The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1912-02-15
IndictinSs OF The Prison
IThbeGile.
Beau Esprita.

at least SO philosophers tell us; and
/ often they seem to be but too nearly
right. For instance, there is man
working in the shoe factory who
gives away his tobacco and goes
up nearly every day for chewing the
|rag!
/ Did you ever stop to study the
pictures, cover designs, story illus.
trations, and advertisements, that
fill the magazines that come to your
notice? tits fascinating past-time,
much more fascinating than attempt
ing to read the fiction which comes
with them; and many, many times
more instructive and helpful. And
it is surprising how soon one learns
to distinguish the characteristics of
a certain artists work, or the repro
duction of certain periodical.
Could one mistake the story illustra-
tions Of A. B. Wenzell? Or Hol-
lands cover design? Or a Saturday
Evening Posts? And what stories
the pictures tell / noticed one ac-
companying an add in a recently
published magazine-the picture of
a boy about fourteen years Of age
holding in his hands case of razors.
What a story theme! The pride,
the joy, the vanity swelling that
bovish heart at the possession of his
first razors. The furtive shame, in
explicable but yet there; the desire
to conceal them lest the fellows"
guy him. And through all and over
all the firm resolve to use them and
to need to use them soon, lending
the first square lines to the delicatly
rounded face. I don't remember
what article the add was about, it
wasn't razors. Whatever they were
selling, the company which gave
that picture to the public deserved
success. And every magazine is
crowded with such pictures; liber-
al education, verify. Try it some
time, pick out a picture and analyse
it's story; or if you can't do that,
draw up story Of it's conception
and execution; put yourself in the
artists place, as it were, and see how
fascinating the poorest sketch can
be.
He was late getting home and of
course the dinner was cold and the
wife cross. Il suppose she re-
marked sarastically, that an out-of-
town customer came in real late and |
you simply had to be civil to him?"
Nope" he answered, my stenog
forgot her rubbers and it was rain
ing and took her home in taxi"
Whereupon she gave him his even
ing paper at once. not even stopping
to look at the days fashion hint,
and hurried to warm his slippers.
A news item says that Luther
Burbank has found use for his
spinless cactus, the oil from it MAX
ing weather-proof whitewash, and
that negotiations are under way by
which an eastern concern will ac-
quire the right to manufacture this
product. 1t does not say, however, If
the company is in any way connect
ed with the lumber trust; but it may
be, either Wisconsin or Illinois
would be eastern" to Los Angeles, |
where the item is dated.
Nobody has yet answered my
plant as to the pipe and supper. II
guess I'll have to settle down to
smoking one night and eating the
next, unless Chuzzlewit can help
me. The question before the house
is: How to make pipe and supper,
both taken on one night, agree not
to disagree. Suitable reward.
Necessity is the mother of Edi-
SON er- Edison is the invention
mo that's not right. Edison is the
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