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AND SPECIAL 151 Ontario St. BE SURE SEE The New Beatty. Porcelain Enamel Washer On Display This Week. INTRODUCTORY PRICE For Two Weeks Only | The Beatty | Washer Store Phone 30 ere CUPID'S RNER Partridge Sanitary & Heating Engineers Stratford and Toronto | [ Address all letters to Miss Tis said that absence conquers love, But Oh believe it not-- I've tried alas! Its power to prove-- ,But thou art not forgot! Dear Miss St. John: £ .plexing problem. - I am very dissatisfied going to school, as I do not make much head- way no matter how hard I try. This is what I would like to do. I would like to stop school this year, and go away and learn to do something to earn my own living. I have been plan- ning and I know just what I want to _do, and am sure I-would make a suc- cess of it. pee, My parents, are, however, rather undecided as to whether this would Neatly boxed < designs.-- es Her. A Gift worth while -| ForsythePajamas eS Beautiful patterns with the | Forbelt waistband from $3.00 .. $7.50 --Exclusive ~~ THE CLOTHIER ; 40 Wellington St. ae 3 ° ° Stil Time To get one dozen very nice | photographs of yourself or any- 2 ¥ one of the family to give to your -{ Most valued friends for Christ- The Rogers Studio Phone 1096M. 83 Downie St. be a good thing, or not. I am at home, and I would like you to tell me how it would be easiest to try and persuade them to see the thing as I do. Hoping to hear from you soon and thanking you in advance. i ANXIOUS. Answer:--Yours is indeed a perplex- .ing problem Anxious. Your letter states that you do not make headway _at school in spite of your utmost efforts. Yet you write a splendid let- ter, and that is a fair indication of in- ' telligence. However, my dear child, ; 1 thik it is a case of "Where your treasure is--there will your heart be also." Your heart is set upon leaving school and upon getting away from home, and upon earning your own liv- ing. You have decided upon the line of employment you wish to follow. But it is not anything that can be learned here in your home city. Your _ parents do not think it advisable for you to go away from home. But you feel that you will never be satisfied at home. You ask me to tell you how to persuade your parents to consent | |to your plans. How I wish I could ;make you see with their eyes instead. | You have only to look around you to see the hard times that the unpre- pared have to face in earning a living. Why not "stick it out" right here where you have the shelter and pro- ; tection of your own home until your . education is completed? Why burden | your parents with board to pay in> some other city? A great many older people have felt at one time just as | you do,--that "Shades of the prison ' house" is all too mild a phrase to de- ~ scribe the hated schoolroom. Also that to lead an independent life in a | I am bringing to you my most per- | ; | || I will never be satisfied as long as . 'feel you have missed. na St. John, Mirror Office. ] Ans vers will appear the week following your enquiry. worst about your present life and in a short time you will be able to step forth into any city as an independent school teacher, bookkeeper, stenogra- pher or whatever trade or profession you have chosen. Wishing you grit to carry on. INA ST. JOHN. Dear Miss St, John: I am a young married woman twenty-three years old, and am very much in need of advice and can't think of anyone to turn to except yourself. 'I have been married since I was se- ; venteen years old and have two ador- ,able children. Now, my dear Miss St. 'John, a few months ago I met my ideal, the only man in all the world for me. You see I married far too young to 'know my own mind. Now, Miss St. John, would I be justified in divorcing my husband as he has tired of me al- so, and is willing to grant me a di- ; voree, and the custody of the children. 'This man I am so much attracted to _would be very pleased to marry me, and be a father to the children. ROSE MARIE. Answer:--Well, Rose Marie, I think 'that you are in just about the most miserable position imaginable. In the first place I may say that your sup- posed true lover has not a very high sense of honor to make love to a mar- ried woman with the honor of two children to uphold--(about the most sacred trust God gives). Suppose you were free, are you absolutely sure that he would marry you and love 'you always? And you know Rose Ma- rie you are still so young! He would have to be a super man to be a father to those children of your present hus- band. Remember the old saying "You -have to live with a person before yo really know him." If he really loves you he would be Plumbing, Heating, Sheet Metal: Work and Roofing =e 29 Ontario Phone 1257 DAY AND NIGHT SERVICE TAX!) PHONE GG PHONE ROY HUEHNERGARD ;vorce her husband without just cause. , And you have evidently no such com- _ Plaint against your husband. | You have my heartfelt sympathy Rose Marie. Your lot is indeed hard, but I can only advise one course and _that is to cut yourself off from the 'other man and make the most of your life as it is. Live for your children if they are all that you care for out- side of him. And though you will not be able to believe it now, it will be far easier than you think to do your plain duty: "Stern lawgiver--yet thou dost wear The godhead's most benignant grace Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon your face!" Whichever way you decide I should like to hear from you again (privately if you so desire). Perhaps I can help you in the course you choose. Sin- cerely. INA ST. JOHN. Dear Miss St. John: I am a young girl of nineteen and have Ifl:d in Stratford all my life. I have no boy friend and so do not get very likely to be intensely jealous af those children--and how terrible | that would be for you and them! So think it over and over from all sides before you consider such a step. As you say, you married far too young to know your own mind. Yet perhaps after all your "love" for this man may be only a last longing for the love you Then you must consider the man w'som you promised to love and honor till death. He is the father of your children. He has cared for you and them all these years. You say he is {strange city would be the breath of life itself. Let us consider those who have yielded to this impulse--if their parents supported them as students in some other place no words can de- < a About the e A SURE RESULT only thing that comes to him who waits is whiskers. ¥ 'linto the world unprepared to make scribe their utter loneliness and home- sickness. But if they did not have their parent's support, and fared forth their'own way misery and eatterine | was indeed in store for them. So try to grin and bear whatever seems | | tired of you. Well my dear, he would 'not be much of a man if he did not ;Say so anyway, knowing you want to 'leave him. Remember you would be | robbing him of his children and rob- bing them of their father. And now supposing that your passion for this man is so great that you sacrifice your little ones and the man who has been your husband for six years; how can you divorce him? We are living in a land where a woman may not di- out to many dances. Could you tell me how to obtain an invitation to the Bontemps Club dances they have in the Winter Garden every month or so? Yours sincerely, VI. Answer:--The Bontemps Club is composed of about a dozen young men as I understand it. It is for social purposes and dances are held in the Winter Garden about once a month. The invitations are issued to men only. They pay for admission for two and are expected to take a lady. So your only chance Friend is still around the corner) is to persuade a male relation to arrange for an invitation and take you as his partner. Even if it were possible to go without an escozeg7ou would not enjoy yourself Vi unless you know some one of the members or their friends. Hoping you will obtain your heart's desire ere long. (as the Boy INA ST. JOHN. == a PAD echia dncy in 2 copes sts Wet 2 lig bai THE STRATFORD MIRROR WHITE FRUIT CAKE Three-quarters pound fresh butter, 4 pound fruit sugar, 6 eggs; 4 cups flour, sift first and then measure; 1 1-2 teaspoons baking powder, 3-4 lb. Sultana raisins, 1-4 pound citron (shredded), 1-3 pound cherries (crys- talized), pinch of salt. Cream the but- CHRISTMAS PREPARATIONS | tery and add sugar, creaming together. While some forehanded people have | Then add eggs, one at a time, and been collecting graduaily all through | beat well after each addition. Sift the year the things they thought their | baking powder and salt with flour and add. Flour the fruit and add last. Bake in two loaf cake tins, lined with greased paper, for two hours.in a slow oven, friends might like as Christmas gifts, there are others who are only begin- ning their Christmas shopPing now, and to them might be recommended the method 'of giving to all their friends variations of the same article. If one chooses handkerchiefs, stock- ings or scarfs, men, women and chil- dren may all be provided for under the one classification. It's the same with notepaper, almost, for fascinat- ingly decorated paper and lovely mini- ature correspondence cards may be CHICKADEE A tiny bird sat on a limb On two numb little feet, The night had played a trick on him And brought a storm of sleet. The icy snow hid all the ground No seed or insect could be found, Nor any scrap of meat. | Say, would you sing as sweet? Yet clung he to his frozen bough And sang right merrily, "Chickadee, Chickadee, Chickadee-dee-dee-dee!"' He showed more thankfulness, I vow, Than would be seen in me If I had naught to eat. If you had dined on air, like him, JESSIE FINDLAY BROWN SANTA CLAUS UNDERSTOOD PERFECTLY I waited with mamma while Clare, a winesome maid and passing fair, went up to call on Santa Claus, of whom she's very fond, because he al- ways seems to really know what little girls would like. And so, when she returned her mamma said, with hand upon Clare's dainty head: "What did you ask him for this time?" Clare's | prompt reply showed faith sublime: \"I said, Please give me a dolly dear, Eave Troughing and Furnace Work Done promptly and efficiently. ee JAS. £. COMMERFORD 199 Ontario St. just like the one I had last year." 80 Ontario Bs =e age FUNERAL SERVICE R. WHITE & CO. Phone 33 Night 376, bought for tiny tots, more formal| pis crop was gaunt enough, I trow, (J, R. McK. in The Globe) styles for their elders, and for those to whom one wishes to give a_ really important present a supply of note- paper and correspondence, cards of various sizes, all engraved with the address of the recipient. The plate from which future supplies may be struck off will accompany the gift. Books and magazines, too, may be chosen with a view to suitability to all ages and tastes. It is very much the same with purses and bags, for the smallest friend loves to have her own little purse; and wallets and billfolds are obtainable in many sizes and sty- tes for boys and men, while workbags constitute really a field of their own. Then there are boxes. Men, women and children use them and delight in them. Nests of pretty boxes fascinate a child, even for the mere fun of op- ening them and putting them together | again. Modern art has brought us lov- ely, gay boxes, suitable for containing all sorts of trifles. Antiquity has left us lovely old boxes of polished and inlaid wood. Between the two extrem- es lie embroidered and daintily lined boxes for trinkets, carved ivory boxes, painted wooden boxes, brass boxes, lacquer boxes, and scores of others. Sometimes the box may constitute one part of the present, and its con- tents--sweets, nuts, handkerchiefs or gloves--another part. Bowls are almost as wide in their variety. Tiny bowls serve for many different purPoses, and larger ones suggest scores of uses. Simple pottery bowls may be sent filled with pebbles and bulbs, if the donor wishes. There are lovely Oriental bowls to be had, with the transparent rice pattern, like eyelet embroidery, encrusted with en- amelled floral designs or blue pattern- ing of branches and bamboo; bowls of brass, etched and polished; of lacquer, gilded or inlaid with cherry blooms or dragons. Bowls of carved wood are beautiful for nuts, and those of mo- dern, brightly painted papier-mache for fruits. Trays suggest great possibilities, too, THE for the greatest "Home.Coming"' about the home. the home? all origins will love to around our gift shop. HANG UP HOLLY Prepare The HOME Feast of the Year, Christmas sentiment centres Isn't it natural that Christ- mas-giving should begin with All loves of old and new, for- eign and beautiful things of ~ browse SHEE es ANN x cu from pin trays to imposing affairs of Sheffield plate or solid silver. There is no end to the basket idea, and no age or sex limit. Men, women and children all have uses for them-- Can you imagine a pleasanter, easier way to do your Christ- neat oblong baskets filled with can- dies or figs; attractive baskets to hold a pot of flowers or a fern; bright, wide baskets full of fruit; work bas- kets, waste baskets, and any number of others. But there, you can go on for your- mas shopping? HOME FURNITURE FUNERAL SERVICE R. WHITE & CO. Ch SS <a) DR eC WE = 80 ONTARIO ST. PHONE 33, NIGHT 376 selves, ad infinitum, once you begin to turn the idea over in your mind. ESRI GE Se Eccles -- ne Silverwood's Milk is safe because it's,