The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-07-14

held the closest attention of his au-
dience. His subject was "The Trag-
edy of Rip Van Wrinkle" He scored
that class of people that is willing
to do as Rip did, "schmoke and
spidt," instead of taking an active
part in the battle of life. Such men
were a detriment to the world, he
held, and were nonentity. They did
not help construct. They spend their
lives in idleness and raising large
families to grow up to be just like
themselves. The lecture was brim
full of good points
Bishop Quayle spoke of the times
in which Washington Irving, the au-
thor of sketch Book" in which Is
the story of Rip Van Wrinkle, lived,
and said that Uncle Sam then was
only promise America has ar
rived now, and is great, beautiful
and gentle It's influence in the
world is so great that it's president
was able to stop the Russo-Japanese
war. Whose soul does not thrill
that he belongs to country whose
whisper will make the guns in far
parts of the world cease to roar"
asked the lecturer.
Selects According to Styles.
A woman selects and wears her
clothing according to the styles, and
consults what the world thinks, but
she does not do this in acquiring a
man. She does not care what 9th
ers think about that. Likewise, we
do not care what Europe thinks of
us, but in the days Of Washington
Irving the people were sensitive as
to the opinion of Europe.
Rip Van Wrinkle did not buy his
wife a dress or spank his children.
If man don't punish his children,
society will have to do it. Some par
ents call their children little dears''
all the time, while the neighbors call
them little good for nothings." The
children must be taught to render
obedience to the law whether they
want to or not
Some people cry over Rip Van
Wrinkle. To cry over a hobo is a
misfit of your tears. Rip was a hobo.
He went around doing nothing. Il
have observed that people who cry
at matinees are pretty hard to get
to cry at funerals" observed the
bishop.
Smoking and splitting are not a
good job to support a family. IF
l was chimney l would smoke"
said the speaker. Some people are
foolish enough to go around showing
other people that they are 1ue
and get nothing for it,
Says Word for America.
The speaker said that he was here
not to slur Rip Van Wrinkle but to
say word for America. To do this,
one must slur man who does moth
ing he said. Rip raised a Roose-
veltian family, but like him, they
were no good What we need is
men who will find places to do some
thing and will do it,
Some people take credit to them
selves because dog takes to them,
but it is just fool dog that does
it. Some dogs have detestable mas
tiers.
Many men are more polite to other
women than to their own wives, but
such a man is rather poor spec
tacle of a gentleman. On the other
hand woman who never COOS at
her own husband but does to other
men is not a very high specimen of a
lady
Bishop Quayle said that lot of
slop is being INDUCED in about the
poor working man." by cheap poll
ticians. 81 deny that any man has
any right to- sympathy because he is
working man. said the divine. eff
he is not a working man he deserves
the opprobrium of the community.
The only thing that keeps many
men from hell is a job. Work is the
saviour of the race. Many men who
are not kept busy with work would
drift to the bad. The trouble with
the hobo is not that there is no
WOlh, UuI IudL lie SlllIhS II.
Men Were Made Useful
Men were not made ornamental,
but useful. The rank and file Of
American men are workers and sup
port their families. 81 would like to
see the day come when the fathers
would support their daughters until
they marry, and their sons until they
go to making house for someone"
said the speaker.
The speaker took rap at social
functions" He said that a man has
no business to put on white gloves
until he becomes a corpse. Work is
not making the people down trodden
and oppressed, and the man who
says that it does is no friend of
America. We are all working men.
(Applause.) 81 hold that Rip Van Win
kle was the foe of all that we hold
best
'The hook worm is getting more
than its due. 1t is more likely spring
fever that afflicts most of the lazy.
Lots of lazy people need daddy,
that is all. A good sound trouncing
would take the hook worm out of
them. A man has no business to
Set-leaye that TO the hens "