Life — December 2, 1915 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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-CHRISTMAS LIFE- Famous Singers Praise for me to have an opinion on that at \ | the present time. LUDEN’S MENTHOL CANDY Q. Is it true, Mr. Claus, that by COUGH DROPS practicing a certain form of deception Let LUDEN'S guard your voice upon the children of the world you —~keep nasal passages clear, are not only corrupting the race at its and throat healthy. No source, but you are outrageously in- narcotics; no color- terfering with its mental, moral and | ing. Have many uses. material progress? WM. H. LUDEN a I do not understand the ques- In the ol Manufacturing Confectioner : Q. 1 will put it in another way age” Zk READING. PA Santa Claus Testifies ANTA CLAUS was the chief wit- ness at yesterday's hearing before the United States Commissi Festival Relations. ired in this investigation to discover, if pos- sible, the connection, if any, between Shopping Early and South American revolutions. Question. Your full name, please? Answer, Santa Aloysius Claus. Q. Has that always been your name? A. Not always. I have only recently added the middle name, Aloysius, in order to distinguish myself from the Be a modern! Read spurious Santa Clauses that stand on the street corners and obstruct the traffic around Christmas time. | Q. What is your residence, Mr. Claus? A, Do you mean my residence for tax-paying purposes or my residence Don’t be a social back number! Don't settle Vanity Fair will chaperon you in a box at <aeaei > down comfortably in the ooze. The world is the opera, show you the most talked of for tax-dodging purposes? i : . . ee : Eithe | moving, moving on all eight cylinders—some _ paintings and sculptures; take you behind the Q. Either one. | folks are even moving on twelve—and you _ scenes at the theatres; tell you what to talk A, I live in a house-boat that has a might just as well move along with them. If about at dinners and dances; present you to beautiful sleeping-porch. It is anchored you are becoming an old fogey.oranold maid, _all the metropolitan celebrities; give you a in a slowemoving glacier, latitude or an oldbachelor, oranold bore, read Vanity dash of golf and hockey and tennis and foot- M toatiee aiet ate psi saan Fair, and prestol you willbe nimble-wittedand ball; accelerate the pulse of your brain, in ninety-two, six minutes, twenty-cight agile-minded again; the joy of thepicnic, the _short,transform you from a social half portion seconds north, first turn to the right life of the party, the hit of the turkey-trottoir. into a regular Class A human being. as you leave meridian number three g hundred and sixty-one. Try a Little Dollar Diplomacy! Q. Now, Mr. Claus, I will ask if Z 2 ‘ You think nothing—in your poor deluded way—of pay- there is any ulterior motive behind the reckless and indiscriminate giving ing $2 for a theatre ticket, or $1.20 for a new novel. But in which you indulge annually? you can secure for $1 (half the cost of a single theatre A. 1 do not think it is advisable N ticket and less than the cost of a single novel) an entire winter of Vanity Fair, and with it more entertain- ment than you could derive from dozens of plays ora shelf full of modern novels, Special Offer Six Months for One Dollar i : Vanity Fair costs 25 cents a number or $3 a year. Marmay Monogram Cigarettes nM Tear off and send in the Coupon at the left add_a touch of Distinction, at no extra cost. 1 < b and you can have a six months’ “trial” eh Selected Turkish, Tolacco, blended to yo TRIAL ORDER OF 100 for $2. er send 30 ce i . subscription for One Dollar. showing assortment of monograms, Lien f rat inh and order monogram by mom < 5 MG CONDE NAST, Publisher Ladies? size with or without perfume 3 , 4, FRANK CROWNINSHIELD, Editor All Shipsneats in Plain Packages. Insured and Prepaid Marmay Mig. Co., Dept. B, 136 S. 4th, Philadelphia