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The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-31

Mr.. and Mrs. Jas. Haughton spent
Tuesday in Tupelo.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-31

Mr.. Wilson. of Birmingham, was
in Aberdeen the first of the week.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-10-31

Mrs. J. Boyle Nichols attended
the Dorsey-Nichols wedding in Jack
son this week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-19

gauntlet ones for street wear. and
tops she put with the satin under
skirt. A few scraps q c0lorsd rib
bon. some green lsAvss and Z bit
or two OF silver tin4si wesA uads
into flowers and pressed Eat with ,
warm iron, /Sfhe glove tops we're
covered With envslape folders Of
the satin and wrs1ths Of the tiny
flowers vere put on the flaps. Re-
suit. Il - dainty jewel cases a.
one could want: cost. nothing but
the postage to send them. With the
satin which was left, she made =
few sachets for hat crowns, tack.
Ing them with wool and working q
cross1titehl nosegay II the center.
This girl was not one with clevefer
ideas than many who will read
this article: her necessity simply
helped her through.
It is a very good plan to stick 20
one kind Of gift when making 4
number. for one can get . remnant
Of goods which made up in differ
ent styles. will do for several gifts.
For instance. suppose one decided
to make a number Of table runners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-19

A bolt Of braid IN dull gold. a short
length OF tapestry and q scrap Of
velvet will cost but few dollars,
and from oil Of this can b INSIDE
three d fur stunning covers.
A yard Of wide net will make six
breakfast caps with IL yards, Of
narrow lace to trim them. Picoted
RULES of the net really cost less
than lace. however. and in that
case the net will make three caps,
the other being used for trimming.
Small chiffon flowers. wired but
terfiies and shirred ribbon bow
knots are ways Of trimming.
A luncheon set of cream cOlofed
crash would be very pretty hem
stitched In rose or delft blue
thread. The, luncheon cloth should
have q hem about two inches wide.
and the six napkins may be hem
med wide or narrow to suit the de-
signer. japanese hemstitchins.
which is double hemstitching split.
10 more effective than the regular
kind, and also withstands launder-
ing better. To explain more close
lily. one takes i've or six threads
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-19

Goodness gracious. here comes
christmas again! And most OF W.
IN spite Of our resolutions Of for
nasr years. in spite Of the Society
AZ Prevention Of Useless Giving
Nhieh we have more or less con-
sctously Joined, find that our
GhSistmas lists are about as usual.
A13Ar all. II is hard for those who
have the time and ability to make
attractive gifts to refrain entirely
from their fashioning. And 1t IL
really great fun to see Just how
: fsf one can 80 ON q little outlay
a real money. have in mind one
very clever girl, Who. having NOV
cd to q distant city during the
ysar, found herself rather put to 1t
u make attractive gifts for her
absent friends and relatives. SO
she sat herself down in front OF
her trunk. hauled out an evening
dress which she seldom wore. and
hrUily took the skirt of. This she
pressed and renovated. Then she
rhmfnaged until she found a few
H1trs OF long gloves Of former days.
These she cut on to make new
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-19

whsp making the arst round Of
stftchss:> The second time. instead
Of takjuf up the same threads. one
takes half Of. pne group and half Of
the hsxt. Thus making Z crossed e.
feet. which II very pretty.
I Ordinary button molds which
cost only . few cents q dozen. may
be enaneled in black and combined
with glass heads Of bright color to
make ornamental tassels for win
dow shades or cushions. In case .
long tassel is desired one of wool
may be added to the bottom Of the
molds.
Pincushions which sell for way
up yonder in the shops may be
copied at home by using odd pieces
Of silk and velvet. which arr il
every woman's work basket. Tiny
bows Of velvet ribbon, a. flower or
two or genYgette crepe and designs
Of colored-headed pins are used
with marvellous effect.
Covers for the lower part, Of the
canary's cage are made OF pale
gray china silk bound In black and
tasseled in wool Of bright shades.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
The Animal That Eats
His Bedroom

The muskrat lives in the brown bog, hid
ing carefully in the daytime and coming
out at night to seek food or to build his lit.
tie house. In winter his house is coy, fol
he builds it with passage that enters be-
meath the ice of the pond on the border Of
which he lives. The bitter wind. therefore,
cannot reach him. If he is hungry he can
swim under the ice and find pond lily root:
and other sweet food. Maybe he does no,
need even to wet his fur, for he builds his
house of these very roots and of rushes and
gr asses, so that all he needs to do when
hungry is to turn over and eat his bedroom
door.
Muskrats are sociable creatures. When
they live together, one will warn another Of
approaching danger. They attract atten-
ton by tapping the water with their tails
as they dive out of sight. Alligators like
muskrat flesh and eat it when they can ge,
it. The little animal has other enemies;
the worst of them, being the mink; for the
mink can follow the muskrat into its home.
Worst of all for all muskrats, however, is a
severe winter following a dry fall, because
then the ponds freeze solid, and the little
fellows are either forced out to become the
victim of enemies, or are shut out by the
ice and die of starvation.-SeIected
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
City of Gotham"

''City of Gotham" is nickname of for
eign origin with no particular applicability.
Gotham is the name of an ancient village in
England, whose inhabitants, according to
tradition, once escaped burdensome duty
about to be put upon them by feigning
stupidity. This smart trick in pretending
to be fools gave rise to the expression 'the
wise men of Gotham and the story of
"the three wise men of Gotham who went
to sea in bowl" The name was first ap-
pied to New York city in a humorous
magazine called ''Salmagundi, started in
1907 by Washington Irving and two or
three others, in which they made fun of the
pretentions of some of the "wise men of
Gotham" meaning the New York of that
day. The magazine was read, the fun max
ing approved, and the nickname became
permanent.-SeL.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Home

How brightly glistenlng in the sun
The woodland ivy plays!
While yonder beeches from their banks
Reflect his silver rays.
That sun surveys lovely scene
From softly smiling skies;
And wildly through uunumbered trees
The wind of winter signs:
Now loud, it ,hunders Ger my head,
And now in distance dies.
But give me back my barren hills,
Where colder breezes rise;
Where scarce the scattered, stunted trees
Can yield an answering swell,
But where wilderness of heath
Returns the sound as we'll.
For yonder garden, fair and wide,
With groves of evergreen,
Long winding walks, and borders trim,
And velvet lawns between
Restore to me that little spot,
With grey walls comprised round,
Where knotted grass neglected lies,
And weeds usurp the ground.
Anna Bront
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Took No Chance on Ghosts

There was colored labor outfit in the
S. o. S. engaged in quarry work near a
base port. A few weeks ago, in the course
of opening up some new ground, they dis
covered an old Roman burying ground
with many skeletons, coins and relics. The
find made quite an impression on the minds
of the finders, and there were many specu.
lations as to whether the shades of the de-
parted DICTIONARIES still lowered around in
the vicinity of their last resting place. The
general opinion was that man ought to
be on his guard when out late at night.
About that time the sum of 80 francs
disappeared from the counter of nearby
Y. M. c. A. hut. The captain of this out
fit doesn't know a great deal about class
room psychology, but he has learned lot
about it in the field. He called his outfit
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
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Le0res From Our Poets.
The Boy in France

Stepped in hot haste of the August after
The garden dreams in many-splendored
trance;
The locusts drone long, insistent tune;
And the boy the boys in France.
Down the stone steps, the rose pink phloxes
stand,
Like delicate sculptures, through the breath
less day,
Brilliant yet shadowy, as the bright vague
land;
And the boy-the boys away.
The dogs about the terrace listless lie,
Waiting springing step they used to
We wait. we also-and the days crawl by;
The boy-we miss him so.
Green fields reach over hills to fields of
gold;
Far off the city shimmers, gay but wan;
The radiant scene breathes loneliness un-
told;
The boy-the boy is gone.
Sudden his service flags impetuous story
Flashes bugle note across the flowers;
Sudden the aching loss is pride and glory;
He is in France-he's ours!
Lad of my heart! From all across -your
land
One thought wings to that land of old ro-
nance;
One proud America stretches loving
hand
To the boy-the boy in France,
From Scribner' s
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
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Selected
A Birthday

She's six today! She climbed my knee and
twined her arms about me, so.
And whispered to me joyously: II bel
you, dad, that you don't know
What day this is!' feigned to think,
though we'll knew what she would say,
And slammed surprise when she exclaimed:
'I'm growing up-I'm six today!'
What Sit, when the years come on, that
holds man and makes his heart
To soften toward little child and makes
the tears so quick to srart?
had not noticed it before! l did not
think until today!
Her playroom's strangely silent now, her
parer dollies laid away!
The little finger marks we loved are gone
from off the window sill
Beneath the blossomed apple tree the swing
made is strangely still,
And silence hovers round the house, un-
broken by her childish glee-
She's six today, and growing up! Nc
more little babe to me!
You're six today! Come, kiss your dad
and hug him, too, you little elf,
And romp with him and play with him,
nor ask him why he's not himself!
lust follow him where'er he goes, and LEI
him take your little hand
Don't ask him what he's thinking of-you
wouldn't know or understand!
Let's 60 together down the lane, a-rompine
in your child-heart way
We cannot play like this for long!
You're growing up-you're six today!
John d. Well.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Blizzard in the Country

Sitting, sheeting, lifting, Aeeting,
Drives the fury of the snow,
SwirIing, flying, whirling, dying,
Tossed in madness to and fro.
Pigmy drifts upon the ashes,
Molehill mountains by the door,
Tiny scallops, fairy splashes,
Sprayed upon the kitchen floor.
Chill and moaning, shrill and groaning,
Ratling wind through clacking trees,
Grumbling, growing, mumbling, bowling
Now declining to wheeze.
Hear it mutter through the shutter,
Slide across.the window pane!
Now tits tapping, drumming, rapping
Like blind mans cropping cane.
Sitting. sheeting, lifting, Aeeting,
Sitting, smother, wind and snow;
Swirling, flying, whirling, dying,
Tossed in madness to and fro.
Martha B. Thoma.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
LuSitania

(As the Americans charged with fixed bay
onets at the Battle of Hamel they raised
the cry "Lusitania.
They charged, and high above the fight
Pealed out their battle-cry:
Above the thunder and the fame the echoes
of that fateful name
Were echoed from the sky.
Their bayonets of flashing steel
Grew dark as foemen fell,
Uncheckable they cut their path, and of the
crimson aftermath
Few, few were left to tell.
And they who heard that cry ring out
Shall hear it then again.
And as its accents strike their ears, shall
know, remultiplied, the fears
Of little children slain,
Aye, let it be your battle-call
To consecrate the sword
And bring to many shell-swept field, slow
but inexorably sealed,
The vengeance of the Lord.
-Mo~yies Morris
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
The Origin of Arches

One of the unknown sbenefactors of the
human race is the inventor of the arch. l,
is not found in Assyria or Egypt or any Of
the earle, forms of architecture. The Sar-
aeon is credited with it, owing entirely tc
examples of Moorish art in Spain and
Northern Africa; he is said to have got the
| idea from his horses hoof But the Sara
| Genie arch is re-entering one, and there
fore, accidentally, nnpleasing to the eye.
The best examples are those of the Gate Of
the Sun, at Toledo, Spain, the hundred
arches in the great Cordovan mosque, and
if memory runs true, the great horseshoe
archway in the Mosque of Sultan Hassan,
at Cairo.
Rome was the nrst to use the arch in a
large way. About this there cannot be any
dispute. Before the Christian era the Ro-
mans built triumphal arches. Later they
multiplied them. The Romans, taken BY
and large, were the most progressive people
this earth has known. Solomon's temple
did not get beyond the lintel-stone age; SC
with the doors of Priam's Palace at Troy
las proved by Schliemann); and every one
of the hundred gates of Egyptian Thebe:
had its doorcap-not its arch, and even Baby
Ion and Greece, knew not the arch.
Not only were the Romans the first sue.
cessful bridge builders, but they were the
first masters of practical architecture, they
found the arch inevitable. Having used il
for their aqueducts and underground water.
ways-as all know who have been to Pom.
peii and Roue-they turned it to sentiment
al use in building memorials to their gener
ais returning triumphantly from successful
conquest.-S
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Little Items

Chicago daily wastes 2.O00 worth of
milk bottles.
OF men who marry, ten are bachelors
to one widower.
The first recorded use of butter is in
the book of Genesis XVIII. 8, when it was
eaten by angels.
Did you know that damask was named
from Damascus, the city where it was first
manufactured?
BY treating them with certain gases a
Frenchman has succeeded in keeping eggs
fresh for ten months.
"A mushroom gathered in Lincolnshire,
England, some years ago, measured yard
in circumference.
Lloyd George has salary of SIS, 900 a
year as first lord of the treasury, but is I'M
paid for services as prime minister.
The most remarkable echo in the world
is that on the north side of church in Ship
ley, Sussex, England. 1t repeats twenty
one syllables.
The first white child born in America
of English parents was Virginia Dare.
granddaughter of John White, governor of
the colony of Virginia under Sir Walter
Raleigh.
The value in Canada of the money of
the United Kingdom is fixed by law as fol-
lows: A sovereign or pound, equals $4.86;
crowu $1.2O; half crown, 80 cents; a
form, 4S cents; shilling, "a cents; a six
pence, 10 cents.
Everyone knows the doggerel:
'Oh Absalom, oh Absalom, my son,
my son,
Hadst thou but worn periwig, thou
hadst not been undone!"
and there seems to be a general idea tina,
Absalom, fleeing through wood. was
caught by his hair on tree, and thus me,
his death. But the Bible doesn't say a
word about his hair being caught in the oak.
1t says, "Absalom rode upon a mule and
the mule went under the thick, boughs of a
great oak, and he was taken up between the
heaven and the EARTH" Evidently his chin
was caught by branch of the oak and the
mule ran off and left him. Of course the
world will jog on just the same, whether
Absalom dangled by his hair or by his
chin. but some folks like to split hairs.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27

together one night in the Y hut and told
them of the disappearance of the money.
Then he outlined the history and character
istics of the old Romans.
Boys" he said, ''there was one thing
a Roman hated worst than anything else.
and that was thief. If the ghosts of-those
old fellows buried up there on the hill
should learn that somebody in this out6,
had so francs in his pocket, don't know
just what would happen. I'm going to
put my hat here on the table and turn GU,
the lights. The guilty man will know
what to dos
There was quite shutting of feet and
milling around in the hut, and then all was
quiet. When the captain turned on the
lights again and looked in the hat he found
not only the 60 francs, but 800 more, and
few odd centimes for good measures.
Stars and Stripes
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Sir Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton, English natural phil
osopher, was born at Woolsthorpe, Lin
colnshire, in 1641. In 1865 he invented
the binomial theorem, the method of tan
gents, and the fuxional calculus. The
story seems to be authentic that the fall of
an apple in the garden of Woolsthorpe late
in 1865 started the train of thought which
led to the discovery of universal gravitation.
He certainly then deducted the rule of in
verse squares. His works on natural science
are numerous and have formed the basis of
great deal of recent inquiry. He showed
the attractive principle in the solar system.
and demonstrated the subsection to it of
comets. In his optical researches he re-
solved white light into its component parts
or colors.-Selected
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
How Firms Keep Warm

In many ways the Firms are a very
queer people, as is illustrated by the Christ
ian Herald.
1t is during the terribly cold months thai
the Firms revel in the mighty ovens that fill
one corner of every kitchen and often loom
up large and vastly impressive to the Other
rooms of Finn home as well. The top:
of these monster stoves are perfectly fiat,
and steps lead up on one side.
When the weather becomes bitterly cold
and bleak, the entire family will take quilts
and pillows and. mounting to the top Of
the big heater, spread down their bedding
and sleep very comfortably and contentedly
on the hard, hot bricks until morning.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
The New Victory

Victory comes:
Not hard and laughing as she came of yore,
Her scarlet arms heaped high with spoils
of war;
Her slaves to beating drums.
Low-bent and bearing gifts. ..
The black cloud lifts,
And, lifting our long-weary eyes to see,
There dawns upon our sight,
Majestic, crowned with light,
Stern and so quiet she must keep her
strength
To build at weary length,
Over again, our SCARED and shattered
world
This, then. ah, this is she,
Our graver Victory.
She follows down the burrows
War turned across the world,
Where still the spent shell burrows,
Where the black shot was hurled,
And sows the wheat and corn
The world from anguish born
Again from its own grief,
Looks up, athIrst
And huugering,
Daring to dream again
Of flowers unhurt, and unstained rain
And love and spring.
Knowing that she shall build each place
accurSt
Into thing that may some day again
Be our once land of comfort and delight,
Of ease and mockery
Even forgetfulness:
Even the gift to bless.
Victory PAGES slowly through the lands:
No lash in her hands,
She builds herself no triumph-arch for
cover.
-Margaret Widdsmer
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Wise and Otherwise

1T spoils favor if you are asked to re-
turn it.
Nothing boosts the value of blessing
like its removal.
The orator who deals largely in quota
tons speaks volumes.
Sometimes a man avoids a lot of
trouble by having bad memory.
Only those who have plenty of gold
ever get anything out of silver wedding.
Make the truth your motto and your
guide and you will be the gamer in the
end.
"A woman's idea of a real party is one
for which she feels it necessary to 90 to an
expert to have her hair dressed.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
M IR R 0 RE11ES

MONDAY it showed! In Minnesota in
the winter time it would seem to be an I'M
necessary waste of space to chronicle such
an everyday occurrence; but this winter to
have a fall of the ''beautifu'' has become
such rarity that the phenomenon ought to
be celebrated as holiday.
There is apt to be a bitter taste in a
man mouth after he is forced to eat his
own words.
Some of us inmates are envying the good
fortune of the overtime boys in the twine
factory. According to conversations over
heard last Saturday morning most of them
will soon be near millionaires.
Some men are afflicted with spring
fever all the year around.
Come again, Mr.. Steward. That smok-
ing tobacco received last Sunday certainly
lives up to Its name -'Harmouy." While
Harmony means concord of different
sounds of different pitch, we can we'll apply
the word to the definition of our sensations
as we lay back and smoked the most de-
licious pipe of tobacco it has ever been our
pleasure to indulge in since residing in the
institution.
"A woman is great deal better than
her neighbor, and. what's more, she
knows it.
Love is serious matter the first time
young man bumps into it.
The moving picture show on Wash
ington's Birthday consisted of Lasky pro-
duction featuring George Beban in zone
More American and a Mack Sennett
comedy, ga Bed Room Blunder." Except
ing the marches preceding the show and at
its conclusion there was no musical pro.
gram.
The masculine idea of an intellectual
woman is one who is as thin as a match
and wears glasses.
Marie Doro in "Castles for Two" a
hve-reel Lasky release, was the "movie"
entertainment Wednesday evening, Febru-
airy 10. The musical feature of the show
was splendid. The orchestra played excel
lently and is to be commended for its choice
of selections and the delightful manner in
which they were rendered. Following is
the program:
March-The Naval Commander Clement
Overture-The Wedding Ring Barnard
Fox Trot-Fll Say She Does (Al Jolson's
hit in Sinbad at New York Winter
Waltz-Tesor Becucci
Selection-The Isle of My Dreams from
Chauncey .Olcott's new play) ------Ball
Rag lntermezzo-'rhe Bantam Strut, Morse
Andante IF. Chopin in Ops,
No. ~ OnOPln
r. ]. Reichkitzer, Director.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Chinese Printing and
Engraving

The Chinese follow the primitive way of
printing from engraved wooden blocks.
The matter to be printed is first written,
by means of ink, upon paper, which is past
ed face downward upon block of a pear
or plum tree. After the paper becomes dry
it is rubbed until an inverted impression of
the characters is left. Then the blank
spaces are cut away and the block is turned
over to the printer, who works by hand.
He takes care to ink the characters equally
and to avoid tearing the impression.-SsI.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
The Champions

In Memoriam Lieutenants Malone. Agget,
and Many others.)
Ennobled by the mightiness of Life
That poured its valor in their eager souls,
They turned from boyhood and the pleas
ant goals
OF sport and home and love to join the strife
Of God and Chaos, following the fife
And drum of sun-helmet Michael, who
controls
The cosmic war, and as the battle rolls,
Leads the young Champions where death
most is rife.
Some lost their bodies, garments of the flesh,
Yet they will grow anew, but now the rest,
A glorious company, in realms of light;
With JOY they come, their spirits to enmesh
Once more in dust, still plighted to the
quest,
To clear the world of all the brood of
night.-Albsrt E.. S. Smythe
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
The Mystery

Year after year
The leaf and the shoot;
The babe and the nesting,
The worm at the root;
The bride at the altar,
The corpse on the bier
The earth and its story,
Year after year.
Whittier are tending,
And whence do they rise,
The cycles Of changes,
The worlds in their skies,
The seasons that rolled
Ere l flashed from the gloom
And will roll on as now
When I'm dust in the tomb?
Geo. Francis Arnsstron
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1919-02-27
Symbols

Over the tall white picket fence
That keeps the garden all for me
The rose vines Towering is dense
And deeper red than blood can be.
l stood this morning, looking down
From my window and saw line
Of men pass by in dusty brown
Beyond the crimson of the vine. :.
The vine is heavier today
And redder from fresh light rain,
But now l think l shall not say
That roses are like blood again.
Geo. O'Neil, in Reedy's Miro,