a ae - Page 4 - THE STRATFORD MIRROR Friday, April 20, 1945. BERS srk RS a a ns We Held The Five Dollars 4 pay the holder $5.00 in cash. and we wish you luck. | AERO Quarts 49c -"Sufficent Nu-Wall for an average size room, one coat, would cost less than two dollars." This was the ad., and "i" left out of "sufficient" was the | Misspelled word which, if found, would have enabled us to We are sorry we didn't have the pleasure of paying it out, but we understand there are five chances offered this week, SOLVEX for Cleaning Floors IOC gal. No Rubbing WAX Pints . 29c 32 DOWNIE STRATFORD STREET ONTARIO ' Small Girl--"T wonder why so many Cashier -- "The men have started 'babies get borned at night. Seven-Year-Old--"Don't you know? TEt is because they want to be sux@ of *Sinding their mothers at home." Lady (interviewing new maid)--'I "forgot to ask you if you had any reli- <gious views." Maid--"No, I haven't, ma'am, but "Wve got some dandy snapshots of Ni- "agara Falls and Brock's Monument. Cashier--"T'm afraid I'm not as wpretty as I used to be." Boss--"What makes you say that?" counting their change." Professor--"What is your idea of civilization?" Sophomore--"I think it's good idea. 1c a very Somebody ought to start Polly--"I'm going to have that fam- ous young doctor examine me." Molly--"But why? You're perfect everywhere?" Polly--"Yes, that's what I want him to find out." TU Pt ee 0 TE dua BILLFOLDS and many other TELE EI Et nt TT MEVAVAMEHENEHOHANOEHAHENESHENET RNA R Hemme ArH rete rem Tie Ite TTB tM tM NM rrm CRN BTML en eNIBN When Your Requirements Call For Leather Goods. . remember we carry the best in PICTURE FRAMES LUGGAGE Gold Initials Free on Purchases over $2.00. targetts Leather Good 123 Ontario St. | | Se EET ET HE tty IT 11] HANDBAGS Leather Items ET Ee Ge Te He STOTT WT Uy GTP aT nT Ty GT TT The Most For Your Money In Furnishing A Home 1. THE HOME FURNISHING DOLLAR Having more ingenuity than money, Bob and Jane decided to make a three-year buying plan. Before they bought even one piece of furniture for the new home, they made complete plans for the finished rooms, for fur- niture, rugs, curtains, the color scheme, even the accessories they wanted. The first year they bought necessi- ties for sitting, lighting and sleeping comfort, For the living room they chose a well-made sofa, a comfortable reading |chair, and a good reading lamp. A strongly-made folding card table tem- porarily played the double role of dining table and desk. In the family attic they found three of grand- mother's dining room chairs, beauti- ful and well worth Bob's efforts to re- finish them. Jane hooked rugs and put up simple ruffled curtains; Bob made and paint- ed book shelves. Wedding gifts (and that same attic) helped by providing flower vases, a mirror and an end table. The ten-cent store. provided small accessories with just the right touch of color. They put nearly all their money for the bedroom into the best springs and mattress they could buy, and used a plain metal frame for them. Jane used an unpainted table for her dress- ing table and made a gay skirt for it to match the bedspread. Their second year buying centred around a living room rug. The hook- ed rugs were then retired to the bed- room. A drop leaf table of beautiful design and finish replaced the card table. Then it became necessary to change their buying plan to make room for a baby bed; they decided not to spend money on a little bassinet he could use only a brief time, but to buy a bed large enough for him to sleep in until he was old enough not to roll out of a |full sized one. The third year they bought color and charm in draperies and slip covers of durable material, well tailored. An-/; other upholstered chair was added. Since the box bed was. perfectly comfortable they decided to postpone buying the bed a little longer. A small comfortable chair, night tables and lamps were added to the bedroom. --Courtesy Household Finance Cor- poration. Call Us If You Are Missed If by any chance you don't get your copy of The Mirror will you please phone 115 or call at the office, leaving your name and address, when you will receive a copy. FUNERAL DIRECTORS eral Service. 46 Erie Street, Telephone 1760. OVER FIFTY YEARS What a feeling of pride the guests sit down toa dinner chosen silverware. obligation to buy. That Air Of Refinement * Nothing gives that air of refinement to the home as that which is added by a Silver Table Service. We have a fine selection of both plated and solid silver in the latest and best designs of foremost silversmiths. Our stock is conveniently displayed and we'd be glad to have you come in and look around without any DUNCAN EMM JEWELLER AND DIAMOND MERCHANT 23 DOWNIE ST. hostess experiences when table furnished with well- "@here You May Buy With @nfidence" GREENWOOD-GILBART Fun- Smet oe Friday, April 20, 1945. THE STRATFORD MIRROR Two Ball Clubs The Draft Never Touched There is at least, one baseball league that has escaped the wartime head- aches that have beset all major and minor league clubs since Pearl Har- bor. It has no transportation prob- lem, suffers from no financial worries, 'and, most important of all, the long 'arm of the draft has kept hands off. This unique and fortunate organiza- tion of two teams--the Kids and the Kubs--is the Three-Quarter-Century Soft-Ball League, which has just com- 'pleted its fourteenth diamond session. The average age of its players is 'Seventy-nine years and ten months, yet these oldsters play a regular twice- a-week, four-months schedule for fun, exercise and charity, in St. Petersburg, Florida, starting in early December vand ending in late March: Any fear that they risk too much in running bases and chasing pop flies is answer- ed by the league's perfect record of no serious mishap to any of its play- ers. The league points with pride to the fact that eighty-four-year-old Frank Peckinpaugh, father of Roger Peckin- paugh, former American League star, and now vice-president of the Cleve- land Indians, is the oldest active play- er in the league, which has seven octo- fenarians on its roster, with eighteen additional players between seventy- five and eighty. In this man's league rules are even more important than in the big show. Three umpires officiate at each game, and endure as many arguments as Beans Riordan gets from Jimmy Dykes, for these teams play to win and their players fight for every ad- vantage. Sensible ground rules have been to favor the age of the players, but they are administered with big-league ceremony. Privileges are extended to these older players that are denied to athletes in other leagues. For example, Dr. C. S. F. Lincoln, of Brunswick, Maine, a seventy-five- year-older, the league's 1943 'Rookie of the Year" and one of its speediest and most colorful players, likes to smoke a sizable, curve-stemmed pipe. If he wishes to bat, "streak" around the bases or play in the field while continuing to smoke, it is his right or that of any other player to do so. There are few minor-league owners who do not envy the attendance aver- age of the Three-Quarter-Century League Between 75,000 and 100,000 people watched the thirty-one con- tests during the past season, with many games attracting 5,000 or more pat- rons. All the receipts in excess of actual expenses go to charitable in- stitutions. Spectators do not expect to see blinding speed, the smooth footwork or. the distance hitting of major league baseball, yet they witness plenty of double plays, many extra-base hits, including home runs, and base run- ning that must be seen to be believed. The players are retired doctors, makers, printers, railroad men, re- tailers and salesmen. All of them are married men, and they boast a total of 68 children, 105 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. Maiden Aunt--'I'm sorry, Jack, that you don't like your gift. Remember, I asked you whether you preferred a large check or a small one? Jack--"But I didn't know you were talking about neckties!" 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