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Yes THE STRATFORD MIRROR NOW is the time to Join the eth Regt, cows FF and secure preliminary training to fit you for any branch you wish to join for Active Service. RECRUITS WANTED Apply THE ARMORIES -- STRATFORD OOD WILL is the disposition of a pleased customer to return to the place where he has been well treated -- (from a decision handed down by the VU. S. Supreme Court.) ee Oe WE WOULD LIKE TO NAME THE NUMBER OF RETURN CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE BEEN OUR PATRONS FOR YEARS-- AND THEN SOME. THEY ARE OF COURSE, PARTICULAR AS TO THE QUALITY OF PRINTING THEY USE IN THEIR BUSINESS. Publishers of The Mirror 123 Ontario St. Phone 115 Che Fletcher Johnston Press CHARMING FROCK FOR GIRLS Pattern 8864 -- With princess skirt cut to a high waistline and swirling at the foot, with shoulder pieces that make the neckline pieces that make the neckline especially becoming, and with a touch of. braid to emphasize its child-like charm, this little frock is just about perfect for growing girls. It looks well on little ones and large ones both. It makes up equally well in school cottons like percale, gingham, chambray -- and in party materials like taffeta, organdy and dotted Swiss. And it's easy to make. Pattern No. 8864 is designed for sizes 6, 8, 10, 12-and 14 years. Size 8 requires 2% yards of 35-inch material without nap and 1% yards of trim- ming. (Enclose this coupon-box with your pattern order). Paper Town. State Send 15 cents in coin (for each pattern desired) together with your NAME, ADDRESS, PAT- TERN NUMBER and SIZE. PATRICIA DOW PATTERNS 206 W. 17th St., New York, N.Y. IMPORTANT--Be sure to fill in the full name of your newspaper, city and province in the box above when order- ing patterns. "Aren't those chimes melodiously beautiful? Such harmony! So en- chanting!" "You'll have to speak louder. Those confounded bells are making such a racket I can't hear you." A BEAUTY SPRING-CLEANING! Spring is here, and we all need to spring-clean our beauty, to give it new life. Beauty doesn't thrive in a hot-house atmosphere. You're probably lethargic after a long winter. Shake yourself! Spend a few minutes daily stretching and exercising. Don't make a religion of it. Just enough to loosen the muscles. The "inner woman" needs a tonic. Go easy on pastries and sweets. Eat plenty of fruit and green vegetables. Several mornings a week take a dash of health salts in a glass of water on arising. You can't look your best if your*®system is clogged. Now for the part of you that shows! Perhaps we can't ALL have a "school- girl complexion," but long experience has taught me that we CAN all im- prove our looks. Number one rule is to keep your skin immaculate. It isn't a matter just of cleansing with cream or lotion. You need to wash regularly, too. The soundest advice I can give you is to wash regularly with the delightful new palmolive soap, be- cause it cleanses thoroughly and its foaming lather will help to bring new freshness and beauty to your skin. Next, cream your face and neck night and morning with Three-Pur- pose cream, the lovely all-purpose cream. During the next two months use the following face pack at fortnightly in- tervals: Beat up the plain white of an Lace and neck. It dries quickly. After 15 minutes remove it with cold water, then spread 'Three-Purpose cream lavishly. Send for my interesting booklet on Beauty Care, enclosing four one-cent stamps for postage. Address Miss Barbara Lynn, Box 75, Station B., Montreal, Que. Father--'Mabel, that young man of yours stays too late when he calls. Hasn't your mother said something to you about it?" Mabel--"Yes, daddy; mother says men haven't changed a bit. BACCO Phone 179 84 Ontario St. CHINA HALL Visit Our Basement for that Kitchen Shower © We carry a complete stock in Enamelware Ivory and Red Ivory and Green White and Blue Also Bread Boxes. Cookie Boxes, Step-on Garbage Cans, etc. J. L. BRADSHAW CHINA HALL - very lonely. egg in a basin, then spread it over THE STRATFORD MIRROR JUSTAMONG OURSELVES A Regular Department Conducted for Mirror Readers by Ina St. John. HER SOLDIER Dear Miss St. John: -Two months ago I, married a sol- dier. He is far away now. I am so The only times I feel happy are when I am planning little parcels for him. Now I am laid up with a sprained ankle, so I can't even do that. I don't think my parcels "hit the spot" anyhow, for he makes more fuss over my weekly letter than he does about them. I/am knitting for him but I think perhaps you can sug- gest something he would like when I get out to the shops again. Thanking you-- MARGARET. Answer: Well, Margaret, since your husband finds your letter such a treat, don't you think he would like more of them in place of so many parcels! Even while you are shut in with the sprained ankle you could write letters. The soldiers say "A letter a day keeps the blues away." You might try it. I believe he would love it. INA ST. JOHN. ' SEEN ON THE HIGHWAY Dear Miss St. John: What do you think of a lady smok- ing a cigarette in a crowded bus with windows closed? FELLOW TRAVELLER. Answer: I think she must have been a friend of the bus driver--also, my guess is that she was NOT a lady. INA ST. JOHN. HAS HIS HEART GROWN FONDER ? - Dear Miss St.John: I had a casual friend. He asked me to correspond with him when he join- ed up. Well, his letters are hot love letters! Do you suppose he was too shy to tell me how he felt about me when he was here, or do you think he is playing a joke on me? PUZZLED. Answer: Perhaps he enjoys writing love letters, Puzzled! Don't take it too seriously. Very few men wait un- til they have to "put their love on paper." INA ST. JOHN. A WOMAN'S AGE Dear Miss St. John: Don't you agreé with me in believ- ing that a woman of thirty-five can look ten years younger by careful dressing and beauty care? This is to settle an argument. JOHN BULL. Answer: Sorry to disagree, John, but I do believe that the lady of thirty-five summers, not to mention winters, can look just as charming as she did when she was twenty-five. (It is by no means improbable that we mean the same thing). INA ST. JOHN. CANADIAN SHELTERS Dear Miss St. John: Can you tell me if it is true that there are air raid drills in some pub- lic schools in Ontario? ALARMED MOTHER. Answer: Yes, it is quite true, "Mother," but why are you alarmed? Is it not better to take precautions? We must hope for the best but be pre- pared for whatever comes. INA ST. 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Two weeks ago, an appeal was made to the country people of Ontario and so far only seven hundred cakes have come in, and these were from the Women's Institute centres of Port Carling, Prescott, Little 'Current and Napanee. The Navy League has undertaken to take care of the demand for this high- ly nutritional food, from the sailors of the Royal Canadian Navy and Merchant Services at St. John and Can Use All Availlable Maple Syrup St. John and Sydney Clubs for sea- men are in desperate need of one thousand cakes a week each, while the demand at Halifax is about one thousand cakes a day! Please send in all the cakes of maple sugar you can find, you coun- try people and city folks, to Mrs. J. H. Rooney, Ontario Division, Navy League, 1118 Bay St., .Toronto, who will see that they are wrapped and forwarded. City folks can either buy it in the city or buy direct from the producer when they take their motor trips. Please send it in for our men of the -- seas, Usher (at wedding to cold, dignified lady): "Are you a friend of the groom?" The Lady: "Indeed, no, I am the Sydney and Halifax too, if possible. bride's mother." a te ime