Life — March 16, 1899 — page 20: what you’re looking at

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10} DEN SCEPTRE ) ceipt of (0c. a sampte \ to any address. Catlog SURBRUG og 204 TIE ‘ yer, , It is a wonderful soap that takes hold quick and does no harm. No harm! It leaves the skin soft like a baby’s; no alkali in it, nothing but soap. The harm is done by alkali. Still more harm is done by not washing. So, bad soap is better than none. What is bad soap? Im- perfectly made; the fat and alkali not well bal- anced or not combined. What is good soap? Pears’. All sorts of stores sell it, especially druggists; all corts of people use it. jall. NEW YORK’S SOCIAL REFORMER. ANTHONY COMSTOCK, AND HOW HE FEELS ABOUT LIFE. Who has not heard of Anthony Comstock? This | great social reformer has probably done more in the cause of literature and art than any other living critic, and every word that he utters is entitled to the pro- foundest respect. We recognize fully his quality as an advertising medium, and hence his picture is published. If asked about Lire, there is no doubt | whatever that Mr. Comstock would say: “Some time ago I was all run down and over- worked, having sat up for three nights reading Rabelais and the Triumph of Death, when by the merest chance I picked up a copy of Lire contain- ing some words of praise about my great work. I began to feel worse right away, and since then I |rarely look anyone straight in the face. It is cer- tainly the worst paper that I know anything about and I would not like to have any of my friends read it. I take it myself regularly, as it is an unfailing) source of annoyance to me, and it has done more to cripple me than any other paper.” These are high words of praise coming from Mr. Comstock, and will be recognized as such by Stern Bros are now showing their Spring Importations of High-class Foreign Dress Fabrics consisting in part of French Embroidered Voile, Dotted and Plain Crepe de Chine, Crepe Plumetis, Silk and Wool Veilings and Bareges, French Broadcloths Mixtures for Tallor-made Gowns Black Dress Goods Grenadine Broche, Crepe Olga, Embroidered Veilings, Crepe de Chine, Siamoise Plumetis, New Effects in High-grade Mourning Goods Cotton Fabrics Printed Swisses, Organdies, Lace Batistes, Dimitles, Crepons, Scotch Novelty Ginghams, Madras and Cheviots West 23d St. We have nothing more to add to this. IN THE FAR-OFF ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC Agents of the New York Central Lines are arranging for travel across this Con- tinent via Chicago, St. Louis and Cincia- nati to New York and Boston, in connee- tion with tbo great Ocean Ferries. No other American line stands s0 well at home or abroad as the “NEW YORK CENTRAL.” For acopy of “The Luxury of Modern Rally Travel,” send one 2-ceut stamp to George E Danlels, General Passenger Agent, Grand Cea- tral Station, New York. BICYCLE @ & DRIVING (=, 8 on PRICES Low TO SELL MILLIONS PRESS OF THE J. W. PRATT CO., NEW YORK. OM CENTY HEADLIGHTS RY Tuan st new y