Life — December 5, 1918 — page 74: what you’re looking at

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» When Civil War >, Babies Coughed -CHRISTMAS LIFE: He started to the rear of the ma- chine, when suddenly he became con- scious that his way was blocked. Clari- Her admirer gazed at her in aston, ishment. “What is the matter, dear?” je —and that was more bel faced him, than 50 years ago— ” Percy,” she said, calmly, “look at me.” Piso’s was given for He gazed into her eyes with a look of Prompt relief. Three generations have used Piso’s. Quickly re- lieves coughing; ea: tickling; soothes in- flamed throats and allays hoarseness. You can get Piso everywhere, Contains No Opiate Safe for Young and Old Nar PISOS for Coughs & Colds Do You = : : ee 7° Have to n?” Amuse Dinner Partners? cried. “Have I offended you? Woy you accept me?” She gazed sternly at him, covered with soot and oil as he was. “It will only take me a moment, “Never!” she exclaimed. “I dog .” he said, “that spark plug—” care to be made love to on the instal ake me straight home.” ment plan.” impatience. haven't you got 2 good circulatior Percy jumped off his seat with a preoccupied a “Don't you understand,” he said, as a pair of rubber arm gaunt- t the circulation is the water that cools the engine? And if it doesn’t get around that cylinder prop- erly then the dev—I mean there's likely To be sprightly at teas? To deal—instantly—with stout hostesses, clever bachelors, dearest friends, golf fiends, vers librists, dog lovers, military critics, Japanese symbolists, Russian decorative painters? to be trouble.” He got down on his hands and knees, turned two stop-cocks and opened up valve, “AM right!" he exclaimed at last, turning the crank again and springing into his seat “Yes, dear,” he continued, as they hegan pumping up a hill, “ friendship, as I was saying, is not like love. I've heen in a dream, I'm not the same man I was. I have thought of you constantly. Your face has been mir- rored in my heart; your image never leaves me. Away from you, I am miserable, I— There’s no use talk- that hill-climber clutch has got to tightened. Would you mind stand- The motor car came to a standstill at the top of the hill, and Percy, re- moving the top and seats and dipping once more into the interior, brought forth a set of wrenches Claribel had never seen before. Then he pulled and tugged and strained, and finally flung the tools back into the box witha sigh of triumph—then he grabbed them again. “T guess,” he muttered, “that, while I am about it, I'l examine that spark plug.” Amusing women put as much thought on their dinner conversation as they do on their frocks. ‘They know what's being talked about. And what's being said about it. To be at home—easily—in discussions of early Chinese art, how Jock Hutchison uses his right arm, and why Marie Doro left the movies? To meet any social sit- uation whatever, and talk your way airily through it? Dress Your Mind by Vanity Fair tellectual and social world, the world of vated men and women. How do they do it? Quite sin They are, in short, au courant of the artistic, y! They real They know the latest_and most brilliant achiev ments in music, painting, sculpture, opera, sports, dancing, the stage. ‘They are familiar with the last vagary of the mode, the maddest gaicty of society, the newest philosophy. They know how to write vers-libre on their din- ner cards, how to wear a tiara without hatpiz how to tell a Newport dowager from a sea-lion. every month the one magazine that is devel to the forward-marching events of modern Amt i The one magazine whose every i nts of the newest and most iret ing personalities, movements, and achievemeatl from the ever-changing kaleidoscope of cosmopih tan existence: Vanity Fair. Five Issues of Vanity Fair for $1 Six if You Mail the Coupon Now VANITY FAIR, 19 West 44th Street, New York City 1 want to go through life with m: in touch with the newest and livel mind open; to keep my sympathies warm; to jiest influences of modern ite Therefore, | want to send me the next FIVE numbers of Vanity Fair. | will remit $1 on receipt of bill (OR) my favorite dollar is inclosed. 1 understand that if this order is rec in time, you will send me a complimentary copy of the current issue, making in al