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This page mixes advertising with literary content and light satire typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **Main Content:** The page advertises Woodbury's Facial Soap with an article on infant skincare, alongside a brief anecdote about the Duke of Grammont (a historical French courtier) impressing Cardinal Mazarin through wit and physical prowess—a "how to get ahead" story emphasizing cleverness and boldness. **The Joke:** A short satirical exchange mocks the coal strike's effects: a salesman blames "the coal strike" for unusually small plover's eggs, absurdly suggesting labor disruptions affect bird size. **Literary Section:** "The June Scribner" promotes book reviews, including Henry Van Dyke's essay on Charles Dickens and various novels. **Subtext:** The anecdotes suggest success comes through intelligence and boldness—relevant themes for Life's educated, aspirational audience. The coal-strike joke reflects contemporary labor tensions.

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pbs Jeti eis Read this talk on baby’s skin and hows to care for tt. The Skin of a Baby The skin of a baby is more deli- cate, is much more readily injured than that of an adult. It quickly shows the effect of too warm cloth- ing, of rough underclothes, of over- feeding. Tt easily becomes raw or spots intense itching and buming. Baths with Woodbury’s Tacial Soap are especially grateful. We a baby's skin from itching, ting. The lather is 80 soothinj healing that all irritation is entirely come. Woodbury's contains the strongest antiseptic known to modern science; it forms a constant protection. The formula of Woodbury’s is the work of an authority on the skin and its needs. It has been recommended for years by ns be- cause of its valuable properties. So little soap is needed the-first three or four years that there is no excuse for not using the best. Woodbury’s Facial Soap costs 25c. a cake. No mother hesitates at the price after her first cake. Woodbury’s Facial Soap For sale by dealers everywhere For 4c. we will send @ sample cake. For 100. samples of Woodbury's Facial Soap, Facial Cream and Fowder. “For soc. & copy of the Woodbury Book and samples of the Wood- bury preparations, Write to-day to The e Jergens Co., 260 Spring Grove When the kahn of the Tartars, who does not possess a house to live in and only subsists on rapine, has finished his dinner cf milk and horse flesh, he has it proclaimed by a herald, 1 the po- tentates, princes and great men of the earth may no it dewn at table.” Tue SacesMan: Plovers’ eggs, madam? Just arrived. Tue Customer: Rather small, aren't they? Tue SacesMan: Just a trifle, madam, owing to the coal strike.—Sketch. Art of Rising and the duke and cardinal bega The Duke of Grammont was the most for their lives. Grammont took caret adroit and witty courtier of his day. jump a few inches lower than the an He entered one day the closet of Car- dinal and was, six months afterwards dinal Mazarin without being announced. Marshal of France. His Eminence was amusing himself by a jumping against the wall, To surprise a “ Ane you girls going to have a daigy Prime Minister in so boyish an oceupa- chain at your commence tion was dangerous; a less skilful cour- cises?” tier might have stammered excuses and “1 should say not. There are nose retired. The duke entered briskly and but rich girls at our school. We are cried, “I'll bet you one hundred crowns going to have an orchid chain.” Herald \ / nt exer. that I jump higher than Your Eminence,” —Washington Th = gone 8Cribner The Good Enchantment of CHARLES DICKEN By HENRY VAN DYKE A critical and appreciative article on th novels, the characters, the life and person ality of Dickens. The Heart of the Hills, by John Fox, Jr. Among {mountain people of Mr. Fox’s novel are some of th ||types that have recently figured in the dramatic shoo ing at Hillsville, Va. New Wine in an Old Bottle, by | Hunting the Big Bear on Mot George McLean Harper. Two | tague Island, by Charles Sheldo impressions of life suggested by | The narrative of an expedition] \la visit to Clovelly, the pictu-| search of big game to a resque old Devon seaport. visited island that lies across t entrance to Prince William Sount The Turnstile, by A. E. W. Mason. The hero of the story, Capt Rames, was the one-time commander of the ship ‘‘ Perhaps” made a journey to the Antarctic. Another of E. W. Hornung’s Witching Hill Stories —Under Ar Cobalt Bloom, by Mary Synon.| Ying. A dog story by Li! The story of a great find and a] Hamilton French. ‘‘The pup? great renunciation. began it.” $3.00 A YEAR. 25 CENTS A NUMBER CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK 1183 Comicbooks.com