Life — May 1, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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LIFE HE LEADING perfumer of the fashionable world HOUBIGANT - PARIS presents to the exclusive society of the United States, his new odor QUELQUES FLEURS HOUBIGANT A Floral Bouquet of the most delicate distinction that has cap- tivated Paris in a day. The illustration shows the simple elegance of this production. We frankly say, the beauty of this odor is beyond description. $6.75 Bottle Small Sample Bale Mailed by Parcel Post, 25¢ Sold by highest class dealers PARK & TILFORD No. 225 Fifth Avenue New York Sole Agents in United States end Canada Ip there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it ther what caprices he acts without control How kinglike he sways his pillow— tumbling, tossing and shifting, and low- ering, and thumping, and flatting, and moulding it, to the ever-varying requisi- tions of his throbbing temples, He changes sides oftener than a poli- tician. Now he lies full length, then half length, obliquely, transversely, head and feet quite across the bed; and none accuses him of tergiversation. Within the four curtains he is absolute. —Charles Lamb. The Boob HO invented the boob? What is a boob? Is he going to be one of the Immortals or is he simply a flitting figure, stepping across life's stage for an instant, to be lost in the distant wings of time? When you call a man a boob, you seem to imply in some way that you do not utterly despise him, There is a comrade- ship, an intimacy, about the word that doesn’t apply to other terms. You can call a man a boob, for instance, when you wouldn't call him an ass or a fool. And yet a boob is an out He stands apart from the common run. He is a combination of stupidity and utter incongruity with any standards which are entitled to our respect. But is the boob in reality all this? Can it be said, indeed, that the boob exists? Is he not more or less a mental condition on the part of the person who calls him a boob? When, for instance, you speak of a man as a boob, you are really not defining him. You are only telling what you think about him. That is the reason why we are of the opinion that the word boob will not last. It doesn’t stand for a definite human ob- ject. It is more an attitude of mind on the part of the person speal wit said this of London men. The same is true of New York apartment houses; Iccation determines their socialstatus. yet the fashionable residential quarter of New York is Park Avenue, below Sith Strect. “Here stands the last word in apartment house coa- “CHA Eb me your Cub and know TF. your status.” A famous English wyeton Rentals $6,000. to $2300. Special apartments a ‘$10,000 and $11,000, ‘Sood fer dtcuptine bookie : The MONTANA 375 PARK Ave Temporary Office: $84 Park Avenue Spend Your Vacation on Quaint Cape Cod Seashore, Woods and Country. Splendid fishing, yachting, bathing and golfing. Cool breezes always. Send for “‘Quaint Cape Cod.” It’s free ADVERTISING BUREAU, Room 900, Seath Station, Boston. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD R. R. fe) Se 5 Beds that go into every land Whitcomb Metal Beds are borne by natives or on the backs of burros thousands of miles into farthest India, into China, South America, Africa. Only enduring worth could go so far. Sanitary value dictated the metal bed. t affords free circulation of air. n apart, it is readily dusted or itcomb construction gives the metal bed the highest dignity and beauty Whitcomb seamless tubing, the special English lacquer of the brass beds, the non- flaking finish of the enamel beds, perfect machining of parts and reinforcement— these account for the Whitcomb reputa- tion. Whitcomb beds hold their beauty and remain rigid for a lifetime, but should any part be injured it can be replaced or re- finished at any time. Write today for our booklet No. 10. Sent res It tells how to know bedstead quality ind gives valuable points on the care bede and bedding. Address the display rooms nearest you. The Whitcomb Metallic Bedstead Co. DISPLAY ROOMS: YORK, 34th and Madison Ave. PHILAGELPHIA, 1710 Chestnut St. BOSTON, 78-80 Washington St. raeey Shelton, Conn. “In use from the White House to the Wayside Inn.” \\ aunt Smallpox Must be Preserved HE great advantage of vaccination is that it keeps smallpox from disappearing. If it weren't for vac- cination doctors would be unable to make a cent out of smallpox. This was formerly a very profitable disease, but through the careless introduction of cleanliness and modern forms of sanitation, it threatened to vanish en- tirely. Then it was discovered that by vaccination doctors could go on and on and on curing smallpox forever. The coal supply may ultimately run shor‘ but smallpox will ever remain a bot tomless purse of Fortunatus. Gop will not have his work made manifest by cowards —Emerson comicbooks.com