Life — December 21, 1911 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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LIFE friends and had me cultivate new ones. unsatisfactory in all those respects, what | Also you stopped my regular custom of in the name of all that’s human you Th | spending every other Sunday with some found in me to love enough to e of my relatives, until now I am on the me.” merest speaking terms with my family. Secret Also, through your suggestions, I have f clearing dropped poker, quit playing billiards and I peiseve marriages would in general of clearing stopped bowling, abandoned my usual be as happy, and often more so, if they the skin of fishing trips, cut out the ball games, were all made by the Lord Chancellor, redness, musical comedies and all that sort of upon a due consideration of the charac- roughness thing. So T have just been wondering.” ter and circumstances, without the par- : 8g , “Been wondering what, Harold?” ties having any choice in the matter. pimples and “ Wonde! if I was so thoroughly —Samuel Johnson, blackheads is S told i in two words Cuticura Soap.” This favor- ite skin-beautifier is sold every- where. Sample of Cut! Soap_and Ointment post- free, with 32-p. book, from Cuticura (This Ilustration Shows Only One-Half the Set) wee el Coit a You Are “Well Read” in deep thought At last the fond wife speaks: not because you have read “much,” but because you have “What in the world is on your “read right.” Self-culture is not so much a matter of the mila f complete reading of many volumes as of being familiar with the real parts of the best books, “T have just been wondering,” he ex- “Wondering? About wha Imagine for a moment that you could actually read that plains.“ Just_ wondering.” “Well, no soone ere arried ; than Sou iadbeed Hie to Mop Sudldne Ge ira part of ‘each one which gives the book its value. Imagine swearing and taking an occasional nip. that in a few hours’ time you could read the essential parts Then you got me to stop reading light i Tv yl 9S of the master pieces of fiction, history, philosophy, poetry me to symphony concerts instead of to wor wanted toread. Itis this that these The Vital Pages From 5 = the Best Works of the eee any ail iiespitres Ltedon 8 Volumes of the Masterpieces | 200 Greatest Writers to throw away all the pictures I had ac- cumulated in my bachelor days. Then of the World’s Best Literature ¢ go to a new tailor, and you y shirts and collars and ties a will enable you to do. so that they would b so that they would not be t ‘ They are designed as the busyman’s edition, from which d always worn. Then you made > you cane in g few hour’ reali the very cia jest literati 1 opportunity to he; the ‘ord seul he and you made n parts of theie works that ave given their authors Lmmer. pesante sam wilt read it cut differently. And one 2 vi zac, Charlotte 5 seth outa be able to read “4 er ; by one you weaned me away from my old > ft » ; lato, entirety. y to Fe st | Te THE ROYAL MAIL parvo éach one nowt ‘ ‘S TI x “Theso Books would add to the “scenery of any room Dae wHll find of Teany> it 5 They are printed in clear type on excel <3, In Memoriam lent paper, bound jn dark red buckram, with gold backs, In the pocket sizo voluines that are so justly popular. . * ¢ work of Your Holiday Opportunity Inany moro fa this set of the jae uae rue Oedeem ‘ pon brings to you for fred examination, transe | MASTERPIECES OF THE chica the warts On OH tion Charees {ally prepaid the complete ses Of 7 He WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE William Dean Howell - and 246 pages re - , the foremost American st. Works of the 20) gre ee 12, deciegy oA Herman Nox Teyouare satished with them, $260 foaree ures Narain, De- sinthen pay for eyomin faicand MAIL THIS NOW “J used to recall faly there, but for gales ation Succes ‘You may send me forexaminatton, transportation charges beauty dtaly ts nowhere beside Ber mare (3 2, . Hy prepaid, the #volume tet of “The Maaterploces of the = " ‘s Best Te th ted, will ound Trip, R.M.S.P.T, three All Accommodations 3 3 It Talo not welsh no second-class 0 Within flve days of thelr arriv With Stcerss Magazine has beet co: Name ...seeeeeeereers 1 ming. thaely review of ‘snd tne fetion and sane and Outspo Aadress fican problems. : use these volumes as a gift and retain tho sub: 9 City and State ror sieceras or you may Uso the suvseription, for B Clty and Stat s aN. rasas a Rift, ant retain te volumes for yourself. 12 South La Satie ste Chicas Phe nothing in sending for thers books Simply clip and |) Occupation caer 2 ahiortn Bt. MAIL THIS: COUPON NOWS, Success Magazine, Dept. N, 29-31 E. 22d St., New Yerk comicbooksMerm