DiRT Aa. ait A hen ce . patentee Aaa aes dip a a tain TE An THE MIRROR ~ THE MIRROR . PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT THB PLETCHER JOHNSTON PRESS, 123 On- TARIO ST., STRATFORD. PHONE 115w PLETCHER JOHNSTON, EDITOR SUBSCRIPTION RATB $1.00 A YEAR Stratford, September 28, 1928 A DOG'S ONLY CHANCE TO LIVE HIS OWN LIFE Father takes the dog out, sometimes early in the morning, more often late in the evening. Mother takes the dog out when she does her marketing coming home exhausted by her efforts to keep him from getting tangled up with some other woman's dog. Daugh- ter may be seen almost any hour of the day with the dog on a leash, but the number of times son appears in this capacity is negligible. There is a reason for this. Boys will be boys, as every mother will teil you, and when son is out with the dog and a cat is scared up, the leash is quickly unsnapped, with a "Get him, Towser." He never sees another dog that he is not eager to match his animal against. If there is no policeman in sight, off comes the muzzlize, and son returns home with his eyes spark- ling with animation, which, if he is wise, he never explains and which, if his mother is boy-wise, she finds ex- plained in the ruffled hair and scratch- es on her pet. The dog prefers to have the boy take him for his daily walks; it is his only opportunity to live, though for so brief a period, his own life. As New York dogs are not permitted to lead their own lives, an eager dog racing with an eager boy holding the other end of the leash is a rare sight in the city. FOREWORD Some little time ago Mr. Arthur Skidmore contributed a number of in- 'teresting items under the heading of "Mirrorettes." Again our readers are to be favored with excerpts fron the writings of Lord Chesterfield, but modernized by "Eromdiks," Mr. Skid- more, who has done much reading of ._ the better class of literature and prizes very highly this old copy of Lord Chesterfield's writing. We are sure our many readers will appre- ciate these Maxims, COMPETITION Competition, says the cynic, mak- es rattlesnakes of us all. Never leave a buyer with the feel- ing that he has been sold. If the salesman had all the fine qualities you expect of him, he'd own the company. A good man keeps hitting the bull's-eye without shooting the bull. A man's thoughts and _ interests flow along like a stream. If you can't tess your proposition into the middle of this stream, you might as well sit on the bank and shoot bull- frogs. Until you learn this, keep up your course in salesmanship.-- Paper Book. OUT FOR BUSINESS Hestitating in front of a _ suspic- ious looking stretch of mud, the autoist was approached by a small boy. "You can drive in if you want to, mister," said the young business man. "Farmer Jones is waiting to haul you ont for five dollars, but if you'll give me a dollar, I'll show you a good way round." THE BUSY MAN If you want to get a favor done By some obliging friend, And want to promise, safe and sure, On which you may depend, Dou't go to him who always has Much leisure time to plan, But if you want your favor done, Just. ask the busy man. The man with leisure never has A momeut he can spare; He's always "putting off" until His frieuds are in despair. But he whose every waking hour Is crowded full of work Forgets the art of wasting time-- He cannes. stop to shirk. So, when you want a favor done, And want it right away, Go to the man who constantly Works twenty hour a day. He'll find a moment sure, where, That has no other use, And fix you up while the idle man Is framing an excuse. some- For A Quick and Pleasant Heat These cool summer evenings place in your sitting room an Electric Heater. We have sev- eral makes of heaters that are a great improvement on those for- merly used. 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DORSEY, Prop. 388 Downie St. | Near Station. ers eats 8, THE M IRROR : i Dr. Laird, of Colgate University, An- nounces Results of Experiments to Determine Nature of Slumber Next to death, sleep has always been one of our most baffling mys- teries. How much sleep do we need? Why does our blood pressure alter when we are unconscious? How much energy do we burn when we are a- bed? These and a score of other questions seem to have been anSwer- ed as a result of a long series of ex- periments conducted by Dr. Donald A. Laird, of Colgate University, who, in Science News-Letter thus briefly describes them: "Beginning three years ago at Col- gate, volunteer subjects' slept §2 quarters that the fraternity houses loaned us for temporary use. The in- vestigation has grown and expanded from that beginning, until next year an entire ten-room house will be used for the sleep laboratory. "Since the field has been practic- ally untouched it has been necessary to plan and construct much appara- tus for studying what goes on in peo- ple while they sleep, and how sleep can be made most restful. "Some of the apparatus is con- structed so that time is measured not merely in seconds or tenths of sec- onds, but in thousandths of seconds. "In measuring muscular relaxation,|} which appears to be of paramount importance in restful sleep, we have had to devise other which will tell us the effect a single twitch of a finger has upon the total muscular relaxation of the sleeper's body. "we have had to develop special|@ methods to measure the exact emount of bodily energy expended when do- ing work after sleep of various kinds and amounts. : "The greatest difficulty in the ex- % perimental work is in the loss ofy sleep it demands from those being| @ experimented upon and those doing| the experimenting. It ig somewhat! | of a lark to stay up unusually late one } f night. But when the experimenters request' that you get along with six| 'hours of sleep every night for a f a month in place of the eight you have} 'been accustomed to having, the fun disappears the second night about 'ten o'clock. Nevertheless, we were able to get some students to make this sleep sacrifice without credit or pay three years ago. "We have also had our 'human guinea pigs' sleep with a gas-mask _gilwed to their faces for a half year of nights at a time so that we could make chemical analyses of the expir- ed air the whole night long. In this . _ particular case the more severe hard- : hip fell upon those making the ex periments, since they had to keep wide awake all night to make accur- e determinations of the energy ex- iture of those enjoying sleep. subjects sleeping peacefully | gas-masks will keep ten others ke making the chemical analyses shaled breath collected through e the masks. are essential in order to discover the | what and why of sleep. Imagine | yourself, for instance, being awak-| ened at four o'clock this morning and | put through strenuous tests for an | hour and a half on this incomplete amount of sleep; tests which range from how much electricity is needed to shock you, to lifting weights with your middle finger every second un- til you are exhausted and unable to lift even an ounce. "Then further imagine that you are awakened for the same work at three o'clock two mornings later, then at two o'clock, and so on until all the hours of your sleeping period have been tabulated and charted. It takes considerable determination to stick through a job like that when you also have your regular work to do during the daytime, when sensible people work exclusively. But you can never fully appreciate the com- plete pleasure of a long Sunday work. "It comes to many people as some- what of a surprise to find that an- other hardship is changing from a medium-soft, comfortable bed to a hard and sagging bed. This demands more will power in some cases than. to cut down on one's hours of sleep. But sleeping in uncomfortable beds is just another of the cruel and inhu- man things we require of Our sub-. jects from time to time, although there are thousands of people com- placently sleeping on beds far from comfortable or right, and blissfully ignorant of the fact. Since our boys have slept around on different com- binations of mattresses and springs in the laboratory, they have found that differences in the restfulness of two beds may be as marked as chang- es in the weather. "The best bed combination to sleep upon to obtain most restfulness seems to be a medium-soft bed with i ; ; a : |}morning sleep until you have been} a large number of vertically placed "Other cruel and inhuman practices| through a semester or two of such} coil springs. A bed which sags keeps muscles under tension, and does not allow for a desirable amount of rest- fulness. "We were somewhat astonished to find that a bed can be too soft, espe- cially for the person of above average weight. In some of the tests seven hours' sleep on some beds gave a Te- covery equal to eight hours on other beds. The type of spring and mat- aress found in practically all college dormitories gives a poor sleeping combination. A praiseworthy charity to undertake on a national scale is (Continued oa page 5) FUNERAL SERVICE R. WHITE & CO. 80 Ontario Phone 33 Night 376, a= sr | THE WORLD-FAMOUS "BUILT - FOR - SLEEP" SIMMONS BEDS Specially Priced If you sleep just once on a bed built with the buoyant restful- instruments | Simmons Star Mattresses $15 and every good grade $6.95 to $39. ys Ph, af : ) ; Special Simmons Bed Outfit $19.00 Bed spring and mattress com- Simmons Slumber King Spring $12.00 ness of the better Simmons beds--never again will you want to sleep on an ordinary bed. 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