The literary digest . eroinedozing by the fire. Enter thehero, noiselessly. He crossesthe stage, drops on his kneebeside her. She stirs, as ifawakening from a dream ofsadness. The audiencewaitsbreathless for those perfectlines that for 100 nightshave sent the curtain down in a hush of rapt admiration. Then, out of the darkness of the house—a burst of coughing, drowning the voice of the great actress as if in mockery—harsh, ugly coughing. The spell is broken. The great scene is ruined— the pleasure of 1000 people marred. It isnt fair to yourself or anybody else to goround coughing. The worst of
The literary digest . eroinedozing by the fire. Enter thehero, noiselessly. He crossesthe stage, drops on his kneebeside her. She stirs, as ifawakening from a dream ofsadness. The audiencewaitsbreathless for those perfectlines that for 100 nightshave sent the curtain down in a hush of rapt admiration. Then, out of the darkness of the house—a burst of coughing, drowning the voice of the great actress as if in mockery—harsh, ugly coughing. The spell is broken. The great scene is ruined— the pleasure of 1000 people marred. It isnt fair to yourself or anybody else to goround coughing. The worst of it is, its sounnecessary. Smith Brothers S-B Cough Drops relieve cough-ing. And they often keep a cough from developinginto a sore throat or cold. Keep a box in yourpocket, another in your desk, another at home. Pure. No drugs. Just enough charcoal tosweeten the stomach. One placed in the mouth at bedtime keeps thebreathing passages open. Drop that Cough SMITH BROTHERS ofPoughkeepsfe FAMOUS SINCE 1847 ^ r / !5i. more than Hindenburg, who in turn isdearer than the Kaiser. The favorite pipe,however, seems to be one of red cherry, ofthe shape that we call Dutch—drop stem,big bowl with metal hd, and protuberancebelow that affords a good grip. With pipes are associated in the mindstems, but steins are rare now in Ger-many, or at least in the with pewter tops are especially rare,for all the tops had gone to make ammuni-tion some time before the Boche cried,Hold, enough! It is a strange thoughtthat the whistle of many of those incomingshells that we heard and ducked was anew stein song. Such steins as one maysee now are mainly in the shop-windows,and are decorated with pictures of forty-two centimeter shells, iron crosses, andother favorite taUsmans. An especiallyinteresting one shows a German soldierclasping fervently the hand of an Austrianand is inscribed with the two first lines of afamous old German poem, I had a com-rade; a better you couldnt find. But
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