Life — February 18, 1915 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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(iia [CHD ome “if WOULD BE BETTER IF THEY Hap NEVER MET” A New Idea? F men were as careful about keeping their religion to themselves as they are about their dollars, much of the friction of life would disappear. WA LATA TRICKS. ‘We will send youtwo card tricks, very perplexing to onlookers, yet anyone can do them. Also two booklets showing over 100 dif- ferent Magic Tricks, All for 1. ‘SHOP, 44 North 13th Street, Phila “He is wise who is moderate—and he who is moderate is wise.” And it is for the wisely moderate man that we make a wonderfully mild and mellow Whiskey — Wilson — Real Wilson — That’s All! The Whiskey for which we invented the Non-Refillable Bottle. FREE CLUB RECIPES—Free booklet of famous club recipes for mixed drinks, Address Wilson, 13 East 31st Street, N.Y. That's All! Canoe Season Here Soon ay you knew the plessure an “Old Town Canoe” brings at such small cost, you would own one, aey itream or lake becomes your round—fishing, buntis camel iz. vacation and picnic trips are just a few forms of canoeing sport. It tells the whole canoe wicry Serr by ard en word and pictere, How solid and ‘Old Town are built—how ion and swift at and easily tanaged—how many and variedthe models. 4000new canoes ready—dealers everywhere. Send to-day, Oxo Tows Canoe Co.1422 wooLrsT.oLD TOWN, mast. 8.1, . Dark Days for the Timid TH SE are dark days for the timid. verything threatens. War is abroad in the world; to be in it is highly perilous, and to be out of it is to be neutral and heartily disliked and envied by all the participan If we don't buy some ships, tide-waiting exporters will say we are pro-English, and cowards at that. If we do buy them and put government vessels into trade, we are assured on very high authority that we will buy a quarrel with every ship. If we increase our armament and try to take a few measures for self-protec- tion in case of emergency, the pacifists tell us that we are trifling with our only sure defense, which is our help- lessness. If we neglect our armament and let our navy run down, the mili- tarists assure us that the first compe- tent military power that gets mad at us will take anything we have and make us pay for the troubl The bankers, the railroads, “ the sys- tem the interests and the trusts threaten our liberties and our right to work; the I. W. W., the uplift, the hayseed Democrats and the Socialists threaten our dividends and our right to hire labor ; the Single-taxers and the ists threaten the rest of our privileges, political, social, educational and domestic. If we sit at home the ecugenists get after us and drive us out; if we ven- ture out the automobilists chase us from the streets and drive us in. If we are obtrusively active the effi- ciency-sharps get after us and say that we are wasting energy; if we rest, they punch us up and say that we are losing time. If we take a drink the Prohibitionists come with aste-pot and label us “poisoned”; if we refuse drink, the “good fellows” say it was a pity to have drunk so much in early life. Parlous times, these; very parlous. A Good Citizen M NY attempts have been made to define a good citizen, Here is another : He is one who always “serves the hest interests of the community". Who “needs no introduction to those of us who”, ete. Who is “ untiring in his efforts”. And “single-minded in his perse- verance”. Who knows not how to “ stoop”. Yet who “rises to every occasion", While occupied in “a long and honorable career”. Who “lives for his fellow men”.