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Pag thy anda gentleman! So," do save -CUPID'S CORNER ---- = Address all letters to Miss Ina St. John, Mirror Office. Auswers will appear the week following your ee BACKSLIDER By Eleanor Graham "Oh, Love," I said, "brings bitterness. And love", I said, "brings pain. I shall stop loving anything More permanent than rain." And then I turned to look at you, And then I saw your eyes. How quickly my philosophy Grows old! How soon it dies! * * * Dear Miss St. John: My girl friend's parents are not well off. An elderly man wants to marry her He is rich and he buys her lovely things, such as a_ radio, a velvet rug for her room, a platin- um wrist watch. Every time she decides to stop going with him he gives her some expensive present and she cannot bring herself to do it. He is more than twice her age and she does not love him. Should she marry him because she would have every luxury and be able to help her parents, or refuse him in spite of his kindness? IRENE Answer--Your friend showed bad taste in accepting expensive gifts from a man to whom she was not even engaged to be married. Probably greed overpowered all other emotion, and 'that is scarcely fair to the man, unless she intends to sell herself for his money. She should think deeply before she does that, because it is as great a mis- take as a girl can make. INA ST. JOHN. * »* Dear Miss St. John: I am a spinster because the man I was to have married ran off with my sister. 1 have mourned my loss for ten years and now I realize it is no loss at all. I am too old to love another man, but I have de- cided to marry anyway, as I am tired of working and keeping up my tiny apartment home. My conten- tion is that a woman can land most any man if she goes about it right. Don't you agree with me Miss St. John? I have selected a wealthy gentleman past middle age whom I often meet in a business way. My friends say that I am foolish to spend all my money on clothes and beauty treatments, as I shall need it for my old age, but I consider that I am making provision for that time by marrying. What do you think? BETTE Answer--I cannot pretend to agree with you. Most men (and women too for that matter' marry for love, and no one can bribe Dan Cupid. Perhaps the man you have: selected has other plans. He listens rather too perfect; right age weal- some money in case your theory has a weak link. However, faint if he fails you some other man may succumb to your charming appear- ance, etc. We hope that it may be some one worthy of your second love, INA ST. JOHN. & * Dear Miss St. John: | am fourteen years old, but mother never allows me to go out after night unless she knows just where I amgoing. I never walk around and enjoy myself with other girls my age. I have to retire at 9 o'clock. Most girls mothers are out until ten or so themselves. Why is mother so out of date? NORMA B Answer--You may be very thank- ful to havea real mother Norma. The mothers whose little girls run the streets until ten or eleven, are not worthy of the name Some day you will thank her for for keeping you off the streets, and when you are old enough to go out at night you will be rewarded for your pre- sent early hours by abounding health, bright eyes and a lovely complexion. INA ST. JOHN. s s e Dear Miss St. John: I am Norma's brother, two years younger. Nearly all the bovsI go with smoke. Most of them are a year or more older than me. Their mothers don't know, but our moth- er is wise in every little thing. She made me promise not to smoke un- till am grcwn up. Now the boys call me mama's- boy. Dad smokes plenty. Wont you put a letter in the Mirror telling mothers not to make their boys sissies? , MAC Answer--Well Mac it's like this. Mothers have lived so many years longer than their sons of twelve, that they really do know best what is good forthem. When you are fully grown smoking will not do you any harm (unless you smoke excessiviy), but if you start now you cannot hope to be the sort of man you want to be; strong, healthy aud with steady nerves. So let the boys who do not value these things smoke all they like. Your course is best. INA ST. JOHN. TAXI PHONE 66 PHONE City Calls 1 or 2 passengers 25c ROY HUEHNERGARD For "Special Theatre Service" Phone 616 COAL ANTHRACITE COAL POCAHONTAS, Egg Size Red Jacket, Egg Size Solvay Coke CORNISH COAL CO. Phone 44 | W. K. STEINBURG Paper Hanger and | Decorator All Workmanship Guaranteed An assortment of 250 New Wall Papers to choose from. | Sample Book brought to your | home on request. Estimates-given on all work with or without wall paper. | } } | Phone 1346F 391 Huron "FOR NICER THINGS" Mahan omrs. 5 > iat e me \ cence SAREE ne-nom oreromeeel a 3 GOTHAM High Quality Stockings | enchance the appearance of your Easter Costume These names on silk stockings are your assurance of the utmost in Quality, Style and Wear. Gotham Gold Stripe, Corticelli, Holeproof, > and Kayser in the very latest Easter Colorings | Sheer Chiffon -- Silk-to-the-Top dull shades -- just what you want to Every pair guaranteed first quality. | Notice particularly the new } wear the next month or so. All have-narrow French heels -- with fashionable dull finish. Sizes 8% to 10. Price, pair .. "Quality" Style No. 87-No. 37. For Street and Sport Wear Smart Service Weight that will please the most discriminating. Specially made from highest grade pure thread silk with reinforced foot and garter hem of fine lisle, this style is 1 00 1 50 unequalled for wear. "Art Moderne" Heels. ..... z. to Py Charming Silk Scarves : Scarves and Ties for the new Easter Suit or ensemble in a glor- ious variety of materials and designs and col- ors to match every new costume shade. ... a 25 to 2.95 GLOVES According to all style authorities this will be an outstanding Glove season. We have there- fore gathered for your conveni- ence the most popular styles in fabric and Kid Gloves. Stvle leaders in fabric Gloves, «,, 596 +» 1.00 and Choose Your New EASTER HANDBAG Tomorrow at 1 2.95. Genuine $3.50 and $4.95. values. F An offering that brings all the newest stvies of handbags at colors for Spring at, pair real savings. Get one for your Easter costume now! 1 S83 to 2.85 i It pays to buy "Quality" especially when it costs no more. iD, CG. Wilcox Kid Gloves in new styles 18 Nt 7% Adults 10c Children 5c heart never won fair lady. So even reinforced at all points of wear, A des 1.00. 1.50 | how we begin and not of how we end, of what we want and not of what we have." If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one life the aching Or help one fainting robin SHOULD CHANGE DRESS WITH effective ways of changing the pearance and feeling of a room is by means of slip covers. This is particu- larly Chairs and couches which seem the height of comfort in winter when up- 1 3-4 teaspoons soda, 2 teaspoons gin- ly, in winter the comfortable wicker ~ ® covers--cretonne, chintz or } | _ins, basket weaves, moires, and heavy | ' | a "To be truly happy is a question of --Robert Louis Stevenson. * * * LIVE NOT IN VAIN I shall not live in vain; Or cool one pain, Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. --Emily Dickinson. |;~ youR EASTHR BAKING TRY | Whipped cream, crushed fruit, at So ONE OF THESE creamed meat and vegetable will be FURNITURE, LIKE PEOPLE, SCONES | found delightful filling for popovers. THE SHASONS One of the least expensive and most ap- true as the seasons sali | | holstered in velvet or damask or vel- | ours, impart an air of heaviness and eo | ss PHE STRATFORD MIRROR ture has shown so mild a mood that March usually does not provide much , contrast to the preceding months. so different from those of other sea- sons, for garden products are avail- able all the year round and are cluded in our meals. that there is men's suits this year--he's right--Sud- bury Star. who bought a dinner service consist- ing of fifty-four pieces was informed by her housemaid the next morning that it now consisted of 1,125 pieces-- The Maritime Merchant. 'der, 6 clips flour, 1 cup butter, 1 cup white sugar, 2 cups sweet milk, 1 cup raisins, 1 piece lemon peel. Add beat- \en eggs to milk. * ger, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 cup molasses, 2 tablespoons melted butter, Method: Mix soda with sour milk and add to the molasses. Sift together flour, ginger and salt. Combine two mixtures, add butter. Bake in greased pan in oven 300 degrees for 25 min- utes. more varied diet, and Mother Na- Neither are our springtime menus in- = * = : POPOVERS Too True--A fashion writer states | : very little change in | 1 cup flour, 1-4 teaspoon salt, 7-8 'cup milk, 1 teaspoon shortening, 2 eggs. Method: Mix salt and flour, add 1-2 ithe milk; beat until smooth, Add re- mainder of milk, well-beaten eggs and shortening. Beat two minutes with egg beater, Turn into hot greased iron gem pans and bake 25 minutes in hot joven at 500 degrees until they pop. 'Then reduce oven temperature , to 350 degrees. They are then ready. Ne ore + * * Rapid Multiplication--A woman * * * Two eggs, 4 teaspoons baking pow- PETER & SYLVESTER Will do your Repairs in Plumbing - Heating Electric 12 Ontario St. Bake in a hot oven. ; * * GINGERBREAD 2 1-4 cups flour, 1 cup sour milk, Phone 219 Classified | Column 'ARTICLES FOR SALE ALMOST NEW --"Just driven 'round the block' as it were. complete bed- room suite -- hard to see anything wrong with it. Buy it for less than half cost--individual pieces or suite complete. Select new spring and mat- tress for the bed. R. White & Co. Trade-in Dept. ARE YOU TROUBLED WITH MOTHS?--Moths. do millions of dol- lars damage every year. Your valu- able furs and woollens, winter coats and suits take this chance unless-- You store them in fur storage vaults, at a yearly cost for insurance, or pack them into a moth-proof cedar chest, often too crowded. 3 The best way of all is to hang them up, or stack them on the shelves of a little red cedar, lined room. For the price of an ordinary cedar chest you ' can now convert. an ordinary clothes eloset ittto 2 cedar lined storage roomy for furs with walls of Aromatic Red Cedar. Give employment to men engaged to sell and install this product. Have one clothes' closet lined with red cedar. Cost 29c per square foot in- stalled. R. White & Co. = an eer ee even dustiness in the spring. Similar- | or rattan arfachairs which were so pleasing in summer, acquire an added dignity when ciothed in well tailored slip covers. It is generaly thought that only a few fabrics are suitable for slip shadow cloth, linen, taffeta or rayon novelty | weaves. There are other materials, however, which make up well--ging- ham and chambray and unbleached | muslin and calico in the cheaper fab- | rics; mohair, homespun, antique' sat- | | 1 silks of various kinds in the more expensive types. Denim, of course, is | a good old standby, as well as poplin. | The primary requisite is that the material shall be strong enough to wear well and not too stiff to fall into pleats. Before slip-covering the furniture, | it is well to see that the pieces are in | good condition. Turn the chairs and chesterfield upside down and see if the, webbing is securely fastenened and the springs still firmly in place. Examine the upholstering closely for traces of moths or insects. It is very easy for furniture which is complete- ly covered to wear badly, often caus- ing the slip covers to fit too loosely. Whether the slip covers are made by a professional or by the family , seamstress, the first consideration is pattern. Large, bold designs are more suitable for large rooms, and general- ly require more material in order to | centre the motif, while the small, all- over pattern is pleasing to the eye and can be used in almost any setting. If variety is needed and the number of gaily patterned objects in the room | preclude the use of figured covers 4 | plain material may be used, bound in | a contrasting color, The two colors | may be reversed on the different | pieces. One chair may be covered in green linen piped in tomato red, while two small chairs may have the to- | mato piped with green. --Scott in MacLean's Magazine. * * *& A few years ago, there was no mis- taking the signs of the changing sea- sons. Spring was unfailingly heralded -- straw hats in shop windows, a bot- tle of tonic on the pantry shelf, and the glad news, "Sap's runnin'," after the first few warm days and clear," crisp nights. Nowadays, the new hats are worn with fur coats in mid-winter, the @ ts Pare UNPAINTED FURNITURE--Help girls and boys fix up their rooms. Book- shelves, wall type, 95¢e; pier cabinet» style, $1.95, 3.75, $3.95; dressing tables, with drawer, $5.95 (chintz or taffeta for cover extra) ? breakfast suite, 6 pieces, ready for painting, wires Be Net Sed. 5S, Teh AA td. 0! me + J { | T | } TT er GPE +a WHO SAID-- "This Spring I MUST have New Curtains" HERE THEY ARE:-- Over 50 patterns and colors to choose from Swiss Fine Point Net Curtains, richly patterned, toned a little deeper than ivory, 40 in. wide, 2% yds. long, pair..........- $8.50 Similar Curtain, 36 in. wide, 2% yds. fone PONY. 64.15 Wars $7.50 Another, for very high windows, 3 yds. i bv dias $9.50 Fine Filet Net Curtains, hemmed edges, delicate floral pattern biege tone, 36 in. wide, 2% yds. long, pair ie ee | A i Frilled Marquisette Curtains, in ivory, white and ecru, with or without color at.......c.ceeeeee eee 98c, 1.25, 1.50 to 2.95 SLIP COVERS-- Printed linen, in tvory and green grounds, distinctive design, 50 in. wide. Yard .........-seeceeeereeeeee $1.90 Chintz and Shadow Cloths, Poplin and taffeta, yard 29c to 3.50 Slip Covers made and repairs to construction of old pieces by competent workman, at low rates. R. WHITE & CO. A Home Furniture--Funeral Service 80 Ontario St. ' Phone 33 Night, 376 $16.50. R: White & Co. FOR SALE--Imperial Fuel Oil. Free service on your oil burner. Stratford Heating Service. Phones--Office: 388. Residences: 2312 or 828F. FUNERAL SERVICE WHITE--Funeral Service. Phone 33. ROOM & BOARD. ROOM WITH OR WITHOUT BOARD-- ..Jn home centrally located. Steam heated, well lighted and furnished. For particulars apply Box 6, Mirror | Office. FOR SALE" OR TO RENT--Rebuilt Royal typewriter, as good as new. Terms to suit purchaser. Apply Mirror FOR SALE OR RENT ' Charles T. Newell | Registered | Optometrist || 184 Wellington St. Phone 204 . Entrance through Roche's Jewelry Store). Easy on the eyes and easy to clean -25 - 40 and 60 watt Each.....cces cceseneee: soseeeeee 25c Carton of 6, $1.40 H' DRO CHOP Tel. 460 ER E Werviceissupreme spring tonic has been put to rout by oy ca a Ad = oY oe RN ES ET TE ANY R aT SERRA SRE Oe eR ~ a ARR ow 7: ee 3 . 2 i, ES we *