Show TI the e american ax helve all the world admires and wonders at tho the american ax helve the american ax fitted with that ingeniously curved and gracefully fashioned handlo handle is a marvelously effective weapon vastly more apt for its purposes than ihan tho the straight liand handled led heads beads mans ax with which the italian fella fells trees or the broad faced hatchet used for tho the same purpose infranco in France tho the american ax belvo is just what might have bean been expected of an inventive people laden with the duty of conquering and civilizing a forest clad continent the world had been using the ax since prehistoric times but it remained for he lie american pioneer to fashion the ideal ax handle at once light strong and elastic the ax such as is familiar to all americans is rare in europe and it cells eells in all the british colonies as the american ax am new york sun |