ee ee 7 iat asiacasqustabinetevaitdnedssan-casecupenst-or Semusdetacdeeeacbeastecosieamate Page 4 THE STRATFORD MIRROR Friday, November 2, 1945. A Smile or Two First Motorist--"I love the beauties of the countryside." Second Motorist--'So do I. 'times I give 'em a lift." Some- An Irish priest had been transferred From one parish to another. One of this old flock met one of the new. "Well," he said, "and how do yez Wike Father Murphy, Dennis?" "Ah, to be sure," answered Dennis, "he's a fine man; a fine man, but a trifle bellicose." "Bellicose, is it? Well, if that isn't queer. When we had him he was as thin as a rail." The maid knocked at her mistress' bedroom door as she went to bed and said: "The master's locked up night, ma'am." "Thank you, Mary; he must have been very quiet -- I didn't even hear him come in," was the sleepy reply. "Oh, he hasn't come in, ma'am," Mary answered, "the police have just telephoned." for the When someone called Will Rogers' attention to the ungrammatical use of the word "ain't," he replied: "Maybe ain't ain't so correct, but I notice a lot of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eating." LET'S TRAVEL THIS WINTER! volume. Price $4.50. Wellington at St. Patrick. From the comforts of your own fireside YOU can visit another of the Great Lakes through the book, Lake Superior, another in the American Lake Series. cinating manner every phase of lake life is given in this This advertisement is worth 45c cash if mentioned when purchasing this book. Patterson Bookstore In fas- Phone 711 DRAM Tt Pe ee Pom a xe 3 . Doctor. For Health Milk Is Your Best Food There's more essential food value in a single quart of fresh milk than in a basketful of some heavier, expensive foods. See that your family get plenty of milk to drink every day. It's the nearest perfect, most economical food you can buy. Order extra milk from your milk man today. The Milk Foundation of Stratford Ask your Erect NAB SOLIS GANT SSRN SOONER EE ae tea ; NOTICE We Are Now In Our New 'Location at 83 Downie St. Jarmain's (Stratford) Limited DRY CLEANERS PHONE 289 [HAVE YOU READ?| It is next to impossible to speak of Lake Superior without superlatives. It is the largest body of fresh water in the world. Four hundred miles of unbroken sea stretch from Duluth at the western end to Sault Sainte Marie where Superior empties into Huron. Around the lake shore lie deposits of iron that form the world's greatest iron producing region. Miss Nute begins her book by re- telling the fascinating story of dis- covery and early settlement. The French dreams of North American empire, pushed forward by such men as La Salle and Frontenac, were des- tined to fall before English encroach- ment. Under English rule came the great days of the fur companies, the Hudson's Bay Company and its up- start rival, the North West Company. Following their union, John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company rose to challenge the amalgamated Eng- lish company. In "Carriers of the Cross" Miss Nute tells of the missionaries, Catholic and Protestant, who faced the hardships of the wilderness to carry Christianity to the Indians and to minister to white settlers. Typical of their courage and endurance is the story of James Evans' trip along the lake shore in the dead of winter, when water froze the men's mittens to their paddles and storm-driven waves nearly wrecked them a dozen times. The books call up from the past a long pageant of ships -- Montreal canoes of the voyageurs; the first steamers with churning paddle wheels; schooners; awkwardly efficient whale- backs; the bulk freighters of today, self-loading monsters that carry the nation's iron. Miss Nute pictures the outline of the lake as a great drawn bow. She takes the reader on a tour along the taut cord of the south shore west- ward to Duluth and back along the curve of the bent bow formed by the rocky north shore. Even the names give a hint of the fascination of the country: the Pictured Rocks, the Apostle Islands, the Mesabi Range, Isle Royale and Thunder Bay. Isle Royale, our newest national park, is given a chapter to itself. The final chapter, "Nanabazhoo and His Followers," is devoted to folk- lore, art and literature of the Super- ior region, especially to the Chippewa Legends that gave Longfellow the in- spiration for Hiawatha. Lake Superior is a thoroughly read- able and at the same time detailed and informative study, full of little known facts and covering a tremen- dous range of subject matter. Every phase of lake life--majestic scenery, Don't Suffer ! 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The policeman wrapped a rug around him and got him into the car. All the way to the station, he babbled: "I'm ruined. It's all gone. I'm done for," in an unceasing litany. The warmth of the police station calmed him. The desk-sergeant gave him a mug of coffee. He begged for a cigarette and puffed it hungrily. Carefully, he was asked the routine questions regarding his identity and gave a good address. As to why he was "loitering by night,' he would only say: "I don't know! Where am I? I'm ruined." A phone call brought assurance from his wife that she would come im- mediately. During the interval of waiting, the wanderer's dam of reti- cence broke, under. careful question- ing. He leaned forward, elbows on knees ,fingers interlaced, as if in sup- plication. "Listen," he said, in a strained, well- bred voice. '"You've got to believe me! I'm ruined. There's nothing left. Yes- terday my insurance agent called me up and told me that all the fire, auto- mobile and casualty insurance com- panies had gone out of business. "T ran out of the house tonight be- cause it was on fire. You say my wife is coming for me. Thank God she es- caped, and the children, too. Guess I must have lost my head. "Can't you understand?" he pleaded. "There's nothing left; nothing but the clothes we stand in and a few hun- dred dollars in my bank account! What will that get us?" "But you have a_ business?" con- soled the police sergeant. "You are a solid member of the community." "Have I? Am 1?" countered the vic- tim, incredulously and with a hollow laugh. "What good is my business? I have no insurance. My credit is wiped out, in consequence. All my notes will be called. I dare not send out a delivery truck, for fear of acci- dent. I hardly dare operate the plant, on account of the third-party risks. "Supposing my place burns?" he wailed. "What's the answer? How do I stay in business? You surely must realize my position? I have got to find some means of saving enough money to set up reserves to meet the emergencies that were formerly cov- ered by my insurance policies. May- be you can tell me how I am going to do it, after 25 years of hard work and careful planning? "Tt's no use. It's all over. I've got to get out of here," he insisted, his voice shill with tension. A door opened and his wife stood before him. He stared at her fur coat and smart hat as though he had never seen them before. "Come home," she said. "The whole house is aroused, but nothing matters as long as you are safe. Here's your overcoat and here's your hat. Put them on and let's get started." "But," he insisted, bewildered, "the house is gone; everything's lost!" "You've been dreaming," she said, very softly. "Come on home." "Thank heaven," he murmured. "But what if it had all been reality?" history, industry, shipping -- in fact all the fascination of Lake Superior Miss Nute has packed into her book. Grace Lee Nute is Curator of Manu- scripts in the Minnesota State Histor- ical Society and Professor of History at Hamline University. Her study of Great Lakes history has already pro- duced three books, The Voyageur, The Voyageur's Highway and Caesars of the Wilderness, and innumerable articles. She has spent many sum- mers touring about the lake by car or small boat, studying plants and birds and taking motion pictures. The lake could have no more devoted, authori- tative or readable biographer. Friday, November 2, 1945. THE STRATFORD MIRROR ~ Little Things ahaa HE STARS] By GEORGE LILLEY NEW YORK, N. Y.--Radio's most exclusive guest is violinist fritz Kreisler. After a 20-year hold-out, the virtuoso, 70, suc- cumbed to offers of NBC's Mon- day night "Telephone Hour" last SCR: year, this sea- son is scheduled for three ap- pearances on the program (next: Oct. 29 when he plays for the first time on the air his own "Mini- ature Viennese March"). Kreis- ler is noted for his dislike of practice: "I've always been driven, first by my father, now by my wife with 'You're lazy. You'll never amount to anything.'" The artist, who speaks eight languages, suffered amnesia after a_ street accident in '41 during which he spoke only Latin and Greek. His 'wife knew he was recovering when he began talking in Eng- lish, German, French "and every- thing." "TOUGH "DADDY" _ Hanley Stafford: Baby Snook's "Daddy" Sunday evenings, CBS. 'He might have picked his full 'name from his birthplace: Hanley, 'Staffordshire, England. "Daddy" 'in the mid-20's used to be a Sheavy": in ; ww estern and {horror films. At that time he 'made a vow 'with Edward 'Everett Horton 'that they would inever marry. 'Edward Ev- -erett, 58, never thas. Stafford ;married Vyola ; Vonn, an ac- i tress, lives in a 'Hollywood hill- 1 top home ("radio domesticated :me"). In '36, while playing on 20 ' radio shows a week, Stafford add-+ 'ed a "one-shot" guest appearance 'with Fanny Brice. He's been Fritz Kreisler ... on the air Hanley Stafford Daddy married TED'$ TA$TE Ted Collins: Most successful manager in radio. Ted. was born Joseph Martin Collins. His father, who once was physician to Pres- ident Theodore Roosevelt, nick- named Ted in the President's : honor. In 14 years of radio, Collins and Kate Smith (Friday nights, CBS): have grossed $16,- 000,000. Like his singer, stocky (5-8, curly haired Collins, 46, Han can't read a Ted Collins pote of music. ...recordman He _ attributes that to the pair's success' at introducing hit songs (five of the first 10 last sea- son). "I have the average man's taste; Kathryn sings them as the composer felt them, not as they are written." Collins has no the- atrical background, formerky was a phonograph record salesman. VERY LITTLE THINGS Cornelia Otis Skinner, who stars with Roland Young on_ the new "Johnny Presents" show (Tuesday nights, NBC), occasion- ally shakes so before the micro- phone that she can't read her script. Now she oe is using a spe- cial script stand ... Patti Clay- ton, CBS's new ¢ songstress (Thursday eve- . nings), was thanking you. good - will in Thank you. 23 Downie St. Many Thanks'. For the success of our opening and the many expressions of good-will displayed by so many we take this opportunity of It is our desire to merit your worthwhile service through our business and we do appreciate your practical good wishes. CARL R. LINKERT Diamonds and Jewellery (Successor To Gitties & Emm) conducting a Phone 300 hired by Ar- thur Godfrey }; from a record- § iug, sight un- seen. 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Purpose of the study is twofold: to find out how these diseases spread so that methods of quarantine and con- trol may be improved to provide 4 "typing" service for provincial labora- tories. Begun with the co-operation of the medical officer of health and the superintendent of Strathcona Hospi- tal, Ottawa, the work was soon ex- tended with the aid of the provincial laboratories and the medical services of the army, navy and air force. Over 1,000 streptococcus cultures were typed in the first year, and by 1944 the number had increased to 2,200. which was the main infecting organ- ism in Ottawa in 1940 was rarely found there four years later. Its place has been taken by another strain not yet fully identified, which, along with one which first appeared in 1941, accounted for 85 per cent. of the strep- tococci isolated. In addition to the work of classifi- cation, the laboratory's technicians are tacwling curative (measures through use of sudpha drugs and penicillin. 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