Life — November 14, 1912 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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Force and Pliability of Conscience A tailor, who was dangerously ill, had a remarkable dream. He saw, flut- tering in the air, a piece of cloth of a prodigious length, composed of all the cabbage [scraps of cloth} he had made, of a variety of colors. The angel of death held this picce of patchwork in one of his hands, and with the other we the tailor several strokes with a piece of iron. The tailor, awakening in a fright, made a vow that, if he re- covered, he would cabbage no more. He soon recovered. As he was diffident in himself, he ordered one of his ap- prentices to put him in mind of his dream whenever he cut out a suit of clothes. The tailor was, for some time, obedient to the intimations given him by his apprentice; but, a nobleman hav- ing sent for him to make a coat out of a very rich stuff, his virtue could not resist. the temptation. His apprentice put him in mind of his dream, but to no purpose. “I am tired with your talk about the dream,” says the tailor; “ there was nothing like this in the whole picce of patchwork I saw in my dream.” A Simple Trick A famous Chicago lawyer once had a ysician lar case to settle. Ap came to him in great distress. Two sis- ters, living in the same house, had babies of equal cach other that their own mothers were unable to distinguish them when they were together. Now it happened that by the carclessness of the nurses the children had become mixed, and how were the mothers to make sure that they received back their own infants? “But, perhaps,” said the lawyer, “ the children weren't changed at all. age, who so resembled Monogramed Cigarets Here's a Christmas gift with an Re eee won't bave bad them made expressly for him. And they'll go ia & Facial “Citanaa oe ee aaneethy” nadoe 100 of the Aocst full bodied, fragrant, hand-made Turk- deste cnt osatten aie ye by nee, choice of plain Up, gold, silver, straw or cork, and Packed in a beautiful imported aluminum-paper $3 lined, padded gift box, K GWL a a @» ® Or you can have the 100 elgarets In @ sold Mahogany ra Fs a Mumaidor for $5. At any store in the country this Ma. bogany Humidor alone would cost $5, ‘This special Christmas offer includes the 100 monogramed cigarets ‘nd sent postpaid. And the Humidor is good for many @ hundred cigarets afterward. Send your order to-day to insure delivery before Chrix mas, forwe must make “i the monogram die, a GILL and GILL ™, thought of himbefore the 1 i \ Pabst Flavor ) Y GEORGE, that’s, what I call beer. It pleases the eye, tickles the palate, has just the right tingle that ~ goes well with anything you) eat, |and makes i } your meals ‘digest properly. “Oh, but there's no doubt that they were changed,” said the physician. “Are you sure of it?” “ Perfectly “Well, if that’s the cas. you change them back see any difficulty in the case —Argonaut. why don’t I don't ai Wuey a fox was being hotly pursued by a dog he said to him, “ Thou are not acting thus towards me because of thy strength but because of my fecbleness; if this be not so, go and try to catch wolf."—From the Orient. 217 as\ the only beer!n | that pleases everybody. ‘ It has a flavor all its own and is not to be compared with any other. Bottled only at the brewery in crystal clear bottles, showing at a glance that\it is clean and pure. Have a case sent home today, Phone or write. Supplied by Best Dealers Everywhere. Served in Leading Hotels and Cafes. LEADING A PAST “LIFE” comicbooks.com