Life — July 25, 1912 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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ee, Modem Lire, 14 Three Simple Fables for Grown Women (Continued from page 1487) So the man worked in the kitchen and the girl worked in the garden, As it was at my home, so it was in my business, and I became rich from what 1 saved in wages. Now the years passed, and the young man still worked in the kitchen. And he Legan to despair and he began to look enviously upon my wealth, and he said, “ All my work goes to profit another and I receive nothing.” So he demanded more wages, and I refused, and he walked out of my kitchen. Then he starved and became maddened and sought to blow up my house with dyna- mite. Meanwhile the girl's father died and she was not married and her only means of support was the five dollars a week she earned in my garden. And five dol- lars was not enough for her to live on and make herself a home. So the young man became a criminal and the girl became a prostitute. Here is a pretty story of love and romance. The Fable of the Foolish Wise Matrons I will tell you about Jones, Smith and Robinson. One evening Jones’ wife said to him, “I see in the Social News that the Duchess of and Mrs. . the widow of the millionaire, have come out for woman's suffrage and that M has started a farm to teach women farming. Women are in- vading the industrial field. There are fifty women blacksmiths and fifty women ‘For Hair and Scalp Shampoos with Cuti- cura Soap and occasion- al dressings of Cuticura Ointment are invalu- able. No others do so much to prevent dry, thin and falling hair, remove dandruff and promote hair growth. Bold throughout the world, Bample ofeach free, Address nearest_depot: ‘Cuticura,”” Dept. 71, Boston, London, Cape Town, Bydney, Calcutta bd Try a Gillette with the New Blades these Hot Days HE tougher your beard and more sensi- tive your skin, the more you need the Gillette Safety Razor and the exceptional shaving quality of the 1912 Gillette Blades. They are the best Blades we ever made—smooth, sharp, specially uniform. They will give you a close shave, without pulling, roughness, or smarting—leave your face velvet-smooth, fresh and cool. No special preparation— just a good lathering, rubbed in well to soften the beard, as usual. Get some of these new Blades today. Each Blade is hermetically sealed in oiled wrapper—bright, sharp, sanitary. Two sizes of Packet—Twelve Blades (24 shaving edges) in nickel-plated box, $1.00; Six Blades (12 shaving edges) in carton, 50 cents. Gillette Safety Razor For sale in forty thousand retail stores in every part of the habitable globe No Stropping KNOWN THE No Honing OVER KiagtGillille GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY ——25 22 West Second Street, BOSTON butchers, and there is nothing a woman can't do just as well as a man, Why, then, don't they get the same wages? It is just too mean of the men to pay women such small wages. Now, I ask you how is a woman to make a home for herself on five dollars a week?” Jones was beginning to feel very un- comfortable. “I'm very sorry, my dear,” he said, “Why do the women work? My mother and my grandmother didn't work.” “Your mother and your grandmother were parasites. They let their husbands 1491 support them,” snapped Mrs. Jones. “My dear, you are at liberty to sup- port me,” said Jones. “Now you're trying to be funny,” sneered his wife. “First you don't pay us enough wages and then you laugh at us. There ought to be a law passed that women should get the same wages as men. I tell you it will comé, too, when we get the ballot.” Jones got up and put on his hat and Mrs, Jones read the paragraph in the (Continued on page 1494) comicbooks.com bd