Life, 1916-10-05 · page 37 of 42
Life — October 5, 1916 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** with a small book review section. The main content includes: **Book Review** (upper left): A brief critical assessment of "The Ultimate Belief" by A. Clutton-Brock, discussing a philosopher who preaches practical life guidance while contradicting his own principles—a mild satire on German philosophical pretension. **Advertisements**: The page is dominated by product ads (Harmony Pipe Blend tobacco, Old Overholt Rye whiskey, Boston Garter socks) typical of Life magazine's revenue model. **Humor Snippets**: Small jokes appear, including one mocking wealthy education ("She has the worst education that could be got for the money") and a final quip about Ptolemy III ordering Life magazine in advance—a self-promotional joke by the publication itself. **A Tool Kit cartoon** (far left): A monkey using tools, likely representing "practical ingenuity." The page reflects early 20th-century American magazine culture: serious literary criticism mixed with consumer advertising and light satirical humor.
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The Latest Books = In the cream: (Continucd from page 586) j colored ane: } aroma selections here presented are amusing | brown tin | aden and offer us a lifelike portrait of the without tell Berlin bourgeois at home. But a little { est more Lucas and a little less Stinde would i have bettered the brew. HE spectacle of a would-be philoso- pher offering a supposedly practical code of life-guidance to the English na- tion, yet rendered so philosophically cross-eyed by the German obsession as to be constantly proving the inefficacy of his own prescription, is what grects us in A, Clutton-Brock’s “ The Ultimate Be- lief (Dutton, $1.00). Yet a doctor's failure to take his own medicine is no proof of its worthlessness, The zclectic reader, while he will find the author's thinking quite satisfied to shirk funda- RICHNESS THAT SHADES INTO MILDNESS - - © - mental explanations, will yet discover much that is suggestively worth while in his partial but, so far as it goes, sound differential synthesis of moral, intellect- ual and esthetic values. Accomplished pipesmokers, when they first taste Harmony Pipe Blend, are a little surprised. Not at its rich, full flavor. Several other high-grade tobaccos give that. But what they never have found in smoking tobacco, yet have always hoped for, is full-bodied richness that is delicately mild. Harmony gives just that flavor—it might be called “rich-mildness"—without even a trace of harsh- ness or discord. Lggatte MysraIilocco Ce HARMONY ®A PIPE BLEND @ If your dealer cannot supply you, enclose 15 cents in stamps, for this full-sized one-eighth pound tin, postage prepaid. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., 212 Fifth Ave., New York. J.B. Kerfoot. BECAUSE it blends just right with charged and other waters. YER: Is de Rich's daughter high! ER: Is de Rich's daughter highly Old Overholt Rye educated? ad Barats aeie if Rye: She has the worst education of a high ball Aged nthe that could be got for the money. wood and bottled in bond, 2m lends a charming, piquant @ —= taste that lingers. Justtryan Old Overholt Highball. * A. OVERHOLT & CO, Pittsburgh, Pa. Boston Garter Gives men more service and more comfort for its cost than anyother article they wear. It's put on and taken off in a jiffy and holds socks neatly and securely. Silk 50; Lisle 25. At your store or by mail postpaid. GEORGE FROST COMPANY Afakers Boston SATTICHUS III was undoubted- ly the greatest of the Ptolemies. His strongest claim to immortality, be- sides his imposing pyramid, is that he never failed to order Lire in advance from his newsdealer. comicbooks.com