Life — December 8, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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For BILIOUSNESS Try Hunyadi Janos NATURAL APERIENT WATER. Avoid Substitutes The Literary Zoo (Concluded from page 1049) leg. Theologians. on the other hand, compete with dead men every day. Were I mortally ill, Saint Paul would console me more than the bishop of our diocese possibly could. That is not the bishop's fault. I happen to be religious. I merely point out. too, that authors are not alone in having to compete with the dead. Is it true, after all, that Gertrude Atherton suf- fers because Jane Austen wrote so well? Does the genius of Charles Dickens check the sale of the works of William Dean Howells? The fact is that the works of dead authors pro- mote the sale of novels by live ones. One sees the reason in studying the methods of opium merchants in Egypt. They distribute gratis large quantities of their drug. The habit is thus formed among whole populations who are driven to buy opium for the ap- peasement of a highly artificial cr: ing. In Roumania, too, they give gloves away one winter to people who have never worn them, so that when cold weather returns the habit, having been formed, will necessitate actual purchases. Dead authors, therefore, are under certain disadvantages in comparison with live ones. Dead ones foster a habit upon which live ones. thrive. Publishers could now and then imitate opium merchants and glove manufacturers by distributing their authors gratis—all except Alfred Aus- tin'’s publishers. A free distribution of the poet laureate’s latest effort would form a habit, indeed, but it would be the habit of not reading poetry at all. with your Xmas gift send a barrel containing 10 doz. bottles of vans’ Ale and show that you know how to prolong the tod Cheer of itistmas Ly dbPly to nearest dealer or VANS & SONS, . Medson, N,V Right Here —in my judgment— are the vital factors in choosing the right car for the user and the right car for the dealer. 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Costs exactly as mach to build as any lary grade rin the country—ailing steadily aad stroagly AT $3,000. 1 could tell you all cbout the four speeds abead—36 tach wheels—thix5 {ech T-head motor—aluminum bodies —hoaeycomb radiator—but the Hig Book and the free charts show it all— as well as our 1911 Moon Model “30” AT $1,500 The Lack of Socialist Dreams This hint, from so well-informed a source, is precious to the enemies of Any further creation of Utopias Socialism. Longing to make the col- after the fashion of Bellamy’s famous “Looking Backward” is discouraged by the New York Call. That saucy organ of militant Socialism contends that books which describe, behind the veil of fiction, an ideal state of society resulting from collective ownership of the means of production and distribu- tion, have merely the effect of spread- ing a notion that Socialism 1s a dream. lectivist ideal seem absurd, they have but to write a masterpiece of the sort discredited by the remarks in The Call, Upton Sinclair and H. G. Wells might retort with novels based upon the hy- pothesis that the present state of so- y is a paradise. What a blow to capitalism its support by that pair would be! —Alexander Harvey.