Life — March 30, 1911 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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620 ing solved the problem of my children’s clothes, My little eight-year-old girl at- tended a cotillion last night in one of your thousand-dollar models and excited so much envy as almost to lead to a riot. And how they do love to go bare- foot!” Among other innovations we have in- troduced this year, we might mention our butler’s wardrobe. The dressing of a butler has hitherto been a problem of no mean proportions. Butlers, as a rule, present such an imposing appearance that they are apt to cast mere money in the shade. Our new butler’s costume, number three, is made of pure white satin, trimmed with red valenciennes. It gives the butler a distinctive appear- ance and yet keeps him where he be- longs. Ladies of America—one and all!—do BUTLER’S COSTUME TRIMMED WITH RED VALENCIENNES you realize what this League is doing for you? American inventiveness with regard to woman's clothes has at last asserted itself. We are now originating all of our own fashions without help from abroad, and we are doing it in a radical manner never before dreamed of. The best thing about it all is the en- thusiasm of ‘the American men. “Tt costs a few thousand more a year to clothe my wife,” writes the husband of one of our leading patrons, “ but it is worth it. My wife is so different each week that I haven't even wanted to get married again since you began your grand work.” This is the main point. By constantly Old Friend of Family to Successful Authoress: “1 1 WAS IN YOUR PLACE, MARGIE, I'D MARRY SOME RICH FELLOW, MORE OF THEM STORIES.” changing the appearance of our ladies, they no longer tire the men. Hitherto leading fashions have lasted several months. Now they are likely to change at any moment. Drop in any morning and watch the parade of our leading models through Life Park (formerly Central). It’s worth seeing. Travel at Home ” HENEVER I get the wander- lust,” says the philosopher, “I get the cook to burn the steak and serve me some coffee that tastes as though it had brown paper in it. Then I sit in the most uncomfortable chair in the house and try to read a newspaper in a poor light. I then go outdoors and let a cinder blow in my eye, then go back in and go to bed on a cot that is four inches too short and a foot too narrow for me, with covers that gather them- selves about my waist and leave my feet bare, while a clever contrivance sends alternate hot and cold blasts across me. Next morning I have indigestion, a sore eye and a cold, and a fine assortment of aches and pains, but I also have all the sensations of having been on a trip and am spared the worry of getting home again, for I am already there.” OTTO for the dining saloon of an ocean steamship: “Man wants but little here below, nor wants that Tittle long.” JUST THINK! YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO WRITE ANY Federal Limitation of Capital ENATOR CUMMINS, leading Re- publican Insurgent, believes, as quoted in a long piece in the Sunday World, that it is of vast importance to keep alive business competition. He ad- mits that it is difficult and that the anti- trust law, though it has done much good, does not do it. He would have “a direct (Federal) regulation imposed on persons or corporations engaged in interstate commerce,” and a Federal tribunal with power to limit the capital that anybody can employ in interstate or foreign commerce. He thinks that “with capital limited and an absolute prohibition of community of interest and combination of any sort,” we could introduce into every field of production and sale the competition which the Anti-Trust law is powerless to pre- serve. That is a pretty stiff proposition, isn’t it? Turn back the hands of the clock, undo the work of Uncle John Rocke- feller, disintegrate the Steel Trust and all the other trusts, separate business into its original molecules! And they tell us that about the only cheap things in the world now are kero- sene oil and sugar! We want very much to have the coun- try reformed and happy, but will Sena- tor Cummins please try out his plan on a model somewhere before he takes our livings all apart to introduce it on us? | comicbooks.com