Life, 1916-03-30 · page 5 of 45
Life — March 30, 1916 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and miscellaneous content** rather than political satire. The dominant feature is a Whitman's Sampler chocolate advertisement showing a woman in 1920s dress emerging from a decorative box, promoting chocolate assortments at various price points ($1-$3). The left side contains unrelated advertisements (Alfs Khors cigarettes, hair growth treatment) and a brief article titled "Power, Publicity and Sanity" discussing mental health diagnoses of political figures like Bryan and the Kaiser—suggesting critics overpathologize leaders' behavior for attention. The page's scattered content reflects Life's format as a general-interest magazine mixing editorial commentary with commercial advertising, typical of early 20th-century publications.
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INFINITELY FINER TOTALLY DIFFERENT !N YOU WILL FIND THEM SUPERIOR TO ANY YOU KNOW. ALL DIRT AND MUCH NICOTINE 1S EXTRACTED. END $1.50 for 50 $2.50 for 100 ADDRESS: Power, Publicity and Sanity D® HOWARD explains in the Sun that the trouble with Mr. Bryan is that he is a “hysteric” and has got mental strabismus. In the true hysteric, he says, all mental efforts are made to attract attention. Dr, Allan McLane Hamilton ex- plains in the North American Review that the Kaiser is off his base and suffers from hypomania and delusions of grandeur and power. Dr. Morton Prince has made a simi- lar diagnosis of the Kaiser. More prudent than these gentlemen is the Abbé Morcaux, of the Bourges (France) Observatory, who says that spots on the sun are to blame for the distressed condition of the world; that the sun gets over-excited every thirty-five years and imparts irritation, gout and rheumatism to the children of earth. All very well, but not especially Your Head should be covered with a natural growth of hair, and it can be —if roots are not dead. Dandruff canberemovedand grey hair arrested | through our Physical Culture Exer- § cises and local treatment for the scalp. Write for information Grace-Mildred Culture Course Dept. 33, 624 S. Michigan Blvd. Chicago | THE HONEYPOT tiga Asthor of “The Little Mother Who Sits ot Home’? A penetrating and eympathetic study of the effects stage life on two young girls, one born of theatri- at Parents, the other a daughicr of aa army officer, a girl with a fine soul and a desire for a stage career. $1.38 net, At any bookstore, E.P. DUTTON & CO, 681 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. — ae ise helpful in providing a cure for the present ills of mankind. What will the alienists and other scientific gen- tlemen say to the suggestion that the possession of great power for long at a time, with the exposure to publicity which comes with it, tends to upset the balance of the mind? Kings, as one reads of them in history, seem to have a generic propensity to misbe- havior, A very large percentage of the English kings, for example, as exposed to notice by so responsible a historian as Green, seems much worse and crazier than the Kaiser in deport- ment and delusions. ‘ Perhaps the familiar democratic slogan, “ Turn the rascals out!” has a better basis in science than has ever been admitted. 'HE rebounding heart never bounces back to the same girl. comicbooks.com