The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1904-03-24
Information Given.

In a recent contribution to The
MIRROR pesky critter las F. NJ. calls
him) under the nom de plume of Pud-
enhead seeks information regarding
the column, "Quips." by Aba Dab. Not
withstanding the fact that he ASSERTS
1T is in no spirit of carping criticism
that ask if there is any meaning to
sQuips,'" and his evident desire to APP
pear sincere in this assertion, the man-
ner in which he goes about seeking
this information plainly indicates his
real object-tO pose as a distinguished
critic. Now this Pudenhead unlike
his namesake 'Pnddin'head Wilson,
who had mania for thumb marks,
and was capable of interpreting them,
too,) seems to take it for granted that
he belongs to the uninitiated, many,
when the chances are he belongs to
the uninitiated few. have been con-
tributing to this paper for some time,
and twice before has some would-b0
critic attempted to fill my pipe and
make me smoke it, only to come to a.
sudden realization of having put the
wrong end of the cigar in his own.
mouth.
1t is evident that Pudenhead is a.
newcomer-that he is not onto the
ropes In fact. Being also. according
to his own words, an uneducated man
l will gladly answer those particular
paragraphs he finds choice enigmas to
his foggy brain.
When men enter here they do not
leave their nicknames at the front
gate, thus took the liberty of making
a word play on parole and Ole, and his
acquaiEtances perhaps found it anus
ing. OF course there are lots of people
fond of butter, but everybody is not.
held at par when they leave here on.
parole. If Pudenhead had been here,
any length of time he would know Of,
a certain writer, who sometimes harps,
| on the subject of hard-luck 6ends and.
poets. Also that some writers of
poetry bear him no ill-will.
In the third paragraph do not use
the word I'VE" editorially. BY "we" I
!, meant the world at large, for whoever
heard quartet (amateur of coursel
that didn't find place for: 81 love Je-
NINA, Jemima loves me, etc." Puden-
head need not exclaim 50 emphatically
that he does not now, nor intend for
f some time to sing the above mentioned
) song, for Pm aware of the difficulties
, that would pop up alongside. Still if
( he is able to sing I'd advise him to join
{ the choir; there some holiday he may
| regale us with: 81 love Jemima, etc"
Q As to the poem "Bebe Bwana," it is
Q really very simple. read in st. Louis
paper a short time ago that Mrs. French
Sheldon had accomplished the feat of
= sailing across and around Lake Chala,
= which is situated at the bottom of a
crater in an extinct volcano in central
!, Africa. The descent is so difficult that
: Sir Henry Johnson,a noted English ex.
. plorer, said, that unless a man had
= wings like bird, or the climbing abili.
. ties of an ape, 1t couldn't be done. And
y no man had ever done it. When Mrs
a Sheldon actually accomplished it, the
g natives proudly proclaimed her as Bebe
, Bwana, which means, woman master
- Pudenhead no doubt is so interested in
- the Far Eastern war, or in the recipes
Il mi, nd Off h0r
sEortcake, that he missed this little
paragraph i'll the big weekly papers
q The writer's of poetry have always
: enjoyed the license of fitting words tt
!. suit their taste in making rhyme, thus
g neatly" would not sound very wei
e with "feat and heat" "She accom-
: plished it neat" (the descent and sail
II ing around the lake) is therefore mo-
! only proper, but also correct, and any
% body with a less muddyfied brain thar
- Pudenhead's would find no fault will
- its construction.
lie Then Pudenhead plays his great cart
s. in the following: do the Icelandi,
Is trumpeter swans, which cry gloriousl!
IF when they pass in full flight overhead
N in the early morning cry, or sing, ono,
only before they die, or is it continu
Gus performance? ask for informa
tion." May ask if Pudenhead sing
or shouts for joy only once before h
- dies, or was it such continuous per
=: Torrance which brought him to thi
= community?
=. l certainly believe that all livin,
craafnrea asnociallv man and bird