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Razor
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J Have You Seen the New Gillettes
Specially Designed for the Fighting Man ?
I rj’JIESE models were designed by members of the
Gillette Organization who have seen service with
the Colors and lcnow What the soldier is up against.
I \ U ’ S ’ Service Set in metal case, and the new Khaki-
I- \ \ covered sets for Uncle Sam’s soldiers and officers.
\ F^ie Gillette i s e one razor for the man who is do-
| things—the one razor with world-wide use and
- reputation.
When a man wants new Blades he can get them at
m an y Post Exchange or Y. M. C. A. Hut here in
X- ’ttr America or Overseas.
"•' y-'?,. , ' ,, ’.v.Y“' Our Paris Office carries stocks—is constantly sup-
plying the American Expeditionary Forces. Gillette
Safety Razors and Blades on sale everywhere in
France, England, Italy and the Eastern battle fronts.
The Army of the United States
Is Shaved Clean
-Al 0 matter how a man shaved before he went into the Service, he is pretty sure to
come out of the war a Gillette user.
The first thing he’ll note among his camp mates is that more of them are shaving
with the Gillette than with all other razors put together.
He’ll see Gillette users in his squad lather up, shave clean, splash the soap off, tuck
the razor away, and be standing at attention in the inspection line—all in five minutes.
When he gets Overseas, everything is the Gil- itself under extreme conditions—as no other
lette, from the left flank of the British line in razor has or can.
Belgium clear around through France and Italy It has thrown the spotlight on the Gillette
and on the battle fronts of the East. Blades—on the Gillette principle of No Strop-
Soon or late, every man who is doing things ping—No Honing—on the Gillette idea of a
comes to the Gillette. They belong together. simple, compact shaving outfit, no strops or
Ten million up and doing men all over the world hones to clutter up the kit—on the Gillette con-
had discovered the Gillette before the war broke tention that a man’s daily shave should be an
out. The war simply made the Gillette prove incident and not a ceremony.
GILLETTE SAFETY RAZOR COMPANY |
BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.
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L Gillette Safety Razor Company, of Canada, Ltd. Gillette Safety Razor, Limited
73 St. Alexander St., Montreal 200 Great Portland St., London, W., England
Gillette Safety Razor Societe Anonyme A. G. Micheles
17 Bis, Rue La Boetie, Paris, France 53 Liteiny, Petrograd, Russia
Vedova Tosi Quirino & Figli
Via Senate, 18, Milan, Italy
EMPEY AND THE Y. M. C. A.
“Then,” he went on, wr.h a change of
tone, and with admiration in his voice
that showed how he felt before he had got
to the end of his sentence, “there is the
Y, M. C. A. You people in America
ought to do everything you can to help
the Y. M. C. A. It is the real home of the
American soldier in France. It can’t give
him his loved ones, but It gives him the
comforts and interests and pleasures of
home. It brings home to him there in the
mud of the trenches. And those associa
tion men aren’t drawing any wonderful
salaries, either; they are volunteers, and
they are in the midst of the mud and the
firing, as the soldiers are, to make the
soldier comfortable and help him main-
TRENCH AND CAMP
tain the religion and the manliness that
he had when he went into the war. The
Y. M. C. A. doesn’t make any distinction
in any way—Protestant, Catholic, Jew,
atheist, every one is welcome.
“Show me the soldier who makes a
disparaging remark about the Y. M. C. A.
or its work, and I'll show you a soldier
who is a detriment to the army, who is
constantly in trouble, and who has lost
the respect of officers and mates. It’s up
to you people here at home to help the
Y. M. C. A.
"I’d like to tell every mother in Amer
ica,” he added, “that, no matter what her
boy is when he goes into the war, he’ll,
be a manlier man when «e comes out of
It. He will be more self-reliant, more
courageous; a great quality of justice and
fair play will have been Instilled into him
And the army is a great leveler; the
highbrow, the rougfinecK, the wise and
the otherwise are all on the same plane,
fighting for you. The coal heaver's son
and the millionaire’s son, marching side
by side, sharing the same life, and in just
the same danger together; a German bul
let is no respecter of social position.”—
From an interview In the New York
Times.
Fearing that the rigors of warfare
would be too much for her delicate
son a woman living at Fresno, Cal.,
has written to United States Marine
Corps headquarters that the young
man be discharged,
“He is too weak and delicate to be
utn the service,” she wrote. “He is a
blacksmith’s helper by trade, and I
would prefer him to stay at his last
job.”
The mother was Informed that, for
the time being, her son must remain
a marine.
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