Life — May 17, 1917 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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“Ue Ee The Poison Cup In these days of sanitary inspection, ilized forks and certified babies it re- ge to say a good word for ; yet we cannot help won- whether it hasn't been another a dog a bad name. In the recent notorious Waite trial in New York the evidence showed that when Dr. Waite, certainly a master of murder as a fine art, loaded his victim for weeks her with vast quantities of typhoid, diphtheria, tetanus, tubercu- ther alleged deadly germs, he ster case of giv pacumonia losis and was simply wasting his time. The more his victim had the sturdier he grew. We recall the case of an eminent physician in an eastern city whom hard work and worry had driven into such a state of nervous collapse that he tried to G suicide. He swallowed all the then known germs, and he was a man specially qualified to know where to find all there were. But the more he took the b he grew, until in a few weeks his health was completely restored. It hat that happened two or three and that there have been some pew microbes invented or discovered since then, but the incident seems signifi- ame... And after all, would it not be a mis. take to do away altogether with the for existence? Just as it is a send children to school in or for their parents to do ums for them at home, thus mak- and casy and removing diffi rom their path, so it seems as if f the total elimination of microbes might result in a race of weaklings and molly- first you don’t succeed in getting glove style and glove service; you | can either buy, buy again,—or you can insist on a pair of | Fownes, and be suc- cessful right away. that’s all you need to know about a GLOVE, FOR _» MEN OF BRAINS IGARS “MADE AT KEY WEST = Willi Holder Top Shavin Stick Cream Powder In 77 years of Shaving Soap making, there has been nothing to add but convenience—Williams’ Holder- Top Shaving Stick, for instance, with its handy metal finger grip. Ask for it by its full name— ‘Williams’ Holder-Top Shaving Stick.’” Send 12¢ in stamps for a trial size of the Stick, Cream, Powder or Liquid. Then decide which you preter of send 4c in stamps for any one. The J. B. Williams Co. Dept. A, Glastonbury, Conn. coddles. A child becomes tough and hard by overcoming its difficulties, not by being protected from them. Babies brought up on sterilized infant foods are apt to have rickets and to be sickly and hard to raise. A healthy child that meets, swallows and dominates a reasonable amount of microbes every day must surely grow into a sturdier man or woman than one whose food and surroundings are being constantly steril- ized. —The Idaho Statesman, Knicker: What can you do to serve the country? Bocxer: Well, I can keep out of the way of people who can do something —The Sun. “CAMMY,” said the elder Weller, “beware o’ the widows, More than that, my son, beware o° impru- dence. A prudent man always orders his weekly copy of Lire in advance from his newsdealer.” comichooks, com