EME MIRROR THE MIRROR PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT THR FLETCHER JOHNSTON PRESS, 123 ON- TARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONE |1l5w FLETCHER JOHNSTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATH $1.00 A YRAR Stratford, dh 13, 1927 BIG EVENT OF THE WEEK Strattord's big event this week has of course been the musical festival. This was a moOst ambitious attempt on the part of the newly-organized Ferth County Teachers' Federation and it was a remarkably successful affair. Starting last Saturday morn- ing it continued until Wednesday night, several hundred candidates competing in the varigus classes. Everything ran most smoothly and successfully and the quality of the music in the various classes was high. In fact both of the adjudica- tors, Viggo Kihl, of the Toronto Con- Sservatory of Musc Faculty, and Dr. Albert Ham, organist and choir di- rector of St. James' Cathedral, To- rento, spoke very highly of the qual- ity of the music, Dr. Ham also com- mented in most flattering terms on 'the fine English, the good diction and clear pronunciation which was apparent in the choral numbers. He predicted great things for Stratford as a musical centre, The only criticism heard was the way the winners were announced on Wednesday night. It was confusing to the average spectator and also made a very long drawn out session. If it were possible some scheme of cleaning up the vari- ous classes as the festival progresses and announcing the winners day by day would be better, or failing that, see that they are announced by name and class rather than by numbers. Other than that there is scarcely anything that could be justly criti- cized for thé whole affair was well planned and most skilfully carried out, reflecting credit on all who par- ticipated in it. SAYS WE ARE MOVING DOWN AS WELL AS OUT It's a long time since scientists told us that nothing stands still, and that everything is in a state of movement. A Stratford man whom we met the other day-also tried to impress us with this fact. He informed The Mir- ror scribe of the number of Strat- ford people who were moving either one way or another. The number of sales that took place in our city dur ing the month of April, was enorm- ous, said this gentleman. There were thirty sales during last month, he continued, and up to the 9th of May 5 private sales and 4 auction sales. A sale for every day in the month in- cluding auction sales and_ private sales. He concluded his story by saying business was no good, and peo- ple were saving their money to buy whiskey when the liquor store open- ed up. Then before we left him he added that we could never much from a place like this for the only thing that most people read in this city was junk. Well if this real ly is the case the people are moving downward as well as out. We hate to think this is true, however. Not Applicable To Canadian Teachers "T admired the comments of a fath- er on flimsy teaching,' writes some- one in an American paper, "and wish more old heads would express them- selves. Certainly the three R's are cast in the background and as for pupils using correct grammar, lots of them seem to think it a mark of hon- or to speak incorrectly. They cer- tainly have caught the habit of chew- ing gum on the streets and in public places from their flapper teachers, and to equal their teacher in dress and cosmetics seems to be much lish language correctly." A comment of this nature we have never read in any Canadian publica- tion, which speaks well for our teach- ers, but there is really no reason why teachers--just because they are teach- ers--should spend all their time on, the three R's any more than members of other professions. FLAPPER FADS The following verses are contribut- ed. There are still others to follow by this same Stratford versifier. These old vases of mother's, said Flapper Ann, Are due just now, for the garbage can, These old fashioned things give me the blinks, With back time years we don't need links, So out they went to meet the need Of Flapper-Ann's new beauty creed. 7 Mother had loved them for years ago, The giver had hallowed them; Ann didn't know. But she will and her time is coming soon, When life will seem too short, and noon Will be reached 'ere she can deem And then these things hear a dif- ferent mein. What matter if a vase or two Is not a Ming, or just quite new, "Tis mother's love and mother's taste That counts, dear Ann, when just too late. Let mother's things stay quite alone; You'll someday prize their mellow tone, And then the sting will never turn Back to your own lone heart to burn, avetrough Place your eavetrough order withus. We have copper bearing eave- trough at same price as ordinary. L. COOK 110 Downie St. Phone 175 expect | -- ema matmampm a ee Ne a an emma Free advice on your foot troubles WEAK AND PAINFUL ANKLE TENDER, JOINT ~*~ CRAMPED TOES CALLOUSES ON SOLE A Foot Expert trained in the methods of Saturday Only If you have aching feet, pains, cramps, callouses, burning Sensation at the ball of the foot or toes, fallen arches, painful heel, week turning ankles, sore limbs, corns, bunions, or perspiring feet-- you are cordially invited to see this Foot Specialist. He will be pleased * to make recommendations, without fae aay any charge or obligation, as to what There ? your trouble is and how to relieve it. ROBERTSON'S SHOE STORE 32 Wellington St. Stratford, Ont. Opposite City Hall a ' design and workmanship were limited Instalment Plan J. L. BRADSHAW COUERGGOGRCUEDERELDADEEEESDEED ADLSDSCREEGRDUEREREEES TUE = = aa Dinner Sets FUNERAL SERVICE. R. WHITE & CO. on the 80 Ontario Phone 33 Night 376, $3.00 to $5.00 down Paper Hanging and Painting Work well done. Prices reasonable. A. D. FLETCHER 32 Norfolk St. Phone 1406m according to value of set, Balance $1.00 weekly CHINA HALL THE MIRROR that some of the other ladies' hus- bands had a rather uneasy time until they also contributed something of a Similar nature to their respective households. As time went on the men became more adept and some, no doubt, ex- celled over the others so that they wereable to barter their handiwork for other possessions of value, so that they spent much of their time hewing out rough tables or stools to serve the needs of their neighbors. AS they became more skilled they prob- ably also contrived to add some carv- ing of a rude nature to their work, or colored with such pigments as they knew of that were pleasing to the eyes of the women folk, and which en- gendered within them the pride of home. While we may regard these men and women as savages, we have also to consider that they were actual cre- ators. The woman was inspired by a love for her home to make it as com- fortable as it could be made and the man contributed his strength to fash- ioning out something, pratically with- out tools of any kind, to the same end. And is it not to such instincts as these that we owe our present enjoy- ment of our own homes? The history of furniture, therefore, may be said to be the history of civi- lization. Ths Piette nth 4 What man, or race of men, design- ed the first pieces of furniture it would be very difficult to say. It may safely be said, however, that the to a slab of wood rough-hewn out of the trunk of a tree by means of a stone axe. Our cave-dweller ancestors were in-. fluenced in the making of furniture no doubt more with the desire to have something of practical utility than of ornate appearance. Perhaps it was the lady of the cave who look- ed after the culinary department of the household who suggested the idea, inspired by the wish to have some- thing more convenient to set the food on than the ground or a_ piece of stone, and something a little more ac- commodating than stone to sit upon when she needed a rest. However that may be, we can eas- ily imagine the pride she took in her first table or crude stool, and we can alsoimagine the many hours of hard work it cost her husband to hack away at the trunk of a tree with a piece of stone to shape it and reduce it to the desired dimensions. ' We can also realize to some extent the envy such possessions created in the minds of the neighbors, and we shall not be far wrong if we assume 2: Phone 51 _CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH Rev. W. E. Donnelly, BAL Paster 166 Church St. SUNDAY EVENING, MAY 15, 1927 "The Tragedy of the Most Pathetic 'Soul in History" No. 2 in series. Talman J. M. Gotby, L.R.A.M., Organist and Choirmaster. A HEARTY WELCOME TO ALL & MODEL HEALTH RULES Health rules have knocked out the weather as a subject for painless con- versations, says Harry Daniel in Thrift Magazine. One of the _ best ways of getting sick is to try to get well when there's nothing wrong with you. We are all talking about health helps so much nowadays that sani- tariums have long waiting lists and the nation is about down to its last wheelchair, What we need is to get back to the old ways. We may all agree on mass production as a principle but we be- lieve every man should reserve the right to his own methods of incur- ring stomachache. All we need are a few plain sensible rules of health, like the following, and let it go at that: 1. Don't sleep with head or feet sticking through an open window. 2. If your rest is disturbed on a sleeping car or elsewhere by some one snoring, get up and shoot the of- fender as noiselessly as possible and then slip quietly back to bed. 3. If you have (indigestion from overeating, try the plan of paying for your own lunches. 4. When sleping in uutS, be sure and open your mouth as wide as possible. 5. If you are oy ae fat, be careful who hears you refer to your- self as "poor little me." 6. If you want to keep young, eat as you please, sleep as you please, ex- ercise as you please and lie like the | devil about your age. WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS Save Your Wife 12,000 STEPS 'THIS SUMMER 12,000 steps! That is what it would cost her to do without a refrigerator this one summer. Figure it out for yourself: 12 steps down cellar plus 12 steps up again, 6 trips a day, 144 steps 144 steps, 7 days a week . 1,008 1,008 steps a week for 12 weeks 12,096 Buy a New Barnet Refrigerator this week. No more trotting to the cellar. No more sour milk! Refrigerators at moderate prices from $13.95 up. ions . GIFTS FOR THE BRIDE here in profusion. Give her a gift for her home. -- | R. WHITE & CO. HOME FURNITURE AN D FUNERAL SERVICE. 80 Ontario Street. WU ok ee eee chair . ; Kitchen -- White poreelain rte 2w Chairs: 6 fee TE Se pa + O13 J THE HOME OF HER DREAMS Living Room--Kroehler 3-piece Chesterfield Suite de Luxe Oe Ba sige Dee Dining Room--Gibbard guaranteed solid ees Bedroom--5 pieces--Red, Dresser, Cheff, Van- ity, Bench Kitchen -- Refrigerator, Table, 2 chairs, all white .......... $125/ Cabinet, THE "LOVE NEST" Living Room--3 piece Fibre Suite, loose cush- bala alias : $69} $ 00 Dining Room--9 pieces, English brown oak, $75 : Bedroom--Dresser, Simmons Bed outfit, rug, e pliant lik ae hite i ih eee $195 Porcelain If love were all, the newly-weds would live happily ever after. But unfortunately they cannot live on love alone--nor IN it. They must have a home, and the furnishing of it is the first big job to be tackled. It's easy, however, with the services of a store that has done that for thousands of others ! 835." Phone 33; Night 376