The mirror., 1919-10-30
The Month Of November
November woods are bare and still;
November days are clear and bright;
Each noon burns up the mornings chill;
The mornings snow is gone By night.

The mornings snow is gone by night
November one of the months to which the
Romans troubled themselves to give specific
name. The ninth MONTH it was called. for that
was originally its place in the year; and from the
Latin word novem." meaning nine, came the pres
ent name. When two extra months were added,
November became, what is today, the eleventh in
the series, but its name never changed. At one
time the senate offered call it after Tiberus Cae-
sar but he declined the honor
Were You Born This Month
If you were. between the 1st and 22d, your sign.
is Scorpio, the scorpion. People born in this sign
are of pleasant and agreeable nature, sympathetic
and kind hearted. They have strong wills. patience
and acqusitiveness we'll developed are fond of lux
ures but are inclined to be economical. At times
they are headstrong and stubborn, and when their
anger is aroused are furious. They usuully dig
nifed. emotional at times and can be decetful and
treacherous to the last degree if conditions
ducive They are extremely determined and better
fitted for the accumulation of wealth than the
age person. They hest adapted for work
quiring patience and perseverance,; good doc
tors nurses hotel keepers they often hold high
positions in lfe many poets and writers being found
under Scorpios sign
They are inclined to jealousy hold their obli-
cations to friends too lightly and sometimes have
great love of fattery. Unless this latter is under
stood by them they can be fattered to their
doing. The women of this sign fine bousekeep-
but inclined be naggers; and although the
men as rule are not inclined. you sometimes find
them picking at the slightest things at home and
making life miserable for all who in their way.
Their concet such that they find it hard to see
their own faults
In appearance the typical Scorpio person is of
medium height has broad shoulders square full face
dark hair and skin and the lower limbs are apt not
to be symmetrical. They inclined to be corpu-
lent in later life. Their gems topaz. ruby and
agate; their colors, golden brown and black, and
their flower. the chrysanthemum.
If you born in November later than the
22nd. you come under Sagittarius. months
sign.
World War, November, 1918
Nov. 9. Kaiser abd,cated
Nov. 10. Kaiser fled to Holland.
Nov. IL, Germany signed Armistice terms
amounting to unconditional surrender and the war
came to close.
Nov. l5, New German Government appealed to
President Wilson to Germany from starvation
and anarchy.
Nov. l8, President Wilson announced he would
attend opening of Peace Conference.
On November 10. 1862 at the dedication of the
National Cemetery on Cemetary Ridge. the scene of
the Battle of Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln gave to
the ages one of Americas noblest examples of ora
tory
Fourscore and years ago, our fathers
brought forth on this continent new nation con-
ceved in liberty and dedicated in the proposition
that all men are created equal. Now we engag-
ed in great Civil war; testing whether that nation
any nation conceived and dedicated can
long endure We are met on great battlefield of
that We have to dedicate portion of
that field as final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live 1t s al
together fitting and proper that we should do this
But in larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot
consecrate. cannot hallow this ground. The
brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it far above poor power add
detract The world will little note, nor long re-
member, what say here, but it forget
what they did here It ia for the living, rather
to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which
they who<fought here have thus far nobly advan-
ced. 1t is rather for to be here dedicated the
great task remaining before us-that from these
honored dead take increased devotion to that
cause for which they gave the last full of
devotion-that here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain-that this nation.
under God. shall have new birth of freedom-and
that government of the people, by the people. for
the people shall not perish from the EARTH"
When the first winter of Plymouth Colony had
passed, and the corn crop of the second fall was
gathered. Gov Bradford decreed day of thanks.
giving From Plymouth the custom spread to other
colonies.
In 1789 President Washington issued gener-