Life — June 2, 1927 — page 45: what you’re looking at

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™€ Tr. sar enw Vv PipeSmokerApplies Medical Training Selecting Tobacco Some folks act on “hunches,” some on emotion, some on pet theories, and still others on cold logic. Here is a pipe smoker in the “logic” class. And the reason, as he explains, is that for three years he has been taught to take nothing for granted, but to prove his way as he goes, 427 Lyons Avenue Newark, N. J. Larus & Bro. Co, Oct. 16, 1926 Richmond, Va. Gentlemen: M medical students by the time they reach the third year of their work have absorbed the scientific spirit. That is, we take nothing for granted unless it has been confirmed by experiment or other reliable means. Prove it, we say! Some time ago I decided to start smok- ing a pipe. Choosing the pipe was easy enough, but finding the tobacco to go with it was not so easy. I experi- mented, trying one tobacco after another. Some would have a fragrant aroma, but oh—what a taste they would leave! Others left my mouth like a furnace. A few reminded me of a poorly ventilated chemical laboratory. I had almost decided that what I was looking for—a cool, sweet taste and a pleasant aroma—was impossible. Fi- nally, I took the advice of one of the fellows and tried your good ole blue can. Eureka! You can't get me away from it now. You should call Edgeworth—“money’s worth.” Sincerely yours, Irving H. Plaine To those who have never tried Edge- worth we make this offer: Let us send you free samples of Edgeworth so that you may put it to the pipe test. If you like the sam- ples, you'll like Edgeworth wherever and whenever you buy it, for it never changes in quality. Write your name and ad- dress to Larus & Brother Com- pany, 16 S. 21st Street, Richmond, Va. We'll be grateful for the name and address of your tobacco dealer, too, if you care to add them. Edgeworth is sold in various sizes to suit the needs and means of all pur- chasers, Both Edgeworth Plug Slice and Edgeworth eady-Rubbed are packed in small, pocket-sized packages, in handsome humidors holding a pound, and also in several handy in-between sizes, To Retail Tobacco Merchants: If your jobber cannot supply you with Edgeworth, Larus & Brother Company will gladly send you prepaid by parcel post a one- or two-dozen carton of any size of Edgeworth Plug Slice or Edge- worth Ready-Rubbed for the same price you would pay the jobber. ‘On tase radio— tune in on WRYA, [ze ynond, Wa.— the Elencorts | Station. Wave length 256 metere.. you exactly how Berry Wall made his salad dressing, and, most aston- ishing of all, he tells you what Diamond Jim Brady always ate for dinner, and here, upon the author's affidavit, it is: Three dozen Lynn- haven oysters, one dozen hard-shell crabs, six or seven lobsters, one steak, one platter of pastry, two pounds of bonbons. All washed down by four carafes of orange juice. It was Mr. Brady, you may re- member, who offered Johns Hopkins $100,000 for a new stomach, prefer- ably that of an elephant. FeAsHions in fiction have leaned of late so decidedly to the seamy side of Mayfair, the strange doings of expatriates in Paris, manners and customs on the Riviera, ete., that it was almost refreshing to glimpse amongst this week's titles “The White Pony in the Hills,” by Anne Bosworth Greene (Century). of the Old Frontier,” by Marshall R. Hall (Altemus), with a covered wagon and a shirt-sleeved young man on its jacket, also looked nympho- maniac and cocaine proof. 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