| Show agaj Wh exclaims the astonished reader is it possible that there are any civilized persons on the face of tho earth who are not in the habit of beholding their visages reflected from time to time in a mirror ot some hind surely this cannot be so wrong quite wrong gentle reader for at tho present time as it may appear there are hundreds of men and women in tha united kingdom who have not gazed into a mirror for years the convicts confined in british prisons form members of this community from the moment of a convicts entrance to a jail to the moment of his exit he la not permitted to have the use of a mirror of any kind the smallest piece of glass being rigidly denied him to the women convicts this absence 0 a mirror forms one of the chief hardships of confinement and many a female warder can tell piteous jalcs of women who have actually en upon their knees and sobbed out entreaties for the loan of a morsel of mirror just for a second AH cheso entreaties have perforce to be disregarded and it therefore comes about that many a female convict passes three or four years without being permitted to gaze upon her own features london tit bits |
