Life, 1916-08-31 · page 4 of 34
Life — August 31, 1916 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and product content** from a 1920s American magazine. The main feature is a **Liberty Six automobile advertisement** ($1,095), emphasizing owner comfort through detailed mechanical features and driving ease. The ad includes a humorous dialogue between a buyer and auto dealers—satirizing salesmen's exaggerated claims about car durability and performance. Above the auto ad is a poem titled **"Hay Fever"** by Christopher Morley, humorously describing the sensory chaos of an allergic reaction using vivid, modernist language ("pinwheels of violet fire"). The page also contains period advertisements for rubber garments, the Biltmore Gardens, and Bell-Ans indigestion remedy—typical 1920s consumer products. There is **no political cartoon** on this page; it's a commercial publication page mixing poetry with product marketing.
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Hay Fever (As Felt by an Imagist) ‘AR aw: In the third-floor-back of my skull I feel a light, airy, prurient, menacing tickling, Dainty as the pattering toes of nautch girls On a polished cabaret floor. Suddenly, With a crescendo like an approaching express train, The fury bursts upon me My brain explodes. Pinwheels of violet fire Whirl and spin before my bloodshot eyes— Violet, puce, ochre, nacre, euchre . . ne p) w & all the other 2 Colors, EF ; Including jade, umber and sienna 4 My ears ring, my soul reels, $70 le) I tingle with agony. . Who invented goldenrod? : I wish I were dead. Aaaaaaarrrrrrhhhaashoooo! The Owner s Interest Liberty Owner- Christopher Morley. The one thought paramount in the minds of Features ‘ase of steering. UYER: That car you sold me is no Liberty builders is the owner's interest. The Le ; 2. Light operating good. result is a remarkable degree of comfort for the balanced clutch. ‘Auro Deaen: Gwan! That car kas passengers and effortless control for the driver. . Powerful brakes— s bul easy operation more records than you can shake a stick at. Beyer: Huh! TI drove it over to ; . Silent and smooth A hundred details usually overlooked are found ait cient and -smooil siaipisai! aid tak ia sbeeke dows only in the Liberty car. They make it the comfort four times. car of owner's interest. Avro Drater: No wonder! A car that le doors. has gone three times around the world Riding Comfort—In the long, easy swing when the 7. Comfortable, wide naturally would be insulted at being g y fe and deep seats—genu- a Dis 8 asked to go a meacely little seven miles. Liberty special spring construction cancels the shock of ine leathe the road; in the perfect balance that enables you to drive 8. Plenty of room. straight ahead over any road; in extra leg room. In the 9. A windshield le, comfortable seats you sit as though in a capacious Weather vtight all chair. You sit in the Liberty not on it. 10. Simplicity of Driving Ease—The Liberty your finger tips. You chassis design. wae ete 11, Beautiful body operate it without effort. The balanced clutch releases lines, long and low. so easily that you can depress it with your finger—still Continental - Liberty it never slips. The foot brake controls with smooth motor, 3/6 x 4%; Tim- dominance. The hand emergency brake may be thrown a axles and bearings ; with one finger, and instantly brings the car to a firm wheelbase Te Taher: stop. The Liberty steers so lightly that it is guided with 32X4 tires, . a touch of the hand. You don't have to r Five-P, Touri exert undue strength. The Liberty meets in advance "Car and Pour Kea your ideals of what a motor car should be. ger Close Coupled Car, $1095. Liberty Motor Car Compan ave td (eb and 4th Sa. tnd Madsen Aw y Detroit pany loved’ ar ; Italian Sunken mete = es Wy, Gardens REDUCE YOUR FLESH His Ultimatum Wear my famous Rubber Garments « few hours a day and sour superfivous Flesh will positively disappear. AN old darky preacher once de- Dr. Jeanne Walter's A Rasseaa Medicated livered a sermon to a congrega- RUBBER GARMENTS tion from whom he hoped to receive a Sr oy rat Thy ond call. After the services the elders of | 2.) fee _ the church conferred with the candi- = v date and asked, among other things, if he ever preached with notes. Abso l ute 1 y R em Oo ves “Now, gentlemen,” he said, “I tell a bps nelcgeereneaael you, I use ter preach wid notes, but 1 * s Bast Redoce, Price $5.00 _DM- JEANNE G. WALTER doan do it any more, I’se got ter have Indigestion. One package Sigingraibervinecomeece | 92° Arey Saree de cash.” proves it. 25c at all druggists. comicbooks.com