The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-29
Peggy Acquires tne Mirror
 Crrze' and IS D-e-e-lighted| Had So Far Escaped the Collectors McrobeSef Respect Went Down Though, At Least Twenty Degrees When We "Jewed' Nice Gentleman of That Denomination.
 Mirrors Lead Variegated But Such
BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE

believes that the little old mirror he brought her belonged to some girl tnmg named Poppeae.
 l suggested Tullia-but Peggy shivered at the idea, because Tullia is not Peggy S favorite in Roman history.
 The collection has grown tremendous ly since that day two months ago when the little furnished mirror became the nucleus.
 There's one from Mexico-with gay bull fight painted on the outside; then there's an Hawaiian mirror trimmed with a cocoanut shell.
 The piece de resistance of the entire collection is dainty Marie Antoinette affair, accompanied by all the "Louis'- up to the very last one.
 Peggy's on the track of an Elizabethan mirror and I heard her inquiring the oth- CT day about Venetian mirrors with can dlesticks In the side.
 There's one danger in collecting mir rors-it simply gets in your blood-and you just can't help buying them to save your life, even if it isn't anything but mere Looking Glass
 The other day my self-respect took a terrible tumble when I went "ProjecKin' round" as the darkies say. with Peggy to acquire a new mirror and she made me help her Jew very nice gentleman of that nationality down from $5 to $2.99 and walk away with his beauti- full little mirror,as if nothing had hap pened.i
 He only let Peggy have 1t, I feel as- sured, because he thought she was going to buy a wonderful bit of hand painted furniture he owned, and she only escaped with the mirror by telling him she would be back the next day to get the furni- ture.
 So, dar; she avoids his place of busf- ness as she would the plague.
 Yesterday we struck a brand new trail.
 We went down near New Marker just below the live Chicken Coops on the curb, until we came to the corner where fruit stand is; then we faced around to the left and followed the smell of fish.
 We'll
 The Mirror Man is around the corner from him.
 He's the Mirror Man to Peggy and me, but his REAL interest in life is Second Hand Stoves.
 You can get perfectly good two burn CT stove for-well, you'll have to go and hear him tell about them, and feign an interest or he won't Jet you sees his beautiful old fashioned mirrors. He keeps them in the back room and the only way we got In was the ceeI duplicity that Peggy resorted to by say ing that the stoves weren't exactly what she wanted and would he show her some others.
 He said he had Charter Oalx' in the back room and so he opened the door and behold-the mirrors! We halted before a gorgeous gold leai frame mirror, 300 years old.
 '"Tant ruth much,' he gabbIed on "Got it with some old furniture down in New Orleans. But this Charter Oak stove"
 ''Pll take it,' said Peggy, pointing tc the stove, '1f you will let me have that ! dear little rose leaf frame mirror. Sure said the willy merchant, "be- cause you have saw the advantages oi the stove l will let you have the mir. TOT" If you start the Mirror Craze, believe me, you'll never be able to stop uptil you have acquired all the different kinds ot mirrors imaginable. I'd very nearly barter the best of my ''F'irst Editions" for Peggy's room full ot | mirrors, particularly that battered piece of Pompeian silver. There's one thing about a mirror thai is very fascinating. It leads such variegated existence but at the same time, such a reflective one-doesnt 1t?