THE MIRR@R AS RSE Oe Pe a Yer , aa THE MIRROR PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT THR _PLETCHER JOHNSTON PRESS, 123 ON- "YARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONB 115w PLETCHER JOHNSTON, EDITOR - BUBSCRIPTION RATE - $1.00 A YBAR Stratford, June 17, 1927 THE HOME ENVIRONMENT Quite frequently we receive letters from business houses, making en- - quiries about young men from. here who have applied for positions of responsibility in other cities The last letter of this kind which we received was from a large bank- ing concern in the U.S.A i This letter was somewhat differ- ent trom many others we had received in that we were asked for the first time if the young man who made ap- 'plication for the position had a good home environment. Here wase an in- stitution that evidently recognized the significance of a boy's home en- vironment. And after all is not home life the beginning and the end? Ney- er can too much emphasis be put on the influence of a good home. It isn't things that make a home. It isn't luxurious furniture or beauti- ful pictures, or a pretentious house that always create the best home en- ironment. The beautifying of the ~home, of course, is always desirable. Indeed in this regard a home can nev- 'er be too comfortable or too whole- 'some. In fact these things are con- - ducive to happiness, but its an in- Wisible something that differentiates "one home from another. That some- thing may be called atmosphere. The kind of atmosphere that exists in a home is felt by one who has visited it even for the first time. The time is coming when the home environment must be thought more about than it is today! When the boy or the girl' leave the home and start out for them- selves in a strange city, they take With them what was there taught. They carry with them ideals-- stand-. ards of living--ways of measur ing which were used in the home, A boy or a girl seldom or never _ changes the measures or -- scales that were used in the home away 'back yonder. You may fool some of your friends by the veneer for 'the real but never your own family. What you are will speak so loudly that they won't hear what you say. Its what the home is, not what it appears to be that is imprinted on the young mind. Children mtuitively know your mo- tives. They have the power of dis- ecriminating the real from the un- real. live one life and teach their boy or girl another, but this is not so. The inspiration of a good home environ- . ment is never destroyed. It is an in- _qlestructable something that enters into the making 6f character and there it remains to the end of time. | Parents may think they can ae TU MeO "LET DISCRETION BE YOUR TUTOR" It is to be hoped that when the liquor store opens that Stratford citizens will show a discretion that will be becoming to the Classic City, and its citizenship. The report from Hamilton is that Premier Ferguson's. new Liquor Act has been a success to date, and officials declare that there has been a steady improvement in conditions since it became effective. The "wild" time predicted did not ma- terialize, and only two fines have been paid for drunkenness since the Liquor Control Act came in force. This is a decrease over O. T. A. re- cords, and even local police officers admit that they have been surprised by the general law observance. Citi- zens are not patronizing bootleggers now, the police state, for they have no reason to. They can obtain liquor supplies legally and take them. to their homes to drink. The demand for liquor has fallen off considerably and conditions are now normal. County authorities are equally well pleased with the showing. They feared that with Government Control there would be an increase in auto accidents and free drinking on roads and in public places, but this has not been the case. For a few weeks the police looked for an increase in cases arising out of liquor charges, but the opposite has occurred. THE END OF THE ROAD At the end of the road are daffodils: At the end of the road is joy; At the end of the road, the dusty road Where I lived when but a boy. At the end of the road are nightin- gales : That sing when the day is done; At the end of the road are meadows ree Where "itd rippling waters run. At the end of the stands, Its walls built of turbid clay; And a mother's sweet love is buried there In the homeland far away. road a_ cottage At the ie of the road I soon shail At the "end of that road I'll stay, Where the fields are green and the skies are blue, In a land not so far away. --JOHN ROWLAND. FOR GOOD Ca AND Coffee TRY J. L. BRADSHAW CHINA HALL _ HeruTUTATEEENT = savnucanenanuscesvcvaevsnceecsnvoeeancecessocacnggvoncassuceensaveeeessunatenan enuetasvenusnenannnaTAAt CgHUr ETL EEMTERE ELLE IGERATOR NEWS COUEEPEPEULDUCUDUTAUTUEDEULOUEEOMODUGUREDEDS OREO eSDeSOeEREODREESES? . * » | RE "Keep cool' is\the motto for summer-time. Ald the same principle holds re than true for your food. Only by having a good refrigerator tan you keep your food cool and palatable in the hottest summer days. 51 Downie St. JAMES K. MYERS TOE En POUT ST S. M. P. Refrigerators will not only do that, but save ice as well. Snowy white both inside and out, with movable shelves; easy to keep clean. A full range of popular sizes. Come in and look them over. Phone 162 GRRRDRERARRGGRRUGELURGRGGREURERGELGERUEGUOE GOGGELESERTUERREGGURGRORS Paper Hanging and Painting Vork well done. itil reasonable A. D. 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Ontario St. Stratford, Ont. (Beacon Building) and safe. It's cheaper to buy a re- THE MIRROR Speed and comfort--the two dom- inating impulses of our age--have brought us great benefits, in spite of all we hear to the contrary. The impulse of speed has taught us to discriminate between the essential and the non-essential. It has pro- duced "efficiency." | In the factory and office efficiency merely means the saving of time and money. In homes it means saving something more _ precious | stil] -- Strength and _ inspiration diverted from drudgery into the more vital business of home-making -- keeping the job of house-keeping in the back- ground and seeing the home in its deep, broad relation to life--that "life more, abundant." What has the desire for physical comfort given us? Is it merely to be luxurious and self-indulgent? No, it means that we are learning to care for our bodies--realizing what won- derful machines they are. We are learning that, when given the proper care our bodies do their work better, that it does harm to. strain them, drive them too hard. Husbands and children are no long- er content to let the mother's feet be mired in drudgery, her joy in life pre- maturely spent. Still there are thou- sands of women doing the work which a motor could do for a few cents an hour--selling their time at '"coolie" wages as tho' they lived in China. And there are other thousands that won't let their heads save their heels. Here's What Mr. MacDuff says--to his wife. MacDuff is a telling his wife: "Tm going to save you' twelve thousand weary little footsteps this specialist--at summer, wifie." "You don't say so," said she. "Yes'm--I've counted those cellar steps of ours--twelve- You make six trips a day--at the very least--down and up again for the things we could keep right here in the kitchen if we had a'decent refrigerator. Figure it out yourself--12 steps down and 12 steps up is 24--6 times a day is 144-- seven days a week is 1,008. In twelve weeks the grand total of 12,096 tod- dies and that's not counting the steps across to the stairs and from the bottom of the cellar steps to the fruit cellar door where you have to free | one hand by putting some of the things on the floor to open the door and--" "But somebody said we're not going to have any summer this year and We won't need to take ice." "Say, you forget that it can be just | as hot as it has been cold. When it's cold we don't light a fire outside in | the yard and go out to get warm-- we have a good furnace fire that | warms the house. When it's hot we- "re going to have an refrigerator right where it's handiest in the house to keep things sweet and cold and crisp frigerator Bact to waste good food." "Robert"--(she reads him like a book) "I can see that the ice-box is going to be more popular than ever this summer--and when we get a new refrigerator don't you think it would be nice to have a new kitchen lin- oleum too? The old looks so shab- by." MacDuff and his wife are good pals but she has to make the most of her opportunities when it comes to spend- ing money for the house. McDuff is so Scotch. The Hernernckit . ---- . DR. S. H. SUTTER L.D.S..D,D.s, DENTAL SURGEON Specialist in Prosthetic Dentistry Majestic Apartments, 93 Downie OrFice 602 P HONES | RESIDENCE 1051w The Rexall Drug Store SPECIAL 69 4 Cakes ger S Facial Soap... . THE REXALL DRUG STORE Phone 565 Phone 25 We Deliver The Fletcher Johnston Press For Fine Job Printing Se tes eee BARNET REFRIGERATOR DEMONSTRATION SALE WHY IS. oA "BARNET" BETTER ? BECAUSE it has something built into it that absolutely no other refriger- ator has--a ventilating system. That is why you can keep fish, onions, cab- bage, Limburger cheese in a Barnet without tainting the butter and milk in the slightest degree. BECAUSE it is side-icing, with only a ' floor with freer circulation of air--colder, drier The inside of a Barnet is so dry you can keep matches in it and strike them on the wall alongside the ice ! Salt loses all its moisture if kept Bs e- composition cannot grow in dry cold the and through cleaned, short drip pipe which is easily air. ("Mildew,"' the Barnet. germs, air.) BECAUSE its walls are so that it can be kept in venient to have it. ice--delivered three a week in a locked Barnet.) BECAUSE the food chamber is one- piece porcelain (in the lower priced white enamelled steel,) as models, ' ; . easy to clear as a clean china dish. You will want one this week, won't you ? R. WHITE & CO. 80 Ontario St. "eleven-wall insulation--top, bottom, and all four sides are built to keep out the heat-- the hot kitchen, right where it is most con- The average size Barnet costs only $2.00 per month for times a week (In our demonstrations ice has lasted Home Furniture and Funeral Service. BUY YOUR "BARNET" THIS WEEK ON SPECIAL TERMS $1.00 DOWN with FREE ICE Just imagine the joy of having today's milk still sweet tomorrow morning--and the next morning if necessary ! Think of buying enough meat and fruit at bargain prices to do for several days--and keeping them perfectly fresh ! Suppose you went away for an unexpected week-end trip--food left in the ice-box still O. K. IT PAYS, in the long run, to have a good Refrigerator. It lasts a lifetime. FOOD TASTES SO DELICIOUS AND IT SAVES YOU STEPS The BARNET and other refrigerators by * the makers of the BARNET are priced as low as $13.95--think of that! The finest, largest household Barnet is only $105. In our demonstration sale we have ten models © between these two prices. There's one to suit your family--at the price you want to pay--on the easiest of terms--$1.00 down. Buy your Barnet this week, and save it in food. First filling of ice Free. Phone 33; Night 376