Life, 1915-11-25 · page 7 of 44
Life — November 25, 1915 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political commentary. The **Listerine advertisement** (left) promotes mouthwash for personal hygiene, a common early 20th-century pitch. The **main feature** is "The Christmas Scribner"—a book advertisement listing short stories. The small cartoon below the Listerine ad shows a soldier asking "Cop: Here! Where you goin'?" with the response "Home—I know, the horse came from Yonkers," apparently a humorous reference to a horse's unexpected journey. The **"Frost" conversation** (bottom left) is a brief joke about a minister describing heaven. **Overall**: This is a typical Life magazine page mixing light humor, advertising, and literary promotions—reflecting early 1900s popular entertainment rather than serious political satire.
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For the scientific care and preservation of your teeth and for all other purposes of personal hygiene, nothing surpasses Demand LISTERINE in the original package, brown wrap- per, round bottle. ®@ Sold Everywhere Four Sizes: 15¢, 28¢, 50c and $1.00 Lambert Pharmacal Co. St. Louis, Mo. Toronto, Can. HERE! WHERE You corn’? KNOW, TME MORSE CAME FROM YONKERS.” FRost: Our minister makes hun- dreds of converts by his astonish- ingly fascinating descriptions of Heaven, Ssow: No wonder! He used to be a real-estate agent. le leieeee The College Athletics Fallacy ALE has been sufficiently unfortunate in football this year to warrant the surmise Y that she must be on the verge of a spectacular forward drive as an institution of learning. Harvard ran away from Yale in numbers during a period when Yale licked Harvard pretty regularly in sports. Of late years Yale has shed a good deal of her embarrassing reputation as a school of athletics, and is on the way, like enough, to catch up with Harvard, The notion that a great reputation in athletics is valuable to a university is a fallacy. Athletics are valuable in their own right when not too much overdone, but they are vastly overrated as an advertisement. “ SAben the bracken harbvest’s gathered and the (rost is on the loam, ben the dream goes out in silence and the ebb runs out in foam, Pare, Wary Shepherdess, she bids the lost lambs home.” —From the poem, “Mary Shepherdess,” by Manone L. C. Piceruant. A Beautiful Number Short Stories Containing a very remarkable group of The Antwerp Road, a prose poem of the Bel- gian invasion, by HENRY VAN Dyke. Coming Home, by EpirH Warton. A story of the American Relief Corps. The Very Lilac One, by Mary R.S. ANDREWS, author of ‘‘ The Perfect Tribute.”’ //lustrated by es meme Irma Dértmeaux. A delightfully amusing story of From a drawing by Benda how a clever young woman raised the money for her wedding. Jeanne, the Maid, the story of a modern Jeanne d’Arc, by GORDON ARTHUR SMITH. Illustrations by Howard Giles, one of them in color. The Medicine Ship, by James B. Connotty. Jllustrations by N. C. Wyeth, one of them in color. A most remarkable yarn of the sea told to Wallie Whelan. The First-Born, by Katuarine Hottanp Brown. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. A tender, beautiful story of a father’s love. The Jade, by Asie Carter Gooptog. /llustrated by T. K. Hanna. A love story of the Old South. When Payne Wrote ‘‘ Home! Sweet Home!”’ by THatcuer T. P. Lugquer. Illustrated. Her Own Sort, by Cuarces Bet- moyT Davis. A story of the movies. Illustrated by F. R. Gruger. M. le Curé’s Lunch-Party, by EvizasetH SHEp- LEY SERGEANT. An experience in old Provence. The land of the poet Mistral. Jlustrated by Thornton Oakley. In The Field of Art: The Wonder of Work, by Josep PENNELL. Other poems, a colored cover, and beau- tiful pages in color. convenient. fill out namo and addross Ml be rendered the first of the month. comicbooks.com