Life, 1912-12-19 · page 35 of 40
Life — December 19, 1912 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **book review and advertising page** from *Life* magazine. The notable content includes: **Left side:** A Barney & Berry skating advertisement featuring an illustration of a boy in striped clothing performing a skating move. The ad promotes ice skates as a lasting gift for children. **Center/Right:** A "Books Received" section listing recently published titles (novels, poetry, history, and instructional works from 1910s-era publishers like Houghton Mifflin and Century Company). **Right column:** Advertisement for Chiclets chewing gum, promoting collectible bird cards included in packages. Below that is an ad for Sen-Sen mints emphasizing "refinement." **Bottom:** A Hunter Rye whiskey advertisement. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture, with ads targeting families (skates, gum) and adults (whiskey) alongside literary content. No political satire is evident on this particular page.
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A SHINING PRESENT THAT WILL LAST A LIFETIME Every boy and girl knows when they see the name BARNEY & BERRY on skates that they are the best obtain- able. In point of design, strength, work- manship and finish, BARNEY & BERRY skates have no equal in the world. They are known and used in “every land where water freezes.”” Select the style you desire from our Catalog sent free upon request. It also contains Hockey Rules, Skating Pro- gram and dircctions for building an ice rink. Your dealer will supply you with just the style you desire. Other- wise, write us, BARNEY & BERRY 149 Broad St., Springficld, Ma LET’S GO SKATING! D Books Received The Adventures of Kitty Cobb, by James Montgomery Fla (George H. Doran Co.) A Book of Beggars, by W. Dacres Adams. (J. B. Lippincott Co.) The Kewpies and Dotty Darling, by Rose O'Neill. (Georg: H. Doran Co. $1.25.) Old Time Belles and Cavaliers, by Edith Tunis Sale. (J. B. Lippincott Co.) The Forest, by Edwine Noye. (Otto Ulbrich Co. 75 cents.) Indian Sketches by Pére Marquette and the Last of the Pottawatomie Chiefs, by Cornelia Steketee Hulst. (Longmans, Green & Co.) The Buccaneers, vy Don C. Seitz (Harper & Bros. $1.00.) This Stage of Fools, by Leonard Mer- rick. (Mitchell Kennerley. $1.20.) Corporal Cameron, of the Northwest Mounted Police, by Ralph Connor. (George H. Doran Co. $1.25), The Poems and Plays of William Vaughn Moody. (Houghton Mifflin Co. $1.50.) Humanly Speaking, by Samuel Me- Chord Crothers. (Houghton Mifilin Co. $1.25.) The Shadow of the Flowers, from the Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Houghton Mifflin Co. $2.00.) The Eldest Son, by John Galsworthy. (Chas. Scribner's Sons. 60 cents.) The Land of Little Care, by Samuel sworth Kiser. (P. F. Volland & Co. $1.00.) American City Government, by Charles A. Beard. (Century Co.) Progressive Hints, by Clement Carpen: ter. (R. G. Badger.) Hoof Beats, by Philip Hichborn. (R. G. Badger. $1.00.) Hail and Farewell, Salve, by George Moore. (D. Appleton & Co. $1.75.) Along Spain's River of Romance, by Paul Gwynne. (McBride, Nast & Co $3.00.) Picture Towns of Europe. by Albert B, Osborne. (McBride, Nast & Co. $2.00.) Bubbles of the Foam, by F. W. Bain. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Conversation: What to Say and How SF hic DELIGHTFUL Che Dainty Mint Covered Candy Counted Chewing Gum Look for the Bird Cards in the packets. You can secure a beautiful Bird Album FREE. Half a million folks of all kinds — including grown-ups, children, teachers, etc., are collecting our wonderful Bird Studies—faithful reproduc- tions of American birds in full colors, with descrip- tion of the birds’ plumage, habits and‘ how to know them on sight. You w'll find one beautiful bird picture in each pocket of Chiclets, Send us any fifty of tles: pictures with ten cents in stamps and we will send you—free—our splendid Bird Album. The refinement of chew- ing gum for people of refinement. It’s the pep- permint. The frue mint. For Sale at all the Better Sort of Stores Se. the Ounce and in Sc., 10c. . and 25c. Packets SEN-SEN CHICLET COMPANY OR RETURNED to Say It, by Mary Greer Conklin. Metropolitan Tower (Funk & Wagnalls Co. 75 cents.) gti FOR A PURE TONICAL STIMULANT, FOR CHEER JOR COMFORT, STRENGTH The Upas Tree, by Flore : AND HEALTH, FOR RECUPERATION AND RESTORATION te eres oT y Florence L. Bar. clay. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.00.) Man: A History of the Human Body by Arthur Keith, M.D. LL.D. (Henry \ \ Holt & Co. 50 cents.) Cowboy Lyrics, by Robert V. Carr « (Small, Maynard & Co. $1.25.) A Miscellany of Men, by G. K. Ches- terton, (Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.50.) The Three Knaves, by Saul G. Green- leaf. (R. F. Fenno & Co. $1.25.) Rhymes of a Rolling Stone, by Rob- ert W. Service. (Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.00.) 1S ABSOLUTE PERFECTION : ines GUARANTEED UNDER THE NATIONAL PURE FOOD LAW hanmorc RY i "titowe R'E Sold at all Arst-claas cafes and by jobbers sas Sinus WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. iene comicbooks.com