The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-08-12

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done in such work, for his readers.
Your literary food(?)is pre-digested;
and the natural result is mental afro
ply. But | have digressed from
the original thought of the article.
Books. then, symbolic intellectual
ity in it's highest terms. Lack of
space demands that conioin nv
two following thots on books, viz:
Refinement and Morality. In these
days of soul mates" and "affini-
ties. the man who really loves
books and is possessed of this triune
evidence of that regard;i.e., intell-
ectual development, refinement, of
character and moral life, is, indeed, a
man worthy of a tribute of appreci-
alton, not alone by his son, but by
all right thinking persons. Now. a
word about the apple. take it that
this is not the far famed apple of
that mystical garden of long ago.
else it would be an unhappy sym
Dol to use in eulogy. The apple(?)
of Adamic fame brot civic diserac
domestic discord and expulsion
from the sacred precincts of Eden's
balmy groves; but the apple we are
considering at this time, typifes the
very opposite. In the busy marts
of trade and traffic in yonder city,
midst the teeming hordes of human
kind. on pleasure bent; I see as it
were, man of courtly bearing, be-
nign of countenance, gentle in his
attitude toward others, carrying a
book and eating an apple. IntelI-
ectual refinement and simplicity
personified. The apple. then, is
type of simplicity. The midnight
revelries in cabaret. dance hall and
the house of her whose house is
the way of DEATH" holds for him no
attraction. His domicile may be
an humble cottage in the remote
corner of the city, or it may be an
elegant mansion on a fashionable
boulevard; but wherever situated.
there will be found simplicity, dom
este harmony and refined morals.
Simplicity in our general deport-
ment; in our home life; and, in fact,
all of our attitudes towards, and
associations with. our fellow men.
Included, also, in this idea of sim
plicity, is simple elegance of diction;
J.e., we should not either in speak
ing or writing, poise ourselves on
verbal stills, and give a AZ cent?
meter expression to % calibrs
idea. The individual 80 doing, in
stead of impressing one with his
erudition. does but display his vain
and blatant egotism.
Apples also suggest the idea of
purity. They are cleansing and
heathful; an apple day keeps the
doctor away" They are mild
laxative. gently purging the human
system of accumulated impurities;
hence the symbol of purity of life.
Apples also typify sobriety. While
the unfortunate inebriate is trying
to slake his thirst with the diabolic-
al connections of the brewer and
distiller, the temperate man quietly
enjoys his apple. The apple has
never melted man to commit
crime. The eating of apples
never enlarged the bread line, in
creased the population of penal
institutions, or caused the walls of
insane asylums to reverberate with
the blood curdling shrieks of its. de-
monte inmates.
These are but few of the thots
that are suggested by our subject
title; space forbids the presentation
OF any more. Suffice it to say, my
fellow shut ins," that if you and l
had of been devoted to books and
apples, in their highest terms, we
would now be integers in the prac-
teal arithemetic problems of the
outside world, instead of being, as
we are, reduced to the lowest CON-
Il