THE MIRROR Spoons melted butter, three-quarters cup sugar, two eggs, one-half cup milk, two cups flour, four teaspoons baking powder, one-half teaspoon salt. Beat egg white stiff, beat in serve with this: A SPLENDID RECIPES Steamed Chocolate Pudding. Foamy Sauce. Four suqares chocolate, six table- tablespoons: milk, Melt chocolate. Mix butter, sugar, | dered sugar gradually, and well beaten eggs and the milk. Add | Smooth and light add vanilla to the chocolate alternately with | well beaten egg yolk. Stir in cream sifted dry ingredients. Steam an | or milk, and serve at once. hour in a well greased mould and One egg white, one-half cup | Pa dered sugar, one-half teaspoon va- | nilla, one egg yolk, one-half cup | whipped cream or one and one-half pow: | when amd pow- | The Principal Difference in Mason & Risch Pianos and other good pianos is QUALITY in favor of the Mason & Risch. This fact has given the piano of our make a standing In colleges, conservatories, and with the masters of repute such were Canadian piano ever had before. ldespread popularity offers the undeniable s proof that erreese nea Piano shows distinctive value, that its : J? appearan ts i s ctamtiat quality Winnie ance reflects the genuine, sub RISCH- LIMITED 97 Ontario Street. Phone 171 | SSG THE MARRIAGE vow A Stratford lady, who holds most s ; , acredly the marriage vOw, gave these verses to The Mirror for publication because of the great number of Stratford girls who are becoming brides. Speak it not lightly! 'tis a holy thing, A bond enduring through long distant years When joy o'er thine abode is hovering, Or when thine eye is wet with bitterest tears Recorded by an Angel's pen on high, 'And must be questioned in eternity! Speak it not lightly though the young and gay, Are thronging round thee now with tones of mirth Let not the holy promise of the day, Fade like the clouds that with the morn haye birth But ever brizht and sacred may it be Stored in the treasure cell of memory. Life will not prove all sunshine--there will come Dark hours for all--oh, will ye when the night Of sorrow gathers thickly round your home, Love as ye did in times when calm and bright Seemed the sure path ye trod untouched by care And deemed,the future like the presnt fair. . Eyes that now beam with health may yet grow dim And cheeks of rose forget their early glow. Langour and pain assail each active limb And lay perchance some worshipped beauty low. Then will ye gaze upon the altered brow And love as fondly, faithfully as now? Fortune should frown on your defenseless head Should storms o'ertake your bark on life's dark sea, Fierce tempests send the sail so gaily spread, When hope her syren strain sang joyously, Will ye look up thovgh clouds your sky o'ercast, And say together we will bide 'the blast? Age with its silvery locks comes stealing on And brings the tottering step, the furrowed cheek, The eye from which each lustrous gleam hath gone, Aud the pale lip with accents low and weak, Will ye then think upon your life's gay prime And smiling bid love triumph over time? Speak it not lightly, oh, beware! beware! Lo! men and angels list the faith ye swear, 'Tis No vain promise no unsWwearing word And by the High and Holy One 'tis heard, Oh, then, kneel humbly at His altar now, And prhky for strength, to keep the marriage yow. POSSIBLE CURE FOUND FOR ant (au) 2a. 6 ane, fc 1 a ee CITIZENS OF STRATFORD: The annual Shakespearean Plays by the Normal Students will he presented this year on Thursday and Friday, May 26 and 27,1n the City Hall. The plays presented will be LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST on the 26th,and THE TEMPEST on the 27th. T hese are both laughable comedies and are among the shortest of Shakespeare's plays. We are looking for a record attendance this year, because interest in these plays has been increasing for the past ten years. Tickets are fifty cents each (tax extra) and should be purchased early. Your patronage will aid the work of reviving interest in Shakespeare, who has done so much to make English literature famous. The profits will be distributed between the Muskoka Sanatorium, the Students' Sick Benefit Fund, and the fund tor buying Memorial paintings for the school. S.N.S., May 16, 1927. Yours sincerely, S. SILCOX, Principal. _ THE MIRROR RHEUMATISM ce ; There is at least a good chance that a way out of the acute rheuma- 2 tism problem is about to be found, says Dr. W. A. Evans. A solution of that problem will carry with it a So- lution of the heart disease problem,: _ Dr. J. C. Small thinks he has found the coccus which causes most of the eases of what is called acute rheuma- tic fever, or acute inflammatory rheu- matism. What is still more promis- ing, he thinks he knows how to grow this coccus and use it on laboratory animals and horses to make an anti- toxin. This antitoxin is more than a simple anti-toxin in that it kills the coccus as well as neutralizes the toxin. He has used this antitoxin on a small series of cases of acute rheu- matic fever in human beings, and thereby cured them in a way that has @very resemblance to the way diph- theria antitoxin cures diphtheria. Up to date he has nothing to offer in the way of a vaccine. This coccus Dr. Small calis strepto- coccus cardio arthritis, because acute rheumatic fever is regarded as an acute disease of the heart quite as much as it is an affection of the joints. For a long time bacteriologists have been pretty well agreed that acute rheumatic fever was due to one of the streptococci. A generation ago Paint- er and Yayner announced the cause of this fever to be a streptococcus. But this particular one belongs to a group of streptococci that has been a | little overlooked. The causing coc- cus gets into the blood stream through the tonsil region. It was found in the throat, in the | blood and in the joints. When it was | taken from the throat and grown on | culture media and then injected into | rabbits it caused a disease that had | the ear marks of rheumatism. When | the sick rabbits were killed and their | hearts examined, Aschoff bodies were | found. These bodies are character- | istic of acute rheumatic fever. The | cocci persist in those subacute rheu- | matic joint conditions which so fre- | quently follow acute rheumatic fever. | In certain cases the symptoms were | original most fellows run out. of those of St. Vitas dance, and this is | a full brother to acute rheumatic fever. FORMING GOOD HABITS My pupils habitually used "ain't" instead of "isn't," aren't," etc. When- ever one would say "ain't" I would place his name on the blackboard un- der "ain't," written with colored cray- on. However, this did not encourage the pupils to correct themselves, as their names would already be on the board. I therefore changed my meth- od, putting on only the names of pu-- pils who did not correct themselvevs. Now I very seldom hear the children use: "aint'." This not only helped the children but in some cases the parents. As the parents became accustomed to hearing "aren't" instead of isn't," and heard the children correcting each other, they also began using the correct form. Many of the boys often forgot to take off their caps when they enter- ed the school building; so I wrote on the blackboard, "Hats off," and un- derneath this placed the names of any who failed to remove their caps. 'You may guess the result from what one of the nine-year-old boys said; "I have*got so in' the habit of taking off my cap when I am in a building that I almost took it off when I went into the hog house this morn- ing.'"---Blanch Seely, Teacher. Steamed Marmalade Pudding. Two tablespoons. shortening, one quarter cup sugar, 'one egg, six tablespoons orange marmalade, one tablespoon baking powder, one and one-half cups flour, one tablespoon milk. Cream shortening and add sugar. Ald beaten egg and marmalade Mix baking powder and flour and add to mixture. Add milk, if needed to moisten, and steam two and one- half hours. ~~She--'* Now whatare you stopp- ing for?"' He (as car'comes to a halt)--"I've lost my bearings."' She--" Well, at least you are gas!" 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