The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1905-10-05
string your overhead trolley wire, in
sulate the wheels and with an ingenious

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string your overhead trolley wire, in
sulate the wheels and with an ingenious
arrangement lately invented, switch
the current back through the motor
and your car will run on any smooth
surface. There were hundreds of other
wonderful inventions, but didn't have
time to even notice them.
In the division of anthropology in
the liberal arts and science building,
if remember rightly, you could OBJ
tain ocular proof as to how your an
cestors, but few generations removed
from the ape, lived, loved, fought and
died. Down through the ages of mans
existence he has left traces of his man
ner of living, gaining food, etc.; and
wise, patient men have gathered to-
gether this evidence for the edification
and education of you and me.
1 find that while have, so to speak,
only touched the high places, / must
omit the rest in order to mention the
mecca of all the thousands every even
ing-the Pike. Entering the Pike you
first encountered the TyroIean village
at the foot of the snowy Alps. Hagen
bach was there, so was the girl who
dances in the lions cage and kicks her
pretty foot in the face of the lion who
snaps his jaws just second too late
and the girl still retains her pretty foot.
There were dozens of shows, all clean;
but some made you feel as cheap as
tho you had been caught voting the
prohibition ticket in Kentucky. Some
were very pretentlous, notably the
Battle of Santiago, real miniature gun
boats, firing real guns and raising a
wonderful noise. This was a thrilling
entertainment and wish 1 had time to
describe it. The Galveston Flood was
very realistic, as was the Boer War.
The story of Creation commenced
when the earth was molten mass and
chaos reigned supreme; the waters
parted and land appeared, then God
said, "let there be light" and light
there was; vegetation then appeared
and finally the crowning finale, Adam
and Eve appear in the Garden, anG
you hear the "This way out please.
The walled city of Jerusalem, com
prising more than eleven acres, was ol
absorbing interest. The Temple o1
Solomon was shown, and the houses
: were said to be exact reproductions Of
those in the sanity city of the dea(
, past. There were some shows that ap
pealed to the baser part of mans ma
ture, but while permitted to go abou
so far they were kept under strict sur
} veillance and not permitted to 60 to-
far.
The first question suggested to {
thinking man by one of these fairs
. "Does it pay?" Is it worth the mil
t lions invested, much of which is los
E when the great buildings are wrecked
Q In my humble judgment it does pay
and grandly too. One can see and un
derstand not only how the people o
his own country live and employ thei
time, but he meets products and manu-
: features of all the nations of the cart
and gains some idea of the lives o
: their subjects, their emotions, amb
tions, etc.
One environment tends to max
man narrow-he grows to feel tha
he is the only New York apple can
the alley of life, all other men ar
, simply measly little sardine can
/ One of these expositions teaches hil
q that he is a mighty small atom in th
s. universe. 1913.
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