The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-10-21
Sound Warnings.

Shake YOURSELF Come to your senses and
to realization of what life is worth? Why?
Some of you think that being in an indus
trial or reform school is hindrance in your
| life, but it isn't. You must think of it as
a period for thought, study, work, ana as
guiding star to your success.
| Some of you idle away your time as
though you have already aspired to the
highest things in life, when in fact you
haven't begun, so reform and get started.
Some pose as particular favorites by call
| ing to their presence number of other boys
and vomiting forth some vile language
which is SO degraded, corrupt and rotten
that it would make our Saviour blush sca let
with shame if he could be here to listen.
Break yourself of this worthless brain
thinking or you can never hope to be any
| thing more than what you ale now.
And some stand before the mirror ca
ressing their pompadour, brushing the dust
from their overall suit, and practicing the
goo goo filtration, when they ought to be
about oiling the old engine that is TO carry
them over life's mountainous way, for they
will find that a few minutes delay has
caused them to be hours late upon arriving
at headquarters, success.
And there are others who devote their
time trying to compete with Charley
Chaplin by telling funny things that cause
laughter, yet they are SO ignorant they
don't know A from Z in the English alpha
bet. Do away with your tommyrot, de-
vote your time to study while you are yet
young.
Aud there is another fellow who wants to
play all the time, and to whom if you men,
ton work his face becomes thunder cloud.
And he is so trifin' and lazy that he would
rather walk backward the remainder of his
life than to take upon himself the duties
and responsibilities of work. Give up play
if it effect your work, for you must learn
that work should be the greatest domineer-
ing habit of life.
Yes, there is the boy who sits in the self
chosen place making sport of the women.
You thoughtless creature, is it possible that
you have forgotten your mother was at one
not far distant time a fair maiden and is
still loving woman. You had better
cease to even harbor such evil thoughts, or
your doom is fixed behind prison walls and
when your lifeless body is carried there from
the inscription on the casket will be: "He
had no respect for his MOTHER
There are boys who say, l will while
away the time by killing pills. Some say
they do it for fun, some say from force of
habit. while some do it because others do it.
Don't do it what ever the cause, for while
you are deveuring in smoke the little cigar
cite, commonly called pill, it is slowly but
surely killing you.
Another kind of boy is noticeable and dis
tinguished for his petty thievery. 1t seems
as though he labors under the delusion that
he was put in these schools to graduate a
professional crook instead of a reformed
for it will lead to adventure and endanger
your life.
Boys let's get busy and fight the great
battle of life and when we have conquered
our enemies by name, as it were: Work,
prayer, honesty, kindness, truth, loyalty,
cheerfulness, study, love and politeness, we
will have attained to the height of our
ambition, success. Nathan Denney.
Cec.e%..,,'c pa~or&