The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-10-03

the rural school districts, or rather
with the old ideas being rejuvinated,
is Chas. r. Whites story in Sept.
10Th issue of Youths Companion,
when Aunt Jane Spelled Down"
A Kids story you will say, from
the title. Yes, a kids story, good one
and one of the best stories, of any
designation, published this year.
True simplicity is the final test of
all art. modern "cubist" and i'm
pressionist" critics the contrary not
withstanding, and by this test, APP
piled both to the plot and develop
ment, Mr.. Whites story rings true.
There's reason" Gas G. w. Post
will tell you). 1t applies to literature
as we'll as Postum. Read the
Youths Companionand you will soon
see the reason why the best author
tiles on the short-story book write to
the kids paper" for illustrations
when preparing matter on this sub
ject.
The Red Book feature story for
September is Hats by Earl Derr
Biggers. The Scottish Bard said:
"A man is man for a. that" but it
sometimes seems as though when a.
that" has been stripped away there
isn't much man left. If President
Taft should promenade down Penn
sylvania Avenue in a pair of peg top
pants pardon the word in such con-
nection) few people would notice
the man nor respect the office.
Teddy might do it and get away with
it, bat then, Teddy is his own a
that" But this is verging on poll
tics, which is taboo, and any way
Pm writing about hats" The POM
pous Senator who would rescue his
home town from going" the way
Babylon went," and who would de-
fend the grand old constitution"
which was good enough for our ia
TIERS" against foraging Bull Moose
(dear me these eternal politics. cher
ished secret longing for the gay
laughter and music of our modern
hanging gardens-al cherished a
longing to retain his senatorial salary,
and perquisites of the office. This
latter longing was well disguised as
desire to serve the people, mainly
by the type of hat which the Sena-
tor always wore, one Of those Champ
Clark-y affairs which goes so we'll
with pompous dignity. Now. it
takes some chappy to support cou-
pie of cherishes at the same time
without one or the other of them
getting his nanny sooner Of later.
With the Senator it was the former
cherish which got the latter, if may
so speak, and it didn't take the two
of them any surprisingly great while
to get the Senator. To put aside
the Lormerism Is. E. p. Brand ,
the Senator dined at the Palacion
Hotel Ooh shades of Babylon) leaving
his hat, the insignia of his office of
peoples servant, with the hat girl at
the door. Enter our heroine. She
sort of lives on hats, as it were, while
waiting for the hero to turn up,
! which, luckily he does soon after
the Senator has passed into the din
ing room. Casually he drops the
information that he would like to
defeat the Senator for reelection and
that he could do it if it were no, for
the Senator's hat. Business of he
roine to the hero's rescue, (rather
good, eh, what?j She changes the
hat checks so that when the peoples
servant calls for his insignia of office.
he gets dinky little rah! rah! lid
with multi colored streamers in
stead. The people see. The people
laugh. And the Legislature sends a
new Senator to Washington. The
heroine leaves the land of many hats
to care for the hero's private collec-
ton, and the Senator, new ex- is left
to go the way that there Babylon
went," minus his government pay
slip.