Life — February 19, 1914 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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“GRACIOUS! THERE'S THE 'PHONE * The Worst Bug of All HE papers say that Queen Mary of England has a horror of microbes, and has all the money scrubbed which she and her royal spouse and children are to handle. Poor lady! There is no bug that is worse than the one that breeds an ex- cessive fear of disease germs. The germless life would not be worth what it costs, even if it were attainable. But it is not attainable, The bugophobist shies at germs until living is one long alarm, and then the destined germ hows chuckling in and gets there all the same. Ordinary intelligent precautions are all that are worth taking. Here is An Idea LONG with Upton Sinclair's re- cent statement to Vincent Astor, that (in effect) there are ten million people in this country below the pov- erty line, comes the figures given out hy the Foreign Missions Conference, that the United States gives more money to foreign missions in the ag- gregate than any other country. Assuming that Mr. Sinclair's figures ¢ wrong, and that instead of ten millions there are only five millions in this country below the poverty line, why not inaugurate a movement to ex- port them into heathen lands? They could then be helped by our foreign missionary societies without encroach- ing upon their principle—namely, that charity begins on the other side of the world. TUDENT: What must I do in order to be a poet? Tracer: Earn your living at some- thing else. A _ Happy Marriage Depends large! a knowledge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life eed Bealth This knowl- edge doce. not ‘come in- telligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary, every-day sources. SEXOLOGY (UUustrated) by William H. Welling, A.M., imparts in a clear wholesome way in one volume Knowledge a Young Man Should ‘Alin one sipantahy Mlustrated, $2, postpaid. Write for “ Other People's Opinions” and Table of Content | Puritan Pub. Co. 776 Perry Bldg., Phila, Pa. 7 Who e in think of WANTED—AN IDEAL wie teat that tent and Your Seer. yo Patent Attorneys, Dept, ifs, Washlagton, D.<, may bring you How to Get ¥ Asgey RANDOLPH a. “The Magic Flight of Thought GES ago, Thor, the champion of the Seondinavian gods, invaded Hotes the land of the giants, and was challenged to feats of skill by Loki, the king. Thor matched Thialfi, the swiftest of mortals, against Hugi in a footrace. Thrice they swept over the course, but each time Thialfi was hopelessly defeated by Loki’s runner. Loki confessed to Thor afterward that he had deceived the god by enchantments, saying, “Hugi was my thought, and what speed can ever equal his?” But the flight of thought is no longer a magic power of mythical beings, for the Bell Telephone has made it a J common daily experience. Over the telephone, the spoken thought is transmitted instantly, direct- ly where we send it, outdistancing 4 every other means for the carrying of messages. In the Bell System, the telephone lines reach throughout the country, | and the thoughts of the people are carried with lightning speed in all directions, one mile, a hundred, or two thousand miles away. And because the Bell System so jj adequately serves the practical needs | of the people, the magic of thought's swift flight occurs 25,000,000 times | every twenty-four hours. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY | AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy One System Universal Service The Ship of Progress AILING the Ship of Progress is very much like sailing any other ship. Much depends upon the wind and other weather conditions, of which many variegated kinds have to be dealt with. very fitful and uncertain. almost impossible to advance. servative, then, of course, a Not very remotely we had a siege of high winds, but More recently we had a steady head wind, against which it was Indeed, if it is true that human nature is distinctly con- head wind is the prevailing wind. Just now, however, we have an unusually fair wind, under which more progress is made with less fuss than under any other conditions. Neverthel weather we must never relax the vigilance of our A storm may come up any time, and occasionally storms arise where all skill fails, and the best sailor is the one that can cling longest to the rigging.