The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-06-29

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aforementioned. Circumstances.
such as good easy jobs, or liberal
allowances from parents, are all
that separate them. Take these
away and you have the cheating
trickster of the saloon pool rooms.
Next we have the man who knows
it all. He is another character
who is well known. He fourishes
everywhere, and / am sorry to say
that the jails are full Of such people.
He is one of those persons, that
no matter what you may say he is
always ready to contradict your
statement, or if you ask a question
he can always answer it right off
the handle, make jumps from the
Presidents last message to the lat
est divorce scandal with an ease
that leaves the ordinary person
breathless. He makes remarks
that are considered, by his satellites.
as the essence of wit. Street cor
ners are his home, although he can
generally be found around the ten
cent moving picture shows. Stand
on street corner with him and he
will tell you the past history Of ev-
cry one who passes, embellishing
what little he does know with beau
tiful stories manufactured out of
the whole cloth Of his imagination.
1t does you no good to catch him
in lie, for he will either start out
on a different line of talk, or else
give you another set of elaborate
pipe dreams, explaining his former
statements, that come from the
same place as the originals-his
head.
His picture would not hardly be
complete without mentioning the
habitual cigarette that is to be found
in his fingers or between his lips.
His hat must be set at certain
angle and his trousers turned up
to certain heighth. He thinks
that he is tough, buthe has another
think coming. Although he can
lie to perfection he can seldom
fight, preferring to talk his way
out Of any difficulty that may arise.
He does not like to work but will
if necessity demands it. As arule
he prefers to live at home, still
many Of them can be found around
the cheap boarding houses. He
spends his mornings in bed, get
ting up just in time to 90 down
town again for the evening. If he
is married, as is often the case, his
wife either takes in washing or
works in some factory, while he
stays at home and smokes.
His children generally follow
his footsteps, and the most of them
can be found, in the course Of a
few years, in the orphan asylums,
schools for the feeble minded, and
in the training schools that are
maintained by the state at great
expense to the taxpayers. In
many instances he himself lands
in the tolls, but a prison or work
house sentence does not seem to
affect him.
Next comes the Hypocrite. Act
ually at heart he lis no better than
the ones we have just discussed,
but he labors SO as to keep up APP
pearances, that he generally es-
capes the fate of the others. He is
well described by the man who has
said of him: He will give his
children a nickel to go to bed with
out supper, then, after telling them
that he will give them nice hot
breakfast if they will return it to
him, he puts on his frock coat and
silk hat and passes the plate in
some church." He often puts in
so much time trying to appear
what he is not that he actually
changes, but such occurances are
rare, and deserving of record in
the history of the nation. He
will slap you on the back and after
telling you not to mind, every
thing will come out all right, he
will exert all of the influence that
he can bring to bear to make them
come out all wrong. He lives a
long life, and dies firm in the be-,
lief that by being pious one day in
seven, he has won sure reward in
the hereafter. / hate to think of
the job he'll have when he tries to