The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-10-06
HASH.
From a Scientific, Hygienic, Economic
and Educational Point Of View.


and Educational Point of View.
The editor of The MIRROR has re-
quested me to contribute short pa
per of fifty lines or les" on some topic
of immediate interest to the prisoner.
Revolving in my alleged mind the va
rious subjects that engross the prison
er's thoughts-the Temperance Cues
ton, Convict Sunday Schools, the Pa
role and Graded Systems, ect, etc.
have come to the conclusion that, while
these subjects have their adherents, the
vital and all-impOrtant question of in
terest to the prisoner is, Hash.
Although l have given this subject
considerable thOught-in truth, l may
say l have given it my undivided at
tention thrice week, for great many
years-it is with diffidence that l ap-
proach the subject, for / realize that |
have not the ability to give the result
of my researches in Succlnct manner.
| However, / will throw out few gener-
al observations, with the hope that it
may arouse the dormant faculties of
some unfortunate cOmrade to renewed
interest in the beauty and life-giving
properties of hash; and should it be the
mission of this little paper to re-aWaken
the desire for hygienic knowledge, and
thus cause a CLEAN of light to flash
athwart a darkened life, | shall feel
amply repaid for the severe mental and
physical eXertion expended in the pro-
duction of this article.
The word hash is derived from the
Greek, and signifies something secret;
full of mystery; inexplicable, obscure,
hidden Thus we see the word hash is
peculiarly appropriated may say al
most as peculiar as the substance itself
and none but the illiterate will invite
a friend to dinner by saying, "Come
and eat hash with me-
| shall not attempt to show the rela-
| tive proportion of nutriment contained
in the different articles of food; suffice
it to say that hash is all nutriment.
How else could you account for the
grand physical proportions of the in
mates of this institution, many of them
having a girth measurement Of forty
four inches? Will any one have the
temerity to assert that this phenomenal
abdominal growth is produced alone by
spring water and pure Minnesota
ozone? No, it is hash; hash, cOncOct-
ed brewed, boiled, baked, stewed and
roasted within the walls of the Mime
sofa State Prison.
AS brain food hash stands unri-
vailed. Look at THE PRISON MIRROR.
Nourished and strengthened upon
hash, it has steadily gone upward, step
by step from it's obscure quarters in one
end of shoemaker's cObbling shop un-
til it has reached it's present aerial
quarters overlooking the grand, beauti
| full Lake st. CrOiX, upon whose broad,
placid bosom gracefully floats the pine
log of commerce. From few hundred
copies circulated in the immediate vi
entity. THE MIRROR has increased in
circulation until to-day it is read from
Australia to Alaska, from Hong Kong,
China. to Oshkosh. Wis.
"Despise not the small things of
life" is an excellent motto, and it is ex-
emplified in hash; for, into hash,
everything goes no matter how in
fnitesimal the particle may be, for
nothing in the animal or vegetable
kingdom comes amis in hash. And it
| is this fact that makes it such de-
servedly popular article of diet in all
well-regulated and economically con-
Quoted institutions. S.
"No," said Mrs. De Porque, 1--WE don't
| mind oynoOCa whom if comes tO orr IL