THE MIRROR As Easy To Operate As An Electric Light FURNACE TROUBLE, DIRT AND SIFTING ASHES ENDS THE MOMENT WE INSTALL OlkomatiC SYSTEM See us before you put in your winter coal supply Simple, Convenient, Even Heat Always PETER & SYLVESTER Phone 210 DISTRIBUTORS 12 Ontario St. q A A + RO nr 1 en ae oe Get A Business Education -- We are now located at 74 ONTARIO STREET, over Kenner's Bookstore: CENTRAL BUSINESS COLLEGE R. F. LUMSDEN, B.A., Principal Enroll Now Phone 240 The Best | Two Pant Suit || | we haveever offered. Fan- cy Tweeds, single or dou- ble breasted models. Two full cases just un- packed and believe me, they're some value. Two pants remember! Note the price-- SSR LSS SS SS $24.50 | ; CUMMING THE CLOTHIER Billie Y. Donaldson Phone 203 40 Wellington St. ---- a eT A Te AE MEMENENETS | 5 ( ata SS re re mee 0 SN ---- if -- - 'Subscribe for The Mirror. Give Hera Gift For Her Home A gift of Furniture for the bride's home is the most appreci- ated of all her gifts. R. WHITE & CO. --Home Furniture --Funeral Service Phone 33 Night 376 80 Ontario St. TE eae Beta eae Ey Perret abi beear sha ab at pei p ea aie ei rb ] : gersoll, | People's Conference in | with the quadrennial convention of the pes ALAR RRR ATIAS International Council of Religious Ed- | ucation, held in Birmimgham, Alabama, | as the representative of the confer- | ence Y.-P., also delivered a remark- | able address on the activities of that conference. THOMAS S. BRANDY > (Continued fron from page 1} | ward Movement, together with Rev. | George Little, eidtor of the Young People's | finder,' were the three | speakers. Mr. J. Ferris David of In- Monthly, called the "Path- principal who attended the Young connection | Business Shows Steady Improvement. One of the young firms in Strat- ford that is forging ahead is the James R. Myers' Hardware Store. The genial James K. told The Mirror scribe the other day that business is improving every year. Duncan M. Ferguson made a sim- ilar statement to The Mirror the other | day, and those who saw the great crowd of buyers in The Duncan Fer- guson Dry Goods Store Wednesday morning could see every sign of activ- ity in this old and well-established business. But there's a reason. Phone 51 CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH Rev. W. E. Donnelly, B.A., Pastor 166 Church St. ings, pageants, etc. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 tt a.m.--Morning Worship. Subject--"The Valedictory of a Great Fighter." 2.30 p.m.--Sunday School Rally. 7.00 p.m.--"The Pattern of Life." Talman J. M. Gotby, L.R.A.M., A HEARTY WELCOME TO ALL Program of songs, read- Organist and Choirmaster. | urban and rural. | the appearance of cities of 50,000 pop- STRATFORD The Beautiful (By- 7. A> RS The writer has been in Stratford about 23 years, and is just as much in love with it as when he first land- ed on Downie street from a lumber waggon. The most pleasing feature of that first sight of Stratford the beautiful was that it somewhat resembled some of the English towns where the writ- er had wandered as a boy. The wind- ing streets, the store fronts and the business like atmosphere of commer- cial enterprise in particular. But, unlike the old country towns, in its residential sections, it was not void of trees, lawns and pleasant grounds which are so pleasing to the eye. - Instead of the brick and stone strue tures that spoke of the Elizebethan age, that stood grimly looking out of dungeon-like windows, as if at any minute they contemplated falling on their faces on the cobblestone streets; Stratford homes with their bright faces and spacious windows look out upon well-kept lawns, dotted here and there with shrubberies and beautiful trees, reminding one of the few beau- tiful suburbs where only the rich and influential dwell. "The stately homes of England, "How beautiful they stand "Amid their tall ancestral trees "O'er all the pleasant land." could be equally applied to Stratford, only the trees are not ancestral; but that is no detriment to their beauty. There are homes in Stratford, own- ed by working men, that could com- pare very favorably with the "stately homes of Engiand," where the squire, the parson or the independent gen- tleman. live. Then again, what the writer likes so much about Stratford is that it a happy combination of urban, sub- The urban hag all ulation or more. The suburban favor- ably compares with amy other city | of its size in Canada or the United ' States, or in the world for that mat- ter. In fngiand, as 2 rule, one has te travel considerable to get from the suburban to the rural; but in Strat- ford one can reach the rural right within the city limits where neat little cottages are nestling amid 4a 'veritable paradise of trees and flow- ers, and birds sing their Sweet an- tems unmolested by the Gin of traffic or the hum of the machinery of com- merce. In late years Stratford has become very popular as a manufacturing cen- tre. Today we have a great variety of manufacturing plants, from the -- making of buttons te the building of high-class automobiles. We also have some of the leading furniture factor- ies producing furniture very seldom equalled and never surpassed by any other manufacturers in the world. Perhaps, for the size of it, Strat ford could boast of more craftsmen, (Continued on page 5) ee RS ae: i} ToL coe te ~ LasTG This Great ewellery Sale Closes Saturday Night ar NO Hey tee JAS. PEQUEGN ~ Saturday Specials FRENCH CLOCK Genuine French marbie with two bronze candel- abras; high grade French movement. Reg- ular price $200.00. Sale D1 COUNTER VALUES _Up to $10.00. TEA SETS $16.50 Tea Sets . $ 9.75 $20.00 Tea Sets . $12.95 $31.50 Tea Sets . $23.65 $38.00 Tea Sets . $26.95 JARDINIERES $4.50 Jardinieres . $1.85 $6.75 Jardinieres . $2.69 $8.50 Jardinieres . $1.95 $9.00 Jardinieres . $2.45 '$20 Pocket Watch, best value ever offered . $13.35 $9 Spoons or Forks, a really wonderful bargain, $2.95 $15.00 Wrist Watch (guaranteed) $2.00 Alarm Clock ( guaranteed) $25.00 Diamond Ring, 18-kt. white gold; only .. $12.50 Indestructible Pearls, | $9.75, . $1.29 $16.75 ORI 0643 neon oe $16.50 Mantel Clock, only .::..)...--- $5.00 Pie Plate, only Sterling Silver Thimbles, small sizes ...... This is an honest sale of honest merchandise. Everything goes--nothing held back. JEWELLERS ee erm atone en a AT & SON Stratford, The Beautiful (Continued from page 4) expert workmen and skilled laborers tham any other city in the Dominion. We also have artists, journalists, writers and poets, preachers and teachers of high calibre, and public spirited men who are axe second to none in Canada, and we have also produced and moulded the characters ef men, who are today leaders in their respective calling over in Uncle Sam's domain. The beauty of Stratford and the harmony of its citizens, have, te a large externt, been the means of pbuilding up a City that is praised by tourists and commented faverably on by men who have traveled extensively both in the United States and the old Jands over the sea Where could one find a more pile- turesque, restful and pleasant a place than Lake Victoria and the winding Avon with its pretty howes nestling among trees and flower gardens along the banks? Why boast of lands beyond the sea, and dream of castles old and- grim, or speak of imaginary arcadias which we know nothing about when we have right in our own city in the Dominion of Canada, scenery as good as the best which we, unfortunately, do not appreciate because of its familiarity. Man's idea of chivalry is to protect a woman from every man--except himself. HOW'S THIS? The boy left the farm and went to the city, where he did well and eventually got in the swim to some extent. A brother stuek to the farm. One day he farm boy got a letter frem his city brother, and among other things it said: "Thursday we autoed out to the country club where we goMed till | dark. Then we motored to the beach | and Fridayed there." The farm boy wrote back: "Yesterday we flivvered to town and baseballed all afternoon. Then we went to Mead's and pokered till morning. Teday we muled out to the cornfield and geehawed until sundown. Then we suppered and | steaded until the clock fived." piped for a while; after which we staircased up to our room and _ bed- HAD TO LIKE IT "Clarence," she called. He stopped | the car and looked around. 'T am not accustomed to call my | chauffeurs by their first mame, Clarence. What is your surname?" "Darling, madam." "Drive on, Clarence." The trouble seems to be that "the heart of the world" has leaky valves. ~ Another thing--why doesn't some | genius run for office on a platfosm demandiag a mother's pensien for father? ie hn ce anc sila SAE NETS