Life — November 23, 1916 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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And yet the disease is not difficult to cure by physicians who understand therapeutics, nor is it, in the opinion of many, any more contagious than bunions—Homocopathic Envoy. ‘AFETY first!” exclaimed Mr. Prudent Wiseman as he stepped into his newsdealer’s and gave him standing instructions to put aside a copy of Lire every Tuesday morning, so that Mr. Wiseman would never be informed that Lire was “ sold out.” Ir Constantine ever loses his job as king he ought to be able to make a good living as a cabinet maker. —Boston Transcript, Pe ey enn ee ee ae Unlimited Impudence 5 The political doctors tell us that your health is no longer a personal matter. Their aim, and unfortunately they are succeeding, is to compel you and your family to submit to their dictation, Wit- ness the arrogant way in which they have made infantile paralysis a contagious dis- ease, even while admitting they know knothing about the origin, treatment, or - . spread of the disease, a disease that has ‘* He rastled with my finger—the d---d little cuss’”’ prevailed, more or less, in hot weather for many years, No one ever dreamed doa 50 a ago an, unknown ung man wrote a story. In a flash it made him ‘ ” of its being “catching,” but it was a famous. The story was “ The Luck of Roaring Camp.” The author was Bret Harte; fine opportunity for getting a stronger then an impressionable young man, fresh from the mining camps of California. hold: on. the ‘public, and.'so tbe: scare “The Luck of Roaring Camp’ would have Selected Stories—the ones that have stood the methods were worked to the limit. beaten a path to the door of any writer, It test of time. They are in four handsome green Thousands of men have been given jobs won with its common humanity as the Luck cloth bindings—4o wonderful short stories. —four hundred in one city—to “fight” won the sin-blackened hearts of Roaring As you read each story you will lay down an ill, as said before, about which Camp. Roaring Camp was a rough mining the volume and say, “Well, he can't possibly 4 the political doctors admit they know town at the foot of the Sierras. A woman of beat that one”—Presto! The next is even nothing. Citizens are no longer free with the town dies in her travail and her soul climbs more thrilling, closing with a bang—leaving their families but must meekly go to the that rugged road that led to the stars, and so you laughing and sometimes blinking your eyes 1 medical politicians for permission to passed out of Roaring Camp, its sin a shame ties tow tw Gr bet te Foar Vol . + fs on forever.” Her baby lives. ¢ male contin- low You ‘our FREE travel with their families. If this ruth- gent of the camp answers its new born wail, = Feet Volomes, FREE less sand-bagging of liberty did any good And little baby fingers clutch tough hearts ‘Send ‘ten cents with the coupon on this page there would be no serious objection to with surprising results. —coin or stamps will do. On receipt of your it, but all these men know about han- Maybo you have read this famous story; S0UPO", the four Bret Harte volume will be maybe you have finished it with tears in your *"ipped you, carriage charges prepaid. , eyes, and your heart pounding? Maybe you Your name will be entered for an 18 months’ y a * subscription for Metropolitan and also Mc- promised yourself some time—some day—you t Me 1 ; would get the rest of Bret Harte’s great Clure’s. (Subscriptions may be either new or ies, “M'liss,” “The Outcasts of Poker "enewal.) alomy Jane's Kiss,” and a host of Then you pay $1.00 a month for four months others. Well, here you have your chance! ~~$4.00—that's all! This pays for your maga- 7 The Metropolitan has just completed arrange- ments with the Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston, Bret Harte’s authorized publishers, fora special 4-volume edition of Bret Harte’s zines and you pay less than newsstand prices. The books are yours, free. If you prefer to pay all at once—send only $3. Tear out and mail coupon today. posooscsscccose---- METROPOLITAN, 432 Fearth Avense, New York, N. Y. Life, 11-2316 T enclote 10 cents. Please send me Bret Harte's Best Stories te four vol harges prepaid. Also eater my subscription for Metropolitan asd McClu T agree to pay $1.00. 2 month for four months, which T understand pays 1s. "The books are mine free. 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