Life — January 13, 1916 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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WHICH CAME FIRST, ANYHOW ? Golly! What a Gun-Base! Otto H. Kahn has just given a contract for what is believed to be the heaviest foundation ever designed for a country Director Goo Heasedeepiog Brean of Poets, The Human Clock Grows Rusty VERY man starts life as a clock wound up. Then, gradually, the exuberant vitality of the child expends itself through youth and middle age until at last he ends life as a clock run down. As the clock ticks on through three score and ten years of work and worry often the wheels gather rust, a cog slips —the human clock runs down too soon. Constipation is the rust which clogs the human clock. It is constipation which is in many cases responsible for that too-early slowing-down of mental and physical energy known as premature old age. It is constipation which, by weakening the body’s power of resistance, opens the way to many more serious diseases. Constipation frequently becomes chronic because of the unwise use of laxatives and cathartics, which give only temporary relief and are followed by dangerous reactions. Nujol, a pure white mineral oil, is entirely free from these objections. It acts in effect as a mechanical lubricant, soft- ening the contents of the intestines and oiling the walls as a delicate machine is oiled. Thus it facilitates and strength- ens the normal processes of evacuation, so correcting the residence, which he is about ready to build at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. The contract calls for an expenditure of $150,- ooo for a reinforced-concrete foundation and retaining walls—New York Post, Dec. 22, 1915. cause of constipation. Nujol is colorless, odorless and tasteless, and is not absorbed by the system. Consequently it may be taken in any quantity without harm. Write for booklet ‘The Rational Treatment of Constipation.” If your druggist cannot supply you with Nujol, we will send you a pint bottle prepaid to any point in the United States on receipt of 5c—money order or stamps. Address Dept. 15. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Bayonne ScGDERRAREGIUSIPATS US. PAT. New Jersey You,Too, Can Hear! Inasmuch as 200,000 users of the “ACOUS- TICON™ have had the same results from itas Mr.Garrett Brown, whose photoappears above, wefeel perfectly safe in urging every deaf per- eon, withouta penny of expense, solely and en- tirelyatour risk,toaccepta thorough 1 2 16 Acousticon Deneak FRE Eex Expense Alloa need todois to writesaring that you.aredeaf and will try the“ ACOU: The trial will not cost you one cent, for very WARNING! Sneed focraate for any instrument tor the dest uatil you have t The ‘* ACOUSTICON” has and orPiea ACQUETICON an rare tt patter what you have tried RAN ed Te free trial Pot the ** ACOUSTICON, vioce yourself — alone to decide, Address GENERAL ACOUSTIC CO., 2238 Candler Bile. ow York ‘Toronto, Ont. Office, Royal M. C. courage is something we use when we are too frightencd to know what else Or possibly, when there isn’t time. So from our ancestors, that we can't get rid of, try A person afflicted with moral courake must, however, live. yo on facing things, trying to live it down, than he can help. He has no right to give up fighting it his system. When we see a person like that, him. We must remember that he can't help himself. We pathetic with him. This is all the more t owing to his pathetic burden, how we are enjoying ourselves. ORAL to do. of us have moral courage inherited we will, Handicapped as be is, he must and trying and not makin > eradicate it from a little easier f ust be kind and gentle we must do what we can to make life and sy 1c because, he never really under stands comicbooks.com