The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-09-07
WHERE FROM HERE?
The Password of the Great Army of
Live Wires is: Keep Moving.''
Mr.. L. J. w

times day. 1t you say it hear it less than half
dozen times day you begin to be worried, you fear
you are standing still in your tracks The password
OF the great army of mankind is: Keep moving"
1t you much stutter it when you try to break
into the radiant ranks the door is slammed in your
face. You find yourself standing outside among the
scattered and spineess herds of the Bla Bla. If
that popular ballad: Rock me to Sleep" had been
brot forth and boosted yesterday instead of lot of
yesterdays ago. it would never have got a tumble
No sits in chair now days and rocks for
the mere pleasure of rocking. All that chairs are
used for at the present time is to bounce right in
and right out again. The cry of the multitude is
We're way" The rabidly restless soul is
right You have to work fast if you want to get
by and the faster you work the further you go.
To be strictly up-to-date you change your ad-
dress at least year. Such is sign of prog
ress and of set of wall paper All the poppy
persons Looping from landlord to landlord, stop
ping only long enough route to enjoy brief per-
od of painters and plumbers, Just as soon as
things around the house assume semblance of or
der and it looks as if the priceless play, Home
Sweet Home" would settle down for long run, the
family begins looking around for new place to
light. The old fashioned family used to boast about
how ii had lived the old homestead for nigh onto
three generations. The lilac bushes that grand
mother planted away back in the Dos are now young
trees. The old colonial furniture, dull and red in
the dusk of the old home, was not purchased from
shop dealing Grand Rapids antiques. 1t is strict
ly on the level. And now you know the reason why
the neighbors who come and go with every Spring
and Autumn whisper behind their hands that the
ldfashioned family is dead from the shoulders up
These neghbors who pass in the night are really
surprised to find that the joints of the old fashioned
family do not creak they walk that the women do
not wear basques and that the men are not addicted
to snuff boxes.
Who ever heard of sticking in one spot for
three generations Some people are so slow that
they would not know we bad war with Mexico if
they had not heard a song about it, There are 9TH
people who change their furnitute at every Spring
moving. They get dreadfully tired of seeing the
same old stuff around day after day. they say, and
they have gone right thru from bird s-eye maple to
fumed oak and now they peeved because they
don't know where to go from there.
Restessness has become epidemic. has affected
the great foundation-stone of civilization, the family.
Cupid pays feetng call and then takes wing. Time
when he prolonged his visit to the extent of
honeymoon, but he has become Eighty that there
is no depending him for this brief period.
In at the door and out of the window is the way he
works.
If there is restless above all Others it is
this of matrimony. Travellers drift about
it at random, not knowing whittier they go, nor
caring. Under the lash of restlessness they embark
in an impetrous moment and the next moment they
begin to look out for craft, bound for
other port. The idea is to change the every
little while. to keep going to some different place.
girl gets pale blue party cape and
err is it her very than she is sorry she did OF
decide pink one. If she has pomeranian dog
she secretly longs for Scotch terrier. After per-
suadng her parents to go to the mountains for the
summer, she is terribly disappointed because she did
not choose the seashore.
The young puts in years of hard work
GREETING that he did not study medicine. He pro-
poses to Alice, the girl with the golden hair and do
nestle tastes, and every time he Helen the girl
with the black eyes and the career he wonders he
did not make mistake after all.
Now our rabidy restless throng of humanity
are not contented with what they have or with
what they can get. No matter where they may be
their cry is: Where do go from here?' And
very often their first stop is at some well known no.
tel for dinner. No sooner does the waiter push
the chairs properly forward than the pilot of the
party asks for vote where they should 60 for
coffee and cordials. When the vote is all in and
counted and their station announced interest in the
dinner is promptly abandoned in favor of their next
stopover They spend few minutes over the last
lap of a perfect dinner, but they could not linger