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Asphalt and an Accident. 
Asphalt, with which so many roads 
are paved, was found by accident. 
Many years ago in Switzerland natural 
rock asphalt was discovered, and for 
more than a century it was used for 
the purpose of extracting the rich 
stores of bitumen it contained. In 
time it was noticed that pieces of rock 
which fell from the wagons and were 
erushed by the wheels formed a mar- 
velously fine road surface when assist- 
ed by the heat of the sun. A proper 
road of asphalt rock was then made 
following upon the discovery, and in 
1854 an experimental roadway was 
laid in Paris. From that time the use 
of rock asphalt for the making of 
roads and pavements has increased 
and extended to many countries. 
A Household Maneuver, 
“And what,” asked the caller after 
he had been shown all over Mr. Bobbs’ 
new house, “is that pretty little article 
hanging over the piano?” 
“Don’t you know?” answered Mr. 
Bobbs enthusiastically. ‘Why, that is 
a handy match receiver, made by Mrs. 
Bobbs. I scratch a match and use it. 
It must not be thrown on the floor. 
There is the receiver. Holding the 
burned match carefully in my fingers, 
I move the piano away from the wall 
to the center of the room. Then I go 
down in the basement and get the step- 
ladder. I place the stepladder against 
the wall, mount it, deposit the match in 
the receiver, climb down again. I then 
return the stepladder to the basement, 
come back and move the piano into its 
former position. 
having these things about the house. 
It makes neatness and discourages 
smoking.’’—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
One of the Antiques. 
“There,” said the man who had pur- 
chased a pedigree that reached back to 
the ‘coming over’ of William the Con- 
queror, “is a gold snuffbox that was 
used by one of my great-great-grand- 
fathers.” 
“Very interesting,’ replied the gen- 
tleman who was examining the thing. 
“Very interesting, indeed. I had no 
idea that the ‘made in Germany’ mark 
had been in use as long as that.’’—Chi- 
eago Record-Herald, 
A Sad Mistake, 
The wife cooked a dish of prunes, 
which appeared to find no favor with 
Members of the family. The prunes 
“went begging” for a day or two until 
the husband, tired of seeing them, deo- 
cided to get rid of them. 
The next evening he found a big dish 
of prunes at his place. 
“You liked those other prunes sv 
well,” said his wife, ‘that I thought ! 
would cook some more.’’—Indianapolis 
News. 
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The Ruling Passion. 
A young contractor in a Missouri 
town found himself after the war in 
fire financial straits. He owned a few 
pieces of property, all of which were 
mortgaged, the mortgage in each in- 
stance being held by an old man who 
lived with his one son, Brocky, in a 
tumbledown hut that could not be 
rented to any one else. In the course 
of time the miser foreclosed, taking 
over all the contractor’s property, 
which was valued in excess of the 
amounts loaned. The contractor began 
to pay rent on the house in which he 
lived. Three months after the fore- 
closure the miser lay dying. An urgent 
message reached the contractor, and 
he, supposing that the other. knowing 
his end to be near, wanted to make 
what restitution he could for the good 
of his soul, hurried down to the cabin. 
He found the old man in a rickety bed, 
covered with a tattered quilt and an 
old overcoat. The contractor bent his 
ear hopefully to the other's lips. The 
miser drew a long breath, clutched 
the quilt in a skinny hand and whis- 
pero: 
“Pay your next month’s 
Brocky.”—Kansas City Star. 
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A Long Time Out of Use. 
“A man told me,” says a cynic in the 
American Magazine, ‘‘that during the 
San Francisco earthquake he and his 
wife knelt down and began the Lord’s 
Prayer, but forgot it in the middle. It 
takes time to renew an old acquaint- 
ance.” 
Cruel. 
Maud (before the laughing hyena’s 
ecage)—How provoking! Here we've 
been twenty minutes, and the hyena 
hasn’t laughed once. Ella—Strange, 
and he’s been eying your new hat too. 
Her Opinion. 
“Woman is considered the weaker 
vessel,” she remarked, “and yet”— 
“Well?’ he queried as she hesitated. 
“And yet,’ she continued, “‘man is 
oftener broke.’”—London Opinion. 
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xroom (looking over the presents)— 
Did Mrs. Grumpus give us anything? 
Bride-—-Oh, yes! She has given us just 
six months to live together.—Chicaga 
News. 
