me eee ieee ree Fea ' THE STRATFORD r '~ CUPID'S# , = : < Exclusive Advantages CHRISTMAS MADE PAINLESS For Men Shoppers We will do a lot to relieve adult male suffering between now and Christmas (and only we men know how we men suffer). It isn't that we mind the ex- ' pense. And it isn't that our hearts. aren't overflowing with love--gosh no, it isn't that. Answers will appear the week following your enquiry. Why don't I ever get married? Well there's reasons and reasons. And then I never did think much o' marriage Address all letters to Miss Ina St. John, Mirror Office. | are offered in feel about our "Corner," Popular Sweetie! It's just too bad that you don't like the advice we have given to. all the nice girls and boys and older | people who have written to us. You don't want to be a wallflower. We. don't blame you an atom for that. You | don't want to be shabby. Neither do the other girls, But they want to be honest and self respecting. You don't | want to be good. Well that is a more. serious matter, --Let alone my opinion o' men! 'They're a poor sort o' critters--the bilen! : (Tl) allow there's a few fit to live), But fer makin' the run--I just wonder The Maker Himself can forgive. I allus fought shy o' the men folks. _ --And to stick down to solid straight Wf tER 1 Hose, i NY all | | | You do not wish to e : The torture is the rite acts, e€ good because the boys avoid , sera | es riends of the Sun: as to what to get ner, They none o' them so far as I girls. Well, that is where you_make a| Be the . knowed of i sad mistake. A girl need not be a prude to be good. And whether you believe it or not, few men have -any real regard for a girl who is not good jat heart, If your theory were sound | the only good women would be spins- | ters. You are far from clever, Popu- lar Sweetie, It is no trick to win seeming popularity in your way. But aS sure as the sun shines, you will pay a heavy price for every hour of: , your present gaiety, As for marrying. Have any of your men friends shown any desire to | marry you? Your good time will be | Tap. of short duration. Yes, you may look like Cinderella in her finery. But who | will care what you look like when you have lost all that is worth while -- your self respect -- the respect of the world -- your own' decency. Your conscience is your best friend, Popu- lar Sweetie. Listen to it while you 'may.--Ina St, John. By Grace Noll Crowell I shali attend to my little errands of love Early, this year, So that the brief days before Christ- mas may be Unhampered and clear Of the fever of hurry. The breathless rushing that I Have known in the past the thought of going into a store crowded with women and women's things. Was cracked about me! And so, among my reasons fer not gettin' married-- (You've taxed me to tell you--) The best of them may be, my dear-- _ That I never was axed! € | "Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. eee of my little friends say there | is no Santa Claus. Papa says: "If you see it in the Sun, it's so." Please tell | me the truth: Is there a Santa Claus?' , "Virginia O'Hanlon, Now when a man looks at furniture for the home -- a lamp--a chest--a_ chair, he knows, and no foolin', wheth- er it will suit or it-won't. And what a relief! What an Angel you feel! To find the gift for Her--a gift for her home. We submit our Furniture Shop for Men Shoppers. R. WHITE & CO. 80 Ontario St. Phone 33 "145 West Ninety-fifth Street.' | "Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. Spal. Nop poraves tae SHS) be.catn |They do not believe except they see. TS £0 l They think that nothing can be which | Ane as oat lis not comprehensible to their little For Christmas: "The Mass of the! minds, All minds, Virginia, whether | Christ." TI shall knee) they be men's or children's, are little. Per ee Se BE; \In this great universe of ours man is a shall take Line te Wareh the: her: bs mere insect, an ant in his intellect, fu ERs as. compared with the Re cee Cae avid about him, as measured by the I shall have leisure-- I shall go out | intelligence, capable of grasping the one whole truth and knowledge. From my roof and my door;' "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa | I shall not miss the silver silence of |Claus. He exists as certainly as love | seats and generosity and devotion exist, and met DSVS, ota you know that they abound and give | And, oh, perhaps -- If I stand there |to your life its highest beauty and joy. ety, te Alas! how dreary would be the world 1 --An inside wedge to lift the inside of the foot and throw the swing to the outside. TOO YOUNG Dear Miss St. John: I have a boy friend who seems to _like every girl he meets. How can I get to know if he likes me _ better than all the rest, or what can I do to 'win him. Counting on you, 2--A socket for the heel to allow it to rest naturally without flattening. z ~ ~ 3--An inner flange to support the arch and instep. These are exclusive features of the M. W. Locke Shoe-- se only shoe designed and approved by the world-famous ' '30t specialist, Dr. M. W. Locke of Williamsburg, Ontario. "ome in'soon and be fitted with a pair of M. W. Locke Shoes. Then you'll know the real meaning of "foot comfort." Priced 'TABORHOO SHOE STORE Opposite City Hal. 32 Wellington Street STRATFORD es ANSWER: Judging by your letter, Tap, you afe about eleven years of age (or younger). I am sorry you are counting on me to help you win a boy friend. For in my opinion you are Many years too young to think of such things. Why not play with your dolls and enjoy the company of the little girls and boys who like you without any strategy on your part? You may be older than I think you boundless 80 ONTARIO' ST. PHONE 33. NIGHT 376 FUNERAL SERVICE DEPT. a A GIFT IN BAD TASTE Dear Miss St. John: [It is near . : . ' t real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world So you're out of work and wan ' 9" =. a And very long-- if there were no Santa Claus! It/;) 76 jg nothing else real and abiding. Reys Ee ee are. But in any case you should put eee Se: is it not. My boy friend I shal] hear what the clamor of living | would be as dreary as if there were| «4 ganta Claus! Thank God! he Pot Cae ery "Well, now my car your mind to work on your studies. fisan tees, the other night that he has kept from me; no Virginias. There would be no child- A thousand jaaeoneee é ; ' Learn to. write better. Be kind and Bh eg going to buy me a box of cute lives and lives forever. years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood." needs painting. What would you charge to do that job?" "T'd have to get two dollars an hour." "Two dollars an hour? Why, I wouldn't pay Michelangelo two dollars an hour in times like these!" "Well, mister, I don't know this here Michelangelo; but if he paints cars at less than two dollars an hour he don't + belong to the union." Practical Christmas Gifts Doric Pattern--Stainless The angels' song! happy and good, and all the boys and | undies. I told mother and she is : eae og girls will like you and maybe this | horrified. Yet I know dozens of girls se one "better than the rest," as you say. |who have accepted such gifts. We qT) : : : il it 4 --Ina St. John. 27 not engaged. Do you think he see avis a fc means any harm? -- HOLLY. - THE DOWNWARD PATH ANSWER: You are the best judge | , c Dear Miss St, John: I have read the | Of your boy friend's intention, Holly. | letters in your paper for a long time. | Probably he did not "mean any harm." I just want to say that your good | But no girl of good taste would accept : advice is a bit silly for these times. | 5UCh a gift froma man. There are so Who wants to be a good, shabby wall easy ee, ere ee could not of-. flower? A gay life for mine. A girl Bae : 2: ean't have any fun without boy friends. And you Snow how they love| Dear Miss st, John: Can you suggest the goody goody kind. Oh my yes. [2 book for a man who will be shut in They love them and leave them alone. |at Christmastime? He likes stories | I am smart enough to please the lig early days. Thanking you sincere- like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable tnis existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished, | "Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! 'You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christ-_ ta Claus, but <aghaeaees tA cries 7 ie ae pe eg Santa Claus Se ie BH ieee, quite edi coming down, what would that prove? are as er eon: dis | Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is | ee a eee epg eign there is no Santa Claus. The | ee ee caro most real things in the world are those , L¢ finally, positively. | that neither children nor men see. Did | IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS? We reprint this familiar story: A New York editor of a century ago is remembered today because he wrote a friendly letter to a. perplexed little 8-year-old girl. One September day in 1897 a queer letter came to the editoria] desk of the ANNOUNCING THE OPENING OF THE NEW Derma - Way Beauty Shop Majestic Apts., Downie St. Finger Waves, Marcels, Shampoos, 25c What does this mean in a Milk Service ? RICH IN QUALITY LOW IN BACTERIA Uniform from day to day. Milk from regularly in- spected herds--properly pasteurized and put into perfectly pasteurized bottles. Delivered by willing, courteous salesmen at the time you require it... . ------ THE WHITE COMPANY men and get away with it. I have Bees Saige more dates than I can keep. And do I enjoy life! I wouldn't marry the best guy in town. I'm having too good a time. When Christmas comes I'll get so many swell things that I will look like Cinderella at the party. If you want to ask me -- don't take syyour conscience along when you go out to make whoopee. --POPULAR SWEETIE ANSWER: "The White Company," by Conan Doyle is a delightful story of the thirteenth century in England. --Ina St. John PETER & SYLVESTER Will do your Repairs in Plumbing Heating Electric Phone 219 120ntario St. ANSWER--So that is the way you | You oan say it in three words-- Silverwood's Milk Service Silverwood's. Stratford Dairy Limited Phone 770 L. A. Wallis, Manager The letter was turned over to Fran- cis Pharcellus Church to answer, "And Church," says a contemporary, "bristled and pooh-poohed -- but he took the letter and turned with an air of resignation to his desk." He did not know that years hence his name would be remembered only for the reply he dashed off. Here it is, just as it unostentatiously appeared in the Sun, in 1897: "We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the com- munication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among lyou ever 'see fairies dancing on the | lawn? Of course not, but that's no | proof that they are not there. Nobody | lean conceive or imagine all the won- lgers there are unseen and unseeable lin the world. For Appointment Phone 1298-F "You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, | but there is a veil covering the un- seen world which not the strongest | man that ever lived could tear apart. 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