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This 1918 *Judge* page combines editorial moralism with a book advertisement. The heading "WAS IT WORTH THE PRICE?" introduces two illustrated vignettes depicting romantic/sexual scandal—likely referencing historical figures like Cleopatra and Caesar (named in the book listing below). The text warns against the "primrose path" of seduction, presenting these figures' romantic entanglements as cautionary tales of "outraged honor and violated trust." The accompanying advertisement promotes a 16-volume "Immortal Edition of Famous Characters of History," selling it as morally instructive despite featuring scandalous stories. The pitch suggests readers will learn virtue *through* tales of vice—a tension the ad exploits: thrilling scandal packaged as self-improvement. This reflects Progressive Era attitudes (WWI-era America): fascination with sensational history tempered by moralizing rhetoric. The coupon-based sales approach was common advertising practice of the period.

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February 23, 1918 WAS IT WORTH THE PRICE? Affrighted Nature recoils, Reason totters on its throne, Morality shrinks aghast! Was it worth all that this man and woman paid as the awful price of outraged honor and violated trust? Let all who would tread the primrose path first read and ponder. OEY AS TV ha ys pid ae Is history after all, as reflected in the lives of those who have helped make it—as Voltaire cynically observes— little else than a picture of human crimes, follies and misfortunes? He called her “Enchanting Queen,” “Witch,” “Great Fairy,” “Serpent of Old Nile,” “Thou Potent Charm.” She dazzled his faculties, bewildered his judgment, bewitched’ his fancy with her gypsy sorcery and Oriental voluptuousness. We read it all with a kind of fascina- tion against which our moral sense rebels, but from which there is no es- cape—but this is only one of the many marvelous and true stories told in the 16 volumes of the /mmortal Edition of FAMOUS CHARACTERS OF HISTORY after Truth, that the wildest im. hast Bava of books ever written shows so convincingly that Fiction ever | ry. ‘The romantic facts that the authors have brought out in strong relief in this series, giv ¢ how unfruitful is invention, and nd barren is imagination, in contrast with wh ake of every fully lived life a romance. ‘Th s and depths, the lights and shadows catures of circumstances, have moulded circumstances to their will, are full of valuable lessons, No other set ing the lives of the worl life itself can show in those ever 1 the lives of historical characters je from affording that variety of ow col inte which is ever the mother of enjoyment 4800 Pages—Large, Clear Type—Extra Heavy Paper—Rich Cloth Binding 16 Volumes—Each Volume 8 x 514 Inches 48 Full-Page Illustrations in Sepia Remarkable Characters All JULIUS CAESAR ry. whose nturies at ng history, story of his ware of the torn Century ALEXANDER THE GREAT Second only to +3 the type of man most A romantic figure whose AFFAIRES d°AMOUR ubjects and half the courts of Europe in oi liaw'Tie conauenon | * Only $1.00 Now, With the Coupon A CRYING NEED IN EVERY HOME nent eon Corme trae, minpire: the man who ie the price named in the c pa must be ad In this age of sophists, econo alculators, and gross 8 goval 4 » startling {llustration of the to an to bring th set aside for that purpose MONEY. BA ‘K IF NOT SATISFIED materialists, we need—from the humblest to the highest—a marie ANTOINETTE” closer touch with that high purpose that makes herces--that tim of the Fren unbo of manly sentiment and heroic charming and misuni enterprise, that chastity of honor which felt a stain like a ll those lofty traits of character that shine most jn als of the Anglo-Saxon race hown in sed is payment on the 1 ‘op set of FAMOUS. CHARACT! i) shipped charges prepaid. I agree to rem tory pri at the rate of $1.00 (or more) per month ‘owin receipt of be Otherwise. I will, within five days ask for instructions for their return at your expense, my $) me. Cloth OP HISTORY the full Intro. from the Arabian + like a tale He will learn the iu { salvation in no other. Th show that all men The great Ci ruined on th tural proper A. lusts of the fesh and the greedy craving for Id have wrecked ts ambition seem: por hen the obj ‘ene