The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-05-27

more accessible, especially since the
world has been Informed what Derby
gamblers they are at heart. Perhaps it
will be advisable to clear up miscon-
ception or two, for most theories con-
cerning them are derived from i'll di-
gested recolIections of George LII. and
Ne5uchadnezzar and newspaper gossip
about Edward VII. and John d., the
only 1t is the exceptional monarch
who practises violin concertos while
his capital city is burning; it is by no
means invariably the custom for one of
these individuals to bestow an elevated
Office upon horse. Even if this were
considered good taste, horse might
rule city better. than such tiger as
is occasionally found under republican
governments.
TheIeal prejudice against kings-and
this applies equally to coal tarons, Oil
emperors and knights of the roads
founded on the indisputable fact that
they have something which commuters
and bricklayers have not. Of all the
unpleasant feelings with which man
kind is cursed, none is more so than
the feeling that somebody is taking it
easy while you are working. 1t does
not matter who he is, section boss, own
er of the works or hobo. Against
kings this feeling is carried to an in
tense degree, for although all loyal
subjects of His Majesty are told in
their early youth that the king has to
work real hard, they never honestly be-
lieve it. With president it is different,
because there is always the malignant
satisfaction of pushing him down and
out when his sentence has expired. To
push king down and out is difficult,
and sometimes he pushes first
But, looking back through the vista
of years, we find this old, outworn senti-
ment of loyalty at times very evident
fact. The extraordinary loyalty of the
British to the Stuarts can only be mar
yelled at, for of all the lazy, incompe-
tent wastrels who ever sat on thrones
the Stuarts were the worst. The pas.
sion which Napoleon aroused is more
comprehensive, for the Little Corporal
was every inch a man; but that his
name should have carried Napoleon
I'LL to power is more remarkable.
Tie sentiment of loyalty now wear!
very thin. In spite of daily cheers
anthems, prayers for kings and emper
ors, no civilized people finds them in
dispe elsable to tie scheme of govern
ment. In this respect they differ wide
ly from cabba9es. What we should d.
without kings has besn changed tt
what we have done without them il
many countries. But how we could ex
ist without cabbages has never be Ell
discussed, even with batei breath
There is also prejudice against cab
bages. 1t is little known that Shelle,
once paid compliment to these cal
them not We yetables-these inestimabl
herbs. In his "Lines to An Indian Air,
he distinctly says:
"The wandering airs they faint
On the dark, the silent stream
The champak odors fail
> Like sweet thoughts in dream"
the champak, as is we'll known, bein
an Indian variety of cabbage whic
8 blooms on the first of April.
Chaucer, at the opening of the Cal
q terbury Tales, remarks:
"Whan that Aprille with her shoure
n SCOT
f The droghte of March hath perced t
@ the roo
f Then longen folk to go on pilgrim
: age!
;. To drinken beer and exc to eat cal
t bages
/ which, so far as know, is the enl
y legitimate instance of rhyme to tn
!. word.
a The charming lines of Lovelace,
f 81 could not love thee, dear, SO muc
= Loved not cabbage more"
4 are as familiar as the Omar Fitzgeral
q "book of verses underneath the boug
A head of cabbage, jug of wine an
;. thou
!. In passing to the topic of shoe
q threatened as the second division {
j. this paper, we shall consider la) Shoe
% as Necessaries, Q. g., as footwear {
# articles Of diet (bl Shoes as Luxurie
2 This should prove mo bootless feat.