Life — October 7, 1915 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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CTE Fateful Forty-five! Success usually begins at the age of forty-five—jobs are apt to end there. ‘The ordinary business virtues will carry @ man over the early stages of acareer. Loyalty, diligence and, intelligence win promotion upto thirty —but not at forty-five. At that oge, a man must have everything. or he has nothing. Ese al of promotion 6 is Ad @ moving stairway — when you get to the top, you get off, Almost any young man can hold a job—but is he enough for the next one? Will the next job be the top of the moving stairway? Ihe sequiring « rasp of the fundamental of busi- nets? Willhe, at ort orforty. five, be ready to take hold of Mr. Bryan Threatens Europe I" seems that the editors of foreign- language newspapers in the United States think the war is dragging on too long, and have suggested to Mr. Bryan to go abroad and try to stop it. And it seems that Mr. Bryan has allowed he will go if it seems best. To be sure! It gives one something to think of. Winter is coming on, and the voice of the Chautauquas is sub- siding, and William, having abdicated his office, will have no steady employ- ment. It will be recalled that when Theodore faced a situation like this and the prospect of seeing one of the best advertisements ever known rust out, he upped stakes and went to Africa, and stayed away until it was about the right time to come home. Of course, William cannot do that. Neither can he head an expedition to the South Pole or discover a river in pepe ea The Modern Baines Course and Service of the ALEXANDER PaMInTON INSTITUTE South America. He might be chauf- feur of an American ambulance in France, but is a little solid for that duty, which, besides, might prejudice his standing as a pacifist. But if he went to Europe as a peacemaker he would be out of this country, and that undoubtedly would be quite a help to him. The trouble would be that he would be in Europe. Imagine being American ambassador at London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Pet- rograd or Rome and having Mr. Bryan As Always— you drink champagne for its superiority over every other drink that ever was invented. Now—drink Cook’s Imperial Extra Dry for its superiority over all other champagnes; irre- ey spective of war, war prices and Sateen | your inability to purchase that geietth Erench Jeheven, OCS, Deas of the New York Usineniey SEAN E foreign label which you used to biter expee think represented the acme of Your 32 Teeth Ser Fa Hod Sat toey wat & champagne goodness. “Fertng Ahead in Banines” All Are 32 Reasons for using ue” Toall wp knowled; ‘oll gre pote Sold everywhere— Served everywhere AMERICAN WINE Co. Sr. Lous, U.S. A. come to town a-making of peace! Jeminy-cracky! And yet if he takes a notion to go, how stop him? And if he goes, a man who has so lately been Secretary of The OXYGEN Tooth Powder |} State must have suitable entertain- All Druggists, 25c. | ™! One thing to do if Mr. Bryan goes Sample and Booklet is to send an antidote after him. If Free if you mention Colonel Roosevelt will go he is per- your Druggist and haps the best man. But Mr. Taft “his doer. would also be suitable. Both these McKESSON & ROBBINS gentlemen outrank Mr. Bryan both as 91 Fulton St. New York American statesmen and as_pacifists and would have a claim on our em- bassies at least as good as his. EVIDENCE comicbooks.com