Life — January 14, 1915 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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CE is used to cover lakes, rivers, ponds and foreheads. It also comes in bergs, where it furnishes a home for the polar bear and the walrus, who commute regularly be- tween the bergs and the Arctic Ocean. Nothing is more invigorating, after sleeping soundly all the evening on a furnished iceberg--with all modern improvements except hot water—to awaken by the light of the Aurora Rorealis and plunge briskly into the smiling blue depths surrounding the berg. Ice is also used to skate upon and for sitting purposes when, with steel- blue fingers, one is engaged in the absorbing pastime of fastening straps around the ankles of some charming lady of not more than nineteen. This feeling of complete joy is greatly en- hanced when, the strapping having been successfully completed, one rises with a graceful bow to discover that the seat of one’s trousers has adhered to the ice below. Ice, when used by families, was at one time kept in refrigerators. Now, asa general rule, it is kept in the family safe. It is oftentimes clear, and can be seen through, which is more than can be said of the operations of the syndicate of multimillionaires whose wagons call regularly at your house and leave you enough to last until just hefore your next dinner-party, while charging you for what it weighed when it left the pond the winter before. BABSON South American Service Our Mr. Babson sails on January 20th for a comprehensive trip around South America, per S. S. Kroonland, in order to inaugurate a confidential service for United States manufacturers and mer- chants which will give the real facts con- cerning trade opportunities and credit conditions on this Southern Continent. ineeee contemplating sock a tip and all who cannot personally spare the time, who have some special question which they would like answered or special mission which they woald like performed, are urged to sub- scribe for this new service. For terms and other particulars address Dept. L-44-A of THE BABSON STATISTICAL ORGANIZATION Statistical Block ‘Wellesley Hills, Mass. Largest Trade Organization of its Character in America UR letters are your ambassadors. They go to your customers and clients in your place. If you select the paper you use for your business correspondence simply because it is cheap—does it properly represent you and your business ideals? If you were to travel (instead of sending a letter), would you go on a second-class train because it was cheaper—would you stop at a poor hotel and wear the cheapest clothes you could buy? ‘THE STANDARD PAPER FOR BUSINESS STATIONERY @ A fair cost for “ordinary” paper is about $1.50 to $2.00 thousand sheets (for a medium-sized order). On that Basis Old Hampshire Bond would cost 1/20 to 1/10 of a cent more per sheet. If you are proud of your business and its good name you will be gratified to see your letters going out on Old Hampshire Bond, and the slight addi- tional cost will more than be justified by the insurance of efficiency which Old Hampshire Bond will add to your letters. Q Write to us using your present letterhead; we will send free the Old Hampshire Book of Specimens—a book assembled and bound up to interest business men. We will also send you, from time to time, instructive matter from our Service Department. HAMPSHIRE PAPER COMPANY SOUTH HADLEY FALLS, MASS. ‘THE ONLY PAPER MAKERS IN THE WORLD MAKING ee Historical Fragment EERSECUTION of the trusts still continued until it would seem, as one magnate put it, “the limit had been reached”, Undoubtedly this limit would not have been exceeded, but just at this time a curious fact was discovered. Some unknown observer made the statement, with regard to the Standard Oil Company, one of the largest trusts, that every time this company was prosecuted or otherwise humiliated and squelched, this action on the part of the government was almost invariably followed by a corresponding increase in the company’s dividends. This fact was so significant, and if true, so far-reaching in its consequences, that it seemed worthy of careful inves- tigation. Such an investigation having been undertaken, the expenses thereto being paid by the people, and the conclusions pronounced correct, prosecution of the trusts by the government was ordered to be continued without mercy. Thus the trusts prospered and thrived to such an extent that...