Life, 1916-06-01 · page 40 of 44
Life — June 1, 1916 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The main advertisement promotes the **Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway's "Electrified Mountain Route,"** highlighting luxury train travel through the Rocky Mountains without smoke or cinders—a selling point for newly electrified rail technology. The **"Place Our Poets?" section** is a satirical editorial commentary on licensing. It humorously suggests poets should require licenses like cats do, mocking the era's expanding bureaucratic regulation. The joke: poets are treated as quasi-vermin—some should be "suppressed" entirely, others are "stray and mongrel" public nuisances deserving "a pound" (animal shelter) and even euthanasia ("gas tank"). This reflects early 20th-century cynicism about regulation run amok and perhaps skepticism about poetry's social value. The page also includes period advertisements for perfume, medical books, and patent medicines—typical Life magazine content from this era.
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Because of the main-line electrification of “‘ The St. Paul Road” across the Great Continental Divide, travelers enjoy a vision unobscured by smoke and luxurious travel unimpaired by cinders or fumes through this wonderland of western grandeur. Smoothly, silently, the superb all- steel ‘‘ Olympian” and “‘ Columbian" cross the moun- tains, hauled by the world’s mightiest electric locomotives. By no other route can the beautiful scenery of the mighty Rockies and forested Bitter Roots be enjoyed to such Mey: A Perfume That Symbolizes the Most Exquisite Femininity COEUR DE JEANNETTE might be called “The Heart of a Fairy Princess.” With its gentle potency and loveliness, its evanescent charm and whimsical witchery, this delicate odor is a verita- ble queen among perfumes. | oz. and 2 oz bottles Other Supreme Houbigant Odors IDEAL QUELQUES FLEURS EVETTE QUELQUES VIOLETTES POUDRE EVETTE Sold by ail leading dealers in the slete line of Extre ‘ti fet Water’ Baader, Patesor Sean ond katket Bample bottles 20 cents; except Queiques Fleurs, 23 cents, Park&Tilford _ they may be put out of their miss Poets have done much to influ the world. The good poets and the bad ones ought to be differentiated There ought to be a board of poct See Cae ABIDOSEIBOOIBIOTOIADADOIOIOOCOS? BE commissioners composed of men whe know real poetry when they see it No magazine editors need apply. advantage as by the— Electrified Mountain Route— between Chicago, Spokane, Seattle and Tacoma —the Frast Girt: What's biology mean? Srcox Girt: Why, it’s the science of shopping, I suppose.—Boston Tronscrif!. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway From Butte, Mont, side trip can be made to Yellowstone Park. At St. Maries, Idaho, an optional boat trip down the picturesque “shadowy” St. Joe River is offered without extra cost. At the end of the route is Rainier National Park and the innumerable attractions of the Puget Sound Country. Alaska is reached by a delightful voyage in protected waters. Send for beautifully illustrated travel books — address F. A. MILLER, Passenger Traffic Manager, CHICAGO ~ SEXOLOGY by William H. Walling, A.M., M.D. imparts in a clear, wholesome way, in one volume: Place Our Poets? All licensed here save poets. : OLD Overholt Rye —Head-line in Evening Post, and quinine is an unfailing d remedy ii in curing colds and pre- venting serious developments. Old Overholt Rye “Same for 100 years” proves invaluable and saves many a doctor’s bill. It pos- sesses decidedly strengthen- ing qualities and should be in | the home, at all times, for emergencies. Aged in the wood, bottled in bond. A.Overbolt &Co.,Pittabureh,Pa, HY should poets be left out? The new department of licenses, strangely proficient and ubiquitous in other directions, surely has been re- miss in this one. Cats have licenses Why not poets? How many poets are there roaming at large among us who either ought to be suppressed altogether or should be made to pay for the privilege? And ‘Made of Gold, $2.00 in U. S, Postpaid. how about stray and mongrel poets QONEY REFUNDED ANY TIME WITHOUT QUESTION, who are a charge upon the commu- Sizes: 1, Childs; 2,Regular (90 per ct. ofsales);3,Large nity? Should not a pound be pro- Comtortable and Convenient, Information on request. z ‘SIMPLE DEVICE CO., Middleburg, Va., Box 30. vided for them and a gas tank that STOPS SNORING AND MOUTH BREATHING comicbooks.com