MOUNT VERNON 



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MOUSE 



has an attractive appellate court and state li- 

 brary building, a Federal building, a Carnegie 

 Library, and Highland Park, a playground of 

 forty-two acres. Car manufacturing is the 

 principal industry; the annual output is valued 

 at $3,000,000. Other manufactures are cut glass. 

 mattresses and hosiery. Farming and coal 

 mining are the occupations of the surrounding 

 country. 



The place was settled in 1819, incorporated as 

 a town in 1837 and became a city in 1872. K.S. 



MOUNT VERNON, N. Y., a residential sub- 

 urb of New York City, adjoining it on the 

 north. It is in Westchester County, in the ex- 

 treme southeastern part of the state, and is on 

 the Bronx and Hutchinson rivers. The Grand 

 Central Station in New York City is thirteen 

 miles south, and New Rochelle is four miles 

 east. Transportation is provided by the New 

 York, New Haven & Hartford, New York 

 Central and New York, Westchester & Boston 

 railways. Electric lines connect Mount Vernon 

 with New Rochelle, Yonkers and other cities 

 and villages. The first settlement was made in 

 1851, and the city was incorporated in 1892. 

 According to the Federal census, the population 

 increased from 30,919 in 1910 to 37,009 (esti- 

 mate) in 1916; the state census of 1915 re- 

 ported 37,583. The area exceeds four square 

 miles. 



Mount Vernon is a city of beautiful homes, 

 well-kept lawns and gardens, and broad, 

 shaded streets; the Bronx Valley Parkway 

 passes through the city. From Chester Hill, 

 in the northeastern part of the city, a fine view 

 of Long Island Sound is afforded. The Car- 

 negie Library, the Lucas Building, Mount 

 Vernon Hospital, the State Armory, Proctor's 

 $300,000 theater and a $300,000 high school are 

 the noteworthy buildings of the city. Although 

 Mount Vernon is primarily a residential city, it 

 has about fifty manufactories. R.O.G. 



MOUNT VERNON, OHIO, the county seat of 

 Knox County, is a city north of the center of 

 the state, forty-five miles northeast of Colum- 

 bus. It is on the Kokosing River and on the 

 Pennsylvania and the Baltimore & Ohio rail- 

 roads. The area is nearly two square miles. 

 In 1910 the population was 9,087 ; in 1916 it was 

 10,628 (Federal estimate). 



The State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, con- 

 structed at a cost of over $1,000,000, is located 

 a mile from the city, near Hiawatha Park. The 

 principal industries include Corliss-engine, lo- 

 comotive and bridge works, foundries, cooper- 

 age and bent-wood works and manufactories for 



making plate glass and wood-working products. 

 The city is near natural gas and oil beds and 

 the river furnishes water power. Mount Ver- 

 non was settled in 1805, incorporated as a town 

 in IS 15 and became a city in 1853. 



MOURNING. This term, as ordinarily used, 

 refers not so much to grief for the dead, or for 

 some calamity, as to the external, more or 

 less conventionalized symbols of such grief. 

 Almost every nation has had its special mourn- 

 ing customs. That of the Jews is described in 

 the following verse: 



Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth 

 with ashes, and went out into the midst of the 

 city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry. 



The Greeks shaved their heads in token of 

 grief, while the Romans, on the other hand. 

 allowed their hair and beards to grow, and 

 neglected their clothing. In more recent times 

 in most nations more restraint has been prac- 

 ticed, and the signs of grief have been limited, 

 in the main, to the wearing of certain colors. 

 The Western nations have without exception 

 adopted black, certainly the most gloomy of 

 colors, as the mourning shade, but in many of 

 the eastern countries white, yellow or even red 

 is worn in times of bereavement. 



In America the custom of wearing mourning 

 is much less common that it was even a few 

 years ago. Putting off of the mourning "weeds" 

 less than a year after the death of a close rela- 

 tive was formerly considered a token of dis- 

 respect to the dead, but to-day the bad psycho- 

 logical effect of the gloomy, monotonous 

 mourning color is clearly recognized. 



MOUSE, mous, a little, gnawing animal of 

 the same family as the rat, from which it is 

 distinguished only by its smaller size. It is 

 known everywhere in the world except in a few 

 islands of the Pacific Ocean. The house mouse, 

 originally from 

 Central Asia, has 

 followed man to 

 all corners of the 

 globe, and is still 

 a regular traveler 

 o n steamboats, 

 railroads and 

 pack trains. In its characteristics, color and size, 

 unlike other animals, it is the same the world 

 over. It does most of its work in the night, 

 coming forth from its nest within the walls or 

 ceilings, or in the dark corners of the attic or 

 cellar, to sample the milk, cheese, bread or 

 other food left uncovered. Its large eyes and 

 ears and long whiskers are suited for midnight 



COMMON MOUSE 



