Life — October 26, 1911 — page 39: what you’re looking at

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Rhymed Reviews The Fruitful Vine (By Robert Hichens. Frederick A. Stokes Company.) Sweet Rome must be a lovely spot! The wanton idler's silken heaven Where princely folk umit the “not” From prim Commandment Number Seven. And here where once that other bore Exclaimed, “O tempora, O mores!” The deadly dull Sir Theodore Installed his doleful wife, Dolores. Though once as fond as fond could be. Sir Theodore was changing sadly Because no chick nor child had he, And oh! he wanted children badly ! He wanted babies, daughters, sons! And left his home for months, to dandle ° A winsome widow's little ones— Which even here might cause a sean- dal. Forlorn, yet scorning idle clack, Sublime Dolores, nothing daunted, Resolved to win her husband back By giving him just what he wanted So—spare a pen that vainly seeks To cloak the truth in wordy hazes! That kindred Work of Art, “ Three Weeks,” Has dressed the plot in pretty phrases To us, untutored boors, content To know our consonants and vowels, A new Apostle now is sent To prove that Spades are Silver Trowels. To teach a Land that sadly errs In taste, with verbal masterpieces, The art of whitening sepulchres And clothing wolves in snowy fleeces. Proclaim the news with joyous din To boudoirs, drawing-rooms and kitchens— The Tiger-skin of Mrs. Glyn Descends on Mr. Robert Hichens! Arthur Guiterman, It is Like a Lash Across a Woman’s Face: Said a Man When He Read Mr. Kipling’s New Poem It is a*woman’s poem,” called “The Female of the Species.” With a sting that fairly bites, Mr. Kipling lashes a type of woman: the female of a species that, he says, “is more deadly than the male,” and puts on record a poem that will make thousands of women uncomfortable and will take a place all its own in the modern feminine unrest. As a direct contribution to the “ Votes for Women” agitation, the poem is a masterpiece. In no other American periodical will this new poem by Rudyard Kipling appear save in the November Lapres’ Home Journar. For Sale Everywhere at 15 Cents ‘Tue Curtis Puatistinc Company, Puttangcenta Two Words That Every Woman Should Remember A noted woman-doctor tells what is “the greatest enemy that a woman has:”” what women do to fight it, and how thousands of women bring about heart-failure and death by doing just the wrong thing. And alfa woman, to avoid danger, has to do is to remember two words and keep her eyes open for them. , It is really an actual instance where two words might save the sufferings and deaths of thousands of women. Every woman should read this article. Husbands, too, for that matter, to help their wives remember. It is in the November Lapis’ Home Journat. 15 Cents Everywhere comicbooks.com