Life — September 10, 1914 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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Cera Seen eras a ere LOMO ong Feet Se Se PN ee The man on the fence sighed. “ CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR” ‘LEE Oh, the Difference ! va T was a delightful summer day. * bite Fe “ no’ From the high grassy bluff where $ lov they sat they could see off in the eo A é oa ‘ distance over the blue stretch of sea. ; ales 4 an The afternoon breeze played fickly te . : with a wisp of her yellow hair. ae: “Tt’s a great pity,” he said, “that re we can never be friends.” “ Why—aren't we?” she said, inno- oe cently enough. “TI certainly thought be we were, Neither of us is in love t u with the other,” she added rather ab- 4 il . a hi sently, after a brief ‘silence. . 3 P sh All this time he had been thinking, - % but suddenly he replied: Ouse ur “What I meant was that there 3 fr never can be any real friendship be- é or tween a man and a woman.” ba be i 1 tr “T don't understand you.” Pes “Hello! There's Billy.” : Around the edge of the bluff there An Elgin Watch that suddenly emerged a small steam refuséd to be eaten yacht—white and glimmering in the “A B0UT the year 1896 I got my Elgin translucent water. She looked up. Watch. It has many times bumped Billy was her husband, She had been nee ricattn Cokin nee A Young I ooking expecting him all day. Thad it in Alaska in the cold and wet, and be “So it is,” she cried, taking up the for a week ata time I was soaking wet. _ Complexion glasses at his side and leveling them (ac ee a eiene ne castala, down on the white object. “Dear old “The mine is a quicksilver mine, and The soft, pure and fine com- Billy. They're dropping the anchor. | when mercury is volatilized into fumes from ° * : [ the ore and rock it penetrates anything, and ] plexion of youth is not so diffi- He'll come ashore at once. Oh, there even eats iron and solder, While superin- cult to retain as is often imagined. he is now!” tendent of this mine for 3% years I carried \ The reason why many people She put down the glasses ‘and turned ae Breer pani ee lose it so soon is that they do to, her, companion, sets has received, it has kept time to the second.” : not exercise sufficient care in woe ee he ya eine ue et ie ng errno a") eqs . sked. “S ing important, wasn’t No mere “‘watch’' could stand up against avoiding common impure soaps, it? Oh—that we never could be such extremes of climate, such exposure to which destroy the fresh natural (Hinds, Bet Lwe-ore friends” the elements and to destructive acid fumes. tint and loveliness of skin tex- “Not in the way I meant. Not, for ture that constitute so great a example, in the way that Billy and I EL\ ; J : personal charm. are friends. You sce, for some rea- son, such a thing isn't possible be- Ce |e ee Watches | qualities that I admire apd—if you aniams, designed and built for all emergen- were not a woman—we could be such cies, Pat to any scrvice test, the result will perfectiy bully friends.” be in Elgin’s favor. “But what's to prevent now? I'm LORDELGIN a sure Tve always felt that you were The Masterwatch— here lanated, one of my best friends.” PD\ $135 10 885. (S;) a LADY ELGIN a Ee” LORD A gig dropped down from the yacht protects, preserves and improves that |) and started for the shore. peotant and brictlee tint and loveliness by sheer force of “Ahk! But that is only deceptive. A side canes of mle: an unequalled emollient power and an You sec, there is the grand difference 2 Bow AY MOND absolute purity. Every particle of |! between us. You are a woman and I $ ‘ "$30 to £32.50. Pears comes into the service of beauty. am aman! You can't get away from fi G. M. WHEELER It is sweet and wholesome and healthy, that fact, and if I should Ist myself . * The Poremost and, at the same time, it is the most go, and try to be a friend—why, then 5 s ‘Mediam Priced Watch. “i economical of toilet soaps, possessing the inevitable would happen, and I on 2 $50 to $25. Wi double the lasting qualities of ordinary should end by—” f OM Ash your Elgineer—your Oe soaps. “Well?” . gis — « The skin is always kept in a soft, dainty “ By falling in love with you.” Booklet on request, tee natural condition by Pears while it brings “How do you know?” } ELGIN NATIONAL — the complexion to its highest perfection. He suddenly took her hand. : 5 WATCH CO. W The Great English Complexion Soap “Because I've tried it,” he said. “I