Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1910-11-18
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Pen" is the subject of a moving pic
ture film soon to be seen at the pic
ture shows, contrasting the life on
the farm with that in a country print
shop.
This is the sort of story that it is
proposed according to the Pioneer
Press to tell on the moving picture
screens: Two farmers daughters.
beautiful, of course. will wed two
men. This is quite the proper thing.
One of these will be a country editor
and the other will be papa's hired
man. The male portion of the
quartet will then begin Marathon in
the direction of fame and fortune.
Even at moving picture speed a care
full observer can see that the editor is
badly handicapped at the starting line,
but as the race progresses the pictures
will offer some splendid opportunities
for comparison.
/ For instance. the first series of the
scenarios might be expected to show
that the farm hand is as independent
as the average express company.
He doesn't have to write a soulful
obituary over the remains of some
peak headed bloke who caved his
wife's ribs in with a grub stake, nor
keep on display an exhibit of cut plug
profanity that would make the efforts
of a steamboat mate sound like the
applause of a Sunday school conven-
ton. He doesn't have to go into rap
lures over the beauty of an open-faced
bride with a cast of countenance that
would blow out the gas. and he can
say what he dunn pleases about can
didate for Congress, something no
country editor ever dared to do, I'M
less he had just lost the postoffice.
AS the motion picture film unwinds
the fact will be made plain that the
farmer doesn't have to run piano
contest for the most beautiful young
lady in the community, make every
body sore about the winner and then
print a Is cent halftone of the
beauty that looks like a tintype of
, grandma at the age of Is. The
scenarios will show that there is moth
! ing in the farmers curriculum that
obliges him to paint the local soprano
as a heavensent songster, when in
fact she has a voice that would make
a guinea hen weep.
1t will be wildly outraged that
the farmer can sit on his front porch
and lambast the county commissioners
from supper to breakfast. and if the
editor jars a board off the fence in
that direction his appeal for the county
printing will be about as effective as
live broil with tobasco sauce.
Likewise it will be shown that the
farmer can express his opinion of the
new Methodist preacher in firm and
loud voice at the cross roads store
and if the editor ventures to express
the view that the preacher ought to
be chasing currycomb over a milch
cow instead of filling a large room
with thin ozone he will lose subscri-
bers so fast that he won't have the
circulation of cold storage egg.
There will be various other p lures
to demonstrate that the pig is Hreater
than the pen, and, to get back to the
pig, the climax of the scenarios will
show that gentle communion with the
kline is far better than animated con-
verse with an irate subscriber with
fists like premium ham and the dis
position of hvepa. There will be
no doubt in the minds of those who
view the pic. - as to the winner of
the Marathon, regardless of its
.peechless characters.