Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-12-28
-ELeUdtOr Mirrors
SLOIU Up Service
in Big Buildings
Practice of Looking at Ones
Self May Lead to Discard
ina RefectOTS.

The cargo put out Of action caused
by a hivver that declines to be cranked
when the traffic cop is identifying the
atmosphere with such choice epigrams of
the English language that the telegraph
company would refuse to transmit the
communications, is a small town Incl
dent in comparison to the congestion OF
traffic produced by the individual who
insists upon parking In front OF the
elevator mirror during the rush hour
In the gray dawn.
But speaking of elevator mirrors the
most prevalent styles consist OF those
which are clean and those which are not.
There are also mirrors which rehect
ones image in a fatterinZ fashion, and
those which reflect It in a longitudinal
manner, making the fat woman appear
gracefully slim. Then, there are mir
rors which are too small and those which
are too worn out to have any relation
ship with self-respecting mirrors. Mir
ror styles also include those which are
placed IN a desirable position at the en-
trance of the elevator and those which
are tucked away where nobody would
ever think Of looking.
SIGN FAILS TO
STOP PRACTICE.
This particular elevator mirror was
eDAaCdTuGu Win Il lO4EsL sigh Ou " uALI
Afnky black letters suggested to the pas
senger: Keep away from the mirror.
Step TO the rear OF the car" The first
customer ambled in, halted abruptly be-
fore the mirror and removed his hat.
Evidently he had forgotten the cere-
mony Of combing his hair; for he ex-
3 tracted a pocket comb from the interior
OF his costume. About this time more
passengers arrived on the scene, but the
toilet was continued until the elevator
mans attention was attracted by the
duplicating glanees Of the late corners
"Heh, move, can't yOu:" he demanded
belligerent1y. The owner of the comb
gave an indignant look at the disturb
ers Of his toilet aud grudgingly vacated
the coveted position.
The most recent arrival all dOiled up
Ain fur coat and a new spring hat,
pped into his place with dexterity
Ii applied the rest OF n box of pink
her face, giving herself the appear
re OF suffering from high fever. The
kyator man eIpostulated again and
Us inalIy got the door shut.
Half q dozen pieces Of baggage having
Zpeen discharged the elevator man
apreathed more freely.
This here iookin' glass is the most
ttraetive thing In the whole oUt6t." he
onfded to the only occupant OF the car
who had not endeavo-ed to get chance
at it Now, just look at that man over
! there now" and sure enough, there was
y man whose facial members gave assnr-
ance Of recent evolution from the monkey
brotherhood, adjusting his tic at Il par
ticular angle. With care he tilted his
hat at more tilty tilt and called Three
out"
Three" grunted the elevator man,
next stop is mine Take the elevator
on the other side down"
Back q while when folks Just began
using loOkin' glasses in elevators we
had one with 'em and one without. The
one that didn't have 'em was like sun
day school room on a week day. Why
, the girls would line up and wait five
minutes for the other car to come back
and the men would hang around talkin
& to the women like they was just a-waitin
because the girls wanted EN- to. Blu;
they made a dive for that loOkIn' glass
worse than the women did"
Having let more passengers out OF the
car he continued his communics ton t.
n the effect that men were worse than
q women with the philosophical inform1-
ton thst pretty girls patronized their
reflector while the most homely men were
IT'S patrons.
PSYCHOLOGY
ADF 1T ALL.
81 The only way 7 can get it figured
5put," declared the psychologist. lis that
I'd girl doesn't want to see how bad look
~ In she is and she gives up hope for al
~ the/time, while the uglier man gets
~ the more he hopes.
Anyway, you know styles in elevators
- with mirrors are going out Of date. Al
Il the newer building architects are maxim
= 'em without. They say it does away
with lot OF slowness in running the
Il cars. 1t sure would cause less confusion
a when it comes to unloading the passen-
.gers"
But why should any one worry about
such a trivial thing as a mere mirror
when Webster defines it as a "specu-
lum ?" All that is necessary is to carry
little mirror in the upper vest pocket