"Beauty and Beast Both Camouflaged"
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Title
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"Beauty and Beast Both Camouflaged"
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Description
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A brief, humorous newspaper spot about wearing flu masks.
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"Highest of all high arts in the realm of camouflage is the becoming adjustment of the flu mask! Be the profile Greek or Irish it looks like a cold potato beneath its swathes of protecting gauze. She whom we never could hand a thing on account of her back-to-the-Adam's-apple chin, now knocks us down with her twin limpid glories thrown into sudden prominence, and he whose Phoeban countenance was the subject of our thrills and starts looks just like any other surgeon's victim.
"In light of our present day conservatism, it is predicted that many a feminine phys will go unrouged and many a masculine map unshorn. He who hates getting next to godliness may take his day off secure behind the muzzle that makes the great unwashed and the twelve-plunges-a-day fiend twins to all outward appearances, and she who never could say a french "u" as in "un" may star on a muffled translation.
"The guise which makes us all look like shipments of antisepticaemia affords the enviable opportunity to pass the dear friends without a flicker of recognition and to coo a sweet "Hello" at the grubby enemies, and more than one mad, mad wit drags forth the great Sphinx rival riddle, "What did she mean, anyway; was she laughing under the mask?"
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Date Issued
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October 18, 1918
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Extent
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One page
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Format
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Text - newspaper
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Publisher
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The Michigan Daily
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Subject
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Flu masks
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Language
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English
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