THE MIRROR 2 : baer o better officer for | : Office | city could get no | J p & S THE MIRROR Mos Important Office | Senta 'forme scar ia2e |Jas. Pequegnat & 90m A Man Can 2 | let there be thousands of other OPTICAL DEPARTMENT PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT a Guess who has the most splendid Health and Relief officers Reta In charge of C.R. Nimmo, D, Opt. FLETCHER JOHNSTON PRESS, 123 ON: | a On his office door of any | cau assist the Health officer anc Phone 584 Registered Optometrist TARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONE 115w ir | our Medical officer to distribute FLETCHER JOHNSTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATE $1.00 A YEAR Stratford, December 14, 1923 Are You Winning or Losing? Unfortunately most men take the way of least resistance. There are more men that coast down hill than climb up. This is the reason the higher up the hill you go the less the competition. It is only occasionally a man is met with who wishes he had harder opposition. When you ineet such a one, though, that man in nearly every instance is making a success of the thing he is doing. There are few, if any exceptions. The love of opposition is charac- teristic of every great man, A very successful business man said in our hearing the other day, however, 'That he had things too easy, and that he would get more enjoyment from having to fight harder for what he was getting."' It was not when things were easiest that he got the most enjoyment, but he is one of the few who sees the value of more strenuous effort instead of complaining of his hard opposi- tion. After all it.is opposition that makes a man or puts him out of the It is resisting that develops strength. You are either winning or losing in whatever game you are playing, but if you have found yourself and are on the highway of action, you will win if you stick, Pie oo ng it-e and victory may be closer than you think. It was given as the reason for the success of a great man that "' He/conld toil terribly," and that is the price that is always paid for success. If you do not think it's worth the price you are not coml- pelled to pay it, but there are no bargain days for this acquisition. Fie on opposition, and the whips and scorus of entrageous fortune, and you will win if you will, and they often only bite and lash the good fightet on to the goal he has in view. In fact, life as well as ccess is found in the struggle; in the climbing. The love of opposition must not be mixed with the spirit of anti- pathy, but the love of the game. The love of opposition must carry with it a good feeling.to your op- ponent, if the scrap be with an individual, and if it be adverse circumstances, you_ must even 't make friends with your adver- saries" : then you are a real fellow if you have made up your mind to beat them, and take fortune's buffets and rewards with equal thanks. | We man in Stratford ? : Stop reading right here and give | us your word that you did, and we | will send The Mirror to your own | home or one of your friends for one year. No matter where he or | she may live, if you guess right. After The Mirror scribe left this | ventleman's office the other day, he thought of what a wondertul world this would be if every one should be similarly occupied. refer to the office door of Health Officer 'Thos. Dunseith, On | this door are the words, " Health Ts: At words that possible to are: so Relief." of any and think | influential or any dispenser that | has such an honor. Mr. Dun- seith's office is hid away ina re- mote «cover "of «ther city hall /but if you have what people | want, even though your place of | business be in the bush, some one said. " A beaten path will be made to your door."' in the very opposite corner of the building, is the Lock Up. ie need not have gotten' so far away from it, however, for the man who goes about distributing Health and Relief, will not likely ever find his way into this or any other "aris- tocratic'"' looking place. Anyone who had to stay very long in a place like it is liable to need both Health and Relief, and the victims who do may be healthy in body, but certainly not in mind. There as many criminals find their | that which is the greatest thing in are way into lock ups and prisons | because of a diseased brain, as there are from any other reason. Criminals are victims stances, a great many of them just human souls gone wrong. There is some cause for every crime and every criminal. Do we ever think of how small a thing has kept many a man away from crime or sug- gested a way intoit. If we did we would not laugh nor give the criminals so little thought. A lock up has no rugs or up- | holstered chairs, no pictures hang- 'ne on the wall, or books for its | ed - These things | itinerancy to read. the world makes sure the good man has access to, but figures that | bad men do not need them. Is it | not quite they might kindle a little fire in the dungeon of his through some good suggestion, while he is even in a dungeon of a cell? + possible 7 soui, has no more power than a good | one might have on him while he is | there. The number of criminals | would be fewer in this old world if people would follow the occupa- tion of our good citizen, Mr. Dun- seith, who is the Health and Relief officer. and healthy thinking is the begin- ning of Health, and the spirit of giving Relief is stimulated by the consciousness of the Brotherhood of Man. Mr. Dunseith takes a great interest in his office, and the * of circum- | Surely, the | bad suggestion that got him there Healthy thoughts | ene --_-- DR. K. H. BRUCE 'Chiropractic Specialist Phone 926F the world to have--and the great- est thing in the world to give-- Health and Relief. Gordon Block Read The Mirror's Advts. Beltast andkerchieis We have just received all the way from Belfast, Ireland, a large shipment of Handkerchiels. This is the world's greatest centre for handkerchiets, and when we say they were made in Belfast we could scarcely say any more. A man may have just as much backbone as a woman, but not so much of it shows. SN EE aoananaeaoaaaeee---- They make a most unique gift and a very dainty remembrance A9 Prices singly from-.:----- 19c to 75c McBRIDE ¢& CO. LADIES' READY-TO-WEAR Cor. Ontario and Erie ee ALAA, ooo A beautiful done up box of three of these handkerchiefs for..---- nee ------ | a o<. ooooorr te | SPECIALS IN CHRISTMAS SLIPPERS POO rere rer MEN 'S+- Felt Cozy Slippers, Chrome Leather sds Coy Sion Crone Let 1.65 LADIES' -- Leather Boudoir Slippers, numerous colors--an acceptable gift........-.-6e--6+ BOYS'-- ' Grey leather cozy Slippers, leather soles and rubber heels.......:.....:.0efeere 1.25 CHILDREN'S-- Felt cozy Slippers with strap < chrome leather soles ch rthdy bob eh Nees Re ese T" MENS-- Brown and black leather House MEN'S-- Leather and Felt cozy Slippet: A A A A A A A OE -_---- Be ae ee lad og ad Oe Fe io ao sh Van a ee ORR TEN Pe ie ie 2) ~~ a. *) om w a ° ga jn = 4 2s So x -- / e CHILDREN'S-- Brown and black kid Romeos, English Wool Slippers, leather soles, blue and maroon elastic sides, reg. 3.50, DUE PIS fincas sin He¥s stain sod ecs 2.50 SAPS iii es cine eh et oe* Waddington & McEwen | 45 Downie St.. Phone [182 i ee ere ee ee THE MIRROR BUYING CHRISTMAS GIFTS IS A PLEASANT TASK and I am. tryi MER SOUARE rae as ae eo by giving you a choice stock of jewelery to choose prices. Mere you will find gifts suitable for every member of the family See my window displa of gifts, Tal. 25 DOWNIE STREET Store Open Evenings. ORIENTAL COMPETITION College. This, he says, is where | SOC eae Furniture Manufacturers Have Not All Their Competition in Canada. It may not be generally known that there is being shipped into Canada, from China, large quan- tities of chairs, said Mr. R. S. Ford, president of the Ford Im- port Co., Limited, of Vancouver to The Mirror the other dav. 'We are importing chairs and tables by the car loads. These chairs are what is called sea grass, and are retailed here at a much lower price than could ever be possible if made in this country, The time is coming, however, he went on to say, and very soon, when we will be making much larger ex- ports into oriental countries. Just now Vancouver has received some big orders for materials from Japan and as the Japanese are great fish €aters, importations of half cured fish is continually being made. Japan is rapidly taking on occi- dental methods of living, and many of the wealthy and middle classes have two homes furnished, one occidental and the other oriental On their invitations to social events 1s specified foreign dr oriental dress. ' - Japan people sit on the floor ee eat from a little table. Pro- a is the reason there is riche Japanese round shoul- oo Ford has buying offices in okohama, Shanghai and H Kong, and is I ye oo an old St. Mary's vi at one time took a busi- course in the Central Business (fein ene W.B.ROTHWELL INSTRUCTION IN PIANO - VOCAL Studio--90 Coburg Street PHONE 1533w senses DR. A. L. BAKER DENTIST Gordon Block, Phone 1533] --enees manufactured out of --you will get many ideas t i pier as to help you in your choi you will also save money as my prices are the faient ecalbie: BUSHFIELD -- "vie Sguare Deal Jeweler" he got his start in the business | world. If we wrote of the many | other things he said about this college, Ald. Mclachlan, the prin- cipal of the school. would be crowded for room at the college. Mr. Ford has been living in Vancouver for a number of years and is a personal friend of Dr. | Percy Barker, who is practicing in Vancouver, aud brother of Howard | Barker, the Huron street grocer. | He says that Western Ontario is the Garden of Canada. Maybe we all know this, but do we advertise it as we should. In Trenton, a mill is under way to make combings, which will be shipped to Japan for yarn. | | Overland The fellow who prophesied the weather that we have been having, must be either a prophet or a son of one. " That a prophet is with- out honor save in hisownccuntry"' is not always true, for every one who has a coal bin to fill, must do honor to him who sent this | ' notice in advance. ) us- 4 A town may be famous for its beautiful women, but the iceman knows better. - Special for Saturday Sweet FOUR Nash six Open and Closed Cars WHEN IN TROUBLE CALL OUR SERVICE TRUCK | PHONE 816 Willys-Knight Oranges 2Ac PER DOZ. Juicy, luscious and palateable oe Gray's Motor Sales Ltd. 172 Ontario St., Stratford, Ont. ° 7 j Eat more oranges! Gee! Whose Wife Is This? 'What is that stnff you are are going to give my husband?" asked the agitated wife. Arra's Fruit Store 149 Ontario St. Phone 1180J "An anaesthetic," replied Dr. Agromonte. " After he has taken it he won't know anything." 2 Then don't give it to him," she exclaimed. " He doesn't need Th amg