ey yy UY "igs 4 YU Yj Y yy yy ( - appeals to YOU for support for the Workshops. others. For the Pioneer What the Red Cross is Doing For the Veteran Befriends 3500 soldiers still in hospital . sickness and _ need soldier settler . employment for the disabled in three Veterans' For the Children Through Junior Red Cross, has aided 5000 crippled children and has pledged over 137,000 school children to practise health habits and to serve Brings nursing service to those in frontier districts through 39 Outpost Hospitals and Nursing Stations. For the New Canadian Welcomes and gives needed attention to immigrant mothers and children at three Seaport Nurseries. For the Mothers and Daughters : : ital... relieves in their families .. . cares . . provides sheltered for the Soldiers, Since the War, the Red Cross has disbursed over Seven Million Dollars Children and Frontier Families of Canada. About half of this has been spent for disabled soldiers ----half in the other services of the Society about which you have been told. The Treasury is almost empty. $1,000,000 Needed for Red Cross Work The Red Cross brings cheer to our disabled warriors and their families. It stimulates the children of Canada to healthy living and good citizenship. suffering, and brings skilled attention to Canada's frontier districts remote from other aid. Women, It relieves Its work is THE MIRROR Local Interest The Stratford Syburban Road Com- 'mission has began actions and as a preliminary has made a survey of the road and has completed its own Or- ganization. Hon, Nelson Monteith is chairman, John Empey, engineer, and Fred Armstrong the secretary. The commission has asked for $3,000 and the County Council has approved of it. There is a point, however, and it is this that no money should be paid by anyone until a definite plan of ac- tion is drawn up and presented to city and county councils so that the citizens may know where the money is being spent. Plans for the jubilee celebration on the first of July are well advanced and the- committee has an attractive three-day program. lined up. There will be a fine parade, aquatic sports, field sports and a program of speak- ing on the Friday and Saturday and on Sunday a sacred service, sponsored by the Ministerial Association, The committee has had considerable dit- ficulty and may have still more in the way of getting finances, put very fine co-operation from many societies in the city. A branch of the Mission Circle of the Central United Church held a meeting at the residence of Mrs. J. Pratt, Rebecca street. 'The meeting was addressed by Mrs. Byers, who, with Rev. Byers, have returned to the city. Those who attended were pleased with the fine reception given them at this home. Mrs. Pratt pro- vided a very dainty lunch GENTRY BROS. CIRCUS CAME TO TOWN Gentry Bros. circus came to town and pitched their big tents last Tues- "Them Was the Good Old Days" But Oh, What a Difference Now? Sixty years ago in Milton beer was five cents a glass and the lunch was free, writes a Milton correspondent to a Toronto daily. Eggs were three dozens.for a quar- ter and milk five cents a quart. The butcher gave away liver for the cat and treated the kids to bologna. ~The hired girl was satisfied with $2 a week and did the washing. Women did not powder, paint, smoke, play poker or do the Charles- ton. The men wore boots and whiskers, chewed tobacco and spat on the side- | walks; worked eleven hours a day and never went on strike. A kerosene lamp and a stereopticon in the parlor were luxuries. No one was operated on for appen- dicitis; folk lived to a good old age just the same, and walked miles. Today nearly everybody rides in au- | tomobiles, plays poker, shoots craps, | plays the piano with the feet, goes to the movies, smokes cigarettes, drinks home-made hootch at $10 a bottle and growls at the mew They: 3 seldom go to bed the same day they get up, and think they are having a | heck of a time. This is the day of short skirts and | long profits, legs and bootlegs, expen- give taxes and prohibition. FUNERAL SERVICE R. WHITE & CO. , 80 Ontario Phone 33 Night 376, 'AS ARCATA TTL REE 'ITA ROT Have You Decided Where You Will Go For Your Holidays ? We have advertising matter which may give you the de- sired information. Europe Alaska Jasper Park Muskoka Lake of Bays Algonquin Park Duluth Saguenay Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island Let us help you plan your vacation. J,H.KENNER City Ticket Agent 76 Ontario St. WILLYS-KNIGHT USED COUPE SEDAN Runs like new -- in first-class mechanical condition, 5 A-| tires EASY TERMS. ee AU our used cars carry a month's guarantee. Bargains in Tires Holliday- -- Abra, Ltd. 91 Erie St. Phone 2080 . The most noticeable thing to me about your successful business man is that he realizes that he cannot com- mand until he learns; that he has got to grub to get the facts into his head before they are there. The days of miracles have passed at the end of about six months to find that some other chap has what | he supposed was his forever. Don't fool yourselves that you will be successful at anything unless you work for it any more than the other fellow can; and don't forget that the > In Home Nursing Classes, has taught principles of nursing, diet and home hygiene to over 12,000 women and girls. --unless it is a_miracle, as I some- times think, that we learn as fast as we do. And the man of business who thinks he can sit down and win on his name or reputation wakes up day on the grounds at the corner of Downie and Peel streets. The at- tendance was exceptionally large, but a not bigger than the show . deserved. Rainy Days The performances were unique and every feature on the bill pleased the | } spectators. The managers of the play are a fine type of gentlemen, and those who made their acquaintances were not surprised that the circus was all that it was represented by its advertising to have been. Gentry Bros. circus has many spectacular events as well as other things of in- terest that makes it well worth see- Subscriptions may be made to any of the following locCl officers: 4 a me. other fellow has got to do just as much work as you have, and when ah he stops and you keep on you have him beaten.--Herbert L. Fratt. indispensable. For the Disaster Victim Is organized to afford prompt relief to sufferers from fire, flood and epidemic. It now appeals to YOU, as a patriotic and humane Canadian citizen, to contribute generously to its need for funds. Canadian Red Cross Society National Appeal--Empire Day to Dominion Day 6 LE PEI LILI AN Ne a re ree ~e~ ~~~ ~~ ~~ ~~~ ~~~ E | Referring to Our Recent Purchase O{ Patterson's Book Store , We have received much encouragement since having taken over the business known as Patterson's Bookstore. Hundreds of people have not only wished us success, but have shown the sincerity of their wishes by making their purchases here. Mandelberg Slickers, guaran- ma teed-- | $9.75 Mandelberg featherweight paramata waterproof coats-- $6.75 Mandelberg genuine Gabar- dine, with or without belt-- $24.50 and $29.50 ARR Rope Te DR. S. SILCOX, Honorary President MRS. D. DEACON, President. MR. C. McILHARGEY, Campaign Sec'y. MR. E. A. BATCHELLER, Mer. Royal Bank, Treasurer. Heavy Tweed, rubber lined COALS $12.50 Time is the one thing that can mever be retrieved. One may lose and regain money; opportunity once spurned may come again; but the hours that are lost in idlenss can zs oo rains 'o nver be brought back to be used in = | ---- : gainful pursuits. Mist careers are made or marred in the hours after A Bookstore is a place where most people like to visit, and par- ticularly this Bookstore. Here there are so many things to interest the book-lover and the stationery-user. If you have not visited our store you will find it most profitable to look around our book-shelves. We will gladly show you any of the new books. Come in any time See aie eat oo mene Hone genni Enough. Nora had asked for a letter of rec- ommendation, which the circumstanc- es of her leaving and the quality of her work, made it very awkward for the manager to write. Eventually after much fruitless scribbling, and waste of paper, he produced this: To whom it may concern: "This is to certify that Nora Foley, has work- Rp eg us a week, and we are satis- ied." New Curate: "And how is the little one I christened last week?" Cottager: "Oh, uns 'ad a coald Yl the' 'ead ever sin'. Man, tha 'as got- ten a 'and loike a bucket!'--Punch. Variete--'You look "Art does it. For seven years we have appeared as the Three Golden Maidens." Who was the third?" young and | sweet!" "Three? "Mother!'--Jugend (Munich). Theodore's Resignation. Theodore had been a very naughty boy, and his mother had told him that he must pray to be made better. So after playing for the various members of the family as usual, the small voice humbly said: "And make me a better boy." Then after a sec- ond's hesitation, he added in his best imitation of the grown-up man. ner: "Never-theless, not my will, but thine be done." Tomorrow today will be past. ceed or fail as we acquire good habits or bad ones; habits as easily as bad ones. That this. We are creatures of habit. We suc- _ and we acquire good a is a fact. Most people don't believe -- Only those who find it out suc- ceed in life---Herbert Spencer. ie \ eS supper--New York World. Life is a measure to be filled, not a cup to be drained. Most generally, business don't 30 where it ain't invited; and it don't _. stay where it ain't treated righf. P. J. KELLY Phone 211. 87 Ontario St ) Collegiate Slickers in 'Yellow' $6.50 Even a lion doesn't fight unless he has to. you are passing and make yourself at home. J. H. Moore ONTARIO STREET ----_------