MIDDLETOWN 



3794 



MIGNONETTE 



15,810 (Federal estimate). Middletown is well 

 situated in a fertile agricultural country and 

 contains several attractive parks, a Federal 

 building, the State Homeopathic Hospital for 

 the Insane, a state armory, city hall, Masonic 

 Temple, Thrall Library and Thrall Hospital. 

 In the town and vicinity are many summer 

 residences. The city has shops of the New 

 York, Ontario & Western Railroad, and manu- 

 factories of condensed milk, cheese, leather, 

 saws, files, straw hats, shirts, candy, cut glass 

 and printers' supplies. There was a settlement 

 at Middletown in 1706. The name refers to its 

 position halfway between the Hudson and 

 Delaware rivers, on the old Minisink road to 

 the western part of the state. It was incor- 

 porated as a village in 1848 and became a city 

 in 1888. L.S.C. 



MIDDLETOWN, OHIO, a city in Butler 

 County, in the southwestern part of the state, 

 thirty-four miles north of Cincinnati. It is on 

 the Miami River and the Miami & Erie Canal 

 and on the Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, 

 the Cincinnati Northern, the Cincinnati, Leba- 

 non & Northern (a branch of the Pennsylvania 

 lines), and the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago 

 & Saint Louis railroads. There is an electric 

 interurban line from Cincinnati through Mid- 

 dletown to Dayton, twenty-two miles north. 

 The population, which in 1910 was 13,152, was 

 15,625 in 1916 (Federal estimate). The area is 

 two and a half square miles. 



Wheat, dairy products and tobacco from the 

 fertile Miami Valley are marketed in Middle- 

 town, and here are large manufactures of agri- 

 cultural implements, paper, tobacco, steel, steel 

 sheets, iron, motorcycles, paper machinery and 

 gas engines. The city has a Federal building, 

 Carnegie Library and public hospital. Middle- 

 town, which received its name from its central 

 position between Cincinnati and Dayton, was 

 settled in 1794 and incorporated in 1833. The 

 commission form of government was adopted in 

 1913. The waterworks are owned by the mu- 

 nicipality. 



MIDLAND, a town in Simcoe County, On- 

 tario, on an arm of Georgian Bay called Hogs 

 Bay. It is on the Grand Trunk Railway, 102 

 miles north of Toronto by the shortest route, 

 116 miles northwest of Peterborough and thirty- 

 three miles northwest of Orillia. Steamers con- 

 nect Midland with Parry Sound and other ports 

 on Georgian Bay. Population in 1911, 4,663. 



Midland is an important manufacturing cen- 

 ter. Its largest establishments are lumber and 

 planing mills and sash-and-door factories, but 



a shell factory, woolen mill, flour mill, engine 

 works and blast furnace are worthy of men- 

 tion. Midland also has a shipbuilding yard 

 and has considerable trade in coal and grain 

 Hydroelectric power is obtained from the Sev^ 

 ern River. 



MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, a corned? 

 by Shakespeare, played in 1595 and publishe( 

 five years later. Suggestions of various part; 

 of the plot are to be found in old sources, bu 

 the general plan was largely original with th< 

 author. Fairies, monsters, peasants, nobles 

 mingle in the action, which at no time is to b< 

 taken seriously. Though probably intended a 

 a pageant, this play is much more fitted to b< 

 read than to be acted, for the imaginativi 

 charm is difficult of presentation on the stage 

 The "Pyramus and Thisbe" interlude is one o 

 the most humorous things in all of Shake 

 speare's works. (See DRAMA, page 1855, fo 

 suggestions for dramatization and for illustra 

 tions.) 



All brilliant flowers are pale and dead 



And sadly droop to earth, 

 While pansies chill in velvet robes 



Count life but little worth ; 

 But in these dark November days 



That wander wild and wet, 

 Our thoughts are winged to summer hours 



On breath of mignonette. 



PIERSON : Mignonette. 



MIGNONETTE, minyunet' , a widely culti 

 vated garden favorite with modestly colorei 

 flowers of delicate, pleasing fragrance. It is i 

 plentiful weed in Africa and Asia Minor, whenci 



