Life — January 19, 1911 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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You know of the famous wells of ABILENA. from which flows, pure and undefiled, America’s Natural Laxative Water. manufactured and stored, for human benefits, the perfect laxative— more effective than drugs or artificial waters—and a laxative that not only doesn’t irritate the delicate membranes of the intestinal tract, but soothes and nourishes these tissues as well. | ABILE! Magnesium, Drink Tonight, America’s Natural Laxative ABILENA TO DRUGGISTS: jihis otvenisiog ts toae Try ABILENA Water to-night, instead of harsh medicines, or artificial waters, or other drugs. It is surprisingly gentle in its action, yet it flushes land cleanses the system thorough!y, removes waste secretions and helps to restore the digestion and xcretory organs to their natural, healthful condi- tion. ABILENA is not disagreeable to the taste. A small amount suffices. It isinexpen: nd easy SPECIAL NOT ABILE duced in America, Pes Keep your stock up Order through jolier is almost wholly Sodium Sulphate, whereas ordinary laxatives contain | place of Sodium. : harsh, harmful trritant, which at best can only give you temporary results. is the only advertised NATURAL laxativ Others are artificial’ and dare is bottled and sealed at the ABILENA Springs under the most sanitary methods. The AsnenA Company, Abilene, Kansas resting booklet on Perfect Elimisatioa, mailed tree on request to Frank M. G: Nature has here i} Sodium 1s the édeal laxative base. Magnesium is a | to get. Nearly every druggist sells it. small bott! Get a bottle of ABILENA to-day at your druggist’s and learn, as thousands of others have, that the perfect laxative is neither pills, tab- lets, nor artificial waters, but a product of Nature's laboratories. Try first, a small two-dose bottle, then you will want it in larger bottles to have in your home at all times. Your money back if not more than satisfied. Large or water pr not use the word NATURAL.” The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 183) miserable. If that is what James Bryce tried to say in his introduction to the fine volumes the Macmillans have just issued, I agree. In a state of emancipation from the tyrannies of the timc—modern medicine, ethical cul- ture, college education, feminism and the like—we Americans could, indeed, cke out a wretched existence. But the American love for slavery—as potent in its sphere as the German love for dullness, the French love for swin- dles or the British love for freedom— would always bring us back, if I un- derstand James Bryce, to our present police censorship of the stage and to the suppression of ideas. I hope so. Personally, as I have hinted, I would HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart Hartshorn on label. Get “Improved,” no tacks required. Wood Rollers Tin Rollers much rather remain a slave than be an Englishman. Only because the American type of mind is servile, I infer from James Bryce’s second volume, have our polit- ical institutions succeeded at all. The Greeks of the age of Pericles would have made short work of a United States Supreme Court after its somer- saults on the income tax. Voltaire would have laughed our system of Senatorial election by State Legista- tures out of existence with one sar- casm. That merely affords us new occasion to be grateful for our Ham- ilton Wright Mabies and our Nicholas Murray Butlers. Were they really great men, American _ institutions would be in danger. It was solely because Samson was such a giant that the gates of Gaza proved unsafe, James Bryce should never forget that OF BRAINS — GARS “MADE AT KEY WEST Sherman is confronted by so many men more ridiculous than himself that he appears by comparison as impres- sive as a bust of Pallas. Our American system of checks upon the frecdom of the people has at lcast this advantage, that it es, every man upon a plane of periect equality with all other men. I once drove William Dean Howells off a car just as if he had been some woman, being impelled thereto by a stampede of my fellow passengers behind me. Can the street railway system of Glas- gow boast that in the rush hour it has caused Lord Rosebery to be knocked into the mud by a man who distrusts modern democracy? I have heard John D. Rockefeller roundly cursed by a truck driver whose team had just missed running him down, and the sight did me good. I am aware that the illustrious worker in radium, Pierre Curie, was thrown and killed by a wagon in Paris, but I believe the driver regretted it. But not even the richest and most powerful over here are exempt from the conditions under which we are all forced to flourish, American good nature is as direct a product of the fact that our institu- tions are rooted in distrust of the peo- ple as is British boorishness the con- sequence of the fact that men in Eng- land are free. It is useless to rebel a ee (Continued on page 185) the emergence among ourselves of a genius so sublime as that of Edmund Burke might make Vice-President Sherman look ridiculous. It will, of course, be retorted that one need not think of Burke to make Vice-President Sherman seem ridiculous, to which the reply is that whua presiding over the United States Senate, Vice-President MAGAZINE a Representative Monthly of California Hy and the Great Southwest. (9 120 to 130 pages every issue. comicbooks.com