Life — October 1, 1914 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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>m book: m Live's ddressed of unis The Unfinished Age N have dug and delved and proved the existence of the Stone Age and the Iron Age and the Bronze Age—and a variety of other interesting Ages. Now, verily, is come the Unfinished Age, The Age of In- tention, The Age of Good Resolution, The Age of Unrest and Disquiet. We are all so busy reaching out for the next joy ahead we have no time to finish the thing in hand. We—you and me—must be the first to gather to- gether our wraps in the middle of the last act and be ready before the curtain is down to rush out—to the supper ahead. We are all too busy to write the good old-fashioned letters to long-suf- fering friends; we have only time nowadays for a few hurried lines ex- plaining why we have not time to write to-day and excuses for our long delay, and, with many good promises, my dear, I am yours, etc. etc. We go off to Europe half prepared as to clothes and with small idea as to what we are going to see; and we return altogether too tired, my dear, quite too worn out to gather together the odds and ends we left carelessly behind. We must be the very first ones to read the latest novel, “and it is no good, really". The first to rush from the trains. The first to grasp the latest styles—not a handful. We are all cither hurrying to the play or coming home from it; some HOLSTEIN COWS’ MILK | IS BEST FOR BABY A leading doctor says that 80 per cent. of all infant troubles are due to inability to assimilate food, and that infant mortality could be reduced so per cent. if all ts were fed intelligently on pure-bred, registered ein Cows? Milk.” your baby is having digestive troubles, or if yon he sure that it will steadily thrive, try Holstein Milk, either modified or unmodified, as your doctor hinks best. It is very similar to the milk of the human mother in chemical composition. Baby can readily digest J assimilate it, obtaining from it the great vitality of e large, healthy, vigorous Holstein cows. 2 any other milk. ing mothers who drink this milk every day gain ly in strength, and thus greatly increase baby’s ty. It is the most nutritious milk for invalids, con- valescents and very old people. Holstein Milk is naturally light-colored. Don't imagine that yellow milk is better, for it isn't. Investigate the ik “of this black-and-white cow. Send for our free booklet, “The Story of Holstein Milk.” It costs no HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION F. L, Houghton, Secretary 1X American Building | | | | | | Brattleboro, Vt. A STRIKING proof of Elgin watch- making skill is furnished through the acceptance by tl United States Government of a number of Elgin Watches for use by the torpedo boat flotilla of the U. S. Navy. These are the first and only American watches ever accepted for this strenuous service. Only after six months’ gruelling tests at the U. S. Naval Observatory was the governmental O. K. put upon them LORD ELGIN Tit ghtestereatca. 153 w S85. LADY ELGIN DAINTY Timekeeper— pendant and bracelet. A wide range of prices. ELGIN Warches are used on torpedo boats, where chronometers can- not be used on account of the excessive vibration. They are a most important part of the navigating equipment. B. W RAYMOND HE Rallroad Man’s Watch, $80 to $72.50. G. M. WHEELER HE Poremost Medium Priced Watch. S50 0 £25. day we will not be ready when the Final Curtain is lowered—we shall have been much too busy to be prepared. And all for what? In the centuries to come, when they dig among ruins of poorly constructed masonry walls and crumbling concrete buildings, they will say, “ Here is some of the stuff from the Unfinished Age— the Age of Excuses.” And in the museums they will set Ask Your ELGINEER— Zour local jeweler—for further proof of the igh efficiency of every Elgin Watch. Write us for booklet which tells amazing stories of Elgin stability and illustrates leading Elgin models. ELGIN NATIONAL WATCH CO. Elgin, Il. up our fragmentary sketches beside the specimens of solid Roman aqueducts, and they will label us—* Exhibit X, un- known quantity; from the Age of Haste and Waste. “A small man, who looked as though Nature had impatiently thrown away the chisel and said: ‘I really cannot be worried to finish this man; let him go as he is."” Leila Weekes Wilson. comicbooks.com