Life — December 3, 1914 — page 74: what you’re looking at

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Me eet LIFE ae ped de Rhymed Reviews The Captain of His Soul (By Henry James Forman. McBride, Nast & Co.) NICE young fellow, lured by Keep Your Figure Lithe and Supple or Physical Reduces Abnormalities and Produces a Smart, Well-Set-Up Appearance. Her a Sampler ANY friends on your list would be delighted to receive one of the famous Sampler packages of Chocolates and Confec- tions. The box is a reproduction of an old- fashioned sampler; dainty, quaint, acceptable, and the contents and package both give re. The Sampler contains seventeen ounces of excellent sweets from ten separate popular packages of 9 CHOCOLATES AND CONFECTIONS Ask for the Sampler and other Whitman assort- ments in signed, is packages aa the Whitman agencies in practically every town every neighbor- hood in the land. The Sampler costs $1.00; two; pound $2.00 (more in the extreme west and Canada, If no agency is convenient, we will send, prepaid, anywhere on receipt of above prices. Write for booklet. Topi at eur regret oasney, fora steel ‘and artistie— or send a two-cent stamp to STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, Inc. Philadelphia, U.S. A. gold To leave the Path and walk obliquely, Is he whose moving tale is told By Forman (now of Collier's Weekly). This youngster, Gilbert, braved the jar Of much-abused Manhattan Island, Ambitious, full of Aints that are Reposing still in By-and-By Land. He found employment writing ads And booming stocks for Clarence Coleman, A banker who had lots of scads, But no more Ethics than a Troll- man. 'Tis hard to rise above your job; And Gilbert’s Noble Aims forsook him; He grew to be a horrid snob, And Mary, his adored one, shook him, His honor in the dust he trailed For Mrs. Holroyd, naughty Circe ;- When Coleman, his employer, failed, Which proved a special grace and mercy. For oft it needs Disaster’s scourge To discipline the catechumen, And Gilbert lost the craze to splurge ;— Misfortune made him kind and hu- man. Among the waifs in court each day He toiled, the culprits’ better fairy; And next he wrote a thrilling play And married his forgiving Mary. A trifle young, this book,—but then Sincere and true I think you'll find it— The product of a fountain-pen With both a hand and brain be- hind it. Arthur Guiterman. The Awful Alternative HEY tell us that unless we are kinder to our railroads we will have government ownership. This is a terrible threat. Unless we Keep on increasing rates every time some railroad president thinks he sees an emergency, the whole body of railroad investors will become angry and withdraw from us the privilege of paying them large annual sums in interest and dividends. We hope it won't come to that. Last year the net revenue of the railroads averaged nearly eight per cent. on all out- standing stock, about one hundred millions of dollars in the aggregate. If it should so eventuate that we had to keep this money ourselves for want of finding somebody to take it, it would be a blow from which even so elastic and adaptive a nation as ours would recover with great difficulty. py 54 E. Broad St, For the Slender or the Fat Enhances the beauty of your mae form, or restores it if This elastic comfortable’ gar- ment for men and women at |} once distributes flesh so as to remove bumps and bulges. An immediate reduction of from two [7 inches i i Reduces by gentle, even pressure. Permits unrestricted freedom of the limbs. Not a “Slip Over” of “Sweat but a scientific which — pro- jonderful re- Ask Your Dealer or Write for Free Booklet. The Magic Figure Mold Garment Co. COLUMBUS, O. WHEN DELIA WASHED THE WINDOWS SHE LOOKED A LITTLE QUEER UNTIL— UST toc delicat your face. toilet soap * Insures a $0 comicbooks.com