Life — August 27, 1914 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Common Drinking Cups are prohi ofthe largest ed by law in most States, Many rations, business houses and consideration for thei tories in the ir employees by ing them with Baldwin ” Finback” Drinking Cu; jeamer, be (self-diapensing) TA! ready to hang ep by the faucet, cooler or spring at the picaie or K-A-KUP carton, furnished free with 230 ‘at 80 cents, postpaid, or dealers can farnish them. every 250 cups or aa Sample cups UNITED STATES EXYELOPE CO, Cop Deot. a. ‘or STONE & FORSYTH CO., DISTRIBUTERS, bY FI WORCESTER, MASS. BOSTON, Mass, BACK WATER HITS HERE iss OPENS AND FILLS Cheap Advertising A Washington correspondent was in a Western city one night, sitting in a hotel lobby and wishing he might meet some one he knew. A page came by, shout- ing: “Senator Blank! Senator Blank!" The correspondent knew the Senator whose name was being shouted, and he thought to have a talk with him. He stepped over and said to the clerk: “Is Senator Blank in the hotel ? “Oh, yes," the clerk replied ; having himself paged now.” Saturday E: “he's DRINKING CUP See the War = and behold the war! Yes. Isn't it a handsome war? Why do they have the war? Is it because they hate each other? Oh, no. They do not hate each other.” They have been doing business together amicably for a good many years, It is impossible that they should really hate cach other. Why is it, then? It is more likely that they hate them- selves, Hate themselves? Yes; for being so silly as to spend so much money and thought and time upon naval and military equipment. That doesn’t sound reasonable. If they have too much naval and military equipment, why don't they quietly get rid of it themselves? Alas, they haven't the moral cour- age. It would be too humiliating a confession for petty mortals to make. So they start a quarrel and destroy cach other's equipment. And the result is the same? Yes. Just about the same. And they will be much happier after it's all over and they will greatly enjoy telling how brave they are and how foolish they used to be and how sensi- ble they have become. BOTTLED w BOND N war or peace good whiskey is a necessity. Twelve years alter the close of the Revolutionary War (1796) LARGE RYE WHISKEY was first made. It was 4 superior whiskey in colonial times—it is a superior whiskey in these belligerent times. Leadiog wholesalers sell Large. Hotels, Clubs and Cafés, too. THE LARGE DISTILLING COMPANY PITTSBURGH, PA. _ With vio- dared to Y tricity to help, he lets and champagne and elec- built town on the kiss her—there in that Spanish border, where the color of the Mexican has fired the cold courage of the on an elaborate wraj come. Anglo-Saxon to a spirit of love and adventure—where men kill and women kiss ¢ jump. There this sly young man kissed the beautiful girl—and later, carefully dressed in r with her little bare fect in white swansdown slippers, she waited for him to And when he did, just by accident she turned the light the wrong way. A laugh, a whiff of heliotrope, a groping little hand on his arm. What he did was the last thing you'd expect. Read this story and you will know why they call O. HENRY onirsctes‘enni e UNEXPECTED ENDING Send the couponfor2740.Henry Stories considered to be the bigrest, strongest, livest in 12 handsome volumes for 25 centsa force that has broken loose in English litera- week. Send the coupon and see for ture for many a long year. ourself why memorials to O.Henry are Send the coupon and you will understand prepared; why universities are why, to women good or bad, grave or planning tablets for him; why text books gay," weak or strong. O, Henry 1s always &t English literature are including his the big. clean minded: understanding, sym- stories; why colleges aredebating his place pathetic brother. Never has there been in literature; why theatrical Arms are aman who could write of forbidden vying with one another for rights to things with so deli Gfamatize his stories—why O. Henry is gentle a heart, ipling FRE 6 VOLUMES 179 STORIES ¢ 179 Kipling etorics and porms, in six volumes, are yours free—absolutely — with the O. Henry if you ecad the coupon today, 179 ekorics that bara with the yellow Indian sun, with Tommy Atkins’ ecarlet coat; with the tempestuous cate a touch, soy’ an On Review ishman under atropic eky; and the intrigues of clever. en far from home. Vou know them well—" Plain Tales from t H Barrack Room Ballods"—these and all the others that are Kipling’s best you get for nothing Uf you send the coupon today. Today 2 SL j LY Se grerietenon Sead clay tr the 0, Meary ae Eee rekon (Ge Kipling for emcing, { ‘S.0°0 people have sent ls enonen— 0h 009 have wept and aa oceans A sire eer ta