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This page mixes advertisements and editorial content typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **Left side** contains an ad for Holstein-Friesian cattle (promoting dairy quality) and humor pieces under "Foreign Personals"—satirical one-liners about annoying theater-goers (the woman who won't stop talking, the man who won't remove his hat, the rude ticket-taker). These are light social satire about common public annoyances. **Center/right** features an editorial on "Peace and War" mocking pacifists. It sarcastically suggests pacifists are vague about what peace means, while war's effects (referencing Belgium and Poland—likely WWI atrocities) are brutally clear. The author implies pacifists are naive or unclear thinkers. **Lower right** advertises books about a mysterious writer (appears to reference Morgan Robertson) who allegedly predicted major events like the Titanic sinking and military innovations. The page reflects pre- or early-WWI concerns about pacifism versus militarism, with satirical dismissal of peace advocates as impractical idealists.

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~ W727 [Siamese erat aetna Te toon) Color of Cream or Milk No Indication of Its Quality Peace and War . xhaustive experiments by the University of Missouri HAT pacifists mean by peace,” says the New York Afail, “is a thing about which show,—that the y of cream and butter is is recy ” derived from xanthophyll” Zellow Be: there is no very great clearness . . found ‘post abundantly a fresh green feeds. be Perhaps we can come at it in this way. There is very great clearness about of color that a cow takes ou! er feed an : jo cream and butter, depends almost entirely 2 what the war lords mean by war. See Belgium, Poland and elsewhere. Now, as we he amount of coloring matter in her feed, although for i ‘i 4 i i i js some unexplained reason some breeds of ‘cows make understand it, the Pacifists want a state of things where this tangible thing, called war, use of more carotin when making their milk. The high is absent. Of course, this is a very erudite and very intricate matter, and a mere editor color, in cream does not denote richness in butterfat, ; ; a and instead of cows giving i Jow' per cent, of fat to of a mere newspaper can’t always be expected to get a thing clear the very first time, winter when the cream is colorless, they give a higher ws iT H ii vhy u i per cent. of fat than they do in spring and’ summer. but with this hint there is no apparent reason why he couldn’t be able to work it out. The butter maker who adds a vegetable coloring matter to butter is only doing what the cow would do if she had feeds rich in in and “xanthophyll” Purebred Holstein cows produce milk naturally light in color, but rich in body and tissue building properties and in vitality, and their yield is greater, more constant and profitable than that of any other dairy cows in the world. Investigate , “ = (ti 4 the big “ Black-and-Whites.” Send for our literature. —_ % S Foreign Personals _— I MONG those who registered at Lire’s branch office on Brimstone Avenue, in Hades, yesterday, were the following (names omitted for obvious a ms ‘ The Psychic Mystery reasons) : The woman you have been forced to # . e I take to'on interesting play and who in. 4 of His Time sists, after the curtain rises, upon con- ‘ : tinuing the story she had begun be- ‘ q He believed that he was under the control of a spirit that had tween the acts, which detailed some 3 p 4 over the border; of a soul who, d ding earthly ex- intimate family history. 7 7 ek pression, had seized him as its i ent. A The moving-picture gentleman 2 swho'can'say ‘that he'was eg? actor who never takes off his hat in the house. = He was without education; he had been a sailor, an odd-jobs v The ticket chopper who calls after . man, a rolling stone; and when he was 36 years old there came the . mysterious, irresistible impulse to write. At once he was famous. He wrote some of the most marvelous stories ever put on paper, in which the real blended with the unreal, With uncanny accu- Y racy, he foretold the sinking of the Titanic, ten years before the ship went down, in a story that reads like a newspaper account of the actual happening. He invented the periscope, A and foretold the use of the’ airship and submarine in modem warfare. T And though he was not educated in the regular sense, his writings are a marvel of correct English, scientific knowledge and psychic b s inspiration, Also, he possessed the art of telling gripping, absorbing DON’T YOU LIKE stories. See below how you can get Free the new 4 volume edition of My Eyelashes and Eyebrows? Morgan Robertson's Works. 4 oa can the same you in a loud and insulting voice and insists upon your g a long af- fidavit that you have deposited in the box the fare which he failed to notice. The president of the suburban rail- road company, who, from motives of economy, puts such a peor light in his cars that nobody can read with com- How You Can Get the 4 Books Free Clin ‘The 35 Morgan Robertson stories, embracing his best work, ny are in Tour handsome cloth bound volumes — 1,000 pages —over 300,000 words printed In new easy-to-read type—titles stamped in gold. You send only ten cents now with the cou; After that, ‘one dollar for four months to pay for the for eighteen monthsat less than retail prices, and that'sall! The books are yours FREE. Jf you with to pay all at once, send only $3.75. If inding, send $5.75. We recommend this Seite beh It paar ate TY 0S, en cliner tnogatine, dresses. you are at present a subscril ‘. ote te nes Pinrmsbecrgtion will be extended.” Postage extra outside of the bow! with your initial in brass jaited States, Croch Sas 5 432 FOURTH AVENUE, ¢ U7 snt Sule... Ls Gate, oe ]' METROPOLITAN REW YORK. gy 2 Gunes terms of sament