ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Life, 1914-11-05 · page 40 of 48

Life — November 5, 1914 — page 40: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Life — November 5, 1914 — page 40: Life, 1914-11-05

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertisements and product placement**, with minimal editorial content. The main piece, "The Things That Last," is a philosophical essay arguing that ideas—not military conquest—endure through history. It uses examples of Jews, Greeks, and Romans to suggest that spiritual and intellectual legacies outlast empires. The satire is subtle: the essay's lofty meditation on immortal ideas is immediately surrounded by advertisements for cigarette cases, shoes, stationery, and other consumer goods—arguably undermining the message. There's ironic tension between the claim that "what lasts is ideas" and a page dominated by selling temporary material products. The remaining content consists of straightforward advertisements (Havone cigarettes, E. Hayes shoes, Whiting's Kewpie Papers) and a brief news item about abandoned Massachusetts farms. No political cartoons or caricatures appear on this page.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

PORES ALS, MY MOTTO—a case for every cigarette and every cigarette in its case. HAVONE KEEP order in Cigarette- dom—no wandering from the straight and narrow among “smokes” entrusted to me. Out they come—clean, sani- tary and ship-shape as they went The Things That Last FTER all, how little a conqueror can conquer! When forcible resistance is overcome he thinks he has won, but he has only begun. There may be, there usually is, defeat in triumph and triumph in defeat. The conqueror can kill the body; he can destroy cities; he can spread starva- tion, change boundaries and flags. But his missiles cannot kill the spirit If Send for my illustrated Autoblogr, Dept. C, HAVONE CORPORATION, ‘Maiden Lane, New York a beaten race survives it remains a factor in life. If it is exterminated, the conquering nation cannot escape the reckoning for its cruelty, Its own spirit reflects its conduct, is maimed when it inflicts an unjust wound, is chained by the chains it fastens on its prisoners, is seared by its ferocities, Dlasted by its ambitions, blood- in. As for me—I’m made for keeps and like all good things—simple as A, B, C. Really, you can’t know how you've missed me until you've tried me. For yourself or any special friend or “from her to him ”—at high- class jewelers and other shops. paleo iby tis fuay, And look for my mark when you And in the end, what lasts is ideas. The Jews have had no country for nearly two thousand years, but they had an idea, and they have lasted and have prospered. The Greeks ended centuries ago as a political power, but their ideas still influence mankind enormously. The Romans were con- rare Hi Rarat gold plate x $5.25 Sterling #18 and vp. quered and reconquered long since, but Roman law and the Roman char- - Style— Quality — Com for! acter and some of the Roman ideas . GMART SHOES msde to about political and colonial govern- with pour soar bate arae, ment and the regulation of life are “Obey That linputs still active factors in our world. It Sor aeachactee oad cite is important that order should be kept piensa on this planet, but it is not $0 impor- tant who keeps it as people think, Two Buctie Lace Oxford. Edward Hayes i A What is important is the ideas that patent, June 28, 90h, siuy testi. Ladies* Fine Castom Shoes develop when it gives them a chance. Germany and England New Edition, Introduction by the Hon. JOSEPH _H. CHOATE THE ONLY BOOK WHICH SETS FORTH CLEARLY THE REAL CAUSES OF THE WAR By J. A. CRAMB, $1.00 net, Published by E. P. DUTTON & CO., SEW Von 11 West 29th St., N.Y. When you think of writing think of Whiting. HE abandoned farm in New Eng- land, through the efforts of the government, is likely to come once s f more into its own, A new edition of Abandoned Massachusetts Farms will, in all probability, soon be issued hy the State, thus stimulating interes: WHITING’S in these worthy, if precarious, indus- KEWPIE PAPERS tries, Bring on your farms, Massa- chusetts, and we shall be glad to look them over, verybody wants to live on a farm—in theory. We dream of farms while eating store-cooked food, listening to city talk and breathing shop-worn air, But if States are going to come to the rescue of abandoned farms, why not to abandoned folks? Every year a lot of them are aban- doned in this country. Why not issue a list of abandoned popular idols, with a view to getting them recognized? Here are the Kewpies on note paper for children. The Kew- pies themselves are famous the world over. Every child loves them and will want a box of this dainty stationery. We furnish the Kewpie Papers both for correspondence and for party invitations. They are especially appropriate for holi- day presents, and will un- doubtedly be one of the most popular papers for children ever made. WHITING PAPER COMPANY PHILADELPHIA cmcaco HE wise man is the one who has New vous. been a fool. comicbooks.com