Life — February 2, 1911 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Listen— Makaroff is the only cigaret on the American market today witha character of its own, It is distinctive, different, individual. The others are very much alike, except in name and label, as you know for yourself if you've smoked them. If you want a cigaret you'll like well enough to stick to— Say Makaroff Cigarets to Your Dealer Today To those who want quick action on this,or who aren't near a good dealer, | will send a good dollar's worth, postpaid, for a dollar. Just say whether you want the 15-cent or the25-cent blend —or an assortment—spe- cify plain or cork tips—and I'll do the rest—the whole transaction to be at my risk. You get the dollar back if you want it. But whatever you do— do it now—before you forget it. Just write Mail address, Dept. 38-95 Milk Street, Boston I make this offer only to acquaint you with Makaroffs. You can get them regu. larly from your dealer end 1 know you will, after you try the dollar's worth. “RUN AND MEET YOUR PAPA, CHILDREN.” SES Rhymed Reviews Edison: His Life and Inventions (By Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin. Harper & Brothers) Prepare to take your medicine: You're booked to read a disquisition On Thomas Alva Edison, That necromantic electrician. Who trains the wild, elusive spark? Whose biograph the crowd rejoices? Whose lamps annihilate the dark? Who runs our cars? Who cans our voices? A thoughtful child, when only six, The laws of strain and stress forget- ting, He tried to hatch a brood of chicks And geese, by placing eggs—and set- ting; Yet though the sequel failed to cheer Our infantile experimenter, He learned to plan and persevere, And thus became a Great Inventor. A lad within his early teens, The cup of worldly wisdom quaffing, He sold “the latest magazines!" And learned the art of telegraphing. For years he scarcely made things pay, But later on the funds came quicker; And why?—I much regret to say He marketed a Wall Street ticker! But then as one who would atone, By greater gifts that evil righting, He much improved the telephone, Ile gave us incandescent lighting The biograph and phonograph— (How ever did we live without ther I haven't space to mention half, But this Great Work tells all about them. And now, when how to pay the rent Becomes the question most compell- ing, He takes a jug of pure cement And pours you out a model dwell- oOo NEW Soon Gs. is the business of the Sterling Debenture Corporation to furnish capital for the development of American enterprises, Ge year thousands of enterprises come to us for capital. Each e. terprise is subjected to a careful in. vestigation, in many cases thorough and exhaustive. Out of this large num. ber we find on the average only one out of every thousand enterprises that is able to measure up to that standard ¢ merit which is essential for a presenta. tion to our clients. We eliminate from consideration al ventures in which the profitable de velopment of the enterprise is dependent upon the favorable results of experiment, or explorations yet to be made. Wevil entertain no enterprise until the chim made for it have been demonstrated in actual practice. Our painstaking care in the sele- tion of those enterprises, the stot of which we offer for sale, has resulted in the establishment of a world-wide clientele of over +5,000 satisfied custom- ers. Let us number you with those wh are receiving our offerings. Writefor our current list No. 110. We employ no silesmen. Orders are re ceived only through the U. S. mails et on_personal application at our offices STERLING DEBENTURE CORPORATION| Brunswick Bldg. Madison Square New Yat! I'd rather think like Edison Than improvise a sweet cadenza Or ribe ligke Alfred Teddison— Egscuse be, I've the idtiuendzal Arthur Guiterman What's In a Headline Sur-Eprror: A correspon:ient sends os graphs of the steel spurs vs pit, spectators, birds in bat every round described Great Epitor: Gracious! Get it al in : Sun-Epitor (doubtfully) : But this * a moral Sunday paper. Grrat Eottor: Y-e-s, | know. Head A Brutal Sport—Where Were the SE Largest growers of pedigree farm and garden S D Ss seeds in the world —- Clovers, Grarses; Oats, OATS Rye, Barley, Potatoes, Seed Com, etc. We — puss per breed only pedigree heavy yielding stocks. You eaabeut c. BE. ATALOQUE FREE, in 1918. JOHN A. SALZER SEED COMPANY, Box 16, La Crosse, Wis. comicbooks.com