Life — June 15, 1916 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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rou’ve g, Golf, well led. xed wis 1143 E AGE'S GLUE o< BETTER THAN MUCILAGE HOTEL ASPINWALL LENOX, MASS. High and Cool in the Berkshires A HOTEL OF DISTINCTION Opens Jone 17 Elevation 1400 Feet HOWE & TWOROGER, ‘Managers w Vater | Remort, Princ! HOTEL, | Bermuda What Frenchmen Think of Us GOOD friend in Paris, M. Ernest Dimnet, has been disturbed by something said in Lire, on authority of certain fervent friends of France, about French contempt for the United States. He writes to us at some length to deprecate the idea that any such feel- ing is common. He speaks of the sur- prise of the average Frenchman at some attitudes of our government, but he goes on to say: Ask any Frenchman on which side he thinks American sympathies are enlisted : he will not have a moment's hesitation. The newspaper he reads has never said a word about such disclosures as have been made to you, but it has been full of what the ‘American press—you among the rest, though not so frequently as I would wish and you deserve—says for us and against our enemi he has seen statistics. showing that ‘ninety-seven per cent. of your university pro- fessors are for the Allies, and not Champagne “Extra Dry” (mediaen) Produced by the old French slow method of fermentation in the bottle taking from six | to seven years of time. Great Western is the Only American Champagne ever awarded a Gold Medal at Foreign Expositions. i |, 1900, France 1889, France ion, 1910 Belgium Vienna Exposition 1873, Austria | Bruxelles Exposition, 1897 Belgium | Paris Exposition, 1867 France | Paris Exposi Paris Exposi Pleasant Valley Wine Company Rheims, N. Y. | Oldest and largest producers of Champagne in America Henry M. Stanley went HEN Stanley found Dr. Livingstonein the heart of the African jungle, one of his first acts was to bor- row the hone used by the doctor on his surgical instruments. Stanley’s bearers had lost the KNOWN: THE” WORLD OVER Nos exclusively on account of Rheims and Louvain ; he has passed the won- derful American hospital at Neutlly and the emporium of American char- ity in the rue Jean Goujon; he con- stantly meets Soldiers who tell him in a matter-of-course m have heard them my d'Amérique dans ta tranchée knows—who docs not? — ref from the invaded part of the coun- try or from Belgium who would have starved had it not been for the familiar, American committee; he knows that a large proportion of our Thirty weeks without a have baggage containing his hone. His razor had acquired an edge like a butter knife and his beard the appearance of a hedge. Today practically every fa- mous traveler, explorer and missionary carries a Gillette Safety Razor. Gillette blades are on sale in the Arctic circle and the African Jungle, in every outfitting and supply camp in the world. Stropping and honing has had its day. The daily Gillette shave is a matter of course with the aver- age business and professional man. The Gillette shave is quick and cool, safe and san- itary. It is velvet-smooth, no matter how wiry the beard or tender the skin. Adjust the handle for a light or a closeshave. Akeen, fresh blade is always ready. No stropping—no honing. Prices $5 to $50. Blades 50c. and $1 the packet. Dealers everywhere. GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR CO. munitions, of our artillery, of the tractors which fill the streets at cer- tain hours, come from the States. He knows all thi great deal more which Tm 1€ [ chose to refer to note: made. What are the intricacies of diplomacy, the tedious succession of notes, compared to these proofs of sympathy? T wish in the street could know more th he does about certain sides of American character, its ideal above all, but about the good-will of America he knows all that he ought to know. comicbooks.com