THE MIRROR 'THE MIRROR PUBLISHED EVERY PRIDAY AT THE PLETCHER JOHNSTUN PRESS, 123 ON- TARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONB i15u FLETCHER JOHNSTON, RDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATE - $1.00 A YBAR Stratford, September 21, 7 om i9Z8 So ER ESTE A GLIMPSE INTO ONE MAN'S BUSY BOYHOOD A soft boyhood often makes tie going hard later on. Nearly all the men at the top today are those who} had to start at the bottom and do all | their own climbing, create all their Own influence and make all their own money. An analysis of the careers of thousands of the most notable men of affairs would reveal that a large percentage of them started either as farm boys who were put to work at an! extremely early age or as grocery boys. Office boys would rank next. There seems to have been something about boyhood life on our farms whic developed sturdiness, self-reliance, energy and ambition. Farm boys Were taught that life means work, that struggle and strenuosity are man's lot. On intimate, true-to-life picture of boyhood life on the typical farm in the days when most of those who are now at the top were' young, is pre- sented by Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, in these sentences from a recent taix the garden, etc., etc., "I had to turn the churn, and we had one cow that I despised; it seem- ed as if her cream never would turn it was always time to churn when the Weather was just right for fishing or sliding down hill. Churning was an all-the-year-round job." Are not most of us who have young boys nowadays tempted to make life too easy for them? Andrew Carnegie never could understand why million- aire parents were afraid "to let a puff of wind blow on their boys" seeing that these same parents were fitted for the battle of life by early training in a hard school. I am old-fashioned enough to insist that my boys be as- signed "chores" at a very early age and that they have it driven home to them that life is not all play and pleas- ure but entails duties, responsibilities, hard work and--always -- considera- tion for others. All play and no work makes Jack a weak boy. START TODAY | To economize on the time spent 'n complaining. To mix a little more charity with your judgments. To spend more time getting the oth- er fellow's viewpoint. To dgpend more upon yourself and less upon others. To look for the good in the most unpromising people. To do these things and see how soon life grows sweeter.--Exchange. into butter, and it also seemed as if Brisk Fall Days a busy social season ahead -- lunch- eon--bridse--tea--Joseph's Wearing Apparel Shoppe anticipates with a collection of individual and exclusive costumes --coats and wraps for every activity of the coming autumn. Throughout the entire store each department contributes new fashion- able merchandise. VELVET GOWNS, COATS AND WRAPS, IMPORTED Joseph's Wearing Apparel Shoppe 25 DOWNIE STREET Joseph's Women's Apparel Shoppe HATS furniture. . annoyed by highboys, and betrayed by made to farm boys and girls: "I was born and lived on a New England farm until I was eighteen years old. My father owned his farm of about 250 acres of woodland hills, pastures and meadow lands. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and, of course, hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs, etc. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imag- ine how busy I could be. It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean out the stables; then I had to help feed the cows and cattle, and try 'to persuade one or more calves to drink milk from a pail. The hogs also had to be fed. Then there was one other job that was wholly mine, fill- ing the wood box in the kitchen, It sometimes seemed to me that it had no bottom. "In Springtime I had to ride a horse to cultivate corn and potatoes, and | help make the garden. In haying- time I had to turn the _ grindstone while the mowing machine cutter was being ground and also the scythe. I also had to rake after the cart when the hay was being loaded. We had ne hay forks and so I had to mow away ' up under the roof in the barn. The meanest job on the farm, so I thought, was picking up potatoes but I liked to husk corn. There were many oth- er jobs supposed to be a boy's size. Fraser's Important Offerings Newest in There Is a Pair of Shoes I was just going to throw away, but a friend of mine told me about the Superior Repair Shop. Now | would- n't trade them for any new pair | ever owned." Superior Shoe Repair 119 Ontario St. Phone 941 FOR YOUR Plumbing REQUIREMENTS Phone 473 Eavetroughing a Specialty J. E. Commerford 199 Ontario St. C. C.M. Bicycles Joycycles and Accessories" Baby Carriage Tires The smartest notein the glove mode -- at exceedingly low prices. Excellent quality, finely made. Colors-- Mode, beige, grey, nude, blonde, aud a new brown = shade, mastic. such as going after the cows up in the pasture, washing the buggy, stick-| Donald D. Fraser ~18-20 Ontario Street Boarders Wanted New American Hotel Best Meals in Town Bright and cheerful rooms. House recently renovated and re-modeled J. DORSEY, Prop. 388 Downie St. Phone 130 Near Station. Bicycle Repairing Gordon E. McCarthy The Bicycle Man Phone 1497w 37 Ontario St. OPEN EVENINGS '*The store that service built" R. WHITE & Co. ing pumpkin seeds, pulling weeds in| 80 Ontario Phene 33 Night THE MIRROR The human race, as an institution, has stood a lot of nonsense from its It has been brow-beaten by settees, bossed around by tables, hatracks. Whole armies of tabouret- tes and whatnots have preyed upon it. As one rotten apple has been known to ruin a whole box, so has one stick of James II. timber been known to wreck the peace of an entire estah- lishment. The time has come, as the Walrus said, to put an end to this tyranny. The origin of the first furniture is shrouded somewhat in mystery. The ancients originally had no fur- niture, thereby cutting down on their social duties. When folks called on each other away back in the time of Moses, they either sat on the front steps, which were of cold concrete, or stood around until they became tired and went home. It was an unheard-of thing to call on a man in those days, park all day in a chair, and drink up his liquor stock. They merely dropped in, ate a fig or a date, inquired after the missus, and went their way. Ulysses Cleans House. The practice of putting furniture icunders' of modern schools aesthetic dancing invented plaques | for cavorting maids to hold in|} graceful postures for Sunday maga- zine supplements. When the danc- ing lessons were over, the maids brought home their trays and they soon became a household necessity. By the time the barbarians swept down, they had fruit trays, ash trays, scrap trays, pin scores of different kinds. It was during the Middle Ages that chairs were invented. Spanish Inquisition workers, thinking up new and bizarre ways of making a slight backward tilt. Nothing like ed the early models for Pullman car seats, lizzie tonneaus, and movie théa- tre chairs. The present Canadian Na- tional Railway seats are after one of these early styles, caled by Cagliostro "spine-snappers' 'and created for un- ip YUE Lal NG dG ad te. the design beds. em has ever been aR Pp 9 18"| sashion prevailed, each change of ad- tory for inhuman cruerty. nie paceaheags ministration altering the curves and if 'pipe of | believers. It was toward the latter part oi | nations. the Middle Ages that folks really be-| scroll work gan to sit on a chair, eat off tables,| He wanted and sleep in genuine beds--the furni-' jt was inlaid or incrusted, he fairly ture triad that maintains even today | in the mail order houses. They be-| wanted to stand in lieved that with a bed, a table and|thought up a new chair or a side- a chair, the Landladies still believe that, as shown | trays-- by / equipment, A. D. 1928. Home chairs were modeled after ec- clesiastical designs. days were fat, as a rule, and required lks mi ie. davalahll the stenlakt capacious equipment. folks miserable, developed the straight) 5.34 the 'packed chair, narrowinthe hips, with the low-legged tables, and the heavy place was furnished. lodging house and apartment Bishops of those Wherefore, we wide-armed Gothic chairs, For two centuries this designs. Hacksaw Designs. It was Louis Quatorze who really NWA ) fue SS tf (Oe ETD (it er in homes was given a setback by Ulysses. While he was away at war, Mrs. Ulysses bought some of the new style chairs. Folks for miles around came and sat in them. By the time Ulysses got home, Mrs. Ulysses was nearly worn out cook-|§ ing for the bunch. Ulysses took one look at the situation through the kitchen door, and shot up the place. When he had guests and furniture the house. "All the furniture I want in this place is a nail for my bow anda place to hang my trophies," he said. Because Ulysses was the man ot his hour, all the other husbands maspberried the furniture in their own homes, and the human lived in amity and were outside plenty of room to move home. During the Roman era into use. Italy is an The houses were and concrete shakes. stone down. climbing into Romans took to sleeping on shelves Out of this grew beds. were unknown. using a Zbysbko clutch. declares that nothing ever 'them by reason of this system. Greeks Invent Plaques. Wooden and wicker trays oped during the Greek era, deve whe finished both the] race accord for 2a|\@ number of centuries thereafter, with |} around at beds came earthquake | @ country, and old Gallia was nearly | § divisa in partes tres by some of the | puilt of|g and fastened | To keep the Tiber river from ; bed with them, the But tables |} The noble Roman preferred to lie on his stomach and wrestle with his food bare-handed, History escaped 'and ruined the comfort of Louis was a demon and hacksaw design. everything ornate, If Anybody that with Louis turned handsprings. |board or a tablé and then invited him over for the evening. Louis always attached the inventor to the court and changed his drawing room styles to conform. Three prolific furniture makers gradually became the royal tin-fish of the furniture trade. They were Boule, Gauthier and Reisner. When they turned out an article it was something to look at, although as a utility piece it was usually worth- less. They were not concerned with the utility phase. What they really wanted to do was to startle Louis. | To their credit be it said that some 'of their creations startled the whole turned furniture loose on the world civilized world. iH fiditl AAA A The Effect of Color is a won- derful thing. It may be cold as Greenland outside, but glowing lamp light, soft draperies, cushions and rugs increase the comfortable feeling of warmth. Upholstery Fabrics. Tapestry, velour, mohair, for rich effect and long wear, $1.50 yd. to $6.00 1- a Select a rich looking damask or rippling soft plain silk hanging from our wide variety of goods $1. 25 to $4.50 per yd. (--We'll measure, make an hang them for you at slight ex- tra charge). FOR YOUR WINTER. HOME Breakfast Suites in Colors $35. A clever little buffet: drop-leaf table and four chairs in ivory and green, grey and blue, wedgwood and stone or any special color. SAMPLE LACE CURTAINS REDUCED Ten patterns only, . . 1 Y one and two pairs of each in silk net, swiss and filet, regularly $1.50 to $12.00 a pair. ONE-THIRD OFF R. WHITE & CO. Home Furniture & Furers! Service Phone 33, Night 376