The mirror., 1916-10-26
- P A N T A S G o PES -
PERTINENT POINTS IN THE PANTASCOPE OF
PASSING EVENTS PARAGRAPH
CALLY PORTRAYED
By "Optimo''
An Elegiac Sonnet to A Prison Cell
By "Optino''

o, dreary crypt where joy doth enter never!
Where memory chants a dismal threnody
Through this drear of Gehsemane
With head bowed low in shame, make endeavor
Each demon woven strand of sin to sever;
To gain DER baser self a victory
And free soul from the grim pillory
Of death. where Satan fan would hold
But in the tragic stiffness that awaits
Our sad return, each recurring eve,
We read q solemn message the Fates-
Ideals and treasures lost, II ne'er retrieve
Thy shadows hide all loves, and only hates
And scorn remain-our weary soul to grieve.
Lest we forget" do your Christmas shopping
early
True. "one good turn deserves another" but it
is necessary for someone to take the initiative
The bouquets that one throws at oneself lose
their fragrance in the fetid atmosphere of self
and their beauty fades IN the soaring winds of
bigotry.
The trouble with minds that are capable of
entertaining but one idea at time is, that
often it is erroneous one.
Roumana having engaged herself in the
to emphasize the first syllable of her name?
1t is often 40, that when two or more persons
engage in discussing an absent acquaintance, they
eliminate the first syllable, confnug themselves to
and evidently rejoicing the of tn. two final
syllabes. This of course, is true only of meu!
in Montana so desirous of
exploring early date the mysterious maze of
the great beyond, that he lighted fuse attached
stick Of dynamite and lay down upon it await
developments. They came. Likewise transporta-
ton.
As evidence that full-grown, healthy. robust
ambition ,gnizes boundaries, will swim the
river of Difficulty and leap the hurdles Of Opposi-
ton, cite the of Jersey City hack driver
who, although unable read, announced himself as
candidate for surrogate, which Office provides a sal
ary of $500 year.
In this age of extreme selGshness, it is refresh
ing to have brought to notice instances Of
thoughtfulness of others and of self-sacri6ce for
them.
in point and which stands in
class by itself, that of a girl at North Shields,
France, who, upon learning that by substitution
of healthy eye there is bare possibility of vision
being restored to those who by violence
have lost their sight but whose optic not
fatally impaired, offered submit the removal
of one of her eyes by DR.. Rochon Duvigneaud. he
to it in effort to restore sight to any one Of
the blinded soldiers upon whom he had the
renolest idea that the experiment would prove
successful.
That she was very much in earnest is evidenced
by her statement that she ready to submit to
the operation if there chance in mill
lion its having it's sequence in the of
sight Of the unfOruuates who have become
lost in the land of darkness in the service of their
country.
Aud whether sympathes with the respect
i've belgerents inspire to exclam vIvE
FRANcE!' or DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLEs"
do other than slaud with barred head in the
presence of such maguauimity.
The scientific world will await with much in
terest the ultimate of this venture in the field
IF surgery. TRANSMISSION of blood aud transference
of cutlce have met with marked success, aud if
we may share with others of the impor-
of our five senses, where eventually will be the
limit of benefits possible for person besow
upon another?
But it is not alone the field of science and the
of surgery that is made beneficiary by such
as these: for just surely sunshine follows
storm, as certainly spring succeeds winter. as
just surely every noble action, every great deed
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