Life, 1915-11-18 · page 51 of 52
Life — November 18, 1915 — page 51: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The main content includes: **Left side:** A list of newly published books and a Fownes Gloves advertisement emphasizing the brand's 138-year history (1777-1915) as proof of durability. **Right side:** A large Hamilton Watch Company advertisement featuring a pocket watch, claiming "Railroad Accuracy" and positioning the watch as a luxury item ($17-$150) for reliability-conscious consumers. **Bottom:** A brief essay titled "Curiosity" philosophizing about why curiosity keeps people alive and engaged with life, possibly hinting at generational tensions between elderly and young people over vitality and relevance. There are **no political cartoons** on this page. The "Curiosity" section contains mild social commentary about aging and generational attitudes, but it's reflective rather than satirical. The page's primary purpose is commercial advertising dressed in editorial content.
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Books Received Cuba Before the World, by Gral. Dr. Manuel E, Alfonso and T. Valero Mar- tinez. (Souvenir Guide Co.) The Anvil of Chance, by Gerald Chit- tenden. Longmans, Green & Co. $1.35.) Why I Believe in Poverty, by Edward Bok. (Houghton Mifflin Co. 50 cents.) The Diary of a French Army Chaplain. (Andrew Melrose, London, Eng.) Helen and the Fifth Cousins, by Beth Bradford Gilchrist. (Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.) Jane Stuart at Rivercroft, by Grace M. Remick. (Penn Publishing Co. $1.25.) If Love Were King, and Other Poems, by Edward Willard Watson. (H. W. Fisher & Co. $1.25.) Memories of a@ Publisher, by George Haven Putnam, Litt.D, (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $2.00.) Midsummer Magic, by Walter Bam- fylde, (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.35.) A Rogue by Compulsion, by Victor Bridges. (G. P. Putnam's Sons. $1.35.) The Taxation of Land Values, by Louis F. Post. (Bobbs-Merrill Co. $1.00.) The Ashiel Mystery, by Mrs. Charles Bryce. (John Lane Co. $1.25.) The Rose of Youth, by Elinor Mor- daunt. (John Lane Co. $1.35.) Shoe and Stocking Stories, by Elinor Mordaunt. (John Lane Co. $1.25.) Tommy Tregennis, by Mary E. Phillips. (E. P. Dutton & Co.) Looking for Grace, by Mrs, Horace Tremlett. (John Lane Co. $1.25.) The Glorious Rascal, by Justin Huntly McCarthy. (John Lane Co. $1.35.) LAS 1777 138 A simple sum in subtraction shows that Fownes gloves have been worn for one hundred and thirty-eight years. Quite a fair period of time in which to ‘‘try out’’ any product! Have You Ever Owned a Truly Accurate Watch P Do you know the comfort of owning a watch that tells the true time all the time ? It's a genuine pleasure to carry such a watch—one that you are not always setting \ or mentally adding or subtracting a minute or so to or from the time it tells. Railton atch “The Watch of Railroad Accuracy”? When you buy a Hamilton you made in many models at $17.00, buy Accuracy that will endure. $25.00, $28.00, $40.00, $50.00, You get a watch so accurate, $80.00, and so on up to the durable and beautiful that a Hamilton masterpiece at generation from now it will $150.00 in 18k. heavy still be a source of pride to gold case. Movements its owner. alone, to fit your present Hamilton watch case, at $12.25 Watches are ($13.00 in Canada). Write for Hamilton Watch Book— “The Timekeeper”’ It pictures and describes the various Hamilton models for men and women and tells facts worth knowing about watches. HAMILTON WATCH COMPANY Dept. K, Lancaster, Pennsylvania A. Kelley of Miwaukee & way. One of Curiosity can keep ourselves alive a little longer if only to get a taste of the next new Curiosity does more than any- thing! Is that the reason, possibly, thing else to keep people over why old people demand reverence from forty alive. They do not like to die young people, in order to conceal their for fear that something interesting may own weakness? As much as ji they happen afterward. A large part of “We know you have the advantage of the value of new inventions is to keep us. But it would be fatal to admit alive this sense of curiosity. How this.” And young people, outwardly father, or grandfather, who died, say, submissive, secretly scorn the old for twenty years ago, would enjoy riding the same reason. They know the su- about in a motor-car! And what if we periority. comicbooks.com