Life, 1916-06-01 · page 6 of 44
Life — June 1, 1916 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and travel promotion**, not political satire. It contains: 1. **"Maine Woods"** and **"The Vacation Land"** sections promoting New England summer tourism, offering vacation guides for hotels, camps, and resorts across the White Mountains, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and other regional destinations. 2. **"The White Mountains of New Hampshire"** advertisement emphasizing high altitude air and natural scenery as health benefits. 3. **Product advertisements** for Rythmodik Record Music Rolls, Absorbine Jr. (a muscle liniment), and a medical trial bottle. 4. **"Do You Follow Me?"** — a brief philosophical essay about self-respect and not blindly following others' opinions. The page reflects early 20th-century advertising that marketed leisure travel and patent medicines as modern consumer goods.
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Maine Woods A whole world of unusual, healthful, never-to-be-forgotten summer pleasures. The best vacation for building up tired bodies and nerves. Explore wild lakes, Camp in the open, take wonderful canoe trips, try game-fishing. Or live at one of the permanent camps or summer hotels among the lakes and woods, with their vigorous out-door life, summer sports and jolly social life. Expenses most moderate. Only 10 hours from New York. Send for booklet A VACATION , LAND*-? Vacation Books They make summer planning easy. Rates, capacity and other dependable facts concerning the best hotels, boarding houses and camps in over 1000 New England vacation resorts. Including the White Mountains, the Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont Lakes and Woods, Berk- shire Hills, Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Casco Bay, Penobscot Bay, Mt. Desert and the ocean coast of five states. Send for booklet B—state region you prefer. of New Hampshire The secret of White Mountain air is high altitude and the balm of spruce and pine. It restores tired nerves, gives you a new appetite, makes you over. Thrilling mountain scenery, mile-high peaks, 100-mileviews. Days of health and gladness, nights of wonderful sleep. Brilliant social life. Unsurpassed hotels, best of boarding houses at moderate rates. 10 hours from New York. Summer train achedule in effect June 30. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD R.R. BOSTON & MAINE R.R Send for booklet C For booklets and information address VACATION BUREAU MAINE CENTRAL R.R. 171 Broadway, Room 117, New York City Howard Brockway's Rythmodik record of the Pro- logue to Pagliaca: is one of the “show-pieces” of all piano records. YTHMODI RECORD MUSIC ROLLS are all “show-pleces.” Why? Rythmodik plano records bring the fingers of such menas Bauer, Godowsky, Busoni and Edvard Grieg to your pano Keyboard~repreduce every shade ol touch, phrasing and singing tone. ‘This Fasliacel record fe commonplace ona commonplace roll. A Brockway has played it on the Ieythmodik It is sublime, as Ask your musie dealer to let you hear ft Write for complete catalogue and monthly bulletis Of new Rythmadins. “Address Dept. A- AMERICAN PIANO COMPANY 437 Fifth Avenue New York still more absurd by the fact that few are honest enough to answer, “I don't know,” but insist upon lying and saying, “Oh, yes, I follow you all right enough.” It is clear, therefore, that the effort is quite hopeless. If you have something to express, all you can do is to pick out the most intelligent person or persons you can find, express your idea as well as you can and let it go at that. Do you get the idea? Absorbine, Jr., brings quick relief. Keep it always hand for instant use. Athletes use Absorbine, Jr. for the muscle that has been strained, for the cut or. laceration és that runs a chance of infection; for the abrasion that pains and the limbs that are stiff and lame from over-exertion. “Do You Follow Me?” ‘© person who values his self-respect and who doesn’t want to be lied to, will ever say, “Do you follow me?” when expounding a subject to a friend or acquaintance. There are so many rea- sons against the use of this interroga- tory that only two or three of the best ones need be mentioned. If you are enunciating words of wis- dom, the chances are nine hundred and ninety-cight out of me hundred and ninety-nine that you are not being fol- lowed. On the other hand, if you are enunciating foolish words, it makes no difference whether you are being followed or not. A still more important reason, however, is embodied in the simple but inescapable fact that no man can ever be quite sure that he understands what the other fellow is trying to express. Therefore, the proper answer to the ques tion, “Do you follow me?” is always. “T don't know.” That, of course, makes the question itsclf absurd, and it is made W.F. Young, P. D. F.,307 Temple St., Springfield. Mass. |, ——————————————— Tied to cuts, bruises and sores, it kills the germs, makes the wound aseptically clean and pro: motes rapid and healthy healing. It allays pain and ammation promptly. Swollen glands, painful aricose veins, wens and bursal enlargements yield | readily to the application of Absorbine, Jr Absorbine, Jr., is made of herbs and ts non- tt ple ~ use anywhere, even by the smallest member of the amily. It Combines Efficiency with Safety Only a few drops of Absorbine, Jr.. are required at each application, which makes it an economical | One ounce of Absorbine, Jr., added to 5% witch hazel makes an antiseptic, general lin’ than ordinary efficacy. Absorbine, Ir., $1.00 @ bottle at most druggists or delivered A Liberal Trial Bottle (me mapaienesr comicbooks.com