Life — October 19, 1916 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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The Sins Articles for the Week-Ender One bottle of chloroform (for the noisy child), NE pneumatic mattress (for the One impossible solitaire puzzle (for th Childr springless bed). entertaining the hostess). 0 e en Odi rone taideS (farnight work) One duplicate key (for the wine meet closet). By, COSMO: HAMILTON One telegraph ‘pad (for. sending the One alarm clock (for rising in time Author of “The Blindness of Virtue” fake telegram). : for dinner). One large roll of bills (for tips). One loaded revolver (for the practical Two “cold” ‘packs of cards (for jake: A Story of Youth’s Temptations bridge). One copy of Live (for personal use). “The Sins of the Children” is a = novel of American family life, illustrating the dangers to young people that come from a lack of knowledge of sex truths. Mr. Hamilton has handled a difficult theme fearlessly but delicately, and a more charm- ‘4 r ing love story than that of big, honest Peter 'M on my way froma thought- Guthrie and Betty Townsend has not been AEG ful man to a thankful maid. told in a long time. While its candor will be . condemned by a few, people conversant , : I carry a message of sweetness with modem thought and literature will ; praise it without reservation, and it will cause and beauty that mere words can: many to ask themselves “Have I done my || ’ Maxtor | not convey. duty b: children?” ileal I ama messenger and a symbol ‘A BOOK WITH A BIG MESSAGE ; known in every nook and come of our continent-covering land. AT ALL BOOKSELLERS if $1.40 NET Little, Brown & Company Publishers Boston Never Tell the Jury What You Really Think ‘OKELS OF THE JURY: When I . gaze upon your stupid faces and if uld think of the low ideals by which you are you wo! governed, I feel convinced that you will . decide this case, despite all I may say, | surprise and please! according to the promptings of prejudice and ignorance. You have had, it is plain, but little experience in the affairs of the Th S 1 : ss world, and that little has been confined i¢ oampler contains a winning to petty transactions. You know next to nothing of the fundamentals of our gov- assortment of those Chocolates ermment, and have absolutely failed to and Confections that have made srasp the principles applicable in the . . present instance. You have heard, with: Whitman’s “Famous Since 1842.” out taking it in, what has been said by the attorneys on both sides; but this is of little moment, as you are incapable of At the nearest distinguishing the false from the true. « > You are at the mercy of a glib tongue, Whitman’s agency hence anything I might say would be (usually the leading idle, as you are sure to follow blindly the last speaker, who in this instance is drug store) or from us the attorney for the other side. There- fore it is with fear and trembling that I for 1.00, Ask for leave my client’s case to your muddle- brained decision, knowing that your be- fogged and crude minds will be totally unable to pierce through the shell of ap- STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, Inc., Philadelphia, u.s.A. Pearances to the kernel of h. Sura ee Se ape clbch Makers of Whitman's Instantaneous Chocolate, Cocoa and Marshmallow Whip comicbooks.com