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There lay the significance of an announcement last week by Physicist Ralph C. Hartsough of Columbia that he had perfected a set of mirror-scales capable of weighing, distinctly and faithfully, down to one 280-billionth of an ounce. Gossamer quartz filaments balance the scales, the slightest titillation of which is reflected from their gold-mirrored surfaces by a ray of light. The ray is split by two half-mirrors, being reunited on the scale-mirrors, where any disparity between the wavelengths of the reunited portions is clearly seen as shadow bands. Thus, when the object weighed (1/29...
...member of the Columbia University football team almost caused a riot in that institution's famous library the other day when he produced a powder compact, mirror and all, in the reading room, and proceeded to cast a cosmetic cloud over his manly countenance with the raw materials contained therein...
Followed a description of a Manhattan night club (the Del Fey- formerly the El Fey) in which, among others, sat Michael Arlen, Ethel Barrymore, Gloria Goull Bishop. "There entered," said the Mirror, "a haggard looking and white haired man, his bloated face wreathed in smiles. It was Harry K. Thaw. . . Harry looked long and rudely at Michael Arlen. . . Then the chastiser of little rabbits . . . screeched...
Next day Thaw left for Pittsburgh. Said the Mirror: "Harry has suddenly decided to visit his sick mother, whose illness had not hitherto caused any of the many wrinkles in his bloated face. . . The Mirror has won. If he comes back to New York the Mirror will renew its campaign to get him away." With this valedictory, the Mirror published a picture of a small brunette, "winsome little Virginia Frank," and credited her with having spurned the wealthy slayer's suit. " 'Let other girls wear his jewelry,' she said...
Whether Mr. Thaw is, after all, a slobbering degenerate or merely an old man infected with a disgusting and pathetic lust for pleasures which youth alone can make charming; whether or not the Mirror had any higher purpose in its denunciations than the enlargement of an already huge circulation-matters little. The whole episode merely furnished one more example of how a smart editor can make sensationalism the light that illumines his paper's exceeding morality...