The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1907-08-16
A delightful time is reported.

a delightful time is reported.
Eddie Perrin made busi-
ness trip to Rugby the latter
part of last week.
Eve is supposed to have been
the original foolish woman, but
just who the first foolish man
was, history sayeth not. Per
haps Adam was, but no man
ever has in our hearing accus-
ed him of being, and as women,
according to Chas. NJ. Schwab
and others greater than he, do
not count, we are still in dark
ness as to who the first male
candidate for the asylum for
the foolish was. Be that as it
may. There was never one
woman born out of one hund-
red that did not know how to
grow old gracefully, whereas,
not one man out of ten it would
seem has learned this great Sc
cret. Eve, so we are told. ate
of the fruit forbidden, donned
a fig leaf and thereby created
"washday" sewing time"
mending day." etc., and when
these days come around as they
have a habit of doing, Ewes
daughters, as we'll as Adams 8
sons are wont to make caustic
remarks about her folly, but
you never hear them comment
on how foolish it was of Adam
to be persuaded by mere wo-
man into eating that apple, or
how weak minded he was in
the matter of allowing his wife
to crafty her vanity in the
matter of the fig leaf. History
is silent as to what Adam did
while Eve was engaged in
sampling fruit from the tree of
knowledge. He probably did
nothing at all because the gar
den of Eden was not so full of
opportunities for one to make
a fool of himself as this modern
world of ours is. But we are
depressing. What we really
started out to say is: That in
spite of tradition women as
rule have more sense of the
eternal fitness of things than
men. Woman when the sha-
dows begin to fall towards the
east for her, grieves silently.
She breads old age. She search
es for the silver threads that
creep among the gold and pulls
them out in the privacy of her
boudoir, and only her looking
glass knows. She may be most
devout and even pray God to
stay the hand of time, but she
will lie about her age. How
ever she only rebels for time
and then gracefully submits to
the inevitable. She does not
even quote as a rule, that vain
but immortal man who said.
The frosts of years are upon
my head but eternal summer is
within my heart.' She knows
she is old. 1t is a rare thing
to see a woman after she has
reached the age when she is
considered old, making a fool
of herself; but Oh, gentle read
er, how many old fool men do
you meet in a day? mo fool
like an old fool" an old saw
says, and every time we hear
this we think of a man, don't
you. After all we have just
been musing. No man has
been making a fool of himself
in our town that we know of
and we sincerely hope that no
man does.
Because a man, who is the
head of a family, could find no
better business to engage in
than to run after strange god
desses he is wearing a beauti-
fully decorated eye. The de-
sign is unconventional, and the
colors are a beautiful dark blue
and black. Out of respect for
this mans wife, who is as good
as the best, we fail to mention
names.
Two sisters of Hon. Anton
Svensrud from Decorah, Iowa.
arrived here on Tuesday for a
visit with their brother, his
wife and Miss Svensrud, Ow-
ing to the modesty of Mr.,
Svensrud and the fact that our
phone would not work we did
not learn their names.