Life — December 5, 1912 — page 96: what you’re looking at

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gi by) | od og “BUBBLES” PEARS’ SOAP Beautifies the complex- ion, keeps the hands white and imparts a constant bloom of fresh- ness to the skin. Christmas in Victorian Days For the people who were shoveling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then ex- changing a facetious snowball—better- natured missile far than many a wordy jest—laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong The poulterers’ shops were still half open, and the fruiterers’ were radiant in their glory. There were great, round, pot-bellied baskets of chestnuts, shaped like the waistcoats of jolly old gentle- men, lolling at the doors, and tumbling out into the strect in their apoplectic opulence. There were ruddy, brown- faced, broad-girthed Spanish onions, shining in the fatness of their growth like Spanish friars, and winking from their shelves in wanton slyness at the girls as they went by, and glanced de- nuurely at the hung-up mistletoe. There were pears and apples, clustered high in blooming pyramids; there were bunches of grapes, made, in the shopkeepers’ Lenevolence, to dangle from conspicuous hooks, that people’s mouths gratis as they passed; there were of filberts, mossy and brown, recalli in their fragrance ancient walks amo} the woods, and pleasant shufflings ankle deep through withered leaves; there were Norfolk biffins, squat and swarthy, setting off the yellow of the oranges anil lemons, and, in the great compactness of their juicy persons, urgently entreat- ing and besecching to be carried home in aper bags and eaten after dinner. The very gold and silver fish, sct forth among these choice fruits in a bowl, though members of a dull and stagnant- blooded race, appeared to know that there was something going on; and, to a fish, went gasping round and round their little world in slow and passionless ex- citement. The grocers! oh, the grocers! Corsten ( onary THE TRAGEDIAN SMILES. 2408 N Chafing Dish “ No. 368197, with “Alcolite Burner’* Stove. If you wish to give real pleasure at Christmas time, make your gilt one oftheremarkable MANNING-BOWMAN ALCOHOLGASSTOVE CHAFING DISHES Do not foret that this Chafing Dish is totally unlike any other make, in that, while with the flame turned low it may be used like any other for impromptu entertainment, the wonderful ALCO- LITE BURNER STOVE, which is a part of it, can be made to furnish an intense blue flame that is as powerful @s a gas range burner. This intense heat which the Alcolite Burner furnishes is made by burning gas automatically generated from alcohol. It is easily controlled, en- tirely safe, and is so powerful that a FULL MEAL may be cooked over it. anning- owman Alcohol Gas Stove Chafing Dishes “‘Alcolite Burner” make the preparation of family suppers, hasty luncheons and picnic spreads easy and pleasant. They are made in yles, of copper, nickel-plate and silver-plate, and the food pan in each is “ivory enamel’’ lined and acid proof. The one we picture is No. 368/97—a beautiful model, highly fin- ished, and, of course, equi ped with the “‘ALCOLITE’’ BUR ER STOVE and the “ivory enamel’’ food pan. All large dealers keep these Chafers. We also make a complete line of Elec- tric Cookin; Sevices, including Chafing Dishes, Coffee Percolators, Toasters, Water Heaters, etc. Write for recipe book and catalog No. M-26. MANNING, BOWMAN & CO. Meriden, Conn. fee Percolators, Eeltpee Bread Maki Gas Stoves, Chaing ries ‘and the eledrated if @ B Lrass, Copper and Nickel Poliab, comicbooks.com