River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-04-11
Brief and Breezy

weeps just that way for fun.
Always remember to be gentle
man-unless you are woman.
When things are settled in Mexico
they seem to be the most unsettled.
The adoption of a parcels post
spells progress for the plain people.
Wisconsin acted just as if it had
never heard of either Taft or Roose-
welt.
In voting for bond issues one
may we'll exercise the art of selec-
ton.
The way some women talk is
enough to make a bachelor bald
headed.
After three months of congress
ional philandering the tariff is still
unrevised.
AS long as she carries her age
we'll, a woman isn't much of bur-
den to herself.
Premier Asquith found the coal
situation getting hotter as the fuel
grows scarcer.
If Turkey does not know when it
is defeated Italy will try TO furnish
it with diagram.
If man isn't sufficiently original
to manufacture his own lies he
should stick to the truth.
Now that the empire has declared
the woman suffrage, the women will
fancy China more than ever.
The Pittsburg millionaire who
gave his millions to his sons is the
Champion indulgent father.
In the meantime the base ball en-
thusiasts may study the hits, runs
and errors in the political score.
Needless persons are asked by
the telephone company to take no
tice that beer chip is not a nickel.
Col. Bryan must have hated to
part with that Shall the people
ruler" child adopted by Col. Roose-
welt.
No suffragette has yet grown SO
excited as to announce that she
will throw her Easter bonnet in the
ring.
That Indiana preacher who mar
ried himself will have to hire a
lawyer when it comes to untying
the knot.
About all the Democrats need to
! do is to sit still and watch the split
in the republican ranks as it wild
ems and widens.
If Andrew Carnegie fell so easy
for a Pittsburgh type of beauty
there would have been no holding
him in Baltimore.
What doubtless puzzles Col.
Roosevelt more than anything else
is that President Taft doesn't seem
to get mad about it.
Perhaps it is not that the steam
roller is bigger than usual, but that
people are learning to resent its un-
democratic methods.
The President has never before
been SO assiduously attentive to the
old woodpile. Believes in saving
while the saw works we'll.
Woman suffrage having been vot-
ed down by parliament, British suf
fragettes will not be deprived of
their favorite amusement.
It's a safe bet that the Illinois
Judge who fined his wife had to
stand for the recall of judicial de-
cision when he got home.
Some of the progressive republic
ans while conceding that President
Taft may get nominated are wond-
eriug what he will do with it.
A statistican has discovered that
there are more divorces in April
than in any other month. And yet
house cleaning comes in October.
With disasters on the sea and
land, assassinations, massacres and
unusual crimes. the year 1912 has
acquired a very black record in its
first quarter.
Liverpool, England, has. begun
SIS, 1000, 900 worth of dock improve
ments. That great port realizes
the value of promoting water
borne commerce.
Wiley's suggestion that husbands
should give their wives one-third of
their salaries will be heartily
seconded by those from whom their
wives now promptly grab it all.
A medical journal says that cof-
fee is the cause of MANY divorces.