings.
The point of view of the supplements he denounces as
very much that of the Spanish inqusition, the cat
captive, joy in catastrophe and physical pain The
policeman always his club. The heels of the
mule always reach innocent stomach. The parent
usually thrashes his offspring the furniture is
smashed clothes ruined pain inflicted the dog.
We are not so bad enjoyment of certain
forms Of catastrophe in picture seem to make out.
man may laugh when he hears that his neighbor is
and contribute dollar gladly to help provide him
with a wooden leg.
Mrs. Katzenj jammer may be overpersuaded by her
two young male offspring against her better judgment
to shoot the chutes, but JOY in the incident is
largely in the righteous vengeance that overtakes
these children of Belia rather than in the unhappy
experience Of the somewhat overWorked lady of Teu
tonic extraction.
AS rule the yellow supplement, like the cheap
melorama, IS highly moral and the hand Of vengeance
falls heavily where it, by all the laws Of ethics should
We peruse the comic supplement- often wishing
it funnier but without any fear for the future
of our glorious country. A. j. r.