Tue Stratrorp Mirror Published Weekly by the Stratford Mirror Press, 123 Ontario St. BENSON JOHNSTON. EpDIToR "Vel. 23 STRATFORD. JUNE 29. 1945 No. 26 A Good Personality Through Dress The psychiatrist was telling of a remarkable cure of a patient, a woman who was so definitely and completely neurotic that the psychia- trist and the patient's family feared the worst. The patient suffered from melancholia. She had a beautiful in- feriority complex. Furthermore, she was given to strange actions, . which foretold something dangerous and ab- normal. But in just a short time after the psychiatrist suggested a new form of treatment the patient was getting well. She dropped her neurosis, She became a sane, cheerful member of Society, up and doing, interested in everything. Would you like to know what mys- terious form of treatment wrought so vast a change? Merely a new wardrobe of clothes. The psychiatrist believed that if he could induce the woman to throw away every stitch of her clothes and dress herself completely new from the skin out, he might suggest to her sub- conscious mind that she was a new woman. It's hard to believe, I know, but it worked out in exactly that way! There is a mysterious effect of clothes and grooming on personality which you do not have to have a psy- chiatrist call your attention to. You can know it from your own experi- ence. On the days when you feel the best the careful dressing and groom- ing you give yourself may be respon- sible. The reason for this is that quite properly personality receives its ulti- Mate perfection in grooming and dress, for by the use of clothes you can prepare the picture of yourself you want the world to view. Adornments and clothes are decided- ly not skin deep in influencing the per- sonality. There are a few persons among us who are able to forget themselves in their absorption of something else and become personalities in spite of an ill-kept appearance. Will Rogers was such a person. And there are others. But these unusual characters are not Safe guides for you and me. We would do better by our personal- ities if every time we appeared we were to dress up to our best ideals and means. No money spent judi- ciously for clothing is wasted, I think, because clothes do much more than adorn. They also buttress the person- ality, give it faith in itself, give it courage in its powers, give it confi- dence in its abilities. The next time you waver about Spending a few extra dollars on clothes that would give you better ap- pearance and spirit reflect on this truth, WHY THE DIFFERENCE ? A noted Metropolitan singer madea Wager that he could earn $10.00 a day Singing in the streets of New York. He dressed himself as an Italian im- Migrant and went into the courtyard of an apartment house in the upper West Side of the city. He sang a few arias from well-known operas and re- Céived in the first block, 13c, in the second block 9c and in the third 3e, in the fourth nothing, and so on. He gave up and paid his bet. After two hours of singing he had accumulated @ total of 86c, and yet he could get $2,000 a night singing at the Metro- politan Opera House. Stratford Chit-Chat LL. B, "It's as True as it Ever Was--" The cliche, "It's. a small world," we're talking about, was borne out by a little story that Mr. F. P. Polley, 234 Wellington street, told us when he re- turned from the Landers-Smith wed- ding in Edmonton on Wednesday. He was telling us, too, by the way, how he enjoyed seeing his former choir pupil married. Mr. Polley's son Victor is serving in Italy and wrote home that, when he had gone to get his mail one day, he was asked if he would mind handing a letter to a Sgt. Smith. Vic says he glanced casually at the envelope and was amazed to see the return address Kenneth Landers, etc. ... When asked if he knew Ken well, the sergeant re- plied, "Pretty well; he goes with my sister in Edmonton. Do you know him?" A lively discussion ensued and --well, it sure is a small world, isn't it? oe Ba * * "Slight Error" Paul Carter and Gordon Davidson, two young blades living on Youngs street, were despatched to the corner grocery for sugar the other day, pro- vided with a basket, instructions about coupons, and permission to buy a couple of bottles of pop for their trouble. They were quite awhile returning and when they finally hove into view they were observed to carry the bas- ket four or five steps, put it down, and let the other fellow carry, etc. When they were chided for being so slow Gordon said, "But, gosh, the bas- ket's heavy -- two pounds of sugar and two bottles of pop." "Yes," Paul chimed in defensively, "and two passion books!" * * * "Among Her Souvenirs" Will be the programme of the Do- minion Day service in Royal Albert Hall, London, where she took part in the programme attended by the King and Queen. Lieut. ((Nursing Sister) Lorna McKellar sent the programme home to her Dad, F. J. McKellar, a recent visitor at 47 Britannia street, where Lorna's two aunts, Mrs. J. W. Gould and Miss Mina McKellar, reside. In her letter describing. the event, Lorna says 'There was great excite- ment recently when I was picked to march with five other Army Nurses and six Canadian Air Force Nurses before the King and Queen and Prin- cess Elizabeth. We marched down a long aisle, shaking with excitement, of course, with six spotlights on us, up some steps, across the stage in front of the King, Queen and Prin- cess. Think we cut a pretty figure in our blue uniforms and brass buttons." Lorna does not say she was able to speak to Their Majesties, but it was a memorable occasion, nonetheless, and Mr. McKellar is justly proud of his daughter. Three other McKellar children are in the services: a daughter Grace, a nursing sister with the air force and wife of the assistant senior chaplain with the famous First Canadian Divi- sion, Major Macquarrie; a son, Flight Sergeant Robert McKellar, was an Each Step . . pect. Good Shoes Properly Fitted. Add a Couple of Inches to If you do a lot of walking (and most of do these days) you'll find our shoes the answer to your need for real foot freedom and appearance .. and the costs are much less than you might ex- . In Comfort 99 ONTARIO + "I Hate The Gize. Who Criticize"' Have you ever noticed how the folks who are so smart at making caustic and sarcastic remarks about other people are generally disliked? They probably would be tremendous-- ly shocked if they but knew that the same sharp and unkind things they~ say about others are being said about: them! Just for fun, the next time you hear some one critically "analyz- ing some acquaintance, or even one: to whom they profess to be a friend, think it over. You'll probably be able to recall many other occasions where the self-appointed critic has been re- ceiving some of his own medicine! The Bible says something to thes effect that we reap what we sow -- and it's true that those who always: seem to have a good word for every--. one, and we look for the good im people rather than the faults, are the - everyone and those who are so adept: at ridiculing or criticising are disliked.' by all of us. Certainly, as just human beings, we- should all avoid forming the habit: of unkind criticism. The old sales; law is, "We buy what we want from, people we like!" Here's a little verse- that sums it up-- I hate the gize Who criticize And minimize The other gize Whose enterprize Has made them rize Above the gize Who criticize And minimize The other gize! HUGH S8. BELL, air gunner overseas and is expected! home very shortly, and a second son, Petty Officer William McKellar, has left with his gun crew for South. Africa. * * * "When the Band Begins to Play" Some day eight-year-old Brett Smale... 464 Albert street, will be rendering= cornet solos. True, Brett (whose Grandad, E. M. Brett, leads the Stratford Boys' Band) is still in the early stages of his career -- he has been band mascot for the past year- --but he is studying "his" instrument already and thinks there is quite a future in it. Being partial ourselves to whatever instrument it is that goes "Oompah! oompah! oompah!" we wanted to know why Brett likes the cornet. Seems it's chiefly because he owns one that "Gramp gave me." Brett gets experienced parental as- sistance when it comes to polishing the buttons on his trig uniform. "Daddy is a soldier at Camp Ipper- wash and brings his shiner home for me," he told us. The first band concert of the sum=- mer season was held on the shell band- (Continued on page 8) STRANGE OCCUPANT OF HER SECRET ROOM What odd conviction prompted the elderly author-teacher to keep her mother's body in her bedroom for 33 years, as others previously had done in the vain hope their love ones would return? Read "Strange Occupant of her Secret Room,' in The Americam Weekly, with this Sunday's (July 1) issue of The Detroit Sunday Times. =e arty a eae Semen ty cna eo np oh ones who are loved and respected by'- etter =: