Life, 1915-11-11 · page 42 of 44
Life — November 11, 1915 — page 42: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book listings**, not satirical editorial content. The top section contains a medical satire diagram showing various doctors (dentist, oculist, osteopath, chiropodist, dermatologist, manicurist) treating different ailments, with text arguing that nine of ten doctors barely earn a living and need support—likely advocating for professionalization or public health measures. The main content features advertisements for: - **Vanity Fair magazine** ("A Birthday Cake for the Mind"), pitched as the premier entertainment publication mixing theatrical, humorous, and fashion content - **Raymond & Whitcomb cruise lines** offering Caribbean and South American luxury voyages - **Evans' Ale** as a health-promoting beverage A "Books Received" section lists contemporary publications (1916-era literature and reference works). The satire is mild—the magazine's self-promotion uses playful metaphor ("birthday cake for the mind") but isn't pointed political commentary. This appears to be a standard magazine page mixing editorial content with period advertising.
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el yl bl i Og Ta |Medical |—Society | Acute disease |—are all pre- | Bodies |—by meet-| Dental jit was Tooth-ache | ventable dis- [Teeth quali- ing of the |Oculist stated Pink-eye eases, and Eyes fied local Aurist that— Ear-ache that compulsory) Ears Osteopathic | Back-ache examination of | Backs | Dermatology Pimples school children’s) Skin | |Chiropodist Corns Feet | | Hang-nails | Hands | Manicurist would add to the longevity of the race. Statistics prove that nine doctors out of ten are barely making a living and we must have help A BIRTHDAY CAKE for the MIND delivered freshly baked and with candles lighted once every month Take the best theatrical magazine, add the best humorous periodical, stir in The Sketch and The Tatler from London, pour in one or two reviews of art, sprinkle with a few outdoor sports, add a French flavoring—say of La Vie Parisienne, mix in a hundred or two photo- graphs and sketches, add a dozen useful departments, add a magazine of fashion and then one of literature, add humors for raisins and follies for spice, frost with a cover in four colors, cook with ten dollars’ worth of laughs, use the fripperies, vanities, dances and decadent arts for your little red candles, and the result will be VANITY FAIR the most talked of and most successful of all the new magazines; the magazine which makes every day a birthday; in entertainment, in good fellowship, in memories, in anticipation. Ask your newsdealer to show you a copy Special Offer Six Months for One Dollar Vanity Fair costs 25 cents a number or $3.00 ayear. Readers of this magazine using the Coupon at the left can have a six months’ “trial” subscription for One Dollar. CONDE NAST, Publisher FRANK CROWNINSHIELD, Editor PETER J. CAREY, PRINTER RAYMOND- WHITCOMB CRUISES ‘TO THE West Indies, Panama, the Central Ameri- can Wonderland and the Spanish Main Tropical Cruises de Luxe of twenty-four days’ duration sailing from New York Jan. 29, Feb. 12 and March 11, by the beautiful American siste:ships “PASTORES and TENADORES” Under exclusive charter to Raymond & Whitcomb Co, and under the American Flag Remarkable and comprehensive tours to }OUTH AMERICA January 18th, February 2nd, Sth, 16th and 2fth, 1916 Tours to California on the Highest Plane of Travel November 3rd, 17th and December 14th Send for Booklet desired RAYMOND & WHITCOMB COMPANY Dept. 4 17 Temple Place, Boston New York Chicago Philadelphia San Francisco Books Received Projective Ornament, by Claude Brag don, (The Manas Press, Rochester. N.Y.) Afternoons of April, by Grace Hazard Conkling. (Houghton Mifflin Co.) Nobody, by Louis Joseph Vance. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.25.) Spragge’s Canyon, by Horace Annesley Vachell. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.00) Songs of the Workaday World, by Berton Braley. (Geo. H. Doran Co. $1.00.) Little Verses and Big Names, (Geo. H. Doran Co. $2.00.) Old Roads from the Heart of New York, by Sarah Comstock. G. P. Put- nam’s Sons. $2.50.) The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War, by Arthur Machen. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. 75 cents.) The Belgian Cook-Book, by Mrs. Brian Luck. (E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.00.) Eve Dorre, the Story of Her Pre- carious Youth, by Emily Vielé Strother. (E. P. Dutton & Co. $1.35.) Browning, How to Know Him, by Will- iam Lyon Phelps. (Bobbs-Merrill Co. ¢, How to Know Him, by Bliss Perry. (Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.50.) 1 ; —the “One touch of nature” that fills the body with the genial, generous plow of health and E satisfaction vans’ | Everybody enjoys an Evans’ Ale greeting, the embodiment of whole-souled hospitality. comicbooks.com