Life, 1909-02-18 · page 30 of 32
Life — February 18, 1909 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **book and product advertising** from Life magazine (circa 1909). The main feature advertises *"The Spell,"* a novel by William Dana Orcutt about marital jealousy and emotional triangulation. The plot concerns a wife who suspects her husband prefers her friend intellectually, though the wife sympathizes with her rival's "hopeless love." The novel promises drama centered on whether the husband actually prefers the other woman. The accompanying illustration shows three figures in what appears to be a library setting, depicting the emotional tension described. The page also advertises unrelated products: a book on "Sexology" (intimate relations), a round-the-world tour, the Kenilworth Inn resort, and a free business guide. There's a humorous letter-to-editor about a "bacillus sabbatari" (likely referencing New York political corruption), using disease metaphor as satire—a common early-20th-century journalistic technique. The content reflects period concerns: marital fidelity, female intellectual companionship outside marriage, and sexual knowledge as publishable topics.
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THE SPELL NEW NOVEL By William Dana Orcutt ERE is a young wife who struggles against the passionate fear that her husband is happier in the companionship of another woman— and who loves and protects the other woman! A handsome young dreamer is the husband, wrapped up in his scholar’s passion for the past, adoring his beautiful “ society girl” wife, but finding a mysterious, sweet companionship in her friend, whose intellect flashes back to his. As these two work together in an old library, the pretty wife makes up her mind that her husband prefers her friend. And when youread the story you learn whether or not this is true—the wife sympathizing with the other woman's hopeless love, the other woman refus- ing to betray her. The wife’s frank offer to her hus- band to give him up brings ona climax which sets “The Spell” alto- gether apart from most novels of married life. IIlustrated. Post 8vo. $1.50 HARPER @ _BROTHERS ROUND . THE $1425 WORLD Remarkable Four Months? Tbe Boston travel Society Old World Journeys nificent steam- Boylston and Berkeley Sts., hips; Piret Claw throughout. Copyright, 1909. by Harper & Brothers. ize does not come intelligent! Dor correctly fi eed, every-day sources SEXOLOGY (ltustrated) by william 1. Walling, A.M, M.D. mparts Wholesome way, tn one volun Knowledge a Young Man Should Tis Knowledge @ Young Husband Should Knowledge a Father Should Haves Rnowicdge Father Should lin jedical Knowledge @ Husband Shou Knowledge a Young Woman Should i Knowledge = Wite Should Hia hould Have. THY STAR BOARDER Parisian Fun Parisians extract amusement from everythizg that happens to them, no matter bow terrible. On one occasion, when they were much agitated and excited by explosions of dyna about by anarchists, they yet found t midst of their alarm and indignation, Pétrate a great many jokes about the situation The proprietor of a large apartment building amused passers-by with the following sign above the street door of his structure: “No Cabinet Ministers or Magistrates Allowed on These Premises!" Now this notice derived its point posed to be directed toward these off About the same time a tenor singer had applied to a manager for employment, and sang two or three songs to show what he could do “You sing very well—very well,’ said the manager, “ but “But what, “Well, you see, your style is rather explosive, and at the present time your audiences would be likely to take alarm! ’—Sunday Magazine. A New Microbe To tHe Eoitor or Lire: Sir:—Can no one isolate the bacillus sabba- tari? It is definitely located in the N. Tem- perate Zone, and while it has a fruitful soil north of the International Boundary it sometimes rav- ages the country at least as far south as New Jersey. Its latest victims seem to be the mayor et al. of New York. In one so variously equipped as the mayor this must be hereditary taint or ,059-Word Business Book Free Simply send us a postal and ask for our free itor trated 9.069-word Business Booklet which tells bi riceless Business Experience, squeezed {rom the of 112 big, broad, brainy business men may be made yours—yours to boost your salary, to increase your profits, This free booklet deals with “Howto business KENILWORTH INN predisposition. Happily, the disease superin- BILTMORE, N. C duced is nearly always cured by a more or less 20 hours trom New York, drastic application of its own virus. Adjoins Geo, Vanderbilt's famous estate. Always Open. New W. Marcnes Aakagement. ‘Ideal climate, Hiding. Driving, Goll, Teasis e ‘2 : NO CONSUMPTIVES. \ ROOKLYN, January 4. Fe cosas mm 242 comicbooks.com