The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1895-10-03
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The judges of the courts of the City
of Philadelphia have just decided to
wear lawn gowns when on duty, hold
ing court, and each one of them has
been measured for that purpose. This
is piece Of tOmfoolery that could we'll
have been dispensed with in an age,
when there is such general struggle
for simplicity in the administration of
the law, and none of it's unnecessary
garniture.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Some people are friends to you as
long as they can use you as a tool to do
their bidding, but if you assert your
manhood and act with that indepen-
dence which must characterize the pro-
ceedings of every one who is not slave,
their pretended friendship turns to en-
nifty. The fact is their friendship
never was worth picayune. A true
friend would not, if he could, influence
you to deviate from a conscientious
discharge of duty.-Carver Co. News,
A man and his wife quarreed in
Pittsburg over who should sleep on the
front, or outside, of the bed The hus-
band is now in Jail on the charge of as
sault and battery, preferred by his wife,
where he can sleep on either side of the
contracted bed without having his right
questioned by any one. And his wife,
it is presumed, now has both sides of
the bed at home to herself. For the
present, at least, the motto God Bless
Our Home" is probably safe.-Grace-
vile Enterprise.
Young man get off that beer keg
and go to work. Find something use
full to do. The saloon keeper don't care
for your presence there, and in ten years
you will be an absolute damage to him.
Get a move on you now; there is much
you can do in the morning of your man
hood that will bring you JOY and glad
ness in your declining years. Don't sit
there and let the dark and miasmatic
clouds of vice and misery gather around
you. Now is the time to hustle; the
chances are that you can't do it in the
year 190o.-Cannon Falls Beacon.
Give the rich boy chance. If there
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these days it is he. In the first place,
it is not expected he will amount to
anything. It is taken for granted that
he will have no ambition to do any
thing for himself; that he will be con-
tent to spend his fathers money on
cigarettes, walking-sticks and good
clothes; that he will never have any
ambition to excel in business or pro-
fession: that his summers will be de-
voted to tennis and his winters to theater
parties and afternoon calls. Of course,
if he is expected to do these things and
nothing else is required, it is very likely
that these are the things he will do.
The poor boy, on the other hand, has
the stimulus of want, the incentive of
need to work. He is expected to be in
dustrious, to be at the head of his class,
to be enterprising, to be on the outlook
for the main chance and ready to ac
cept responsibilities and important po-
sitions requiring industry, ability and
integrity. He has motive. The result
is that he gets on and in the end be-
comes an important factor in the COM
munity, useful member of society,
man whose life amounts to something.
Think of the advantages he has. We
> are accustomed to talk about the disad-
vantages of humble birth and early
poverty, but those are the very things
which make for success in the end and
start the poor boy on the road to sue
cess. He is expected to amount to
something, and he does. The rich boy
isn't, and he doesn't.
1t is time to give the rich boy
chance. When something is expected
of him and vigorously required, he
will perform it-Minneapolis Journal
It would seem as if in this age life
has become so serious, so crowded with
t duties, that pleasure appears waste OF
| time-the prerogative of trifiers. Now,
{ how can we tighten this weight of seri-
business, and yet keep the earnestness
that is the soul of this age? By gain
) ing a sense of proportion; by feeling,
or rather believing, that laugh is as
! much the inheritance of manhood as
sense of duty, or the altruistic spirit.
If men and women could only be made
= to cultivate wit and love OF fun as
earnestly as they cultivate other gifts,
r believing the world needs them! Pleas
ure is not the correlative of sin; it is