Life — March 13, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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A Dismal Prospect While realizing that the doctors are an excessively sensitive lot, we ven- ture to touch once more upon the sub- ject of vaccination and ask them a question or two. As we understand it, the doctors practically ceased to study small- According to their theory there is nothing more about it to study. Very few of them have even seen a You don't have to go to a medi- cal college to know what a doctor would do to prevent smallpox It is with them one of the settled questions. It doesn’t matter where smallpox comes from or what causes it. We are not to concern ourselves as to whether the conditions that once caused smallpox still exist or not. The subject is on a secure prophylac- tic basis. Vaccination has entirely re- placed smallpox as a source of human inconvenience and suffering. “Correct Styles for Men’’ And “there’s the rub.” We have the vaccination and what is medical sci- The crowning evidence of perfect taste among clean-cut, correctly dressed men is ence going to do about it? It is a dis- a von Gal made hat. It gives to the wearer that distinctive individuality made ease. Even if tetanus doesn’t result possible only by up-to-the-minute style, honest workmanship and perfect fit. This from it, it is still a disease. Are the season, as usual, men are looking to the von Gal made styles as standards. doctors doing anything to eradicate it? Whether your choice be a stiff or soft hat—insist it be von Gal made. Or are they firmly convinced that the Among the many styles and shapes at your dealer's is a hat that just suits you. human race must continue to be vac- See them and you'll find it. cinated, now and forevermore, as long Prices $3, $4 and $5, If your dealer cannot supp! 1 write for Spring and as the old world turns on its axis? Summer Style Book T. Orders filled direct from factory. Give style wanted, So f csachnatian: © a your hat size, height, weight and waist measure. Add 25¢ to cover postage. So far as vaccination is concerned, medical science seems to be at an ab- We are Makers of the Hie, Celebrated $3 Hat solute standstill. Its slogan, “ suffer Fectocies: Offices'and Selesrooms: little children to come unto me and Danbury, Conn. Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada . 1178 Broadway, New York i ose an ae be vaccinated,” is as rigid as if it were Straw Hat Factory: Baltimore, Md. tmconronaten 48 Summer Street, Boston Panama Factory: New York | incorporated in a democratic consti- Queries Your loins you gird, Then they are girt; Your thoughts you word, Then are they wirt? Your sheep you herd, But are they hirt? He Knows Corns This Chemist Who Invented Blue-jay Your horse you shoe, And he is shod; He studied corns for a corn comes out—root, callous, everything. dozen years, then worked Not a whit of pain or soreness. Your faults you rue, Are they then rod? Foes you subdue— Are they subdod? When moved to swear, You've often sworn; When asked to care, Pray, have you corn? When bid “ Beware!” Have you beworn? Whate’er you break Is surely broken; Then what you make, Of course is moken. Your head doth ache? Oft hath it ochen, Carolyn Wells. out this way to remove them. It’s a simple little plaster with a little drop of wax. Apply it in a jiffy, and the corn pain stops at once, You forget the corn entirely. la 48 hours the whole That ends the corn, Why pare corns? Why daub them? Why use old-time pads and plasters? Those are archaic methods. Blue-jay is so vastly better that folks use it on a million corns a month. Try it on one of yours, An the picture !s the soft B & B wax. It loosens the corn, B stops the pain and keeps the wax from spreading. C wraps around the toe. It {s narrowed to be comfortable, Dis rubber adhesive to fasten the plaster on. Blue-jay Corn Plasters Sold by Druggists—15c and 25¢ per package Sample Mailed Free, Also Blue-jay Bunion Plasters. Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York, Makers of Surgical Dressings, etc. comicbooks.com