Life — February 1, 1923 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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It’s great after shaving JF you’ve never doused clear Listerine on your face after shaving, you’ve missed something good. Just try it tomorrow morning. See what a delightful exhila- rating feeling it brings to your face—how it “sets you up” for breakfast and the day’s work. You'll want it after your shave every morning. Listerine provides the ideally safe antiseptic lotion. It is composed of a pure, saturat- ed solution of , boric acid, skillfully and always —_uni- formly blend- ed with heal- ing, fragrant oils. Thus it allays irritation and guards against infection that might come from any abrasion or nick your razor may leave, Read the circular that comes packed with each bottle. It de- scribes dozens of other uses for this excellent antiseptic—uses that have kept Listerine ever growing in popularity for the past half century.—Lambert Pharmacal Company, Saint Louis, U.S. A. Fresh, clean, cool and safely antiseptic LISTERINE —the safe antiseptic SDR Er: R_ O OLISH ov CONTEMPO ARIES A Matter of Dates “This,” said the guide, showing a party over an historic mansion, “is the room occupied by Queen Elizabeth when she visited these parts, and that’s the bed she slept on.” fy dear sir,” remarked one of the visitors, an elderly antiquarian, “haven’t you made some mistake?” “What d’yer mean—mistake ?” “Why, the bedstead is of Jacobean pattern, and apparently a reproduction at that.” “Well, she wasn’t particular about the pattern of the bed she slept on.” “But it belongs to a much later period. The house itself is very late Tudor, and really I am not aware that Queen Elizabeth ever sojourned in this neigh- bourhood.” “Oh, all rite—taking the bread out of a man’s mouth! This ain’t the bed what Queen Elizabeth didn’t sleep on when she wasn’t ‘ere before the ’ouse was built. "Ow will that do?” —Windsor Magazine (London). 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