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scientific management. Hitherto, all \merican women have ordered their vn clothes. The money they have ent for their mistakes more than ays for what we charge. Remember, this is the most serious rt movement that has ever taken ce in this country. It is far in vance of the times. It has for its isis the mutual attraction of © sexes, which is the most yrtant thing in the world. Love is in reality at the bot- m of our business. We give 1 style, beauty and sesthet vat rock bottom pr Ww in make a New England old tid look like a syIph in four tings, If you have no money, mort- age your home and come on ind place yourself under our care, It will pay you to do it. Lead the higher life of style. Don't delay! You are grow- ing older every moment. Now is the fashionable time. Life's Fashion Reform League. “VM LOOKING FOR A PASMION PUBLICATION ” A WAIST OF TIME XT AISLE, MA'AM, IN THE HUMOROUS MAGAZINES” Settled: The Subway Question = Subway matter in New York seems to be settled. If any seventh. son is momentarily disengaged from the job of peering into the future and can tell us whether it has been ettled right, our appreciation of his services will take a substantial form. Meanwhile, we shall hope for the best Next to having that matter settled right, the hest thing would be to have it settled wrong. The Hearst papers say it has been settled wrong. That is far as it goes, but not conclusive. It is conceivable that the Hearst papers might be right. The Times says the people have got a great bargain. The natural conclu- sion is that they have got it in the neck. But perhaps not. No signs are sure in this matter. The wonder is that the Subway question was not referred to the peo- ple. That is the method now advo- cated for settling questions that are too hard for experts. a good sign, 917 Nobodies IERCE MAN: I don't like the way you run paper at all. ror: Are you one of the owners? Fierce Man: No. Eprtor: An advertiser, per- haps. Fierce Man: No, indeed. Eprtor: A contributor, pos- sibly? Fierce Man: Not much. I'm a subscriber. See! Eprtor: Oh, we no longer consider subscribers. your “Science” vs. Cure D® GEORGE FER: DINANDS writes in the London Anti- Cl vivisection Review one. “Vivisectional re- search has done incal- culable harm to the progress of the art of medicine by diverting thought and energy—shall_ we even say ambition ?—from really useful channels, such as clinical observation, the study of the mind’s influence on the body, the different conditions favorable or unfavorable to the development of various diseases, etc. To-day the study of the peculiarities of the microbe has replaced the study of man's ail- ments.” Microbes Make Spring I" seems that spring, too, is a prod- of the th and its microbes. So it has been divulged by two gen- tlemen of the French Academy of Sciences. It used to be held that the air and the sun did the business which we call spring, but it scems they These astute French- y that of a sudden when things have got duly warmed up, the soil comes alive, “It wakes; it works; it breathes out vapors,” and all be- cause millions of microbes have be- come active. That explains the failure of the time- honored attempt to bring on the spring by putting on thinner flannels. That has no effect on the microbes, and until they move, there is no spring. only accessories BREMEMPER, young man, that even she may be a. suffragist in embryo. comicbooks.com