The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1896-03-26
" LITERARY NOTES. "

y LITERARY NOTES..
An amusing sketch in the San Fran
cisco Argo,aaut of March 23rd is CA
Matrimonial Jar: The Painful Tale,of
a Husband Who Had Twenty Eight
Hats" The hero is one OF those men
whose wives will not let them throw
anything away lest it prove useful at
some future time, and in this case her
frugal habit gets him into predica
ment that almost ends in Jail.
The April 1McClure's will contain
what is about the first really authOri
tative and direct account yet given of
Professor Roentgen and his discovery
of the cathode rays. Immediately Oh
the announcement of the discovery,
the editors of the magazine cabled Mr..
H. j. w. Dam, of London, to hasten to
Wurzburg, and talk with Professor
Roentgen in his laboratory, and learn
all there was to be learned of the new
marvel in photography. The paper
will be illustrated with portrait of
Professor Roentgen and numerous pho
tographs by the new process. A sup
Elementary article by Cleveland Moff-
EFT will tell what has been done in
America with the cathode rays.
General A. w. Greedy, in considering
"The Personal Side of Washington" in
April Ladies' Home Journal, will bring
to bear interesting light upon him as
son, husband, neighbor, business man,
slave owner, las were nearly all Nlr-
GINA landowners in his day, and
Christian. With respect to the charges
that Washington was neither dutiful
nor loving son, General Greedy will say:
'There seems, indeed, to have been
what may be called an incompatibility
of temperament, arising possibly from
their possessing strong and similar
characters. 1t should be remembered
that Washington's training in the
broad schools of politics and war threw
him not only in contact with the stur-
dy, rough humanity of the frontier,
but also with cultured men of all pro-
LESSONS, while his mothers life was
practically confined to a single Vir-
GINA county. To his mother, whose
material conditions in middle life were,
if anything, superior to those of her
earlier years, it seemed no less than
proper that the Colony of Virginia
should settle pension upon her for
her sons services. and it took Wash
ington's direct influence to prevent
such action being taken by the Vir-
GINA legislature. Nearly every letter
of the mother is a complaint OF the
hard times and the difficulties under
which she exists, the inference being
doubtless conveyed that Washington
was neglectful of her. The determined
old lady, then some eighty years OF
: age. persisted in maintaining an es-
Establishment, and in conducting plan
tation of which she was sole mistress,
and which she could not herself man.
age. At the same time she considered
that her son was banker, who could
be drawn on to make good all def
7 ciencies resulting from thievish over
. seers, bad management, and unfavor-
/ able crop conditions. These drafts
) Washington had met uncomplainingly
for years, and even then sent her the
last money he had in hand. Advis-
ing his mother to lease her estate and
live with one of her children he offered
i. her home at Mount Vernon, but as
5 an honest man and filial son he stated
: clearly the situation and its alterna-
3 tives. In house constantly filled
] with distinguished visitors she must
: either dress daily for dinner, or come
in her ordinary costume (Which it is
: we'll understood was not suited fol
4 company, to the modification of him
: self and his wife, or she must live in
: her own rooms, which would be trying
/ to her. There was no suggestion that
o she should not visit him. On the con
S trary, the letter urged that she should
a live with some of her children, and, il
r che nreferred IT, at Mount Vernon"