Life — October 26, 1916 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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VERY society has a fringe of degen- eracy. We speak of our decadent fashions, our decadent literature, our decadent youth, when in reality we are talking only of the fringes. We sce the fringes displayed in cities, and because, in comparison with the deeper and more fundamental qualities, they have the power of self-advertising, we are likely to be misled, The truth is that there never be- fore was such an earnest purpose on the part of our young people, and never has there been so much real feeling dis- played by our men and women generally over the really important things of life. Consider the number of our college men in the ambulance service in Europe and the extraordinary response to the call of the training camps. Every age is unable to see itself as other ages see it, It is too close to its own line of vision. It is true that with us there are profligacy, recklessness, de- cadence, But there are more really civilized people than ever before gathered to- gether under one governmental roof, and our mechanical contrivances have at- tained such variety of perfections as to blind us to the hearts beating underneath. But the truth is that never have hearts Te Fie ONCE..IN EVERY WOMAN'S LIFE School- Teacher’ Just Published Rex Beach’s Story New Novel “He jumped from bebind a tree and came toward me. He was powerful and desperate R AINBOW S looking. The only thing that saved me was this COLT that brother Bert gave me when = END I took the school here. I THEARM thought then it was absurd y SS oF Law ano onoeR A romance of the Cuban War of to carry a pistol, but I will Independence. Here is all the never again say that it is : aaveran its struggle against the Span- foolish for a woman to own ‘How to Shootsand a“ COLT.” . Catalog No.6 iards, the cruelty and bravery of the contest, a lost treasure, South- ern beauty and love, fighting and filibustering and an Irish-American hero, who was not the kind of man to leave any of it untasted. And, like seeds in the Cuban oranges, humor is in it all. beat so sturdily. Rioting and dissipation $1.98 net among our young people are not nearly so | CHANGE of ADDRESS marked as they were a generation ago. HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK The alcoholic wave is subsiding. The gen- The Post Office docs not forward paper Established 1817 eral effect of our high educational stand- mail to a second address without prepay- ards, the outdoor life, induced by golf, ment of postage. It is essential that notice etnias asia the geval dse’of the motor ‘of change of address should reach us ten EAT AND GROW THIN car, the coming together of different days in advance of the date of the issue. Yence Thompson's practical and interesting book on diet. ki le—all th i Y GO ou can teduce weight talely and comfortably by following and of Pare e euliness thingy: bave LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, these Thousands of men and women are doing it had their effect. 17 West 31st Street, New York + At Booksellezs, €1 net, or from In spite of so many of our obvious illo E. P, DUTTON & CO. surface failings, let us not d te our- on Fuan A Ks, let leprecate our re. Now :Yorks City selves too much. We are a great people.