THE MIRROR THE MIRROR PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT THB FLETCHER JOHNSTON PRESS, 123 ON- FARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONE 115w FLETCHER JOHNSTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATB - $1.00 A YEAR Stratford, August 6, 1926 OUT IN THE SUNLIGHT The curative value of sunlight is one of the greatest. discoveries of medical science in these recent times, says a writer in The New Outlook. It seems Strange to us now that we were so long a time in coming to it, but it is just as strange that, having learned the truth in a general way, we have been so slow in living up to it. The ingenuity with which we have con- trived to shut the sunlight out of our homes and live our lives and do our work in the sunless corners of great buildings in crowded cities would seem to indicate that not even yet have we come to know how great a friend the sun is to us, or would be to us, if we would let him. And the sunlight is just as health- giving and helpful to our minds as to our bodies. You remember how it was a week or so ago when dull, dark day followed dull, dark day, how hard it seemed to be bright and cheerful and optimistic! But when a morning came that flooded the whole world With sunlight how different it was! How folks live in lands where sunless days follow each other weeks on end I do not know, but I am sure that the golden summer days we have been having recently are a boon for which grateful words enough cannot possibly be found. And how folks live in the midst of them and do not find life full of joy and hopefulness and causes for gratitude I do not know either. In Canada--and in July--one should sing songs of gratitude all the day long. The sunlight ought to be good for a man's soul as well; for that reason also we should be out in it much these days. Whatever we may think of as a man's soul we may be sure that vigor of body and health and wholesome- ness of mind will make for its good. We cannot grow sound and healthy bodies away from the sunlight but it is extremely difficult to grow healthy souls away from it too. And we have been a long time in coming to that truth and longer. still in living up to the light of it. And after all a heathy soul is of vastly greater value than even a healthy body. ' _ But it does take something more than sunlight to grow a healthy soul. One of the smallest, meanest, most cantankerous men we ever knew worked out in the fields all day for a living, though as we used to see him on 2 beautiful, heaven-sent day we wondered how in the world he did it. There is something, however, in the yealm of the spirti that typifies the sunlight, and that we are very sure is ffm good for a man's soul. We scarcely know what to call it, but in the realm of the spirit it always seems to us like the sun gloriously lighting up the hill- side on a summer day, or like a pine- laden breeze sifting through the quiet of the evening. There is such a thing as a spiritual atmosphere that is laden with health and vigor and life and wholesomeness. Was it something like that that the old prophet Malachi had in mind when he wrote, "But unto you that fear my hame shall the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing in his wings"? Somehow that strikes me as being the kind of sunlight that is above all things good fo ra man's soul. While there may be much of profit derived from an hour in the golden sunlight of a Canadian summer day, to live in the light of such sunlight as Malachi speaks of would give health and heal- ing beyond all that words could ex-- press. - I am sure if we would get out into the broad, generous spaces of that sunlight there would come to many of us a health and vigor and joy in life that we have never known before. I am sure that if we do not know what such sunlight ag that can do for a man we are robbing our lives of their high- est happiness and good. I am sure, though JI cannot tell you how it is done, that out in the healing beams of that Sun of Righteousness selfishness and meanness and unkindness and a whole host of evils will wither and die and life will take on new beauty as it takes on new life. I am sure we ought to get out into that sunlight this vedry p day. 36 Ontario Street The modern safe-guards to health --- KILLS --- PLIES, MOTHS, MOSQUITOES, ROACHES, FLEAS, BED BUGS, ANTS Money back if they do not destroy. Barker's Drug Store Phone 521 ------ ----_-- Carr en mn oe ge i The Place Where You'll Love To Eat Good meals -- cleanly served. Congenial surroundings. FOUR COURSE DINNER 45c Ten meals for $4.00--Save money and buy a meal ticket. BLITE CAFE. C. THOMAS, Proprietor Fraser's SEASONABLE MERCHANDISE At Very Special Prices Dress Materials in Crepes, Voiles, Art Silks, Printed Silks and Novelty lines. -GINGHAM SPECIAL Best quality to clear_at 25c yd. Donald D. 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He was an Airedaile and, all in all, not a bad-looking dog, even if a fancier who | examined him one day did smile ina | knowing sort of way and say that Pat was all right as a pet, but that his legs were too long his head too short, his coat too thick or too thin--I forget which; that something was the matter with one ear; that his tail was one ten-thousandth of an inch out of align- | ment, and in four or five other respect he simply would not do as a show dog. To all this Pat only smiied--don't you fool yourself, dogs do smile--and wagged that misaligned tail. [ don't think the fancier's verdict bothered him one bit. I do know for a certainty, however, that my little neighbor Billy, to whom | Scratch up lawns, and do other things | It's the people who own the dogs and | don't take care of them that are to eae isfied. Pat belonged, was actually pleased at | | ped in between a boy and his dog and what the kennel] man said about Pat's points, or rather his lack of points. For to the boy it meant that Pat was to be his very own dog, to romp and play with whenever he chose. Never wou:d Pat go away to any dog shows to be kept chained up all -. day long in a little three-sided boxlike compartment that was hardly big en- ough for him to turn around in. He Couldn't Be That Mean. I don't know how you feel about it, but a boy and a dog playing together always acts as a sort of tonic on me, Tonic isn't exactly the word I want, but perhaps it will convey some- thing of the idea or feeling that Iam trying to express. And to see Pat and Billy running or walking or playing or "jest sittin' to- gether an' thinkin'" was a sight that _Tll wager would restore faith to and cheer up the most distressed and dis- couraged of human beings. I forget what the fancier said about Pat's eyes, but I suppose that they too were de- fective--from a bench standpoint. But there certainly wasn't anything the matter with Pat's eyes when you just looked into them man-to-dog fash- ion. They were big and brown' and friendly; and good nature, kindliness, friendliness, and all-round decency looked out of them as surely as those , qualities ever looked out of human éyes, " I know that whoever poisoned Pat certainly did not look him in the eye when he handed or threw to him the poisoned meat. Bad as the world is in gpots, there isn't, I feel sure, one hu- Man being quite mean enough to have _jooked into those big brown eyes and at the same time handed out the pois- on that he knew would send Pat into several hours of terrible suffering be- fore death finally relieved him. And if the killer could have looked into those same kindly eyes while Pat Was suffering the most, and seen that peculiar doglike--almost humanlike-- Jook that comes into a dog's eyes when he is suffering, I know that such 4 sneak never again would feel fit. to look his fellow men in the face, let alone another dog. Yes, { grant you that sometimes dogs | heart of the boy! Specialist in Prosthetic Dentistry Majestic Apartments, 93 Downie t { OFFice 602 trample down fiowers and dig and that no dog should never be permitted PHONES to do. But that's not the fault of the dogs. | RESIDENCE 1051w 123 Ontario Street : DR. S. H. SUTTER Public Stenographer Prompt and Efficient Work Moderate Charges The Fletcher Johnston Press blame when such things happen. And it's a mean human being that will take a dog and treat him that way. But it's a meaner human being that will poison a dog instead of going to the source of the trouble and settling the difficulty there. I hope whoever poisoned Pat is sat- It must be a fine feeling to carry around with you--the feeling that you have poisoned a friendly, good-natured dog like Pat, for any reason or pretence of a reason, It must be fine to feel that you have step- | TRY THE Fish and Chip Shop It's now open under new management FRESH FISH DAILY QUICK SERVICE killed the dog and all but broken the IN CALIFORNIA ° She. "I just know I can't be in | j the jury, Judge; one look at that 52 WELLINGTON STREET fellow convinces me that he is guilty." Judge: "Eh-h--that is ney for the State. the attor- The Fletcher Johnston Press For Fine Job Printing ES) We take this opportunity of expressing how delighted we are with the fine reception the people of Stratford have given us since coming to this beauti- ful city, but Ye Olde Firme of Heintzman & Co., Limited, and Stratford people have always been good friends. 'The Heintz- man Piano has always been held in high esteem here, which is a compliment to the city as well as the piano. The new management of the local branch is trying to make this store more attractive than ever before, and make your visits, if possible, more pleasurable. Mrs. B. H. Britton, who has charge of the Record Department, will gladly have played for you any of the new August Records or Player Piano Rolls. 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