Life — December 5, 1912 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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For His Christmas Gift buy a set of the famous and permanently satisfactory KrementzCollarButtons icked in this attractive, rib- tied Krementz Gift Box. Contains four buttons—one for front of neck; one for back of neck ; two for sleeves. Set A. Four 14-K. Relled Gold Plate Coller Buttons Retailsfor =. . + + $1.00 Set B. Four 10K. Gold Collar Buttons. Retails for $4.00 Set C. Four 14-K. Gold Collar Buttons. Retails for $6.00 Ask to see them at any leading jeweler’s or haberdasher's. Or if you cannot find them in your town, will be sold direct on receipt of price. Booklet on request. See also our Bodkin Sets and Cuff Buttons. KREMENTZ & CO. 160 Chestnut Street - Largest Manufacturers of high grade Jewelr Christmas and Its Season RY CHARLES PICKENS And numerous indeed are the hearts to which Christmas brings a brief scason ent. How many ilies whose members have heen dis- persed far and wide in the restless strugsles of life, are then reunited, and hieet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual good-will, which is a source of such pure and un- alloyed delight, and one so: incompatible with the I sorrows of the world, that the religious beliefs of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savs mong the first joys Cf happiness and enjoy cs es, alike number future state Sursrua’s ARCADIA | PIPE MIXTURE a regret. We wasted 80 17 \. The tobacco w ny years Yer yes hare Geet hod ie TEN at smoking Anca! TA Send 10 Cents : Newark, N. J.| SS i Those receiving a Waltham Riverside for Christmas are to be doubly congratulated; the giver is a true friend and the gift will become one. Waltham (Riverside) Watches Any time is a good time to become possessed of a2 Waltham Riverside watch, but a special occasion like Christmas or a birth- day gives to the watch a perpetual sentiment which adds to its value. At Waltham, watches are made with greater mechanical resources and by more expert ar- tificers than anywhere else in the world. The first word and the last in the manufacture of mar- velously correct time keepers is Walth The Riverside is the most popular Waltham model. It comes in five sizes at different prices for Waltham Watch Company Waltham Mass For the ordivary purposes of life it i= probably the one best choice from the world of watches. To give one is a compliment, to own one is a luxury. ‘We have published a hand- some Riverside booklet, full of information about these watches and rather interesting to anyone who owns a watch. This book- let is free and will be sent you for the asking, and if there is any matter connected with watches on which you would like to question us we are glad to have you write to our Office of Information. both men and women. of existence, provided for the blest and py. How many old recollections, how many dormant sympathies, does Christmas time awaken! We write these words now, many miles distant from the spot at which, year after year, we met on that day, a merry and jo: ts that many of the looks that shone so brightly then have ceased to ; the hands we grasped have grown the eyes we sought have hid their rin the and yet the old grave, 2339 house, the room, the merry voices and smiling faces, the jest, the laugh, the most minute and trivial circumstance connected with these happy meetings crowd upon our mind at each recurrence of the season, as if the last assemblage had been but yesterday Happy, happy Christeas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days, that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fireside and his quiet home !—Pic Papers comicbooks.com