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Burgman Travel Agency
Wingham Ontario
Two tourists were discussing their
stay at a vacation resort. The first
said that he went away for a change
and a rest. To which the second re
plied, “Well?”
“Well,” said the first, “the bellhops
got the change and the hotel got the
rest,”
Geo. Walpole
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Custom Woodwork - Carpentry - Building
Telephone 260-w Wingham
After 39 Years!
If a bill for 45 cents for an electrical
appliance purchased at a store at
Grimsby by a Goderich resident 39
years ago is not yet paid, there’s a
reason.
The bill for same has just turned
up at the Goderich post office, The
man who owed it died 1? years ago so
it was re-addressed tp his son-in-law.
The letter apparently dropped from
the hand of a mail clerk many years
ago and slid down a partition at the
post office. There it remained until
Saturday -when the partition was torn
down in a renovation program. The
letter was mailed from Grimsby, Octo
ber 4, 1916.—Goderich Signal-Star.
A little mink, tasked what his fond
est wish would be if only one wish
could be granted did not have to
think long, His only desire was for
a full-length coat made of movie
stars.
True Spirit in Gift Giving Can
Add Pleasure to Christmas
The Wingham Advance-Times, Wednesday, December 7th, 1955 Rage Eleva*
2 TIRE EVER”for
1
SALE New Treads good/Vear
With Your Retreadable Tires
Phone 148
“BEST WINTER
$28.80 a pair
Wingham Tire Service
2
GENUINE
SUBURBANITE
; . A W
FOR GRANDMA'S BEDROOM
FOR HIS OR HER ROOM
FOR MOTHER'S KITCHEN
FOR FATHER'S WORKSHOP
BROPHY BROS.
something different
give an
Extension Telephone
all wrapped up and ready
for the Christmas tree
for
1
Wingham
This Christmas, why not give something different
yet strictly practical—the time and step-saving
convenience of an extension telephone? Imagine the
surprise of such an original gift on Christmas day and
the months of pleasure and comfort this service will give.
Yes, the actual telephone itself, attractively
wrapped and ready to go under the Christmas tree,
can be ordered from any Bell Business Office.
We will arrange to connect it at your convenience.
You may pay„for it now or we will bill you
month by month.
A gift you can buy to suit your pocket book
(We suggest one year’s service as an ideal gift.)
You can pick up your gift-wrapped telephone at
our Business Office or we will be pleased to
deliver it for you.
Gift telephones are available at the standard rate of
$1.00 a month in the smaller centres and $1.25 in
the larger, plus the usual $2.00 installation charge.
Inquire about coloured telephones. Now available
in Ivory, Beige, Green, and Red,
at an additional colour charge.
and so easy to order
just give us a call «.
39 1
By Dr, A, J. Wilson
Christmas shopping is not yet into
high gear, One of these days it will
really happen. Men will all of a sud
den remember that they have done
nothing towards Christmas, The wo
men folk wbo have been planning a
long time ahead and are methodically
drawing up their lists, will really go
to town. Then the problem will arise
as to what to do with the things that
have been bought until the great day
dawns. In any home there are, of
course, little nooks and corners which
can be pressed into service. If these
prove too small there are always the
neighbors,
The Scrooges among us will not
be too happy about all this. They look
on it as another method of prying
money out of their pockets. It is all
too commercialized they will say;
there is too much high pressure ad
vertising and anyway people only
give because others are giving.
Now, there may be some truth in
this, but what would a. mere man
do about getting ready for CWristmas
were it not for the advertisements?
A very popular pastime these‘days is
watching the male population scan
ning the newspapers, and not always
the comics and sporting page, but
the ladies’ wear and toilet advertise
ments as well. How is a man to know
'Otherwise? '
When the Scrooges in our midst tell
us that the celebration of Christmas
is an unhealthy custom, each person
giving presents because others are
doing it, they may have something.
No doubt we are all moved to action
by convention and custom, but we
have a sneaking suspicion that many
of those who complain about having
to bow to convention just want to get
out from under the responsibility of
doing the generous thing. Even if
cial pressures make them loosen
a bit it is good for their souls. If
called commercialization helps
force a man to become unselfish,
are for it even though on general
principles we are opposed to com
pulsion.
We like to think though that this
giving and receiving of gifts, which
may be overdone in certain quarters,
has a much deeper purpose and origin
than appears on the surface. It is
based on the first Christmas when
the greatest gift that man ever re-
so
up
so-
to
we
ANCIENTS KNEW HOW TO
ME NIGHT BLINDNESS
take im-
the situ-
adjusted
thousand
With night traffic increasing on our
roads each day, night vision is be
coming more important to each of us.
The driver who is “night blind” is a
deadly hazard and should
mediate action to correct
ation.
Normal" eyes, after being
to a dark room, are ten
times as sensitive to light as they
are in broad daylight. In such a room,
after you have sat there for awhile,
your eyes can detect a light so faint
that no known photo-electric machine
will react to it—that is, if they are
normal. If they aren’t you may have
to sit in the dark room for about an
hour before they become dark-adapted
or maybe they won’t adapt themselves
at all, in which case you are “night
blind”.
The process of dark adaption is very
complicated, as it is associated with
nerve-end light receptors at the back
of the eyeball, known as “rods”. This
vision is usually completely colorless,
dim in outline and foggy, depending
on the distance of objects.
Had Your Carrots Today?
The mysterious substance known as
visual purple, which makes the “rods”
work in dim light, is derived from
palatable sources such as liver, eggs,
butter, milk, cheese, salmon, herring
and particularly yellow or orange
colored vegetables such as carrots.
These foods contain vitamin A which
manufactures the visual purple in
your system.
Night blindness is usually a symp
tom of vitamin A deficiency and can
produce damaging and even disas
trous effects on the eyes if not •cor
rected. The ancients knew nothing
of visual purple but they knew how
to cure night blindness. Chinese,
Egyptians, Greeks and Romans all
ate liver for this purpose and got
prompt relief. The great physician
Hippocrates recommended the raw
liver of an ox, garnished with honey.
Anyone who has trouble seeing in
the dark should have his eyes test
ed and start eating plenty of food
containing vitamin A. One doesn’t
need to eat raw livers; the vitamin
can be bought today at drug stores,
Reliance Rambler.
It was little Bobby’s first day start
ing to school. He walked bravely to
the gate, then came back to his weep
ing mother, put his arms around her
and said, “Don’t cry, Mom. Maybe
I’ll be deferred and not even have todeferred and not even have to
wife of a Texas oil zillionairc
decided to give her spouse a new
68-fdot yacht for Christmas, She in
structed the salesman, “I want this
to be a surprise, Be sure to Wrap it
so he chh’t guess what it Is.”
ceived was-presented to him. In these
days of war, hot, cold or warm, days
of tension, national and personal greed
it is good to know that during one
season of the year at least, we can
concentrate on the welfare of
to the exclusion of our own
interests. After all, that is one
deep meanings of Christmas.
in Jieu of exchanging cards among
the membership. One’s name on the
card indicates greetings to all fellow
members of the club, and the dollars
collected will be forwarded to CARE
of Canada,
Mr. Watson can be made a happjr
man by sending your donation* to
CARE to his office at 116 O’Connor
Street, Ottawa, Receipts, acceptable
for Income tax deduction, will be aent
in the return mail,
others
selfish
of the
CAMPBELL
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WINTER’S COMING
Better order yours now!
BUILDING SUPPLIES
EVERYTHING FROM
CELLAR TO ROOF!
INSOLATION
Protect your home now,
for winter comfort!
A young man in a hurry—he wants
$100,000 before Christmas—sat down
in his office today, pointed at a pic
ture of a starving Indonesian child
lying on his desk, and said: “How
many pennies do you lose in a year?
Or in a month, for that matter?”
Albert G. Watson, CARE represen
tative in Canada, ventured that the
average person loses at least $5 worth
of pennies during a year. And for this
Mr. Watson probably is the most un
happy person in the Dominion.
He' pointed out, for instance, that
$tf would send 15% lbs. of glutinous
rice, 4% lbs. of sea salt, 21/2 lbs. of
salted fish, 1 quart of fish sauce and
9 oz. of Chili pepper to Laos, Indo
China.
“A lot of food, isnt it?" laments
the unhappy Mr, Watson. But his eyes
brighten up when he thinks of the
$100,000 he’s going to raise, for CARE
of Canada before December 31.
You CAN Help
Mr. Watson has^jjnany plans to help
Canadians look after the orphans arid
refugees of war-torn lands, feeling
himself that everyone craves the satis
faction of knowing that they have
“done something.”
Take this plan: A club may receive
from CARE of Canada a huge Christ
mas card to be signed by members,
with the gift of one dollar or more,
WONDERFUL m*sr IN SMART
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Supplies
Edward St., Wingham
Rea. MOM Phone 1-J Res. 481
McBRiNE 'COMET’ matched set
smartly fashioned in amazingly
tough, scuff resistant Duralite
with leather binding. Endorsed by
B.O.A.C. for air-travel. Choice of
5 colors.
Aeropack .... $32.50
Overnight Case $19.50
Train Cast . .. $19.95
“Monarch” Gladstone
with hanger unit. «9Q Cft
Genuine cowhide
S. J. WALKER
HOME FURNISHINGS
Phone 106 Wingham