Life, 1911-10-19 · page 36 of 48
Life — October 19, 1911 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page contains a **book review in verse** alongside period advertisements—not political cartoons per se, but reflecting early 20th-century consumer culture. **The Review:** Arthur Guiterman humorously summarizes Margaret Deland's novel *The Iron Woman*. The satire targets the protagonist David, a prudish, self-righteous doctor who refuses to marry Elizabeth until financially secure, then morally condemns her when she divorces another man and seeks reconciliation. Guiterman mocks David's hypocrisy and emotional coldness ("lukewarm prig"), suggesting the "iron woman" title ironically applies to Elizabeth's moral endurance rather than David's supposed virtue. **The Advertisements** reveal period values: dental hygiene products, French bulldogs, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer (marketed as "clean, wholesome"), and Eux-e-sis shaving cream. The beer ad notably addresses "men and women," somewhat progressive for the era. The page demonstrates how *Life* blended literary criticism with commercial culture—satirizing romantic melodrama while selling consumer goods as markers of respectability.
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Rhymed Reviews The Iron Woman (By Margaret Deland, Harper & Broth- ers) This work concerns a lapse of one Whom little clse but good is said of — Young Doctor Dave, adopted son Of Mrs. Richic, whom you've read of He wooed the fair Elizabeth, A maiden prone to sudden rages, Who vowed she'd be his love till death And kept her troth through five score pages, Her heart was warm as warm could be, But David med inclined to tarry: “No wedding bells,” he said, “for me Until I earn enough to marry.” Yes, even when she set the d And begged the boy te ind take her, This David, Inkewarm — prig, said as though he wished 10 Vm, =! DENTISTS INSIST UPON THEIR PATIENTS USING CALOX One says:—“Never have | seen so many well kept mouths as I have since | made the daily use of Calox a general requirement in my treat- ment of them.” Sample and Booklet free on request. All Druggists 25c. Ask for the Calox Tooth Brush, 35¢. McKESSON & ROBBINS ) 5 - NEW VORK ¢ ily “NEVER-NEVER-LAND KENNELS Miss Mary Winthrop, Owner French Bull Dogs sand Grown Dogs FOR From only Registered and Blue- Ribbon Stock AND HEIGHTS, y Telephone, 47 Shelter Island. CH. CHaRtEMANar Pabst Is The Best You can always 7 get the best beer brewed, if you order - Pabst BlueRibbon The Beer of Quality It appeals to men and women who demand a drink they know is clean, wholesome and appetizing. Best Dealers Everywhere Elizabeth was tearing mad; Shaving She sought revenge in matrimony Without By wedding Blair, a neighbor lad, prow Our David's faithless friend and Soap crony. Brush A year had scarcely. passed before She loathed the dreary, loveless or Cup tether; Distraught, she came to David's door; They would have dared to fly together, When Mrs. Richie, just in time Appeared to foil this social treason; Their “higher law,” she preached, was es The Great English Demulceat Shaving Cream Yet love-rared David scoffed at rea- EUX-E-SIS Pronounced (UX-E-SIS) Then owned the woman, “ Years a; Soothing to the Tenderest Skin I left my husband for another——" | Ses time-—ao soap, brush OF cp ROS And David shuddered, crying, “ No of Eux-e-sis and a razor.that’sall. This glish shaving cre; hasfora third of a century been used by men of refinement and nice habit. It # Pa guickly softens the hardest beard so you can shave The mother, cringing, backward drew: in hal ehetlme with twice the comfort. Leavesthe aps inn grief" aken— smooth and free from irritation, It isa treasure * Elizabeth,"—in grief ‘twas spoken, fouaron nideslt (alley “Your son will look that way at you None genuine wi i Aimee Lloyd Some day!”—The evil spell was Woredink on tube, Sold ‘by best droplets broken. PARK & TILFORD, Fifth Ave., New York Import Agents Manafactured by Aimee Lloyd & Co., Londo, Eng. And horror-stricken, eyed his mother A clean, strong book, sincere and pure Is this; I've rarely met its equal. And, better still, we're pretty sure I gucss, to have a worthy sequel. | Arthur Guiterman, | FOR MEN OF BRAINS hut it won't pay unless you insist. “MADE AT KEY WEST 680 qitt dema has I prope a low ress ¢ accep public tranc as 19( G At las construct You h the club, isn't new its value It cost car, for | and that qThe A itis the « asan Ur q With eh to lower | of gravity less loss rear wher G An aln the sprin feature, wear on | ration of ' comicbook eon