The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1914-11-26
Every Human Being in This World Has at
Least Something to be Thankful For
A MESSAGE OF GOOD CHEER To All.
Not One Soul Need Feel Discouraged the Cold hus and Concentrations
From Fellow Creatures The Star Of ro Cleans and xnes For You
And Stretching Forth Arms Of Love- Compassion and Good Fellowship
All Who Will Make Determined Effort to Help Themselves
By H. s. Med.

Gazing intently aloft we behol,
unfol.ie,l to our eyes the gllnmerin.
rays of the Star of Hope; a star o
hope for all humanity; IA star of hop,
from which multitude of hands
are outs!relched seeking to assls
all despairIng, human beings I,
arise and begin anew; a star of hope
from which Whispers If mercy, goot
Mlll and love to our fellOwmen, per
:neaIes The air.
Not one soul need feel discourag
Ell 10y the cola rebuffs and conlem
nations from fellow creatures. VIVA
though you have sinned and come
short of The glory of God? Wha
though you are sunk in SIN and
deg radiation? The Star of Hope
CLEANS and twinkles for you, and
will forever stretch forth arms thai
seek to and you. You must he will
ing. however, I" do your share.
Tins is the glorious Thanksgiving
day amt every man should have
something to feel thankful for.
We, of the walled city. PERHAPS,
ind less To I've thankful for than the
majority of people of the outside
world. but boys. remember ,ha;
there are mothers. wives, children
and liz man! Instances, whole fam
lies who have naught to comfort
them, naught TO cheer them aud
some of them have not even a crust
of bread to sal ,siy their hunger, and
sllll most of these poor unfortunates
will say, Gods will he done. We
are thankful that things are not
worse than they are" Could any
thing be more touching than those
cords, spoken as they are from the
very depths of human misery, want
and privaliun?
Perhaps you think that we have
been dreaming. and are penning idle
words; perhaps you have never
been where we have been and so
have rot seen these heart reDdiDe
sights we have seen. On Thanks.
giving day years ago we visited a
few of the wrelche,l tenements that
abound4d in the slu.l" district OF
Chicago. There we saw homes(?)
that pen aud words cannot describe
aud which the eye must see to com
prehend. We Will tell You a little
about one of those homes we visited
We went up four lights of greasy,
rickety stairs. and then stumbled
al, ng III total darkness through a
hallway. the floor of which had been
repaired by mailing any old piece of
board to be had, over the holes, aud
We assure you there were many.
However. after a great deal of
perseverance we managed to l,cale
the door we were seeking, aud
quite by accident at that, for our
feet got tangled up in lot of ruiz
bish that was piled in the hall aud
we plunged heal first against and
thru the door into the room beyond,
creating CONSERVATION among the
occupants. who owing to the alb
seuce of chairs were sealed Oh the
floor or on soap boxes. The room
was about twelve feet square aid
had one window all of which was
boarded up or stopped with rags,
excepting TWO small panes of glass:
nearly third of the plaster WAS
missing from the walls of the room
aud the floor resembled corduroy
road. Over OH one side of the
room three double beds of rough
boards had been constructed, one
above the other, filed with musly
straw. and few rags for cover
ing. A large box served for table
aud tinware cupboard combined:
(Lhere was no china or silver ware)
the stove was warped and cracked
and in lieu of legs of Iron, bricks
were in service. and the stove pipe
had been repaired with wire anu
pieces of old tin cans.
The occupants, Mrs. l. and five
children were clothed in rays. and
the children were entirely devoid OF
shoes and stockings, while Mrs. L +.
could not boas, of PAIR of paten,
l-alhers, for they were patched
with pieces OF rags that had been