The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1907-02-15

A woman in Kokomo, Ind, is ask
ing for divorce from her husband be-
cause he can not play poker Many
a patient wife has endured the bonds
of matrimony for years while her hus-
band has been engaged in foolhardy
efforts to learn the game, knowledge of
which would seem necessary, if it is
to be persisted in to the advantage of
the family finances.
A Chicago professor says that
blondes are going to disappear. Now
II there is ice cream around.
A Carnegie hero pawned his medal.
Heroism, it seems, does not keep
man from getting hard up.
Senator Lodge refused recently to
throw away a fresh cigar that he had
lit during an executive session. Was
1t too good, or was he too thrifty?
Senator Money of Mississippi claims
to be the poorest man in the upper
house of Congress. That depends al
together to what kind of poorness he
refers.
Some people thing that because /
am woman, / can be imposed upon"
said Mrs. Hetty. Green. We wish she
would name just one of that kind of
backwoods fools.
Salome, Oscar WiIde's nauseating
opera, has been banished from New
York, but the almost as bad Thaw
case holds the boards to the eXclu-
sion Of pretty nearly everything else.
Governor Swettenham still remains
in Jamaica, and Jamaica protests by
giving itself new shakes.
Dame nature has not in years been
so busy making ice as she has this
winter. But the ice men will put up
the same old short crop" story next
summer. See if they don't.
The space that should have been oc-
cupied in the Congressional Record by
the senate proceedings on the Rday of
Tiiiman's first and last attempted in
cursion into the field of humor is still
an aching void and is certain to re-
main so.
The coldest day in the winter in
Washington, President Roosevelt went
out for long walk After the cold
waves congress has been sending him
since early in December, even zero
temperature outdoors must seem quite
spring like,
Plain old insanity. and not "unwrit-
ten law" is Harry Thaw's defense. 1t
Will serve to-. check some of the no.
toriety that about every chorus girl is
seeking, it will be defense that will
meet the approval of the great mass of
American people.
The Chicago university professor
who calls romantic love in the Ameri-
can family myth has no right to form
a sweeping judgment from his own
limited experience. Not only Is love
not a myth in the American family,
but, in the vast majority Of them, 1t is
a beautiful reality.
Caruso and the other stars Of Mr..
Conried's grand opera company will
sing in st. Paul In April The park
commissioners should sit UP and take
notice and have the monkey house in
order by that time. sgusd1 sfc
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Most people lilseado have atheirE
friends suspect streakoof mysterious
melancholy in them.
Burn your love letters advises
Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Yes burn
them before they burn you.
The buyers are all east after spring
suits and there will soon be a radical
change in the millinery windows.
District Attorney Jerome objects to
defamation of the dead 1t would
seem that defamation of the character
of Stanford White would be a diff
cult thing to do.
A revival in hand painted china
is announced, II the hired girl does
mt 600 if ffrof