Life — September 12, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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Waleae AClu chtail = cube DELiceT "THOUSANDS have discarded the idea of making their own cocktails,—all will after giving the CLUB COCKTAILS a fair trial, Scientifically blended from the choicest old liquors and mellowed with age make them the perfect cocktails that they are. Seven kinds, most popular of which are Martini (Gin base), Manhattan (Whiskey base). The following label appears on cvery bottle : Guaranteed under the National Puro Food and Drugs Act. Approved June 30th, 1906. Serial No. 1707. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props Hartford New York London EEE Pozzonns MPLEXION POWDER: Bento injuring the skin. It is entirely free from harmfu speared of purest The Wooden Box retains the debcate perfume until the last apeck is gone. Sold every= | the gr | suggestion, so rich in varicty of phrascology that it | expression becomes the perfect embodiment of the | bodily emphasis all combine to make the clever | Frenchman a fine talker. | tosink to the uninteresting level of the rest of us. He Ee GENUINE SUSPENDERS Webbing Inimitable Buttonholes Indestructible CHGUYOT |*Because we are continuing ¢ athe Knell of Conversation T IS reported that the blight of bridge has fallen on Paris, and the beau monde is reduced to the American pastime of sitting silently around a table, with preoccupied air and eyes glued on a handful of cards. ‘The talk-killing game has forced its way into] the Faubourg St. Germain, and the chatter of the| Glite no longer enlivens the boulevard fashion cen- ters. The bridge mania has subdued the gay Gallic temperament to silence and cold calc Paris is much to be pitied. Perh to be pitied than the United States, fo have never excelled in the fine art of conv and therefore have not lost so much in capitulating to the card mania, But the French, and especially the Parisians, have for centuries been the finest talk- ers in the world. With them oral communication has not been a perfunctory exercise, as in England and America, but an art cultivated for its own sake. Paris, a rood address, a ready wit and a fluent tongue have always been the open sesame to the salons of . Men of genius have spent their talents in mutual exchange of ideas, and in the spontaneous. entertainment of social circles, even more than they have salted and packed away their mental product | between the covers of books. Even yet a witty re-| mark, a clever jest or a new epigram will travel the | rounds of the salons, ateliers and cafés. The French people probably have a natural ad- vantage of the rest of the world, in language as well as temperament, for conversational purposes. The French tongue is so fluent, so musical, so subtle in lends itself perfectly to the easy exchange of thought. And when it is spoken with the grace and charm of the typical boulevardier or the facile Parisienne, the idea. Words, utterance, tonation, facial setting and But now, it scems, the conversational paragon is will not talk except when spoken to or when some- thing really important clamors for utterance, and then, perhaps, he will merely grunt an assent or jerk out a curt phrase, like a city editor giving orders through the telephone or a broker telling his agent to’sell quick. Social intercourse will lose its ease and beauty and its variety of expression, and ic no longer be current coin. Eventually women may have as little to say to each other when they meet as they have now in America. The Ameri cans, as a rule, can do just two things well—play | cards and “josh.” ‘The Parisians, lacking the “josh- | ing” spirit, will be reduced to the barren extremity of simply playing bridge.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. before the Royal Commission id: “The dog is devoted to man; it is the friend of man; it cares for man much | more than for its own kind, and that is why we care | for the dog.” Yet Dr. s that the dog R. STARLING, arling ins lis the most suitable animal for experimentation “because it has grown out of man; it has been valu- able to man.” Asked “But why is it so valuable to man for experimentation?” Dr. Starling replied: | t struggle for ex- istence. ‘The dog has been employed by man to help him in his struggle on earth.” —The Abolitionist. RS. BOOFER (meditatively, over her book):| How true this is! | Mr. Boorer (bracing himsel/): Well, Maria, don’t keep me in suspense. 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