Life, 1915-11-04 · page 52 of 56
Life — November 4, 1915 — page 52: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily a **book advertisement** from The Century Co. publishers, not political satire. The left sidebar contains two unrelated advertisements: one for car tires and one for a foot remedy. The substantive editorial content is a brief opinion piece titled "Stop Fumigating" criticizing New York City's now-abandoned practice of fumigating homes and neighborhoods to prevent disease. The author argues fumigation was ineffective and that simple cleanliness—soap, water, and fresh air—works better. The tone is gently mocking ("marvelous triumph for medical science, and perhaps it is another marvelous defeat for medical non-science"), suggesting this represents progress in public health policy, though the author admits uncertainty about crediting medical science versus rejecting bad practices. The bulk of the page showcases books from 1910-1915, including works by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Maxim Gorky. No political cartoons appear on this page.
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tires Absorb the shocks of rough roads Stop Fumigating At hapless cities and towns which have been accustomed to in- creasing the burdens of invalids and their families by befouling their homes with a certain process known as fumi- gation might be glad to learn that this practice has been stopped in all the boroughs of Greater New York. It has been stopped for the simple and all-embracing reason that it was found to be of no value whatsoever in the prevention of infectious diseases, and that the best disinfectant is a solution of good soap, water, broom, elbow- grease, fresh air and sunshine, all of which can be scientifically applied without a prescription from a medical man. Perhaps this is another mar- velous triumph for medical science, and perhaps it is another marvelous defeat for medical non-science, but any luckless wight who has ever suf- fered from this barbarity will be so joyful to see it in the discard that he will not care to bother much about the details thereof. Instant Bunion Relief Prove It At My Expense tiny trhich felleves You slepse fastant’y ‘Seformlty Sussppcare all thi whe 7 disappeare—e ing tighter aboce tha ena ater ve FOOT REMEDY CO. 3502 West 26th Strect, Chicago, THE LOST PRINCE By FRANCES HODGSON BURNETT, author of ‘'T. Tembarom” The author herein adventures again with youth and romance and a splendid hero throughout the length and breadth of Europe, and finally into mythical Samavia. Mrs. Burnett never wrote a more charming story. Illustrated, $1.35 net, postage 10 cents. DEAR ENEMY By JEAN WEBSTER Author of “Daddy Long-Legs”* The joyful chronicle of 113 orphans and a young Scotch surgeon who had for- gotten how to smile, and of Sally Mc- Bride, who had a gorgeous time teaching them all to laugh again, Jilustrated. $1.30 net, postage 10 cents, MARIE TARNOWSKA By A. VIVANTI CHARTRES Confessions of the most famous woman criminal in the world. It explains the in- fluences that made her use for crime her strange powers over men. An exposé of Russian high society life. Illustrations from photographs. ¢1.30 net, postage 10 cents, STRAIGHT DOWN THE CROOKED LANE By BERTHA RUNKLE A story of love, loyalty and mystery. It has all the story-telling charm of the author’s “The Helmet of Navarre,” but it deals with people and places of to-day, and is enriched by the author's fuller years of artistic endeavor. Colored frontispiece. $1.35 net, postage 10 cents, PARIS REBORN By HERBERT ADAMS GIBBONS Author of ‘* The New Map of Europe’’ An extended diary, written day by day in Paris during the first five months of the war, and reflecting freshly and spon- taneously all the events and fluctuations of those exciting days. 16 full-page illus- trations in tint by Lester G. Hornby. $2.00 net, postage 10 cents. PLEASURES AND PALACES By PRINCESS LAZAROVICH-HREBELIANOVICH Piquant, chatty reminiscences of an American girl who went to London to win fame and fortune, who was made much of by royalty and the notable people of her time, and married a prince from a faraway land. 48 full-page illustrations. $3.00 net, postage 10 cents. MY CHILDHOOD By Maxim GoRKY At once the life-story of the famous Russian novelist from his earliest memory to his seventeenth year, and a presentation of the basic character of the Russian people. Upon the pages of the book, out of the memory of his childhood, Gorky has written some of the fairest passages of ail Russian literature. Frontispiece photograph. $2.00 net, postage 10 cents. ME: A Book of Remembrance The most astounding literary offering of recent years. It is at once an auto- biographic account of a woman novelist of national reputation and a breathless story of love, adventure and daring. $1.30 net, postage 10 cents. THE “GOLDFISH” The anonymous confession of a rich New Yorker who has $75,000 a year and is wretched. Quite circumstantially he dis- cusses his friends, his family, his morals, his beliefs, etc. Sixth printing. $1.30 net, postage 10 cents. HIGH LIGHTS OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION By HMILaire BELLOC A brilliant series of essays in which the outstanding moments of the great upheaval are described by the ablest living writer on these themes. 50 full-page illustrations. $3.00 net, postage 10 cents. THE CENTURION, 2n tttustrated monthly magazine about The Century Co. writers and thel. work, will be sent regularly and without charge upon application to the publishers, THE CENTURY CO. 353 Fourth Avenue (at 26th Street) New York City comlichooks om