The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-06-08
BY BEAU ESPRITA


As dollhouse glass to curb the blushing rose,
While one small sunbeam creeps into my cell,
Unbidden prisoner that might be free
Scoring the bars and penetrates the stone,
To wake my spirit to fresher dawn.
There ever is another glorious dawn
Will break anew acrost the eastern void
To kiss the somber surface of this stone
With warm and loving lips of living rose,
One every morning when a robin free
By his clear song shall wreck the prison cell.
0 futile human thought, that builds cell
To prison God out, while His faith is dawn,
Or make of His abode aught else but free
Such missions truly must be void,
Unheeding that the rootlets of a rose
Can rend apart the toil-raised pile of stone.
My prison cell more be void
OF hope while dawn tint my soul with rose,
Or faith free it from this numbering stone.
(ED1ToR's NoTE:-The sestina is the me plus
ultra of difficulty in form. The six
terminal words must be used in each of the six
sanzas, and in exactly prescribed order. They
must also be used in the middle and at the ends of
the lines of the three-line envo in prescribed po-
ston. The form dates from the thirteenth
century, when it invented by Arnaut Daniel,
Pergatoro," and whom Petrarch called the great
master of love- Kiping's Sestina of a Tramp
Royal is practically the only modern instance of
it's use.-Beau.)
Flattery and Truth: The first is coMMENDA-
TON of anyone else; the second, CONDEMNATION of
the same parties.
Baseball is getting to be much as the theater,
tar-ridden. A team like play. has little drawing
power, however good it may be- unless there is
star in the cast The players feel this and with the
star temporarily out of the lineup their game goes
to pieces. Managers. realizing this, value the
not only for his Individual playing the drawing
power of his name, but for the effect he has upon
his team mates. The baseball scribe is responsible
for this condition of affairs. He was the first to
say: The team played good game, but with
Cobb out of the lineup they had a chance;''
with Speaker in the outfeld, they ought to win
more games than ever before" The fans drink up
this kind of dope, and go to the games prepared
to cheer or to boot, not the playing as SUCH but
the presence absence of the star. An accident
that will get by with Tough luck but wait till
Collins comes up" one day will bring storm of
Kisses and cat calls the next if Collins is not
playing And the most brilliant support behind
bush pitcher will not rouse half the enthusiasm
wakened by any kind of put-out for Alexander
Johnson. And the players feel this. They
may honestly try to play just good baseball
without the with him, but they can't do
it because they do not get the encourage
ment to put the pep into them. 1t would be
good thing for baseball if every sports writer who
starred" any particular player barred from
the parks.
Many mans neighbors will never suspect
that he is living a Christian life until they fail to
find him in the world to which they go.
Any one who does the best he can is doing
Gods work; any who does less, is doing the
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FOR YOUR WRITING TABLE
Remember, o dealer in phrases sonorous,
So daintily chosen, so tunefuy matched,
Though you with the wings of the cherubne DER
The ovum human from which you were