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This page is primarily **advertising**, featuring several liquor and food product advertisements interspersed with a book review. The advertisements include: - **Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce** (top left) - **Whitman's Chocolates** (left side) - **Apollinaris Spring Water** (center) - **Garrick Club Rye Whiskey** (bottom center) - **Old Crow Rye Whiskey** (bottom) The main editorial content is a book review titled "A Model Book Review," discussing a work called *"Woman's Confessional"*—apparently a journal of a woman named Helen Woljeska. The review examines her life philosophy and emotional struggles, quoting her epigrams about virtue, jealousy, and living authentically rather than respectably. The satire appears mild—the review itself seems earnest rather than mocking. The page represents *Life* magazine's typical format of blending advertising revenue with satirical content and cultural commentary.

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A Model Book Review. a N the St. Paul Dispatch of July 1sth ay | e & Perrins’ peared the following review, which, from th. a point of view of thorough comprehension the subject and insight into the auth Sauce mind, possesses unusual merit THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE “Curiously interesting is this little volume | Woman's Confessional") of brief journal entries, is the story of a woman's inner life told in epigra The Peerless and cynical generalities. There are no facts, but a z great many deduct! from which the reader may in Seasoning turn deduce the fact that it is the diary of a woman terribly intense and beautiful nature; one who bas iA das SU SOWIEN-ABAy StS GRIAK lived and loved, and erred, and died, leaving only 4 handful of dross behind her after the melting away of toa greater number of dishes than : does any other seasoning known tocpicures. It gives piquancy to seff when her journey was begun. He Soups, Oysters, Fish, all Roasts. has the sume passionate nature, with less of the a Gravies, Salads, etc. For Cold cial and more of real emotion than bad the Ru Meats cf allkinds girl, But Helen Woljeska was born in Vienr LEA & PERRINS’ SAUCE transplanted after twelve years to America. Her pa Is superb, sionate Slav nature bloomed in the too warm all her exquisite dreams, ‘The journal commences ts author is 14—just the age of Marie Rasbkirt- inspiring sunshine of Amcrican freedom. To the pred . ucts of European capitals, and especially to. the Vien- John Duncan's Sons, Agents, New York, | * nese, there 1s a note of license in American freedom It widens the . then it intoxicates, and finally it overthrows—if one be young. American freedom was made for the straight-laced Puritan, not for natures of for nurture, There 1s intense pathos in her oddly conceived jor nal. From year to year one reads in the epigrams, suffered into new knowledge. But her pain at each new revelation was keen-euged with joy. In her nature the two emotions—pain and happiness—were so closely CHOCOLATES | if | related that they shadowed each other and were c and CONFECTIONS Y stantly confused. At 14 we find Helen Woljeska pa» sionately determined to live -her life fully and deepl;, to be loved and to love, She doesn’t wish to b ‘respectable,’ and she will not ‘vegetate.’ Years For sale where the best is sold. | have passed, some pleasantly as an art student, soi in bitter regret, and they have taught lessons, among fEPHI _ MAY | ™ i y i St Okcnt ete tuitooe which is this one: *.\ jealous man is unpleasant, but Apollinaris Spring. one you could not make jealous would be wo More years and wisdom: ‘If you have learned to Sixty-three years reputation behind every pies control your moods, you play with loaded dice, And no matter where or how fate places you, you are certain to live your life fully and deeply." It is upon the last page we find these entries : “Woman's virtue—bon Dieu, It all depends upon the man she loves.’ Garrick Club Rye on the buffet marks the host a connotsseur -fe ts overrated and truth underrated—this is the wrong starting point of civilization.’ “THE BEST IN THE HOUSE” ane only savior for the woman who loves is the Many of the epigrams are eloquent, and nearly a!l reveal a nature in hot rebellion against the aruficial- ities of civilization, The diarist wished, as has many e another passionate soul, to make her own laws and live Uu her life in all its natural pagan purity of thought and deed. One can read, too, the ‘slings and arrows that were her portion, epigrams, wisely selected and set in some such dramatic plot as was the author's life, would make a novel of marked strength, (LUFF, td New York.)" who was Peter and who was Alfred E. Norris & Co., Proprietors, Philadelphia : “Them was the guys wat robbed each other to pay each other without lettin’ their left hands get wise." —Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. OLD CROW RYE snior WHISKEY soe ts 88 yon. comicbooks.com