KinSource - Tale of the Week - As The Editor Sees It

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Minnesota Tales

The Lakefield Standard, October 14, 1915, p. 2

As The Editor Sees It

If You See It Differently Write Us

‡ ‡ How It Looks To You ‡ ‡

If you have a boy who is afraid to soil his hands, lead him out into the garden and start him digging. Stand over him and see that he keeps on digging. And when he gets through digging, just hand him an axe and show him the wood pile and let him exercise his muscles there for a few days. Possibly the barn needs a good cleaning out. That will please him and add a little more to his [muscular] development. It may soil his hands, but a little soap and water will do wonders when properly applied. He may not be ardently in love with his jobs, but they will serve to beat a little horse sense into his head and in time he may become a fairly good citizen. The high positions in the commercial world are not filled by men who were afraid to soil their hands in their youth. A dirty face is to be censured, but soiled hands are more often an evidence of manly toil.

Say, dad, don't tell your little girl she is too fussy about her clothes. This is a fussy age, and the fussier the clothes are the more the little one will shine. Every girl is fussy whose parents can afford to provide the fuss, and to refuse to provide your girl with bright feathers is to confess yourself either broke or stingy. Let's hope you are neither the one nor the other.

You are reading this paragraph now becasue you have learned to look for something of value in these columns. Here's something that is worth much to you. What stores have the best goods and at the most reasonable prices in this town? How can you know which stores they are? Watch the ads in this paper for they tell the story. The merchant who spends money in advertising his goods invariably has goods that are worth advertising, and his prices must of necessity be right or he could not afford to call especial attention to them through the public print. Just glue your eye to the ads and you will save time, trouble and money -- especially money.

Was there something in connection with yourself or family that should have been mentioned in the paper last week? The fault of the oversight was more yours than ours. Editorial eyes are popularly supposed to see everything, but they don't -- simply because we are human, after all. Next time anything of the kind occurs just tell us about it at once and you will find us thankful to get it. Our business is to tell other people what takes place in this community and we want you to help us every time you have an opportunity. Tell us about it next time.

We like to see our dignified "city fathers" work. We like to see them hustle around town looking for an opportunity to improve something, to make this a cleaner and more liveable town. It's what we elect them for. There are plenty of opportunities for improvement which have escaped their eagle eyes, which are sadly in need of attention. Of course we can not expect our municipal dads to do everything at once, but we hope they will keep right on scouting around this burg until there is not a thing left undone, nothing of which anyone can complain.