Life — August 31, 1911 — page 18: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Modern Version ACK SPRATT could play no bridge. his wife could play no golf, Su Jack spent hours in his prodigious tasks of teeing off His wife at bridge would win each prize, and so they had no care, Which really helped in advertising this congenial pair, The Country “country,” w HE ants, word site * people ete, is merely a convenient substitute or words to be concealed ement of Mr. Joseph T. esident of thy National City Aldrich’s big bank, said nding It will secure advantages of for all to the country all the great central bank of banks, without the disadvant discount s of Gov- ernment competition in banking How much different that would sound if the for the word word cers" were substituted countr estate ent would be ex: or ivist bankers, not the cou would suf- fer from Governi But perh hy the enthusiasm of what t competition, the gentleman was misled the mom no ing meant © said the plan would secure more reali. his words than when “the cen: of the nation.” . itis also true th: ‘alization of the cash reserves While that statement is truc the cash reserves are now “centralized” in the Treasury where they belong. proposed is to centralize them in a pri Bankers should be their statements, They should learn how to make a sentence balance as well as a set of books. treasury more accurate in lt Pie Do Your Shoulders Droop? Be a Flopper At Once Before It is Too Late— “he Lackadai- sical Age is Now Here—Full Directions Atout What to Do— Some Late Poses and Effects Shave just added a drooping shoul 1 will treat all the W clien der department, a for two hours a In now that our d for the late we may as well let the cat out and ar progr: Be prepared, women of America, The time is rip: up to it perfected autumn, of the bag summer nnounce for new cra of fashion for it The years a We m turn back, Everything has led iragist activities of the past two bound to have their results. rest. The pendul scientitic the For years it has, of course, been recognized Our expert designers advisers have been working over problem now for several months. that the tradesmen have always set the styles; i uch as we now control most of the tradesmen, thi We therefore beg leave to the Lackadaisical Age. From we expect to make nothing but daisical costumes, Come in at once try on our new shape lackadaisical cor ast task becomes ours. announce ow on lacka and sets, We are shoulders beginning on our shoulders. Square are no longer worn You mu Everyhody mist be What ¢ In order to start our patrons right, we in the basic of the flopsidaisical, or lacka- i now be a flopper flopper. 3 a flopper mean? pains to exp quality daisic ttitude, It is not blasé. Blasé rather implies that one has lived too long, that one is hored by what other people who do not know consider are exciting things. But the highest art of the flopper con- sists in letting go everything at all time of Christian Science ‘ibrations, Yogi teaching, lt is the New Tho Non-Resistance, expressed art forn is to say, by means of essence n the highest — our inimitable clothes. To have square shoulders would not be possible with any flopper, neither would The hands raising the arms to an angle should be hung on the side, with that exquisite grace which only comes from actually dow m to the life rrents that, unseen, are constantly flow- practice. What your hands is to abandon th you for best new corsets, are of the example, Je entirely red rubber “THE LACKADAISICAL AGE 1S NOW MERE. ARE ‘A PLOprER?” comicbookAeem