Life, 1916-08-24 · page 36 of 42
Life — August 24, 1916 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page primarily contains **fiction and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main text is a continuation of a story titled "Yellow" depicting a soldier in combat—likely from World War I or a similar conflict—experiencing psychological breakdown. The narrative describes a man firing a rifle repeatedly, growing increasingly detached and mechanically violent, until a baby's cry breaks his composure. The advertisements include: - **Havone Cigarette Cases** (luxury goods for the refined gentleman) - **Grace-Mildred Culture Course** (hair/scalp treatments) - **Horlick's Malted Milk** (nutritional drink) The small illustration at bottom right, captioned "Wife: OF COURSE YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD, BUT LOOK AT THE VIEW YOU'VE GOT," appears to be a domestic humor cartoon showing a woman at a window—likely satirizing working-class aspirations or marriage dynamics. The page reflects early 20th-century Life magazine content: serious literary fiction alongside consumer advertising and mild domestic satire.
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WARDEN.” Yellow (Continued from page 325) shoved the rifle over the square stone base and felt for the trigger. A dark figure left a pile of rock on the slope and started across to the ’dobes. He pulled the trigger. The figure rose up in the air and fell on its head. He laughed. The lump went out of his throat. All around him the night became a roaring intermittent flame that held no human note. Across the road and down the slope dark forms flitted across the patches of moonlight. He pulled the trigger again. The gun didn’t kick. He filled the magazine, wondering how it had got empty so quick. He didn’t think he had fired but once; he couldn’t remember pull- ing the trigger but once. He shoved the rifle out again and searched for the point on the muzzle. Then it came. That sudden silence, that unaccount- able dead stopping of all sound; that instantaneous hush in the roar of battle when every gun is still, The world stood still. For just an zon of a moment the earth lay dead, Then somewhere behind him a baby wailed. He jumped to his feet! He didn't hear Bert Rowe's yells or Billy’s downward waving, frantic hand. All he saw was the bright sights on the rifle that swung from side to side against the blacker spots that moved in the shadows. All he felt was the increasing kick of the dirty gun, and the wail of the child in his brain. Even the dull throb in his stomach didn’t matter, From side to side he jerked the complaining rifle and pulled the trigger. Around him the whining lead beat a staccato roar on the stone wall. Twice he emptied the magazine, and twice he refilled it. Once he slipped on a shell and laughed. After that he tried not to laugh—it hurt his stomach. His head ached and his right arm was getting weak from the kick of the gun, but somehow it didn’t matter. His legs were getting shaky at the knees where they pressed against the parapet. He shook off his hat and turned his eyes up the bay. Away, on the darker HE man on the Avenue—par- cular in everything—has en- thusiastically welcomed the Havone Cigarette Case. The mussiness of the ordinary case—with its fingered contents— cigarettes crushed, bent and broken —never appealed to his sense of fitness. The Havone keeps his ciga- rettes clean and straight—eac! in a separate compartment—and adds immeasurably to the grace of ‘‘ passing the smokes.’ The Havone is filled as easily and quickly as the ordinary case. Havone Cigarette Cases are made in Ster- ling Silver-plate, in Solid Sterling, 10K Gold and 14K Gold—Prices, $5 up. It_your dealer hasn’t stocked up on the HAVONE, send us $5 and we will mail you one direct—either plain finished, or with monogram spot, or one of the all-over pat- terns. At any rate, send us your name on @ postcard for one of our handsome cata- logues. HAVONE CORPORATION Dept. C The Top of Your Head should be covered with anatural growth of hair, and it can be —if roots are not dead. Dandruff can be removed and 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 21-23 Maiden Lane NEW YORK Origi | Malted Milk Nourishing Delicious = ne ei The powder dissolves in water. ‘Needs no coo D it on hand. The 0 gooking-Ke rink for all ages. More nourishing than tea, coffee, etc. | In the home, or at Hotels and Cafes. Wife: OF COURSE YOU HAVE TO WORK Substitutes cost YOU Same Price. HARD, BUT LOOK AT THE VIEW YOU'YE COT. eomicdooks.com Rich Milk, Malted grain extract in powder. For Infante, Invalide and growing children. Pure nutrition, upbuilding the whole body. Invigorates nursing mothers, and the aged.