Life — August 9, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at

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An Impossible Stipulation “TO remain beautiful,” declares a noted lecturer on domestic science, “one need only eat an onion, half a pound of spinach or cabbage, half a grated turnip and a handful of cranberries each day.” Can it be possi- ble that the lecturer expects anyone who is already beautiful to adhere to such a diet day in and day out? If so, the lecturer's knowledge of human nature is so small as to discredit all statements emanating from that source. Is there anybody, already beautiful, who would consent to eat an onion every day? There is not. Beau- tiful people don’t eat onions unless they can be practically certain that everyone with whom they are to come in contact during the next few hours has also eaten onions. The onion-spin- ach-turnip-cranberry recipe may be a good thing for plain persons who wish to become beautiful; but if beautiful persons can’t retain their beauty un- less they devour an onion every day— farewell, beauty! “wry do you think he'll feel at home in the trenches?” “He's a suburbanite.” Song for America” that it has been compelled to make these lations for the use of the cop d words, one is at liberty to make an for the words, bat the t be published without first sub- mitting to the Editors of Lure the name of the proposed publisher and a copy of the contract with the publisher. The made subject to the Editors of Lire, and (ie Sport Alluring LEARN to shoot. Every man— expert with the gun. two at the traps each week will prove the finest kind of a treat. Trapshooting is keen, clean sport with a thrill of excitement—an undefinable challenge to your spirit of achieve- ment—in every target thrown. Winging the wily clay pigeon has become quite de rigueur in smart country places and is proving a wel- come boon to both host and hostess in the entertainment of house parties. E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. Wilmington gully JP 12.8 every woman—should be an An hour or The “Sport Alluring” Booklet on request , Delaware Men Whose Smallness Qualifies Them for Bantam Regiments HOSE who inyeigh the loudest against forgetting to count shots correctly in a golf game, but always forget to count about two-thirds of their incomes when filing their Federal income-tax returns, Those who display temper when they lose more than $1.75 in a poker game. Those who buy cocktails for eleven people with every ance of cheerfulness, but emit poignant shrieks of anguish at the thought of pay amp tax of one cent on each cheque. Retail dealers who are obliged to pay three cents more for certain commodities, and immediately force the public to pay ten cents more for them. Speculators in wheat and corn. The average censor. The small group of wilful men. Those who think we haven't a chance against German efficiency. Men of draft age who hide behind women’s skirts. Those who spend $13.8¢ for a dinner for two, but won't give more than $5.00 to the Red Cross. ays that food control will end the war. Another is positive that over- periority in the air will bring peace. A third concludes that some sub- n will turn the tide, while a fourth asserts that a gigantic whelming marine-destroying invent merchant fleet will be the deciding factor. Our guess is that plain American man-power in that simplest of all formations—iniantry—is the thing that will turn the trick in the end.