THE MIRROR THE MIRROR 'PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT THB PLETCHER JOHNSTON PRBSS, 123 Ov- TARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONE i1l5w FLETCHBR JOHNSTON, EBDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATE - $1.00 A YBAR Stratford, March 9, 1928 COMMON SENSE EDITORIAL Bruce Barton writes an article in The Red Book which that magazine calls a common-sense editorial. The officers of a great chain of stores were sitting at lunch, and mak- ing good progress with their business discussion when somebody mentioned the forthcoming battle between Demp- sey and Tunney. Instantly all business conversation ceased; every man leaned forward eagerly to present his views on the more engrossing subject. Some weeks later I stopped at the offices of J. P. Morgan and Company to see one of the partners. His secre- tary apologized. "You will have to wait a few minutes," he said. '"'They will be down from lunch a little late today. They are entertaining Gene Tunney." One could write several different kinds of comments on these incidents. One might, if piously inclined, view with alarm the absorption of the best business minds in a low and brutal form of sport. One might point out the interesting fact that at the top ail winners meet. Be the best in your line, whether your line be prize-fighting, or banking, motion-picture acting or preaching, and you may lunch with Mr. Morgan. "Seest thou a man diligent" (a top- notcher) "in his business? He shall stand before kings." "T prefer, however, to point a differ- ent moral. Men attend prize-fights and entertain champions because all the world loves a fighter. People ask sometimes: "Why do the richest men in the country keep on working? Why don't they take their millions and retire?" Because the decision to keep on working is not a decision of the intel- lect. It lies much deeper than that. Man was made for struggle. He was cast by Providence into a hard, un- friendly universe. Climate was his enemy. Wild animals were his ene- mies. The earth was his enemy, and would give him no food until he had searred its face with the undercuts of the plow, and beaten it to helplessness with the barrage of -the harrow. "Fight, and you shali live," says Na- 'ture. "Quit, and no matter how well you have surrounded yourself with comfort, you will soften and die." I once made a visit, with the late George W. Perkins, to a certain city which shall be nameless. Nature has so favred it that people can live with very little effort and be in the sun- shine all the year round. "How do you like this city?" I ask- ed him. He answered: "It's full of men who have run away from the game." It is a lovely city, but a very unin- teresting one--full of men, as Mr. Perkins said, who have gathered their money about them and are waiting to die. : Biography gives one a lot to think about. How few who regarded life merely as a source of pleasure have succeeded in extracting much pleas- ure from it! But to the fighter the game is fresh every day, and there is no time for introspection or fear even at the end. "When death comes to me," said old Stephen Girard, who was more than eighty, "it will find me busy, un- less I am asleep. If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should never- theless plant a tree today." Planting a tree on the very last day --Launching a new bit of life--a splen- did last punch at the old enemy Death. CHARACTER "The accumulations of a lifetime of toil and struggle, in property, goods and money, count for nothing,' says E. Meredith Terry when speaking of character. "These must all be left behind. The only accumulations we can take with us into the great here- after are those of character. The question we will be called upon to answer at this supreme moment is not "What have you left," but "What do you bring." And what is charac- ter and how is it formed? Character is your personality, it is the thing that distinguishes you from others. It is the thing you have come to _ be, through all the good and pleasant and the hard experiences of your life. It is the realization of yourself. Charcater is formed by con- duct. Conduct is the results of hab- its, and habits are acquired by ac- tion. Everything that we do, good and bad, has its effect on character. Our thoughts, our conversation, our every transaction, trifling or import- ant, all go to make up our personality and form our character. And one thing is certain, we are always chang- ing. We are growing better or worse. Our characters are growing stronger or they are growing weaker. There is no escape from the universal law of activity and change. The great thing is to make sure we are headed the right way, and moving in the right di- rection. This can only be made Cer- tain by adhering to fixed principles and striving for some worthy ideal. It means self-discipline, self-restraint and the practice of virtue. There are three stages in the making of charac- ter--know thyself, fight thyself, con- quer thyself. Strike out on your own lines. Do your own thinking. Be- come a positive personality and fear no one but your Maker. Fix your aim and purpose, then begin to built your character. Build it bit by bit, as you develop your work or build your bust- ess, always improving and progressing toward your ideal. The greatest help to this end is the forming of right hab- its. Here are some of the things that should be crystalized into habits. Be fair. Do your duty fearlessly and cheerfully. Be considerate, be polite. Be courageous. Be high toned. Be unselfish. Speak ill of no one. Be natural, the same to everyone. Ac- knowledge when you are in the wrong Forgive freely. You can't please bad, the| everyone, do not try. Never forget a kindness. Help those who are strug- gling up. Share your prosperity with those who have helped you gain it. Do not let prosperity or success spoil you. 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Panel effects are excep- tionally good fr bedrooms at present, particularly where walls are glazed. The many ways of doing things, a casual glance discloses, some folks turn up their sleeves at work and some turn up their noses. As related to us, the following inci- dent took place in a furniture store. A woman came in looking for a crotch mahogany bedroom suite. The boss, overhearing her request, was. sur- prised that the young salesman made no comment, but took her to the bed- room display and showed her several pieces of walnut furniture. The wom- an was very patient as the young salesman extolled the virtues' of the goods he was showing her, but finally broke it off by explaining that she was not interested in walnut--she wanted crotch mahogany and crotch mahogany only. "I'm sorry to say, madam, that we have no crotch ma- hogany in stock, and furthermore, we will never be able to get any more of it." "Do you mean to tell me that you can't get any more crotch mahog- any--and why not?' demanded the lady. The salesman's face did not even twitch as he replied, "Mr. Crotch is dead, that's why." Turnover is very important. One housewife thinks so much of it that she puts pop-corn in her pancakes so they'l] turn over by themselves. £. FUNERAL SERVICE R. WHITE & CO. 86 Ontario Phone 38 Night 376, J. S. RUSSELL Registered Architect Phone 1533F Gordon Block ATTRACTIVE MENU The following menu for a day all but eliminates meat, and gives a few quite unusual recipes that you may want to file for future reference. Car- rot hash is a good substitute for the usual chapped meat dish. BREAKFAST Whole Wheat Cereal with Cream French toast with Apple Butter Coffee Milk LUNCHEON Carrot Hash Baked Potatoes Fruit Salad Thin Brown Bread and Butter Sandwiches Tea Milk DINNER Baked Spaghetti with Tomato Candied Sweet Potatoes Celery Stuffed with Cheese Corn Meal Sticks Cranberry Jelly Fig and Apple Betty Oat Beal Cookies Tea Milk Carrot Hash. One pound of ground beef, one pound of carrots, scraped and put through the meat chopper; a small onion, minced; seasoning to taste; a little celery salt is a good addi- tion. Mix all ingredients well, put in a-~greased casserole, add a cup of hot water and bake one hour in a moderate oven. Then uncover, turn up the gas and brown on top. Cornmeal Sticks. One cup cornmeal, one cup flour, one-fourth cup sugar ,five teaspoons baking powder, one teaspoon salt, one cup milk, one egg, two tablespoons melted shortening. Add cornmeal and sugar to flour, baking powder and salt, sifted together. Add the milk with the well-beaten egg gradually, then shorteningr. Mix well. Pour into greased breadstick pans and bake in a hot oven about 20 minutes. Fig and Apple Betty. Cover the bottom of a buttered pud- ding dish with sliced apples. Then a layer of chopped figs, a thick layer of bread crumbs. Cover this with brown sugar, dot with butter and season with nutmeg. Repeat these ingredients, having the seasoned crumbs on top. Add to the casserole about three- fourths cup of hot water, cover and bake for about 40 minutes. Then re- move cover and bake 20 minutes FOX'S Jewelry and Leather Goods How about trading that old watch in on a new one? Watch repairs called for and de- livered. "The Store With a Heart" 1414 Downie St. READ THE ADS. Dress Up Your Home IN NEW SPRING CLOTHES A AE a T | a a. iy a> Rea Oo 4% ng 2 ee: --~ Fe = ry Ae . 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