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Life — August 4, 1910 — page 37: Life, 1910-08-04

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This page contains **no political cartoon**—it's primarily advertising and reader correspondence from an early 20th-century issue of *Life* magazine. The main content includes: 1. **"From Our Readers"**: A lengthy letter criticizing military idleness, arguing that soldiers have excessive free time (6:15-8:00 AM, 11:00 AM-5:20 PM) that should be redirected to productive labor like building roads or irrigation ditches. The writer appears frustrated with what he sees as wasteful military practices. 2. **Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen Advertisement**: The dominant visual element—a large ad featuring two fountain pens flanking an image of someone writing outdoors. It promotes the pen's reliability and convenience for summer travel and correspondence. 3. **"Try One More Good Dinner"**: A small ad for An-a-cea Water as a digestive aid. The page reflects early 1900s concerns about military efficiency and leisure time, alongside period advertising emphasizing portable writing instruments for the literate classes.

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"known, Sa son piversi- that Paper, ut the school cluding bibedee HE AUTHORITY—DALTON on UCTION RID GE All Booksellers: $1.25 by mail. WYCIL & COMPANY, New York From Our Readers ued from page 203) (C some degenerate natures. In fact, so are these misguided men up this daily chance for I have known them, in limate of Texas, to faint in the ri rather than forego it You can see from the preceding ac- to what a shocking extent this paid idleness” is being car- course, there are a few s of minor importance that mentioned, such as three to practice, marches once a month, six weeks’ to two months’ work on the target range and a month 1aneuvres in the fall. For in addition, are a few ‘| unimportant occupations cd much in the nature of diversi to kill some of the other- wise unoccupied time), such as vairds of examination, sur- perty, courts-martial, ete., © writer of this particular idleness of the the hot te of ried. O other du’ Thave six day or two of the small (introg schools, veys on | and, for prote sinst the soldiery, she making of a map of some miles of territory, required the covering, each for the last month or so, hundred square y-five to thirty miles of From tl that ther ibove you can readily see nany spare moments now whs ht be put to use- ful endeavor. For from 6:15 to 8:00 is too long to be spent in kfast. At least an hour a f this might be saved and used in Iding Then from 11:00 on wntil §:20 p. m. the laboring power of six to eight idle men should not be thrown away. ‘They might with great propriety, be sent to Ari- ico for the after- their assistance in dig- instance, an roads. zona or > noon, wt ty One More Good Dinner We recommend a trial of AN-A-CEA WATER| ped while t food, and between meals, Fess appear, as an aid in ting good digestion. Waterman's while you are away on your vaca- tion, the more you will know the convenience of owning a Waterman's Ideal. The successful com- bination of pen and ink into this one de- vice annually shows that the care and thought given to the manufacture of Water- man's Ideals are of increasing service to every- one who has writing to do. From AI! Dealers L. E. Waterman Co., 8 School St., Boston. 189 Clark St., Chicago. Kingsway, London. ging irrigation ditches would be of incalculable value. Then the time from parade until reveille the next rning is at present spent in abso- lute and unproductive idleness. Even in the present state of modern prog- ress we have hardly arrived at the point where we build roads or dig ditches at night; but it would seem that some of the unimportant duties above mentioned might be transferred to the evening hours and the time thus 205 ae, ory efficiency, the more valuable will Waterman's Ideals become. You will have at least one with you all the time. There is even a Safety type that you can carry filled in your waist-blouse and it cannot spill. A minute to fill it and you are pre- pared to write at least 20,000 words without a stop—or any inefficiency which would cause you to question the supremacy of Waterman's Ideals. Avoid Substitutes 173 Broadway, N. Y. 734 Market St., San Francisco. 123 St. Francois Xavier St., Montreal. 6 Rue de Hanovre, Paris gained used for the purposes speci- fied. Thus you can see how well grounded are the fears of the writer of the paragraph to which I have directed your attention. I would like to meet him, “to sit at his feet and hear the word,” to watch him dispense. tasks to these unoccupied “sons of Martha.” I believe that if we could collaborate, he furnishing the brains and the guid- ing hand, I the enthusiasm of the (Continued on page 207) comicbooks.com