Ah, Wilderness!

Exquisite Lucius Beebe, recording the rarefied doings of the haut monde in his syndicated 'column, This New York, reported: "The greatest wartime grief of the town's exquisites is not the curtailment of moderate essentials of living like food and transport, but the complete disappearance from circulation of Floris's mouthwash, formerly imported from England! . . . There isn't a flagon of this choosy smell left on any chemist's shelf in town. . . ."

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