THE MIRROR Or Stites New Year Term Opened Monday, January 3 STILL IN TIME TO JOIN CLASSES Complete and thorough courses in SHORTHAND, TYPEWRITING BOOK- KEEPING AND TELEGRAPHY. DAY AND EVENING CLASSES CENTRAL BUSINESS 'COLLEGE R. F. LUMSDEN, B.A., Principal =~ Phone 240 "1 J. D. STONE, Mgr. Good Bread For Good Health Our bread supplies the vital food elements so essential in building and sustaining a strong and vigorous body. The Stratford Baking Co. Phone 90 51 Downie St. USURELAREGUOLODEGEGUUROREUAUEOROQUURGRUNUONGEOdONEOUGBENRoNOHOguauG? PRACTICE ECONOMY A simple way to save fuel is to purchase one of our ASH SIFTERS Priced 40c Up. JAMES K. MYERS Phone 162 Oatmeal Cookies. 1 cup flour, 3 cups rolled oats, 3-4 cup of butter, 1 cup brown sugar, 1-2 cup of milk, 1 small teaspoon of soda, dissolved 4m milk. . Rollit out quite thin, cut with a _ cookie cutter, scratch with a fork on i the top and bake in a moderate oven. BS Scotch Shortbread. : Cream together 1-2 lb. of butter (which has been slightly softened) flour in which you have sifted 1-2 teaspoon of baking soda. After mix- ing well, roll on a pastry board, and cut in squares. Prick with a fork, sprinkle with granulated sugar and bake in a slow oven until a light | brown (about 15 or 20 minutes). Two drunks were supporting a Statue which seemed to them to be rather wobbly. "Whoosh ole shtatue ish thish, any- how?" one demanded. "R-o-b-e-rt ~ Bur-n-s," the other laboriously spelled out. "Poor feller," sobbed the first, "no wonder he'sh so reshtlessh." The civilization and culture of a country, says F. Harlow, in Physical Culture Magazine, may be judged to a considerable degree by the amount | entire "career--one just arter "he ~1s born, one just before he is married, and one just after he dies. They don't happen often enough to form a habit, you see. The truth has been thoroughly es- tablished here in America that the human frame is the better for being washed once a day. The next ques- tions are, what is the best method of applying the water, and should it be hot or cold? For ages mankind knew of no better method than to get right down and wallow in the purifying ele- ment; but a century or so ago certain sybarites discovered that a delightful sensation could be experienced by suspending a pivoted bucket in air with a cord attacked to one side of it, and then pulling the cord oneself or having a servant do it; so that the water sloshed down over one's head and person. The idea was looked upon as rather freakish, but even at that it might have become more popular had it not mesSed up one's bathroom so frightfully. The only place where it could decently be done was _ out-of- doors, The first real shower-bath, where water was automatically sprayed upon *the body, was erected by Dr. Duval, a French military physician, in a bar- rack at Marseilles in 1857. Shower bathing (or rain-bathing, as it used to be called) did not become generally known until within the last 30 years. Today, in public and industrial bath houses, in many hotel rooms and other places it has completely displaced the tub. The reason why it is now universal- ly used in public bath houses, in ath- letic clubs, in' bath houses built by industrial concerns for their employ- | ees, is the same reason why you should prefer to use it in a well-kept hotel or social club or even in a friend's home or in your own home; namely, that it is the most cleanly, in fact, the only absolutely sanitary method of bathing. When you use a tub in the best of hotels or clubs you do not know what disease the last per- son who used the tub may have had; nor can you be certain that servants have thoroughly scalded and disinfect- ed the tub since that occasion. Even supposing your predecessor was in perfect health--you refuse to use a Advantages of the Shower Bathing Habit pub:ic comb or toothbrush; why should you use a public tub if you can avoid it? And even in your' own home tub, \ after the first minute or so of scrub- } bing, the water is more or less dirty, | Soapy and filled with excreta which | have been washed off your skin; | Whereas, when you stand under a ) Shower, every drop of water that | Strikes you is absolutely fresh and ; clean; it rolls over your body just once, accumulates its share of draff ' and is whisked away forever. There can be no cleaner method of bathing. Furthermore, as Dr. Simon Baruch remarks, "The shower provokes ther- ), mic and mechanical stimulation of the nerves, blood vessels and muscles, | which produces refreshment far ex- ceeding tub baths." A shower bath is a cheaper article to put into a building than a tub and takes up much less room; it also re- quires less care, as it helps to clean itself. If you want both kinds, the shower may be erected over the tub, as is so often done. When you are: travelling take a "hand spray" with you. They are comparatively inex- pensive and make you independent of those hotels and boarding houses: which do not have showers. As a ' matter of fact, the hand spray has one advantage over the built-in shower in portion of the body desired, and do not. have to wear a rubber cap on your head if you don't want to get your hair wet. There has been much talk first and last as to the temperature of the wat- er that should be used in the bath. This depends to a certain extent upon: and the occasion upon which it is taken. It _is the generally accepted practice nowadays to take a bath upon rising in the morning; and it is con- ceded that for the morning bath some- thing in the nature of a stimulant is desirable, During the latter part of the night the blood flows more and more éluggishly, and one gets up feeling more or less dull and disin- clined to exert oneself. A stimulating bath is quite as important as morning exercises in quickening the circula- tion of the blood and speeding up the bodily machinery. For this purpose a cold bath or a_ very hot bath is necessary. A tepid or warm bath has no punch at all, but on the contrary, -- warm water (92 to 98, about the same you more sluggish than before. By cold water I mean water at a temperature of 40 to 65. I doubt if pipes as cold as 40, unless there hap- pens to be a stretch of pipe in your vicinity lying pretty close to the sur- face, so that surface cold can affect it in winter. If the pipes are buried | deeply enough the water will seldom go below 50, and that is cold enough you could desire. Subscribe for The Mirror. ate Schools were started at the Arena two teams defaulted. St. Joseph's the default. that you can apply the water to any -- the person who is taking the bath, as body heat) is enervating and leaves ~ any of you ever get water out of your -- to give as much of a thrill as most of PUBLIC SCHOOL HOCKEY LEAGUE (Crowded out of last week's issue) {Contributed by one of the players) Games that give promise of an ex- citing time for the Public and Separ- Wednesday morning. Hight teams were scheduled to play. Six were there to carry out the games, while and Romeo were the defaulters. Cold feet being given as the cause of Falstaff gave Avon the short end of the score, Gordon Carr collecting the lone tally for Avon, while his team mate, Jack Dent, had his skates at- tached to the wrong end of his an- atomy. He made some _ wo)iderful long slides, coasting half way down the ice on his back. Barber and Tom Dunkley were the heroes' for the Falstaff school, each scoring a goal. Final score Falstaff 2, Avon 1. The second game, Shakespeare VS. Hamlet, was very interesting as Ham- let is at present the holders of the trophy. They had all they could do to hold their own during the first per- tod as the Shakespeare gang were 'out to win, the score being tied at two goals each. The remainder of the game was a walkover for Hamlet as they were almost able to score at will, Carl Seebach and Joe Petrie were the outstanding players on Ham- let team, the former collecting four goals, followed by Petrie with two. Wilf. Kimberger scored the last tally for Hamlet. Wil. Salt played an ex- ceptionally good game for the losers, gaining the first goal, and was a dan- gerous player throughout the game. The Hamlet boys looked after Wilf. the remainder of the game and he did not get an opportunity to score again. Budd Platt managed to get a_ goal. This was as far as Shakespeare could get on the scoring list. Final score --Hamlet 7, Shakespeare 2. The Separate School boys had their innings in the third game and it will be of special interest to know what will happen when they meet Hamlet in the next league game. The Sep- arate School team had a fairly easy game against Juliet. The Juliet boys are to be congratulated on their show- ing as they worked hard against a heavier and more experienced team. * Picky Bart, Tom Hanlon, Jimmy Mc- Graw and Swift collected the tallys for the Separate School. The Juliet boys did not manage to score but they had many good tries at their opponents' goal. Their op- ponents played a+ strong defense game. Grandpa Burguard has let it be known in the league that his abil- ity as a goal keeper has been the means of having his services in de- mand, so much so, that he does not have to worry about paying his fees for the rink. He was very conspicuous by his absence from Wednesday's game. Final score--Immaculate Con- ception 4, Juliet 0. Referee--C. Webb. Timekeeper--A. Skidmore. Order What You Like To Eat and you'll relish what you get. Those who try our 45c Mid-day Meal always come again. -=-« UPSTAIRS ELITE CAFE 8 Wellington St. You Should Visit Our Store Whether it be DIAMONDS, SILVERWARE, JEWEL- RY, or NOVELTY GIFTS, such as Boudoir or Bed Lamps, Pictures, Book Ends, Pottery, China, and hun--- dreds of other things. J. WELSH & SON Jewellers since 1870 and the finest Gift Shop in Western Ontario ----" Get Your skates on But be sure they are well sharpened. You are sure of this when you take them to BILL McCARTHY'S We also sell every good make of skates and Ladies' Skates and shoes. W. E. 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