The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1897-01-07
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Feminine vanity! Gods, hear to these men.
With vanities wild as the world is wide!
Look at the peacock in his pride.

Feminine vanity! Gods, hear to these men,
With vanities wild as the world is wide!
Look at the peacock in his PRIDE
Is it Il hen?
New Orleans Mascot
A man with dyspepsia has no
reason to think he is an authority
on ting.-Mobile (Ala. Item.
It is pretty healthy man who
can read patent medicine almanac
without suddenly discovering that
he is afflicted with about $50 of
the 200 diseases described therein.
st. Louis Humorist.
Up-to-date girls who spell their
names "Lilyan," Mae" ''Nelle. ~.
etc, have imitators among the
young men who sign "Byl."
"Myke" and lynn respectively
La Plata (Col. } Miner.
We borrow lots of trouble un-
necessarily and borrow it often
when we have absolutely no use
for it. It would be better if we
borrowed more good nature. cheer
fulness and those many other
things which make people happy
st. Peter Herald.
There is rich sound to the word
"banquet," suggesting terrapin,.
quail, venison, champagne, spark
ling wit, and that sort of thing.
But it usually means cold chicken
ice water and dull speeches.-Ar-
kansaw Thomas Cat.
School teachers are expected to
sit on their pupils once in while,
but the pedagogues must not SO
far forget themselves as to sit on
their laps, as a New York school
marin did last week and was dis
missed for her indiscretion. Cen
tralia MO- Fireside Guard.
A city paper in telling how to
drink beer says it is better to eat
a little bread before indulging in
the beverage If the claims made
of the extent to which some brew
ers are adulterating beer are half
true, it might not be an extremely
rash course to eat a little more
bread and let some other fellow
drink the beer.-Peck' Sun.
A thief was captured because h.
could not remove his hand quickly
enough from his victims pocket
owing to the large size of the roll
of bills he was trying to steal.
This is an episode that should be
instructive. All men should carry
big rolls of bills hereafter and thus
aid the police in the routing OF
pickpockets. Marlboro (S. c.
Democrat.
A boy OF man who measures his
treatment of others by their treat
ment of him, has no character OF
his own. He will never be KIM:
OF generous or Christian. If he'ia
ever to be a gentleman. he will be
SO in spite Of the boorishness OF
others. If he is to be noble. no.
other boys meanness will change
his nature. Remember this. my
boy. you lower your own self every
time you are guilty of an unworthy
action because some one else Is
Be true to your own self and no
other boy can drag you down.
Unknown.
When the people will learn tn
place more reliance on their OWE
labor and individual efforts to Sc
cure a livelihood and competency
than any aid or opportunities af-
forded by the government. they Will
have done much to solve the econ
omic questions which of late years
have been the nightmare of our
statesmen. He who is Industrious.
frugal and enterprising will become
rich sooner than he who spends
his days theorizing on how the
government should aid him. Fart
bault Pilot.
Do you notice how much the
practice of carrying the hands in
the pocket has been given up
within the last few years? 1t was
never good form, but still you
would often see it. Perhaps the
newsboys are responsible for the
change. Put your hand in your
pocket as you stand for an instant
on the street some day and see if
you don't agree. If you are any
where in the central OF lower por-
ton of the city there will be from