Life — May 7, 1914 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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\\ Work > The American works because he likes work; because he has taste for little else. —London Saturday Review. 'HE first question naturally to be determined is: “Who is the ‘American’ referred to?” If he is that composite person representing all the shades of nationalities at present engaged in exploiting this much-ex- ploited country, then—some of him likes to work and some of him doesn't. Some of him likes to sit on the bleach- ing-boards, to walk the streets, rather than take an honest job. Some of him likes to ride in motor cars, travel about Europe and spend money. Half of the so-called “American” is a woman. While some of this woman American is undoubtedly going out to work more and more, the rest isn’t. The American woman is shirking certain kinds of work that used not to be without glory. Instead of mending and sweeping and cooking, she prefers to be lobbying, gesticulating, tangoing and fad-hunting WW WW \ G X \ \\ WH —Y You can shave in comfort anywhere Put a tube of Mennen’s Shaving Cream in your grip before you start. Then you can shave quickly and comfortably on the train or anywhere else and have a cool, smooth, refreshed face that will send you on your way rejoicing. He had held forth for so long on the subject of his adventures that the entire smoking-room was distinctly bored. Fi- nally he reached India. “Tt was there that I first saw a man- cating-tiger,” he announced, boastfully. “Pooh! that’s nothing,” said a mild- looking little man, edging towards the door. “I once saw a man eating rabbit.” MS WS And he sauntered gracefully out. —Tit-Bits, You can shave anywhere without worrying about water conditions, be they hard or soft, hot or cold. dull cuts easily and smoothly without pulling. Mennen’s Shaving Cream is put up in sani- tary, airtight tubes with handy hexagon screw \\ Mennen’s Shaving Cream requires no mussy tops. Mere words cannot describe its wonder- “rubbing in’? with the fingers and contains no fully soothing qualities. To know, you must free caustic. Hence, it saves both timeand tor- try it. ture. You can shave in half your usual shaving At all dealers —25 cents, Send 10 cents for time and need no lotion of other ‘soothers’? @ demonstrator tube containing enough for 50 and suffer no painful after-effects, shaves. Gerhard Mennen Company, Newark, ply Mennen’s Shaving Cream and note N. J., makers of the celebrated Mennen’s how the thick, creamy lather softens the beard Borated and Violet Talcum Toilet Powders and instantly so that even a razor thai slightly Mennen’s Cream Dentifrice. ennen’s Ka Shaving Cream HE toilet of the mouth is incom- plete without rinsing with a mouth-wash. WZ Listerine is the most agreeable and efficient antiseptic mouth-wash that can be prepared. Use it every day. DLW \\ AI Short Biography of Grape Juice LTHOUGH Grape Juice is only an infant yet, he has already had quite a career. He was born in an outhouse of the Chautauqua Assembly, and has recently entered the navy. He has also traveled, having been seen in Panama and on one- night stands throughout the West. He also took off his hat to Colombia, a small country that once boasted its freedom so loud that Theodore Roosevelt heard of it. Grape Juice, however, has traveled little abroad, his unfermented (another name for crude) appearance not commending him to the initiated. He is also persona non grata in army circles. Grape Juice was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, He will probably never recover from this, comicbooks.com