Life — August 6, 1903 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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eer— price o ask ottling. books, because the community requires that we shall be able to talk about something it has taken up as a fad. We may talk against them if we will, but even this very criticism on our part is usually but the desire to please others by sceming to be original. We go to the theatre on the same principle, and gaze raptly at the mute figure of dramatic art, gagged by a Hebrew Syndicate for the use of liberty-loving Gentiles. It is true, in a sense, that ‘clothes make the man.” Our clothes are nothing but the outward and visible sign of an inward and slavish thrall- dom. If a fresh, clean, handsome, cheerful, talented, intellectual, well-balanced man should appear in our drawing-rooms without a collar, he would be shied away from like a leper, He can lie, swear, sit up nights with our innocent daughters, play the races and carry a vice in every pocket, but he must wear a collar. A col- lar is one of the most uncomfortable things ever devised by custom. It does not conform to any inciple of art or beauty. Its curves are mean- It is hard to put on, it chafes the neck, snd it serves no purpose. It is ugly in the extreme, and it hides the natural beauty that belongs to a virile man. How would Spartacus have looked addressing the Roman gladiators with a three-ply E. & W., turned down, three inches high linen collar, and a chameleon butter- tly tie? Those of us who are obliged to earn a living are following around the man (or the syndicate) we are working for like a dog. When he whistles, we come. When he abuses us, we swallow it, for the sake of the dollars and cents. We ‘study to please.” Those of us—a much smaller number—who have gotten beyond the point where we are earning a living, and are ‘free” on our incomes, arc a little better off, because we have more time and opportunity to choose the kind of thing that we shall imitate, Tom Masson, Saranac Indignant. (Special from Saranac Lake, July 30th.) ( \ REAT excitement has been caused here by the disgraceful collapse of John Smith, an out-of-town patient suffering from consumption, who was prematurely allowed to die before he could be hustled out of town, Public indignation is at its height, no case like this having been known for years. It is rumored that the authorities will be severely censured. All the doctors are much disturbed; that Saranac Lake's death rate should be raised by even one death, is regarded as a gross plece of carelessness. Doctor Pseudough, when interviewed, sald: “I cannot understand it. This fellow must have been overlooked. We examine patients with the utmost care, and where they are curable and have enough ready money or negotiable securities, we allow them to stay and reap the benefit of the air. But if they are hopeless, we run them out of town in short order. With us it is a case of life or NEW IDEAS FOR THE CARE OF HAVANA CIGARS TILE HWUMIDORS SMALL ENOUGIL FOR ONE BOX—LARGE ENOUGH FOR ONE TEA LEAD HUNDRED BOXES SOLDERED OVER EACH BOX OF IM- PORTED CIGARS FOR FOREIGN TRAVEL: YACHTING—SEASHORE OR MOU? FOIL BOX OF CLUB OR TIN EVERY FOR HOME, TAINS WRAPPED AROUND IMPORTED OFFICE CIGARS you CAN HAVE YOUR IMPORTED CIGARS FRESIL AND PERFECT ANYWHERE YOU GO WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COST IF YOU BUY FITHER THE Bock, CORONA, CaBANas, VILLAR, ‘YNCLAN, OLDEN EAGLE, NIANUEL GARCIA, DON QUIJOTE, BRANDS OF ANTIGUEDAD, COMERCIAL, EspaNoua, FLOR DE CuBA, FLOR DE MURIAS, VENCEDORA, IDeEnRY CLay, IMPORTED FTIAVANA CIGARS. AFRICANA, CAROLINA, ESTELLA, MERIDIANA, ROSA DE SANTIAGO, J. S. MuRIAS, NTIVIIDAD, HAVANA TOBACCO COMPANY BROADWAY AND 26TH STREET NEW YORK BORATEO TALCUM EN’S for After Shaving. Taslet that your barber uics Menner Toilet Powder aft r ioe of perspliation. nal. S Id everywhere, or mailed for % ceats. Sample Pree- GERHARD MENNEN CO., Nowark, N. J. ADDICTED TO THE DRUG MABIT? If s0, you can be cured. Our Sanatorium was established in 1875, for the treatment of Drug and Alcoholic Addictions. Care Guaranteed, Home Treatment if desired, We have cured thousands that have failed elsewhere, Tux Du. J. L, Sreriexs Co., Dept. 77, Lebanon, Ohio, mlipans Tables are the best dyapepsia ‘ine ever made. A hundred mililons of them have been noid ta the United States fee </ in Asingie year. Constipation, heartburn, aus sick headache, dizziness. bad breath, sore throat, and every other tliness arising from ‘& disordered stomach are reileved or cured | by Ripans Tabules. "One will generally givo rellet within twenty minutes. Tbe five-cent package is enough for ordinary occasions, All druggists sell them. comicbooks.com