Life — December 28, 1916 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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1180 To the Men of France E should like to think, and indeed, we sometimes do, that we are of the same clay as yourselves. We have our high moments of courage and of honor, times when we love liberty more than life and truth more than wealth; times, too, when our souls are not un- aware of beauty. We shall only feel more akin if we know that sometimes you have moments of weakness, times of hesitation before meeting the task that fronts you, that sometimes you have known the voice of truth to be obscured by clamor and veils to come before the face of beauty, even honor to be shamed. As men, you may have weaknesses which we share, and we should like to share with you in love and admiration for the fabric we call France, into which have been woven strength and beauty and freedom and love and honor until France is a ban- ner to our souls no less than to your own, Like yourselves we have our de- votion to our land, in which may we never fail. What we lack, and what we envy you, is the power to make her name express only the highest within us, only the best and the noblest of which we are capable. Thus your Patriotism knows no lines, no bounda- ries. When you serve France, when you die for her, it is for no locality, but for the holy spirit of man itself. May God make us worthy. Henry Lance. The Gentle Art of Nagging NAGeINnc your husband is a special art by itself, and while some women have a natural gift in that di- rection, others can only acquire it by constant application. A husband in a house is something like a hippopota- mus. He is often a dull, placid crea- ture, hard to move or dislodge, espe- cially if he gets accustomed to a favorite chair. He often becomes toughened by exposure to constant nagging, and it takes a powerful weapon with a fairly high trajectory to do him any damage Occasionally, however, he develops sensitive areas, and can become a constant source of pleasure to any lady who likes to nag. Every woman knows, of course, that LIFE Advertisements You Have Never Seen HURLY-BURLY MA\S\SAGE INSTITUTE, Jolts, J “inden S, pes (One OF Our Patients) ‘We Can Reduce Your work ie Live Throyshlt her husband is more susceptible about half an hour before dinner, when he has come home from the office tired out. By studying him carefully she will also discover certain days in the month when she can nag him with the highest percentage of bull’s-eyes. The art of nagging, however, is not all ob- jective. Much can be done from the subjective standpoint. By intimating to her husband in many ways, which she can easily learn by practice, that | Wif'A GIMCRACK | | COLLAPSIBLE LADDER |: | Is There A Trained Nurse ne she is the most abused lady on earth, she can derive a whole program of amusement. The historical method— that of dragging up some dead, for- gotten thing and talking about it all over again, and still over again—is also a splendid form of nagging. Some wives, however, so blind are they, never see this at all. They just go on, hopefully trying to make their husbands happy. The high art of nag- ging is not given to every woman. An Economist DISCUSSION at the dinner ta- ble was being held by father and mother, in the presence of little six- year-old Jim, as to the advisability of renting or purchasing a new home. When quiet came, Jim inquired of his mother, “ Mother, what did I cost?” and the answer came that he cost about four hundred dollars, whereup- on he exclaimed, “Wouldn't it have been cheaper to have rented me?” ELL read can never come from poorly written.