Life — February 6, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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RSET: ~ This Wooden Man Shows How This Razor Can Guarantee 500 Shaves from12Bl IF A WOODEN MAN CAN DO IT, YOU CAN This wooden man is used in AutoStrop win- dow displays. He shows you how to strop AutoStop blades to Head Barber edges. AutoStrop Safety Razor Read this Guarantee N'Y shaver failing to get 500 Head Barber shaves from a package of 12 AutoStrop blades may return his 12 blades to us, state how many shaves he is short, and we will send him enough new blades to make good his shortage. RY barber, every steel expert—even common sense—tells you that no razor can stay sharp without stropping. No human hand can strop as well as a machine. A separate machine is a nuisance. ‘There is just one razor in the world that combines safety shaving and mechanical stropping in one instrument. That one is the AutoStrop Razor. ‘The perfect mechanical stropping is what makes 12 AutoStrop Blades last through 500 shaves and more. Cheapest shaving ever devised. Cheaper than a 25¢ razor. The AutoStrop Safety Razor consists of a silver-plated, self stropping razor, 12 blades and strop in smart case, $5. Price in Canada and U. S, the same. Factories in both countries. Send for catalog. Do not be overmodest about asking the dealer for an AutoStrop Razor on 30 days’ free trial. Because if you take it back, we protect him from loss. This Razor Strops, Shaves, Cleans Without Removing Blade AUTOSTROP SAFETY RAZOR CO., 368 Fifth Ave.,New York. Toronto. London. A Useful Job The Montclair Free Public Library is indulging in a reprehensible proc- ess. They have inaugurated a steriliz- ing device by which they propose to destroy the germs that prey on books. What should be done is to train these germs in the right direction, so that they will themselves destroy many of the books that are in our pub- lic libraries at present. We can con- ceive, for example, of an army of dis- ciplined germs doing very effective work with some of our neurotic litera- ture. If this idea could be carried out future generations might have a very much more worthy opinion of our present literature than the immediate prospect warrants, considering the permanency of type and paper. Bessie: What makes you think that he married for money? Jessie: I have seen the bride. —New Orleans Times-Democrat. des If They Were Alive To- day Being Reflections Inspired by Reading the ‘Authors’ Chit Chat" Department of a Contemporary Literary Review Herbert Spencer, whose novel, The Principles of Biology, has gone through six editions in as many months, had some hair-raising experi- ences while he was collecting mate- rial for the book. On one occasion, while he was studying the habits of a litter of young angle-worms, he was suddenly attacked by a ferocious bull angle-worm, and succeeded in dis- patching the beast only after a des- perate hand-to-hand struggle. “It is such touches as this, however,” writes the author, “that go far toward mak- ing my book what I hope it is—a genuine human document.” s 8 8 Robert Browning, well known here as a writer of light verse, is said to be inordinately fond of oatmeal for breakfast. He eats it with a spoon. . 8 Alfred Tennyson's publishers prom- ise a new volume of his charming Idyils of the King for fall publication. Mr. Tennyson's methods of work are ESTABLISHED 1788. Carstairs Rye In time of medicinal need the necessity for a whiske of pure and palatable qual- ity emphasizes the desira- bility of having a bottle of Carstairs Rye in the house. ‘A perfect blend. The num- bered labet shows our botiling. comicbooks.com