Life — November 13, 1913 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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The Fetish of Geography wr does anyone have to know geography ? From time immemorial young children have sat in stuffy school rooms learn- ing the names of places, and from the same time thousands of people have labored writing descriptions of those places. It is, therefore, time to call attention to this hideous superfluosity. ba e Kaui bake: | The Victrola satisfies ful as counting the number of bricks in a street block. To how many your love of music millions of people would not Rome, by any other name, smell as sweet? The love of music is born in cvery one of us, and When we consider the torture en- : : dured by all these young minds in we naturally come to love the kind of music we hear trying to bound places on the map, it | is evident that child labor is not the | [| the most. . . only form of cruelty. In this day of the Victrola it is easy for every one Why. be Hed to bound any- . og ORENE 18 (SOME 457 to hear the world’s best music—and not only to hear thing? y Think of the friction of the Hima- it, but to understand and enjoy it, for this wonder laya Mountains, who, for all these ‘ : years, have been bounded by children instrument gives to you a thorough shar what tikes appreciation of the masterworks of : - music. The Victrola opens to you a new and ever-increasing vista of musical delight, as elevating as it is entertaining, and completely ‘The man or woman satisfies your longing for musi- wont have ane Tee oo cal recreation. Su thought of i There are Victors and Victrolas in id 5 - them made expressly for the recipient. And they'll go in a great variety of styles from $10 to $500. ial Christmas Hox—or an Old English Oak Humidor. |f) : : : ‘ Wersend 10 of the finest full bodied, fragrant, hand-made Any Victor dealer in any city in the Torkish cigarets, with monogram (select style by number), : choice of plain Ub, gold. silver, straw or cork, and packed world will gladly demonstrate fo fa, Peautifor “lnparted ‘alc a cee nde the Victrola to you and 1 23 above eh “ip i) GW ¥ play any music you wish n “ x 4 4 2 to hear. Or you can have 200 elgarcts tn an Old English Oak Humt- y or $3 ; 7y this Humidor alone } . . Tosld coi en" Thu mecelal Christmas oer inciudes the Bue : Victor Talking Machine Co. Victor-Victrola, Eidor with the 200 mosogramed elgarets — and sent Dost- : ‘Camden, N. J. U.S.A. XIV, $150 Bald “And the Atumidor is good for many abundred cigareta Z eee: Pcmmapsec ety seve Prircidnd com Send yout order fay to tasure delivery before Christmas, . ‘Canadian Datrioutors for wee must make tho Bovogram die. GILL and GILL Venturing Millions W* read in Leslie's Weekly of “ the railroads to which the pioneers of the West and FREE. South and the Pacific used to give large bonuses in money, liberal granis of “Ties best SA, able ELE! Jand and all sorts of tax exemptions and special favors if they would only ven- ild Rose design—I large Centerpiece with ture their millions in building railways to open up the country. 4 doilies to match, Stamped on fine quality art i. % si A a ‘ eat. ad . ‘ ns ‘ : free to all who send This is an interesting study in the venturing of millions. The question is, Whose . mnths sub, to our big fan y ane 5 tree 3 A 4 ; ck end Gally cagitne, Adios millions were really ventured? Was it the millions of the pioneers who, besides hand- NOTSEHOLD 1. CO. DEFT. 84, TOFEEA, Ka ing over land, money, tax exemption and special favors, also paid liberal rates for UNDERGROUND transportation and subscribed for stock at whatever prices the promoters could GARBAGE RECEIVER make them think it was worth? Or was it the millions of the “railroads” which NO FREE NO_ LITTER. NO opoRS. z Wt rH Res ‘ Opcos wich the foots closes itself. Clean and sanitary. Sokd direct trex Lac built the “ railways? We know who got the millions out, but who did the ventur- CH. STEPHENSON Mir. 46 Farrer St., Lynn, Mass. | ing in the first place doth not rightly appear. comicbooks.com