Don’t let Drying Skin push you into “middle-age”

You may not feel “matronly”… but is dry skin making you look it?

To a woman whose husband is starting to call her “mother”

It’s just a little habit that husbands often slip into—loving, maybe—but dangerous. Because, if you are spending more and more time on the children and neglecting yourself —the attractive girl your husband married—remember this: These are the very years when you can either grow lovelier—or just older!
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I’m not even going to attempt transcribing this. If someone wants to, please feel free to post it in the comments.

An Open Letter To All Young Fellows
H. C. LEWIS. President

COYNE ELECTRICAL SCHOOL, Dept. “’3* 500 So. Paulina Street, Chicago, Ill.

Dear Mr. Lewis: I want to get ahead. Send me your Free book.

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How a Fraud Detective Works

By MARY K. PIRIE

WITH a girl perched on his brawny shoulders, the boy in the red swim trunks cavorted in the swimming pool. When the girl lost her hold on his wet back and started to slip, he reached up strong young arms and caught her.

While both squealed with delight, the boy thought how good it felt to be out having fun again. Ever since he’d faked that accident at the plant last month and claimed a serious back injury, Dad had made him stay home and wear a brace. “Unless you do, we’ll never get that $50,000 for ‘total and permanent disability’ we’re suing for,” the older man had warned. Read the rest of this entry »

This reminds me of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

NOVEL WEEKLY SERVICE KEEPS PHONES GERMFREE

Telephone subscribers in a number of eastern cities may now avail themselves of a service that undertakes to keep the instruments free of germs. Once a week, a uniformed representative calls, undoes a kit resembling a physician’s case, and applies an antiseptic paste that is said to keep the telephone in sanitary condition.

I love the Droste Effect.

It’s right in front of your eyes

…yet your “Unseen Friend” remains unseen

Look closely at these smartly – styled glasses. Look as long, as hard as you please… and you won’t see the Nickel they contain.

It’s right before your eyes, too… in the frames (mountings, some people call them). But you don’t see this Nickel. You see the precious metal that surrounds it — gold, in this case. Read the rest of this entry »

DATSUN BLUEBIRD is small Japanese car recently introduced to U. S. It sports a four-cylinder, overhead valve engine which puts out 48 hp. Top speed is 77 mph. Weight is 1,916 pounds. Car is said to get 38 mpg. It rides on 5.60×13 tires, seats four or five passengers. The Nissan Motor Car Co., Tokyo, Japan, makes the vehicle. Price is $1,616.

THE FINEST OF DOG HOUSES

WHO WOULDN’T BE A POMERANIAN?

New York now boasts the largest and finest equipped dog house in the world; it provides a home for twenty-five prize dogs belonging to Mrs. Eldridge Gerry Snow, Jr. The interior of the home is furnished with the finest Japanese tapestries and bric-a-brac for the edification of the canines.

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The Subway City Grows

Street traffic goes on as usual while gigantic construction project approaches completion many feet below.

by Don Glassman

UNDERGROUND flyers crashing through caves of darkness serve the largest metropolitan population in the world—New York. They carry people to and fro every minute of the year; storm, rain, snow or ice —nothing stops them. Under rivers, streets, skyscrapers, occasionally coming up for a breath of light and air, the trains for the most part run underground where the running is good and the tracks are clear.
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Camera helmet

Like some action in your movies? Mount your camera on the POV (Point-of-View) helmet professional stunt men use. While you’re skiing, cycling, or mountain climbing, a visor frame tells you what you’re shooting—hands free. $130. Gilbert-Waugh Productions, 3518 Cahuenga Blvd., W. Hollywood, Calif. 90068.

Invest YOUR DOLLARS WHERE AMERICA’S FUTURE IS INVESTED – the Dynamic Cape Canaveral Area

First Time Offered Nationally! Choice Property – In An Established Community – in the Nation’s Fastest Growing County
- At PORT MALABAR FLORIDA.

“Cape Canaveral Selected As Site for ‘Moon Launchings’”! This exciting news, coupled with the Government’s multi-billion dollar, long-term program for Space Research and Development, can only mean progress and growth for this area. And, this future of Industrial Expansion and population growth opens up a rare investment opportunity for those people wise enough to buy the right land, in the right place, at the right price. Read the rest of this entry »

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Fashion Goes Nuts

If your girl friend develops a few new rattles this may be the reason.

COUPLE of smart girls were looking through a parts catalogue for some reason or other and arf! the idea of making costume jewelry out of standard hardware items jumped right out and bit them. That was the beginning of Geomet, a successful two-year-old business headed by Patricia Smith, an industrial designer, and Willa Percival, a photographer. Read the rest of this entry »

The Computer for the Professional

The 8813 was built with you, the professional, in mind. It quickly and easily processes cost estimates, payrolls, accounts, inventory, patient/client records and much more. You can write reports, briefs, and proposals on the 8813′s typewriter keyboard, see them on the video screen, and instantly correct, revise, or print them.
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