Life, 1915-03-04 · page 38 of 48
Life — March 4, 1915 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertising with editorial content. The dominant feature is a lengthy article titled "Anti-Catholic Worries" addressing fears about the Roman Catholic Church's organizational power rather than its doctrine. The author argues that public anxiety stems from concerns about institutional control crushing individual freedom—fears paralleling those directed at business trusts and monopolies of the era. The page is heavily populated with beauty product advertisements (Pompeian creams, Resinol Soap, White Rose Glycerine Soap) and a contest offering $200 for naming a 1916 art panel featuring an attractive woman. A Cortez Cigars ad appears at bottom. This reflects early 1900s print culture: editorial content subsidizes advertising space, and women's beauty anxieties are exploited commercially while serious political-religious debates occupy the same pages.
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At all dealers, soc, 75¢ and $1 per jar. Use coupon for trial jar. 25c Tube for Promise Promise to recommend our new product, Pompeian Night Cream, to 3 friends, and a 2s¢ tube is yours for the cost of postage and packing, if you accept in full the coupon offer below. In a few months our Night Cream has won thousands of enthusiastic users everywhere. Left on the face over night it soothes, softens and improves any shin made uncomfortable or unsightly by wind, hard water or age. Acts like a cold cream, but leaves no shiny effects, and still it is <> not a dry “disappearing ” cream, The experienced makers of the well-known Pompeian Massage Cream. took years to perfect Pompeian Night Cream. An exceptional powder base for her and a soothing after- shaving cream for him. At stores, jars 3sc and 7c: tubes 2se. Coupon below must be used to get this regular 28¢ tube practically free, which is a bargain that no one can afford to miss. COUPON 25,16 goed for ose tube of Night Cream, trial jar of Massage Cream and reserving 1916 Art Panel. Coupon may be sent with or without a picture title Panel is a study in sunshine, pink and lovable inine beauty. Reserve your copy now. Late comers | often disappointed. | gond of sent with or without a contest title, but WUUNE be nt, Coupon MOL goat Uf sent with tess (han Tbe 16 seed HO pact, balance tm 1 ‘THE POMPEIAN MFG. CO., 25 Prospect St., Cleveland, O. T enclose 16e (1¢e being for the Art Panel and Pompelaa Mascage Cream. od 6 for postage and packing of zc tube of Pompelan Night Cream). Send goods bow. 1 promise to tecommend Powpelun coupon ofler expires April 17, Positively caly 1 coupon per waal introductory oMer ) aa My Name Strest Address (any) My dealer's nse od address. OF BRAINS IGARS -MADE AT KEY WEST— FOR MEN ali laRsES Anti-Catholic Worries (Continued from page 357.) is not decadent. Inquirers look at it with admiration and say, “How much good there is in it! Why do people fear it so? What are its de- fects? Is it not possible to cure them?” Here’s a world hungry for a Church, but afraid to be Roman Catholic. Why? What is it afraid of? Of the same thing, probably, that it fears in the foundations, in “business”, in German Kultur, in the “money trust” and in the other trusts, in the “system”, the “interests” and other familiar bugaboos. It fears the power of great organizations to crush out individual freedom. The fear of the Roman Catholic Church nowadays seems not to be doctrinal nor religious at all, but a fear of organized power, drawing authority not from the bottom, but from the top, and administered by a chain of celibate officers more de- voted to their organization than to anything else on earth. If fear of that sort is to be dissi- pated, it must be by the freest pos- sible discussion. The Roman Catholic Church cannot hide. No kind of gag-law and no special protection from the Post-office will do it any good. Its business in its own defense is not to crush out slanders by power of law, but to abate a distrust that lies deep in the minds of a good many people who are average decent and sincere, albeit they may be stupid. E. S. Martin. ‘Senda for a Sample Cak and you, too, will be delighted with the charming delicacy and delightful perfume of this purest of transparent toilet soaps. Rich creamy lather that makes using it a pleasure—a revelation of how perfect a toilet soap can be. UTD *ciycerins Soap Preferred today, as for generations, by women of perception and refinement. 15 ceats per cake at your dry-goods desler or druggist, ‘To cover merely the cost of packing and postage send 2c stamp for trial sample cake, or 19 cents for a trial package containing sample cake of No. 4711 White Rose Glycerine Soan, a sample of No. 4711 Bath Salts and a sample bowle of No, 4711 Eau de Cologne. No. 4711 Liquid White Rose Glycerine Soap. A new, convenient, delightful form of this refreshing soap— Sanitary, economical, eficient. A lururious shampoo. MULHENS & KROPFF, Dept.L, 25 W. 4Sth St., New York poor complexion your handicap? Many an otherwise attractive girl is a social failure because of a poor com- plexion. If your skin is not naturally fresh, smooth and glowing, or has suf- fered from anunwise use of cosmetics, Resinol Soap will clear it —or greatly help to do so—in a nor- mal, healthy way. It is so easy too: Just bathe your face for several min- utes with Resinol Soap and hot water, working the creamy lather into the skin gently with the finger-tips. Then wash off with more Resinol Soap and warm water, finishing with a dash of clear, cold water to close the pores Do this regularly once or twice a day, and you will be astonished how quickly the healing, antiseptic Resinol medication soothes and cleanses the pores, removes pimples and black- heads, and leaves the complexion clear, fresh and velvety. When the skin is in a very neglected condition. spread on just a little Resinol Ointment for ten or fifteen minutes before using Resinol Soap. Resinol Soap is sold by all druggists. Fora trial size cake, write Dept. %C, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. “SHE LOVES ME—SHE LOVES ME_NOT as Sher of that might b but the When you wan Comicbooks (to