Life, 1915-10-07 · page 49 of 52
Life — October 7, 1915 — page 49: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes satirical commentary with advertising. The main satire is "Nobody Loves a Fat Man," a brief political piece criticizing American-German relations post-WWI. It uses darkly humorous logic: Germany dislikes the U.S., yet Europe dislikes America even more—not for what America *has* done, but for what it *hasn't* done (being insufficiently hostile to Germany). The joke reflects post-war frustration that American diplomacy satisfied no one. The bulk of the page is advertising: Ingram's skincare, Vogue pattern catalogs, and a lengthy pitch for French Lick Springs, Indiana—a spa resort marketed as superior to European spas, with medicinal mineral waters. A final essay on "The Individual" defends individualism against collectivism, typical of 1920s American libertarian-leaning thought. The page reflects 1920s concerns: post-war diplomatic tensions, beauty/fashion consumption, and ideological debates about individualism versus collective society.
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Expense Vara ine Face Powder. 50e, 4 Nobody Loves a Fat Man GERMANY is not polite to us be- cause she is pleased with us. Nobody is pleased with us, not even sy ee Indian Summer Germany. 7 If anyone in Europe is pleased with ; ° the United States, will he please raise x t H rench I ick his hand? How many hands, Mr. Secretary? S cca I\ Springs None, sir! Still, we are not the worst esteemed. The displeasure with Germany is a SNe Le N° need to go abroad a different order of disapproval from 9 that with us. Folks are mad at Ger- when French Lick many for what she has done, but they . Springs offer you are mad at us only because we are not . 3 madder at Germany. everything and more than any European spa. AS VOGUE ; \ Golf, tennis, motoring and horseback ‘ =) | \ riding these wonderful autumn days in Autumn Pattern Catalogue | j the picturesque Indiana country make a contains several hundred de- | sojourn at the Springs a unique travel ; experience. The baths and waters at neing costumes, French Lick Springs have made it Diomees: logerie: end: call: ‘ America’s greatest health resort and the ren‘s clothes. hotel is perfect in its appointments. VOGUE patterns ware we | The Home of Pluto Water—America’s Physic tween the limited oo in The waters of the Famous French Lick Springs are prescribed gener- ally by physicians for indigestion, constipation, kidney, liver and stomach troubles. Interesting literature gladly sent upon request. Address Dept. A. wg | Theitlustration is ofpat- tern 3186 L—a one piece cacons eat French Lick Springs Hotel Co. send $1.00 to the address : French Lick Springs, Indiana below. Be sure to men- tion the size wanted. On C. 1. & L, (Monon) and Southern Raitways The Individual | OME of our best and highest-priced thinkers are anxious these days about the , : individual. Yet the chances are that the individual, in spite of all that is heing FREE. This Autumn Pattérn Cata- | done to down him, will survive. logue showing the very latest styles for | In point of fact the individual has considerably the best of it in the order of the Autumn and Winter season will be creation. The collective man, who threatens to engulf him, labors under a very especial disadvantage, the amount of it being that there ain't no such animal. Long ago the mailed free of charge upon request. schoolmen put a puncture in the reality of universals, with the result that the collective man has only a conceptual existence, and a conceptual existence, the way prices are, is, to say the least, precarious. ~ VOGUE PATTERN SERVICE The individual, in short, is just naturally it, whereas society is more or less artificially 443 Fourth Avenue New York City it, if at all comicbooks.com