Life — October 7, 1915 — page 50: what you’re looking at

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LIFE Try the new outdoor way of getting exercise and pleasure and knowledge— all in one—instead of walking aimlessly through the world, take with you The Great Outdoor Question Answerer Carry it in Your Pocket These are in the shape of books, but they’re not really books atall. They are sign-posts— guides—teachers to the great outdoors, On each page is a photograph in full color, beautifully reproduced—with a little text-—just enough to explain. Each photograph is of something you meet along the country roads or in the city park. Pocket Nature Library 4 Volumes 700 Color Plates 1. Trees 2. Butterflies 3. Flowers 4. Land Birds By Chester A. Reed Author of North American Birds’. Ease and, with Prank M Chapman, of Color Key forth American Birds, ‘Curator in Ornithology, Worcester Natural History Society, Julia Ellen Rogers, authority on natural history—and WJ. Holland, author of many books on nature They are such shape and size that you can easily slip them in your pocket or carry them in your hand. These are no books for scien- tists, but for those of us who love nature and want to know it better. They give you an edge to your walk—a keen delight that you simply cannot imagine. Suppose, as you walk along, you see a tree— a stately beauty. What is its name? Look in your book for its picture—and you have the answer—with a brief but full story of that tree's history and idiosyncrasies. Thena bird singing high flies suddenly across the road, Again the book—this time the bird book— quick—here’s its picture and its story. So the most commonplace walk be- comes rich with new knowledge and new experience. Bound in cloth or in full limp leather—gold stamping, printed on heavy plated paper—a beautiful photograph on each page—many in full colors, To the PAGE 4 lover of beautiful books, the odd size and shape of these books are in ea’ themselves appealing. Send no Money. Send the Coupon Today. Send for these books now and fill the autumn woods full of new pes EE agree to pay 75 cents and joy for yourself. £1.10 a month for only four months (or Send only the coupon, It brings the books free of charge for $4.50 cash). Otherwise, f will return them. examination. If the books don’t give you new delight in 3 your next walk, send them back at my expense. But send today—now is the time for walking—now is the time to get the snap out of the air into your lungs. SEND TODAY 4 Beautiful Books (Size 344 x 5%) DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. Please send me, all charges prepaid, the Vocket Nature Library in four volumes, bound iniiull Beale leather and cones ing over 700 color plates. If the Looks are satisfactory alter five days’ Mame PETER J. CAREY, PRINTER Lo the Poor Soldier RITISH doctors can't possibly reconcile themselyes to the notion that vaccination and inoculation sha!l he optional with British soldiers. In the first place, doctors don’t want these superstitious rites to be optional with anybody; and, in the second place, nothing is ever supposed to be op- tional with soldiers. When a man once enlists to fight for his country and the owners and rulers thereof, it is his duty to obey without question; to die, to be inoculated, to be un- complaining of food and quarters, to suffer in silence when insulted by his officers, and so on. Compulsory inoculation, unpopular everywhere else, is popular with armies and navies solely because compulsion can be easily applied there and sta- tistics can be drawn up to suit any desired conclusion. In the Turkish army vaccination is compulsory for smallpox, typhoid and cholera. The United States so far has made only smallpox and typhoid serums compul- sory, but it is enough to show that we are willin’ Barkises, and the doctors are still at work. After all, the serum business is just getting fairly started, and before long, no doubt, every soldier will carry as many scars as there are diseases in the medical dictionary. The following is prophetic of that eventuality. It is taken from the Mulford Digest, house organ of a leading firm which manufactures and deals in serums and the accoutrements and contrivances thereof: Very important statistics will doubtless be available after the war regarding the use not only of typhoid vaccine, but of anti-meningitis serum, tetanus antitoxin, staphylococcus and streptococcus vaccines used in im- munizing against pyogenic infection, cholera vaccine, and other biological products. ‘There may also be important statis- tics regarding supernonsense antitoxin and harumscarum serum, as well as flubdubococcus, absurdococcus, imbecil- ococcus and other foollacious aberra- tionalities. And, of course, all of these statistics, if properly compiled, will show that the doctors and the manu- facturers made all the profits and the soldiers and the sailors suffered all the unpleasant consequences. Ellis O. Jones, Loxpox Hovsenouver: Not many people away holiday-making in war time, T suppose, milkman? ILKMAN: Well, mum, you'd be sur- prised; at least five gallons of my cus- tomers were away last week-end.—Punch. comicbooks.com