The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1918-01-03
THE LOOKER"
Brief Comments and Reflections Anent Timely Topics and
Passing Events Told in Short Paragraphs
By Ham

By Ham.
CR1TlC1sNG New YoRK-From history New York
City subject the both
and foreign writer's Apparently there nothing good in
New York. cosmopoanm the ispeaure of WASH
ngon half when through his character OF
the New York scion of of Oldest
he bewa the of what he pleased to style New
York Golden Age" All bssfu and neverobeforeoen age!
When everything than has been
again. when the shad the Hudson all salmon; and
with respendent wheness instead
melancholy yellow light which the of her
sckening night this
degenerate ethyl would have for New Amsterdam
have existed in this of bissfu ignorance and
simplicity aa the days of childhood TO last
If the of Diedrich ghosty glance New
York the big served far bet
light than when depended the of
tho moon It. wouldn't inconvenience the Cothame particle if
the o strike permanently.
Seventy years of zone of Oldest families
depored of New York. along Enghman
Mr. He had few remarks make about the style of
architecture city
harbor didn't appeal the ondone
piles of smoke and fog backened
masonry However, remarks relieved by the fancy
that architectural monstrosits vision of better
things and all feel deep respect Tor the prophetic
who, decade accurately foretold of
things that would in the This Wells
impression of New York's sky scrapers:
They quite sistby of pied-up packing
outside warehouse. amazed had the resemblance
before really believed for that that
what they were and that presently
thng-palaces places ee bright circumstances and
light and fine living for the OF men,
UNGRArEFu1 REpRoAcH:-It said that is the
ungaeu that untold numbers of
The bitter of all these reproaches
haps contained in Act II AS IT, given
the duke the Forest of Arden
The reproach is strkingly pessimstic:-
Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky!
Thou dost bite nigh
benefits forgot:
Though thou the warp,
Thy sting is not sharp
friend remembered
Hegh no! Sing heigh no, the green holly
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere jolly
sE1rC Occasionally with who
convinced lack sufficient
knowledge ahead in the world The blame for their cond
invariably placed other shoulders than their They
golden their environ
offers Because they missed gann. good education in
youat the of other-the content through
handicapped This viewpoint life doesn't
anything until take
the burden of learning The most famous
sefeducsted Here short list of
learned and used life fullest advantage They
knowledge by studies engaged during darkest
hours.
1Esop he of aryae fame was a hunchback slave.
Homer the early writer's,
a blind beggar
John Bunyan was travelling tinker he wrote THE Pilgrims
Progress" while in jail
Christopher Columbus a sailor, the of
wool-comber.
Charles Dickens labeicker backing factory
BENJAMIN Franklin a printer.
Ben Jonson the great photographers,
stepson of bricklayer
Mohammed founder Of a religion, a shepherd.
Napoleon a 1855; 1904 he
crowned
Cardinal Woey the famous prime minister of Henry Wits
wa the of q butcher.
TRUE
towards many before their deaths;
The valiant new of death but once"
m;. Sbokos
who has with what
supposed death will Shakespeae apho
sn face death without these generally have
behind perhaps tired of the
will face death carelessly without fear with