Life — August 5, 1915 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Cornless Feet Are Very Common Now A few years ago they were not. People pared corns and kept them. Or they used an inefficient treatment. Then the Blue-jay plaster was invented. That ended corn pain instantly for everyone who used it. But it also gently undermined the corn, so in two days it all came out. And this without one bit of pain or soreness. One told another about it, until millions came to use it. Now those people never keep a corn, As soon as one appears, they remove it. We urge you todo that. Prove Blue-jay on one corn, * If you hesitate, let us send you samples free. If the pain does stop— if the corn does go—think what it means toyou. It means a lifetime without corns. Your own friends, by the dozens, probably, know that this is so, Blue-jay Ends Corns 15 and 25 cents—at Druggists Samples Mailed Free Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York Makers of Physicians’ Supplies Life’s Short Story Contest First Prize $1000 Second Prize 500 Third Prize 250 OW short can a short story be and yet be a short story? Lire would like to know, So would every writer, and, therefore, all writers are invited to join with Lire in making a practical test. Lire invites contributions of original short stories, For the best ones re- - ceived before noon of October 4, 1915, it will award three prizes—$! and $250, CONDITIONS No story must exceed fifteen hundred words in length. _There is no restriction placed upon the kind of story to be submitted. It may be humorous or tragic; but jokes, anecdotes, epigrams or verses do not come within the scope of the contest. All manuscripts which are accepted for publication in Lire will be paid for at the rate of ten cents a word for every word under fifteen hundred words which the author does not write. To illustrate: if the accepted story is one hundred words in length, then the author will receive $140, or ten cents a word for the fourteen hundred words which he did not write. For what he does write he receives no pay. If, on the other hand, the ac- cepted story is fourteen hundred and ninety-nine words in length, the author will receive ten cents. This story, how- ever, will stand an equal chance of winning the prize with one which is very much shorter (say, one hundred words), as each story will be judged strictly on its merits as a story. The stories will be published in Lire as soon as possible after they are ac- cepted, and will be paid for on accept- ance upon the basis which has just been defined. When they have all been pub- lished, then the final awarding of the $1,750 in prizes will be made in the following manner: The Editors of Lire will first select, out of all the stories published, the twelve which are, in their judgment, the best. The authors of these twelve stories will then be asked to become judges of the whole contest, which will then include all the stories published. These twelve authors will decide which are the best three stories, in the order of their merit, to be awarded the prizes. In case, for any reason, any one or more of these twelve authors should be unable to act as judge, then the contest will be decided by the’ rest. Each of the judges will, of course. if he so wishes, vote for his own story first, so that the final result may probably be determined by the combined second, third and fourth choices of all the judges. This, however, will not affect the result. In case of a division among the judges, the Editors of Lire will cast the deciding vote. 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