The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1902-04-24

conquerors; they forced it upon defenders. It
is natural instinct of mankind, and is the foun-
daton of all society Citizens cooperate in govern
ing municipality, district state. States co,
operate in forming nation and nations in cement
ing alliances to protect themselves against other and
more powerful nations and combinations. Men
crave cooperation of one sort another; and the
only creature that focks alone is the hog who dots
so out of pure hoggishness Just now laboring men
combine and form alliances against capital and capt.
talists against labor but the time is sure to come
when the two will join issue for the common good
of ALL Cooperation is such ruling principle in
mankind that tho it may be checked it can be
halted. individuals may be deprived Of the priv
ilege for the benefit of the state at large single
person may accomplish something; dozen persons
devoting their energies to common end will &C.
complish much more.
The principle of co operation is influencing every
department of human endeavor. It is as noticeable
in the spiritual teachings Of the age in temporal
affairs. The day of asceticism is waning and the
day of action dawning The idea of such abject SUBJ
mission to the will of God as to be but blind worm
submitting bindly to be poked about with stick is
abhorrent to men of the present day. Absolute sub
mission and remuneration are no doubt virtues. but
at best they only negative virtues They
imply no action. It is much more in keeping with
the teachings of Christianity to do something good
than to refrain from doing evil. In the
individual is in cooperation with the will of the
Almighty and in the other is only rendering COM
plete submission to his will like pratopasmic germ
Absolute, unthinking submission leads to
fatalism. The intelligent human being tries to
fathom the why and whereforeof the conditions under
which he exists, and when he comprehends the
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good of the community and race. Life is action
not stagnaon and consists largely in helping others
and receiving help-in cooperation.
WHEN the last generation read of the redoubt-
able "Mrs. General and her theories for training
and developing the mind and morals Of the young
person they probably thought Dickens portrayed the
lady merely to display his ability as carcaturist
Evidently this was not the case for history has
peated itself and the day of papa potatoes poultry
prunes and prism" has returned in blaze of red
ink. Every uptodate Sunday paper now has a
page or two, conducted by some ingenious Mrs.
General, devoted to telling the emancipated dis
ciples of Mrs Gait how to make themselves beauti
full It's lovely graft This drivel is not put forth
for charitable purposes,-the publisher of news
paper is not in the business for his heath-nether
is it but another harmless expression of the desire
to please. It is sign that considerable portion
of feminine America is developing paresis
One of the curses of the twentieth century is
the family hotel' 1t is usually large crystal
structure, furnished with toothpicks and rocking
chairs, in which everybody practices the gentle art
of throwing stones, some family hotelers becoming
very proficient in the recreation. It's reason for
being is to do away with homework, to furnish
business for shyster lawyers, scandals for yellow
journals and idiots to read the beauty prescriptions
of female grafters. Put the most wholesome woman
in family hotel and If she isn't typewriter with
plenty of work at the Office to keep her busy and
make her tired at night in six months she will be
saffron coored hypochondriac with the rocking chair
and toothpick habit; her soul will be diminutive
peashaped affair and it's hundred to that she
will be addicted to the of some face enamel culled
from the Sunday paper. She will be a fly. blown
horror in loose wrapper in the morning and will
CAD aimlessly about during the afternoon. Scandal
and gossip will be meat and drink to her at all
hours of the day Idleness is vice, and the human
being who does not keep busy becomes vicious.
Vice leads to idiocy audience the "beauty pre-
|scription."
Idiocy varies in degree just sound sense does.
Some idiots are loathsome because of their yacuity
some appeal only to your softer side and make you
sorry for them; others are just plain damphools.
The idiot is ridiculous and nothing else, who takes
such stuff as the following clipped from Sunday
paper-as anything but degenerate form of humor:
sAfter practcing little while on the closed vowels
try to combine the m with the open vowels ah and
'aw,' man. NAV While practicing this exercise