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The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
Tail Serves Many Purposes

The question having arisen. "Why
does the cat have taill' the scientists
seem willing to answer it with another
question. "How would the cat look with
out tail?" No one can gainsay the fact
that the tail is valuable ornament. The
cat without one is sorry sight. But there
are those who maintain that the tail serves
the cat as sort of gyroscope, balancing
the body in leaping, says the Popular
Science Monthly. This cannot be wholly
true, for Maux cats get along very we'll
without tails, and rabbits have no use for
them at all. Yet both the Manx cats and
rabbits do LOT of leaping. After all it
looks as if the tail is only an ornament, I'M
less it is a kind of safety valve for expression
in exciting times,
Of course there are instances where the
tail serves some purpose other than that of
art. The monkey finds his useful as a
sort of fifth leg; the horse uses his as fly
swatter, as does the lion, the crocodile uses
his for swimming, as do the seal and the
turtle and other aquatic creatures; and the
rattlesnake uses his for warning enemies.
According to w. D. Matthews of the
American Museum of Natural History, the
tail was necessary organ for the aquatic
and amphibious ancestors from which the
higher animals are descended. When they
took to terrestrial life and to walking on all
fours, the tail became more or less super
huous.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
Pays to Go to Market

To the continental woman, marketing is
both me-halIowed custom and leading
outdoor sport. Europe has always been far
more economical than America, and this
method of careful food purchasing is ons-of
the first aids to economical housekeeping,
according to Niksah. You see what you
are getting, there are always opportunities
to pick up bargains, and there are no de-
livery costs. Marketing by telephone is al
most unknown in Europe outside few big
cities, because the telephone is not nearly
SO much household institution there as
here.
Ioulon market is open every day from
seven O'Clock until noon. If you are a
Toulon housewife of the upper class, you
sally forth about 10 a. M, followed by a
maid with basket or a cord bag to carry
your purchases. If you are not rich enough
to have maid, you carry your own vege-
tables in an embroidered cloth bag swing
ing from your arm. This cloth bag is an
important point, because it marks you as an
independent housewife If you were to
carry basket or cord bag, you would be
taken for somebody's maid.
On either side of the pavement under the
plantains are ranged scores of stalls covered
with drab awnings. Most of the stallkeep-
ers are n-Frenchwomen, Italians,
Corsicans, Spanish. They sell all the vege-
tables known to botany, and delicacies like
mushrooms, snails and ravioli, which is
dish made of macaroni and meat, as WELL
There are booths for the sale of flowers and
medicinal herbs, and chickens and doubt
full looking cuts of meat. The cream of
the custom comes between nine and eleven.
In the last half-hour there is a great bar
gain sale of everything that will not keep
until the next day and the poorer classes
rush the booths to purchase slightly damag-
ed but nourishing goods at ridiculously
low prices.-Ee.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
Nature

The best definition of Nature is perhaps
Mills in his Three Essays on Religion
lective name for all facts, actual and posi-
BILE. or name for the mode, partly known
to us and partly unknown, in which all
things take place. Continuing, Mill says:
The nature of thing means its entire ca
pacity or existing phenomena As soon As
the nature of any given thing is the aggre-
gate of its powers and properties. SO Nature
in the abstract. is the aggregate of the pow
ers and properties of all things
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
Fill Your Empty Head

Fill the lamp or you'll sit in the dark.
Put fresh fuel in your head as fast as you
burn your ideas.
Feed your mind. Hungry horses CAM
60 far; neither will starved brain.
What did you learn last week? The
body will soon waste away without nourish-
ment, so will the intellect.
''Fool days start when school days end. -
Read more, think more and you will ac-
complish more. Look over your shoulder
and count the college men and high school
boys after your position. They know the
latest ways.
How long will your experience outweigh
this efficiency.-Herbert Kaufman.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
Pumping Out Holland

Holland, which, you will remember, is
a land of canals and has for all of its ex-
istence kept up never ending fight against
the enroachments of the sea, has called in
electricity to aid her. In January, 1916.
storms swept from the west, driving the
North Sea into the narrow bottle neck of
Zuyder Zee. Because of simultaneous
wind storm from the North, the pressure be-
came so great that the dikes gave way and
the waterland region of Holland was food
ed. Only the splendid system of inland
dikes and drainage canals, and hastily built
coferdam kept the food from the large
cities. AS it was, the flooded district
reached almost to Amsterdam, and over
three billion gallons of water covered the
land.
The pumping stations had only about one
quarter of the pumping capacity needed,
and in the emergency the Dutch decided to
use electrically-driven centrifugal pumps
stationed in many places throughout the
flooded area. The floods had occurred on
January IA. and, by March 81, the pumps
had been builded, the motors installed, and
the cross-country cables stretched from Am
sterdam, and the work of drainage begun.
By the end of April the polders had been
drained, and, in another month, the lower
lakes were emptied. Thus, modern pumps
and electric motors did in four and one
half month what it took year and half to
do in 1925, when a similar food occurred in
Holland, which, however, covered a much
smaller area.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
Veldt Marks It's DWellers

Before the Boer war there was a saving
current among the Beers of South Africa
that you could always recognize man who
had spent five years on the veldt. This
was a saying no less true then than now,
for the veldt is place of great silence and
Loneliness and it leaves its marks on those
who dwell in it.
The veldt is the great plain of what is
now British South Africa, the limitless,
featureless stretch of prairie dotted with
knobs Of hills that the Beers call kopies,
pierced and gashed by rain-washed gullies
that run their twisting course from horizon
to horizon. The word ''veldt' is closely
allied to the German word for ''world'' or
universe, and the relationship is some
thing more than mere coincidence. To
the man standing in the midst of this plain
it seems to extend in every direction to the
outermost limits of space.
The veldt is without sound or color,
without a striking feature to catch the eye.
A days trek among lows hills covered with
gray grass, plods YEARLY through mile after
mile of the same hills. and ends in dry
valley as like the valley of the morning as
one pea is like another. After few days
of this the travaler wonders if his progress
is not a mere illusion. If he is not returning
day afer day to the same spot.
Now and then the monotony is broken
by some veldt farm, place of exceeding
Loneliness for the exiles who till it. There
will be a farmhouse, barn, kraal, a well
and few huts for the kafirs. To the rail-
road may be distance of anywhere from
20 to 20 miles. Half the year the roads
are impossible. The little community
must be sufficient unto itself. Lie on a
veldt farm is severe test of the inner re-
sources of man or woman.-Er.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
:. Oct RY4
From Or Ercbangss-
Too Late

The roses bloom in the ga1den.
The bees come wooing the flowers,
The air is freighted with fragrance.
Through all the golden hours.
But the hours that were once so gladstone
Filled with love and hope and light
Now stalks with dragging footsteps,
Grim spectres of the night.
The song-bird pipes to its nest-mate,
From his perchiin the old elm tree,
And the theme of his song is Freedom,
\ Which has lost its meaning to me.
And the song he sings so sweetIy,
That has thrilled my heart of yore,
Has its cadence and sweetness shattered.
By the clang of an iron door.
| stand in my cell at even,
And gaze at the western sky,
AS the glorious sunset banners,
Athwart the hill-tops fly.
And the myriad stars of heaven,
Shine down on land and sea,
But see the stars through prison bars.
So what are the stars to me.
The flowers lose all their fragrance
The songs of the birds-untrue
The sunset with all its splendor,
But breaks my heart anew.
For the stars that light the pathway,
To the throne of the God of all,
Are cold, and drear, and fearful,
When they shine on prison wall.
Can it be there is none to remember,
No ear that will stoop to hear,
No hand 60 out in succor,
No heart voice a word of cheer?
While those whom l love are waiting,
With eyes long dimmed by tears,
Hoping waiting watching,
The passing of the years.
Ohio Penitentiary Neps.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20

The Call

Help Tighten the load!
Humanity stumbles ahead on its road,
Urged on o er the deserts, beset by the goad;
Men bend under burdens of hunger and
care
And women must suffer and toll and de-
spair;
Yea, even the children, astray in the strife,
Are bowed by the weight till they weary of
life,
Hank! unto each soul that is hero, not
slave,
How clear sounds the call to arise and be
brave,
Help tighten the load
Help Tighten the load
With all the strength that the heart can
command,
With all of the power of brain and hand,
With wills set to sacrifice, struggle, and
dare,
With love that seeks ever each burden to
share,
With unAagging endeavor that stops not to
ask
The length of the journey, the cost of the
task,
Come, sons of the kingdom! Come, child
rem of God!
And along the dark path by the world S
anguish trod
Help Tighten the load!
Priscilla Leonard, IN The Outlook.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20

old Salt-"Yes, mum; them's memo
war;
Sweet Young Thing-''How interesting!
And what are the little ones just in frontf''
Old Salt-"O, them's just tugs num-
Sweet Young Thing-''O, yes of course;
I've heard of Them"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20

According to the claim of an italian
university professor. radium may be extract
ed from ordinary dew.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
AT TENT | 0 N /!

Inmates are hereby cautioned not to
use the margins of The MIRROR for ad-
dresses of friends or other written
matter. If you wish THE MIRROR sent
to your friends, you are required to
send in their addresses to the Deputy
Warden's Office through your officer.
In this way it will be attended to.
j. j. SULLIVAN
Deputy Warden.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20

An old bachelor says the best pets dogs
come in glass.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20

-Tombstones remind US that the average
man isn't as white as he is sculptured.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20
priantr @fftrials.

- - y
Board of Control
Ralph w. Wheelock. Minneapolis
c r.. vasaly, $50 Little Falls
c ]. Swendsen, St. James
Downer Mullen. Secretary.
Board of Parole
c. E. Vasaly, Chairman
c. S. Reed. Sec'y for Prison
Rev. H. c. Swearingen
H. X. w. Scott, Sec'y for Reformatory
Resident Officials
c. S. Reed Warden
]. ]. Sullivan -- Deputy Warden
]. Backland LIST Asst. Deputy
F. 7. PiculelI 2nd Asst. Deputy
]. A. Humphreys---------- Steward
y. A. Newman
F. A. Whittier State Parole Agent
c. w. Catlin--S upt. of Printing
Miss Ellen Nelson Matron
G. E. Protestant Chaplain
Chas. Corcoran-- Catholic Chaplain
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1917-12-20

You are hereby directed to place
your copy of THE MIRROR at the
foot of your bed on the morning
following the day on which it is
delivered to your cell. Non-com-
pliance with this order will cause
forfeiture of privileges.
j. j. Sullivan,
Deputy Warden.
The evening world., 1917-07-23
FIVE FRIDAYS
A Smile IN EJerY Line

dressed, with her head on her arm.
sleeping tho dead sleep of utter eX-
haustlOu.
The news would be Just as welcome
when she wakcncd OF her own Hc-
cord, and sleep would probably do
her more good for the time being.
When ] came downstairs | saw
Bopp go through the yard, looking
under every bush and into every
gully. l went out TO tell him that
Mrs. Green was located. lie stopped
when he saw mo approaching.
Il see clair has cut you out with
your actress friend" he said. 81 saw
them, arm In arm, on tho beach a
minute ago. There's no use talking,
Monty. you can't seem to hold girls
attention long enough 10 slip n ring
on hor. Why don't you try adycr-
tising in one OF those matrimonial pa
pcrs2"
| made no answer but turned
around abruptly and went back 20
the house. When ! entered, tho tcle-
phone was ringing again. | took OF
tho receiver
Hello" ] said.
"lIcllo." said masculine voice.
81 am a newspaper man, representing
tho Haniman Syndicate. under
stand that you had an earthquake
over there this morning, and that
Mrs Green. the wife OF the President
OF tho First National Bank, made her
escape In an aeroplane dressed IN a
spangled red ball gown. ! want 20
know II have these facts absolutely
correct before p
| carefully lowered the receiver nm -
I'll u hung suspended from tho wires
and tiptoed away from tho telephone
lcltlng him Talk 10 tho empty air
The evening world., 1917-07-23

"Can you explain TO me, Mr. Blaney,
how | happened 10 find myself I'm a
boat, out in tho middle OF the lake,
cap tied under one clr""
Wait a minute, Mrs. Green. Cen
tral Is listening
Il don't care. She alwRys does.
She probably wants 10 know Just as
much as do. What happened? Was
there an earthquake? I remember tho
island was sort Of wabbly and hard
TO walk on"
''No, there wasn't any earthquake"
l answered. I'VE we're fasting, you
remember"
Yes. remember that; but I'm not
any more. Tho first thing | did when
] landed was 20 break into this house
and cook myself can Of baked
beans. It's funny II here wasn't any
earthquake. / remember the floor Of
the house all running in funny little
waves"
I'm afraid our time must be nearly
up" ! suggested, in the hope OF turn
ing the conversation. Central will
cut us Off"
NO, won't" intorposed third
voice, the swcotly professional one Of
the operator Talk all YOU want 10.
There amt anybody waiting for the
line"
Lucille will he very glad to know
that you are slfD,' ! added casually,
as II she had just gone over to a
nolBhbOrH, hoping 90 deceive Central,
She was AFRAID you might get wet"
"Dil Lucille know / was gUing2"
inquired the startled Mrs. Green, who
did not catch on % my acting.
mo, not until after you mad start
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the performance by the thought that
by providing food would win back "a
large share of the favor l had lost
with Lucille.
vida and Upton $. Clair strolled by
while | was wading.
Are you still looking for Mrs
Grccn?" Clair asked, as | tiShed under
water cautiously
mo" / replied shortly; 81 am
teaching pet nsh to swim"
"Nou look as though you were
taking ono of those barefoot cures. 4"
~ didn't know you could cure bare
feet" supplied Vida "IIy the way.
MIR. Blancy does your ring como off
casilyH'
1T would from your hand. DO you
whh 10 wear ~"
"Oh, no, not yct- not until ! am en-
Titled to, You can begin 10 work II
Off, though"
"Did any one call me up on the
telephone" asked Mr.. clair
"Nos," ! said.
"Why didn't you call me?" hs de-
mandcd GROSSLY. Il haven't been far
away"
/ explained I'm words ~ ono syllable
that ] had not called him because |
did not know where he was; had n
sDr0 throat: was under physician Il
orders not 10 call any one; my mother
had trained mo not 20 yell AT strang-
rrs, and besides, | never did any call
ing except on Thursdays,
Vida pointed her nnEor al mo for
shame tho way children do, and led
him away before | could think OF any
thing more.
"Ncd says" shs smiled at mo as
they went on Mp the beach, that
heaven is place where there are no
dramatic critics"
you tell him from me-" I retortNd,
that he knows more about heaven
now than he over Will from actual eX-
porlcncc. Unless" ! added, the girl
ho IL engaged to actually marries
him"
She waved her thanks md troGed
on by the fat magazine mans Side
Yes. I said fat There was something
about him tuai was annDyiusIy fat
possibly uIs intellect
gathered mp my clans Rni went
back o. the house. with criminal
caution / went IN the back way su
that no one would see what ! had
brought, and bu,lt fro in the Ions
unused stove. Then / opened the
CLANS.
THO clam IS noted in literature 'oI
hI, silence. / wish 10 add that 10 ID
not only unC0mmuniCatlye, but po5'-
Srrply uusJriuuic. lie Is a stay-nt'
home. / never met any one 80 rcluc'
taut 20 come forth.
In getting thoso b!valves 10 loosen
up / ruined two hatChets, can
opener, thumb, ana an already
frazllod temper. But they did come
out finally.
II the clam is doggcdly persistent
pu' nae down as pcrsIsteuiIy i0gg"d
/ am No cook, but I knew that those
clans would never DO 20 be eaten ir
their natural state, so I decided tC
give them the star part IN "A bouu.on
Tho other Ingredients were plalr
water and distilled water.
Iu-ru ~oa.', ,"u.sn %; ;ao -
titled water left. 80 / fllcd II up wit,
common or garden variety 4 fev
microbes would undoubtedly make I
moro nourishing Besides, / was anx
The evening world., 1917-07-23
By Frank II. Adams

you have me there" replied.
putting more wood In tho stove. II
never broke or an engagement In my
NE Some one else always broke my
engagements for me"
You mean you were Jilted2"
That's II short. ugly word"
mused. tempted to put him In with
tho CLANS. But twill passage, II
viii serve"
but / am afraid l won't be Tilted"
said Clair thoughtfully. You see, i
am very desirable match"
I'VE THINK you for the implied oom-
pllment" I bowed, and picked up a
picco OF Cordwood
lie went on obviously;
AN my life | have escaped. and
hero on n bleak. inhospitablo island.
whorN there hre only two women, !
am trapped by one Of them"
II take II that you arc engaged 10
Miss Dnnsmore." hazarded
practically" hs rctorted glumly.
"She trapped mo into sort OF a pro-
posal. | didn't know what | was
sRylng."
And she accepted your"
Not yet" no replied: but there Is
no hope. she will | don't suppose
sho has met many men OF culture
among her associates, and | imagine
1 am n novelty to her"
Man" | said admirinRly. you'd
bs novelty TO any girl"
Thank you" said he, hbsently.
"liut what can | do now2"
why" / explained innocently,
when you get on tho mainland you
got "A marriage license. and, unless
you prefer church wedding, / would
suggest that you hunt up the Justice
Of tho Peace and get II over with. /
don't believe In long engagements
mys0lf"
"hut don't want to marry any
one he cried. Il must not sacrifice
my career 10 romance and sentiment.
J belong TO tho world. There must
be way out"
~ you won't want 20 marry Miss
DunmDry why did YOU arouse the
spark ut passion In her innocent
breastf' [ demanded.
II don't know" He writhcd In
mental anguish II didn't dream that
/ was even being agreeable tu her"
Soma women are moro attracted
hy indifference than by attention"
C"mtortod, Others are fascinated by
downright brute violence"
II suppose there must be some
charm about mo that I did not dream
off, hc mused modestly. Don't you
think she could forget mo n she did
not sDa mo for "A long while"
I'm afraid | slghed. that, hay
inE once met you, no girl cooulI ever
forget you"
Come, now" he said sharply, try
ing 10 detect a smile on my face. III
isn't us bad rs that. IL / could get
away ana write her letter saying
that ! had been taken down with
some Illness and could not, as a dying
man. hold her 10 her promise. thar
would solve the difnculty."
(To 30 Continued
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prcliu Dancc Dres. Not Rsi Daps.

I.' HH| Hsrs #"H
".I.f. diversions N...HFH
rF tl..f o. a .fa.H
....f, .r ....I lf.s. coo H.I
v'st fsH..s .f fHs t..f 90 yf.Hf HI
country ... ..s sr attractive part
NJ ono % vss.t pfor.amms t.uaI
sf.Ifo ls r.I u.r .n these ,.
s..us lHt "a |.IHfF q. ts sH.b as D
UHNe tsfIE.f fuF today is no or.
u.f dIrss If,u Iue little Hht .
have shown fs su.tahs and charm.
uF part - the costume A EH
should really have tvo 81 thres
frUrks ~ thIs tyus f.f nH matter huw
pretty one frHUk may bs ~ cannot
sustain its appeal without the varia-
tiun % other fr0eks sheer and
dainty fabrics csn ~ run t0Fethsr ~
hand IN a little while. and consider.
ahls time can bs saved BY emitting
SONS - The finishing details which.
IN frocks % washable and more
practical nature. would be necessary.
For instance. the edge % goods un-
der insertion insets need not OF ne
cesslty be turned and hemmed back.
and seams need not he doubled. and
collars need not bs finished with a
binding a. tho neck. but merely
scwod on IN seam. such laHity I'm
certain finishing details should not
be- interpreted 10 mean that nice nm
lshlnE does not count The neat nm.
lshlng OF parts suon a. the placket.
belt. and fastening % the waist. the
neat turning OF corners. tho even
measurements OF tucks. and the even
placing OF like trimmings arc very
important
A woman should use discrimination
In regard to tho conservation OF her
labor. and thus while saving time 20
mako moro frockH. will not detract
from the general good effect OF any OF
them.
My design to-day would be charm
ing N developed Of strawberry red
chiffon, which. when worn over a
white silk slip, will not appear 80 deep
In color, but Just prettily effective.
Wide filet lace banding is combined
In a way 10 lend an appealing CON
traat, being pieced together To form
tho throo quarter sleeves. which are
attached To "A not foundation, and In
sertsd straight around the hips. An
oval filet medallion 10 the only trim
ming for tho plain front OF the waist,
and five others OF tho same sort are
inserted through tho lower part oi
tho skirt An added trimming quail
ity is achieved by threo narrow bands
Of chiffon applied by hemstitching
which give deeper color note. tc
match that OF the tufk finishing on
the neck Tho waistline IL defined by
a strawberry moire ribbon run
through II casing, and appea ring in the
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ious TO pit something against those
clans
Lucille came downstairs whilo
was In tho kitchen, but she did not
come out where / was.
| heard her asking some one in tho
living room. who left tho telephone
of tho hook?"
There was n mumbled reply in tho
voice OF Capt. Perkins which / dil
not catch. Lucille apparently put tho
receiver back In lts place, because
presently the telephone bell rang and
she answered II.
NO." I heard her say Mr.. CLAIR
IS not here" Then, after II pause.
NO, Miss Dunmore isn't here, either.
VINO shall ! say called? on, You
don't wish them to be notified? Very
we'll"
There was n click as OF tho receiver
being placed on the hook
came In from tho kitchen. Lucille
greeted me pleasantly enough when [
asked her how sho had enjoyed her
nap.
II don't think I've been asleep"
Hho denied. II Just rested. that was
all"
Your mother called up" said.
Called up2" Lucille repeated. How
could Hhe7"
prom Huntington's Island" I OK
plained, and went on 20 tell wat
knew Of Mrs. Green's experience.
Just then Vida broeZoI In with a
'a,lo' ' 1"',IIo'- NJ '''I 10 t'"' Sho
,,i'I, "t'vIS !" NE ~
.oId '""' mo ''nB' P''"Ao' sho
,,iio yo,, ,..,,.. ,,,n
..SoyVu yVu roam want Il.
:, " amy "rl e"'''''' 10 ""''
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r,,,,, rr,, enc Uus ,.,r ~ .'r" SUuI S,,,I
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back TO tie in streamsra ChArtreuae.
canary yellow, tango and Other
such summery oolors are suitable for
this frock. Other suitable fabrics are
Georgetto crepe ana net. The tiny
hat " OF nlst lace made over a wire
frame. the roses at the top OF the
crown In front being centred with the
color OF the dress chiffon. while
dull blue ribbon streamer hangs over
tho shoulder. strawberry chiffon ia
gathered as n facing TO the brin.