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The Philadelphia Inquirer from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania • Page 241

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THE WORLD'S DESSERT PRINCE OF CHEESES TPs ft ft a i 1 I i UNO' 1 1 1 II GENUINE IMPORTED V-r SWITZERLAND SWISS Let this mark be Sliced in packages your guide or by the piece 1 flC(()lS2T Si 7.7 frf i no one makes Swiss Cheese like the Swiss that's for sure Send for FREE recipe booklet SWITZERLAND CHEESE ASSOCIATION, 105 HUDSON YORK 13.N.Y. Two sides of Revolution line up for a chess game with painted wooden pieces. nXeeo geed (Tern csraai) Chess, Anyone: Almost everyone ases tooth yet almost everyone has bad breath occasionally. Germs in the mouth cause most bad breath. No tooth paste kills germs the way Listerine Antiseptic does on contact, by millions.

Listerine stops bad breath four times better than tooth paste. Rinse with Listerine every time yon brash your teeth. 0 Collecting old sets is a rewarding interest your No. 1 protection against bod broath ARTHRITIC RHEUMATIC DENTISTS HELP OVERCOME THE SMOCK OF NEW FALSE TEETH PAINS tive showing of chessmen and chess boards, many from the 170 sets donated by a private collector, Gustavus A. PfeifTer.

But everything is not in museums. The game today has moved from the favored few to anyone who has the mental ability to cope with it. It is even taught in some schools. The holder of the U. S.

open championship is a 15-year-old schoolboy from Brooklyn, Bobby Fischer. Naturally, pieces today take on a different aspect from the early ones. They can be as modern as Picasso. According to John Har-beson, Philadelphia architect and are an important medium of modern expression. He owns among many, sets by Max Ernst, Man Ray, Jean Luce, Antoine Prin-ner, the German teacher Filipow-sky and one in bronze by Jean de on Page 69) Chess was the favored game of the courts and upper classes even into the 18th Century.

And because the pieces did not get hard usage they were a matter of great artistic concern, in the same class with the first watches, the patch boxes and other bibelots. Thus they have been found made of precious metals like gold or silver or perhaps trimmed with these metals and gem-encrusted. They were also made of carved ivory, amber, crystal, fine woods and bone and were usually one of a kind, made to order as a gift for some favored personage. Artisans took great pleasure in building a -1 fsyrtrn f-mnritn Vi om Alt lUUUiiU some classical antagonists, a mythical battle or a real conflict. Of course the early sets, what is left of them, have found their way to museums all over the world.

In our own Country the Metropolitan Museum in New York has assembled an extensive and representa BY ANN HLBORN COLE COLLECTING chess pieces has long been a hobby, especially among men, and the pursuit of single pieces or whole sets can keep an enthusiast busy and his wallet thin even today. Interest in the game and in pieces with which it is played has waxed considerably in the last few years. Museums have put aside sections for the display of sets which may go back to China and the Far East where the game first flourished. Chess was introduced into Europe at the time of the Crusades. Thi f-f ji "-wunw AtA kl.C IdilUlicll names of the chess pieces even todaythe kings, queens, knights, bishops, rooks (castles) and pawns, all throwbacks to the medieval times when the game of chess recreated on a board the stratagems of the mock warfare Popular with the nobility.

In all the world, there is no belter product available to the public than Dot in tablets for relieving the moderate pains and discomforts of arthrilis, rheumatism, sciatica, lum- htnrt '(nov'r is not a "miracle there is no known "cure" for these ailments but IN is an honest product which nas neipeu millions of people. In eleven years, more than I.V(MI,(MM),(KM) DOLCIN tablets have been used. 001 UN if ninxl he Learn how to live with new false teeth to laugh, talk end eat without discomfort or embarrassment. Now denilstsglve patients the special powder FA8TKBTH to hold teeth firmer help jrou talk better eat more easily Just sprinkle this amas-lnf powder on dental plates. No gummy, gooey, pasty taste or feeling Cheeks "plate odor" (annoying denture breathl.

Dentists five FA8TEETH to patients. Oct at drug counters everywhers. good! If pains persist, check with your doctor THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER MAGAZINE, APRIL 13. lTil 67.

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