Life — May 18, 1911 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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and therefore will have more money spend on their own adornment. T poct of the Daily Mail has the right « it when he blossoms into verse thus! “In days of old when knights were bol: Man's clothes were likewise brave The tailor’s charge was doubtless Jar But did we pinch and save? Oh, no! We gaily paid the bill And strove to look more splendid stil! The powdered wig and Georgian rig Combined the gay and chaste, : But now we deem a simpler scheme IT’S THE NATIONAL SIGNAL A mark of better taste, y While women’s clothing, year by year, Grows more extravagantly dear. And, with the show of long ago, Authority decays. A subtle scorn of man is born Because he meckly pays. $7.00, $8.00, $9.00, $10.00, complete For, since he shed his lordly coat, Dealers everywhere ‘ Woman, with threats, demands the vote! THE RANDALL- FAICHNEY CO. Ci BOSTON, U. S. A. ‘ Then here’s to one that hath begun Write us to-day for Booklet 11, on Accesories you need for your ear Te simon sae ite be. May fill our proper place. Nor are we, ladies, feeling lost To know where we may save the cost! —The Argonaut Best Easy to attach Easy to operate An insistent warning Has kept, as only tyrants can, The New Regime His womenkind in. slavery. ————— The staff poet of the London Sketch is moved to versify by the announce- ment that Dr. Madeline Pelletier, the French suffragette, sees in the harem skirt a release from the moral servitude in which her sex has been held by the tyrant man: For countless ages brutal man, With unexampled knavery, The Fascinating Taste of Peter's Chocolate makes you always ‘ more.”’ This is due to the purity of the rich milk and the high- est grade of cocoa beans —and to the method of com- bining milk and chocolate, invented by Mr. D. Peter of Vevey, Switzerland. Peter's comes in several varieties: Peter's Milk Chocolate Peter's Milk Chocolate Croquettes “want He arrogates the right to wear Both trousers and a jetty coat, But forces maid and wife to bear The burden of the petticoat. The day of wrath has dawned at last On man’s obtuse brutality; Means that were hidden in the past, Stand forth in grim reality Hark! Hark! It is the tocsin’s sound (Not feminine buffoonery), The badge of freedom has been found In—Turkish pantaloonery But if woman is resolved upon an imi- tation of man there are at least signs that man is returning the compliment. A report from London says that men are to wear fancy waistcoats trimmed with lace. Let us hail the new fashion with delight. It is easy to sce where it will lead. Beginning with the waistcoat the passion for decoration will proceed inward, and presently we shall have de- lightful creations in underwear for male use. Why should not men also have treasures of lace and frilly things that no one but their wives are ever allowed to see? Of course they would be ex- pensive. Even the humble pajamas would rise in price if the legs and sleeves were chastely trimmed, if they were cut low in front and filled in with some delicate fluffery. But how sweet they would look. How we should fancy ourselves in bed. And, after all, the cost need not be a bar. With the adop- “A Clean Tooth Never Decays FLEXIBLE HANDLE TOOTH BRUSH Cleaning your teeth is like sweeping the stairs. You have to get into the cracks and corners or you don’t get them clean. Pro-phy-lac-tic Flexible Handle Brush is & made to get into the cracks and corners without discomfort. It has a serrated edge, and a little tuft that sticks out at the end, and with the flexible handle you can use stiffer bristles than before. Always sold ia Yellow Bor—25, 38, 40¢. Giartnizod Send for tcrating Boeke FLORENCE MFG. CO.,187 Pine St., Florence, Mass. Desabes (ele makers of Fro-phy-tsocle Tooth, aie, Miiary and Land WITH 19 JS Mak and details about postal a: Villages anit hamlets, together with hotel guile. ybese Be maps are printed in elght colors, show all Interurl..1 elects and steam railroads, steamboat lines, etc. Any State, in pocket form, 15 cents at stationers' and newsdealers’, or by the publishers Cc. S. HAMMOND & CO.' MK 142 Fulton St.. New York tion of male attire women will naturally discard the pretty things that they now je and that you can sce only of faith unless you happen to be married. Husbands and fathers will no longer be called upon to pay lingerie bil's of excessive proportions Peter's Almond Milk Chocolate Peter's Milk Chocolate with Roasted Hazel- 2 nuts called"*Thimbles" 4.2 Peter's Bon-Bons woksellers’s cod comicbooks.com