Life — September 21, 1928 — page 30: what you’re looking at

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28 Before Shaving HINDS CREAM ae Whisk off Whiskers. Yes, you can. This is the way. First Hinds Cream, Then lather, Then razor. Whisk! Go the whiskers, But don’t forget Hinds Cream first. It makes whiskers Oh-so-reasonable. Your wife has Hinds Or should have. If you have No wife, Send the coupon, Before you lather, rub in Hinds Cream vigor- ously for two or three seconds. You'll be sur- prised how it softens the beard! Then lather right over the Hinds Cream while it is still wet. Boy! what a clean, smooth, easy shave! After shaving, rub in a little more Hinds Cream until your fin- gers cling. Your skin will feel soft and re- laxed all day. Affer Shaving HINDS CREAM LEHN & FINK, Inc. Sole Distributors Please send me a sample bottle of Hinds Honey and Almond Cream, so 1can enjoy asmooth shave for once. Address...+++6 (This coupon not good after October, 1929) Shave your face but save your skin LIFE I Feel Much Better I Feet much better now. But from the time I left college until quite recently I was in a bad way spiritually. Five long years of self-doubt.....It seemed to me that I was making no contribution to so- ciety. I was convinced that the work I have been doing for the five years since leaving college was the least necessary in the world. I looked around me; I could find no man doing work more super- fluous than mine. The other morning I was having one of my bad spells and the iceman rang. That made me more despondent than ever, for I began to think, “Why, my work is more superfluous than his—by fafesnes” Well, he hauled in the usual fifty unds and “How you gonna vote?” he asked, At that moment I became as one reborn. It had suddenly occurred to me that during the past five years a man has been delivering ice at the White House... .. Tup. REVERIE AT THE ZOO Ir the elephant were mentally ambitious, And were properly instructed how to think, Being naturally anything but vicious, Nor inclined to war, or politics, or drink, He would not be doomed to travel with a circus And subsist on wormy peanuts from a sack, But would solve the many problems that still irk us, For his mind would be as massive as his back. If he had the gift of ratiocination And could trace a syllogism to its lair, The pachyderm woald shine at meditation And would be (I speak in metaphor) a bear. But when we think how mighty a derision Of humankind’s attainments would be his, We must, I think, agree on the decision That we prefer the elephant as is. —S. K., in Spokane Spokesman-Review. New York’s Newest Hotel Che Picradilly 227 West 45th Street At B’way—New York Adjacent to Every Ac- tivity. 600 Bright Sunlit Rooms. ach with Bath, Electric Fan, Ice Water. Single Room and Bath $3.00. Double Room and Bath $4.50 urant Sp Wire at our Expense for Raservations , F. D, SOFIELD, Mng. Dir. Tris thorough, gentle internal lubri- cant—Puretest Mineral Oil, Russian type —has none of the objectionable features of laxatives and cathartics. Perfected re- fining removes all taste, all color and all odor. Puretest Mineral Oil is extra heavy, romptly effective and absolutely harm less. Sa only at Rexall Drug Stores. Save with Safety at your DRUG STORE Liggett’s are also Rexall stores comicbooks.com