Life — May 30, 1912 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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“Quaint Cape Cod” Send for this Book _defore you desde, where to go this mummer, read It describes a Summer Land absolutely different from any other place. You'll see phases of life and character far more interesting than anything in a novel. You'll enjoy the Yachting, Bathing, Fishing, olf and, auton The social life will appeal to Fou. Write today for Quaint Cape Cod.” Its Free Address Advertising Bureau, Room $00, South Station, Boston. New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. From Our Readers (Concluded from page 1124) it is remarkable how Taft's pro-Catholic attitude is arousing the religious pre The secular press, with few exceptions, of which Lire is a notable one, are seci ingly afraid to speak out. The “ Catholic vote” has them and the politicians para- lyzed. Taft's attempt to use religion, and apforcign one at that, to further his po- Mical life deserves a stinging rebuk and he is likely to receive it, and to the great detriment of the religion also, which would stoop to be used in this manner, Very truly yours, A. H. Rirrexnovs Eucts, Tht, May 9, 1912. The Relation of Flies to Filth To 1 Error: First-off let us consider the fact that if there were no filth or waste about house, grounds, alleys, bogs and swamps there'd be no mosquitoes or flies. Of course it is not imaginable that we could The Secret of Good Men Standard Set—Consists of Triple Silver Plated Blades; all contained in Metal Blade Boxes, and 12 doubleedged $5.00, florocco Grain Leather Box, Start the Day with a Three-Minute Gillette Shave HIS morning over 3,000,000 men shaved with the Gillette Safety Razor as shown above—the regular stand-by—the good old reliable five-dollar Gillette Standard Set, known the world over. They are men with all kinds of beards—men with tender skins. They in- clude men who “‘never before could shave every day’’—men who could not shave themselves at all until they adopted the Gillette. It's something to insure your- self the luxury of a velvet-smooth shave every day in the year without stropping or honing. A safe, sanitary shave without Toughness or irritation "$5, 00 of the skin, Price, Gillette Safety Razor For sale In forty thousand retail stores in every part of the habitable globe No Stropping “clean up” to the pitch of. supplying ab- solutely no sustenance for these little scavengers; therefore we shall always have a few, more or less, of them about us. But where the health authorities fall down, so to say, is in sending out word for everybody, everywhere, to “ swat the flies,” instead of warning the people to keep a sharp lookout for flies as pointers of filth and the need of strict- ef attention to cleanliness of every sort and in every place. As for killing flies, ptrsonally I would never kill a single one of the little innocents, nor do I per- mit one of my five children to harm one of them. So long as there is anything about to nourish the flies they are needed as nature's scavengers; but no consider- able number of them will show up to annoy us if by cleanliness we cheat them out’ of their “favorite prescription.” Disease producers? This is one of the wrong notions arising from the prevail- ing “ germ theory.” The so-called germs are the product, not cause, of disease. Cuartes E. Pace, M.D. Bostox, April 29, igi. comicbooks.com