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This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The main elements are: **Advertisements:** Listerine mouthwash, Burrowes Cedar Chest furniture, and a cautionary notice warning readers against fraudulent subscription solicitors posing as Life magazine representatives. **Book Reviews:** The bulk of the page reviews children's and adult books suitable for wartime "stay-at-home" reading. The context—references to "enforced segregation" and staying home—suggests this was published during **World War I**, when travel restrictions and social disruptions affected leisure activities. The review emphasizes books by established American authors (Kipling, Denslow, Towne) and promotes domestic activities like home decoration and interior design as alternatives to travel. **No political cartoon or satire is present** on this page. The content reflects early-20th-century consumer culture and wartime domestic life.

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red and car of. low. mnly ¢ more azine As an aid to the tooth- brush in promoting the cleanliness and health of the teeth and mouth, nothing surpasses Avoid substitutes and imitations. Demand genuine Listerine in orig- inal package—round bottle— brown wrapper. Sold Everywhere Four Sizes: 15c, 25¢, 50¢ and $1.00 Lambert Pharmacal Co. St. Louis, Mo, Toronto, Can. CAUTION Lire emplo; no direct traveling representatives; it does not offer prizes, college courses or other in- ducements for agents to canvass for subscriptions, Any one soliciting subscriptions on any such basis should be turned over to the authorities as a swindler. Be sure to place your order with a reliable bookseller, news agent or solicitor, if you do not mail it to Lire direct. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street, New York BURROWES Cedar Chest Math-prol, Dat-roct $100 Down TRIAL— sea entnty peirere Many etder tales (for assorted ages) by well-known American writers, selected by Asa Don Dickinson, The other, “‘ The Home Book of Verses for Young Folks,” i: volume (Holt, $2.00) into which Burton E. Stevenson has gathered hundreds of happy and likable selections. Not since W. W. Denslow used to do Wizards of Oz and things for Christ- mas has the picture end of a nursery book been so fetching as “The Pcek-a-Boos Desert Island" (Hodder and Stoughton). Chloe Preston is the illustrator. “ The Everyday Fairy Book” (Dodd, Mead), by Anna A. Chapin, is also another vein) a fine volume. And “ Ver Beck's Bears in Mother Goose-land" (Doran) is both original and amusing. “ Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know" (Dou- bleday, Page) adds the charm of Mary Hamilton Frye’s illustrations to a dozen imperishable favorites. “ Shoe and Stock- ing Stories,” by Elinor Mordaunt (Lane, $1.25), ought to pour diplomatic oil on the angry waters of “getting dressed.” Charles Hanson Towne's verses and H. Devitt Welsh's drawings make really “ Jolly Jaunts with Jim” (Doran, $1.. And as for animals—there are Grace May North’s rhymes for bedtime, “ The By- low Bunnies” (Fenno, 75 cents): and Mary Fuller Blodgett’s “The Strange Story of Mr. Dog and Mr. Bear” (Cen- tury, $1.00. And the humane-intentioned zoological adventures of “Tommy and the Wishing-Stone" (Century, $1.00). And fifty-two new stories about “ Uncle Wiggly Longears” (Fenno, $1.50), by Howard R. Garis. For grown-ups this is a stay-at-home book year. Mrs. Hugh Fraser's “ Storied Italy,” a handsome volume in the vein of this writer's cosmopolitan notes and rem- iniscences (Dodd, Mead, $3.50), and “Kipling's India,” a literary landmark tour in text and photographic illustra- tion, by Arley Munson (Doubleday, Page, $1.50), are the only travel books in the row. On the other hand, we have Louise Closser Hale's “ We Discover New Eng- land,” a chatty and entertaining motor- tour history (Dodd, Mead, $2.00); and Harrison Rhodes’ amusing (and amus- ingly illustrated) “In Vacation Amer- ica” (Harper, $1.50). And we have all sorts of hints and helps toward using our enforced segregation for tidying up our habitations—‘ Remod- eled Farmhouses,” by Mary H. Northend (Little, Brown, $5.00), a treatise on American country-home possibilities based on illustrated descriptions of twenty-two actual examples. “Interior Decoration, Its Principles and Practice,” by Frank Alvah Parsons (Doubleday, Page, $3.00), an analytical treatment of a similar theme, handsomely illustrated. “ The Decoration and Furnishing of Apart- ments” (Putnam, $3.50), a careful treat- ment of special problems. “ Early Amer- ican Craftsmen,” by Walter A. Dyer, an introduction to the fascinating study of Americana (Century, $2.40). And a study of patch-work in all ages, with special reference to American “Quilts, Their Story and How to Make Them ” (Double- day, Page, $2.50), by Mary D. Webster. J. BLK, | (The first edition ls exhausted but the second revised aan will be ready whea this advertisement appears.) | Tne Presivext axo tue Creer Justice, tue New Yorn ax orner Lipranies, Messe3. J. P. Moxcan & Mr. Jaues J. Hitt, ‘ano THOUSANDS oF OTHER PROM INENT MEN AND INSTITUTIONS NAVE THIS BOOK ON THLEL SMELVES. AND WITH VERY GOOD REASONSFOR THE 1d TEREST IN THE SUBJECT IS INTENSE D2 3 captain weet A GESTS introduction to this series tells us that when a cataclysm like the present war in Europe makes a turning point in human progress we are led to study its causes. Are you, as are so many others, wonder- ing what has caused this momentous con- flict that has so convulsed the whole cur- rent of human life and thought ? Would you like to know what motives and causes brought about the catastrophe ; what spiritual or moral considerations drove the nations to the point of going to war; how they mobilized their military, naval, financial, and other forces ; exactly how hos- tilities progressed; and the economic and political results? 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