Life — January 18, 1917 — page 35: what you’re looking at

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The Latest Books LUNCHED yesterday between trains at the Junction, with Jack Lait’s “Beef, Iron and Wine” (Doubleday, Page, $1.25) for company between bites. The young lady behind the counter had Chow-colored hair and a Pekingese pout, and when she had played “ Thirty cents” for me on the cash register she came to a point in front of the book. “I thought that was a medicine,” said she. “It is,” said I, “It's a tonic.” “ Whatcha giving me?” said the young lady. “ That comes in a bottle, and I've taken it meself.” “Te used to,” said I, “but this man Lait Lou S - has put it up in book form—handy doses with a kick apiece.” “Ah, g’wan!” said she. And just then my train whistled, and I g'went. I'm sorry, for she prob. | || CHAMPAGNE ably thought I was fooling her. And I wasn’t. FRANCE HE SHINING ADVENTURE” (Harpers, $1.30), by another talent- cd young newspaper man, Dana Burnet, is the story of a small boy who robs the china-pig savings bank in his Gramercy Park nursery, buys the Park from an 7 old gardener with part of the contents, GI. Fi; adventures across Third. Avenue in ve SF inest search of slum-citizens for his new do- G main (he had pocketed the key to the J d. | Park when he left home), and, after two coduct that days of eventful recruiting in O'Connor's ~~ Alley, returns with an enthusiastic fol- Qloan has dzawn lowing just in time to upset a parlor conference of highbrow charity-mongers. The book goes easy on “beef” and fom Vature ? iron,” and analyzes at least seven per cent. of the alcohol of sentimentality ; but it has the bubbly wine of life in it. Brut Specrau: Cuvee VINTAGE 1904-1906 As Reservep For Great Brirain Erected easily and quickly. Taken d eae Granp Vin Sec (Brown Laser) pe ee ere f, timeproof. Wonderfully tor today naeeeeee | oes ‘The Edwards Manufacturing ace 1206-1386 Eggleston Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio a N these days when you see an extra = oe es thick novel with mothing but a man's ? name for a title, you naturally fear that ALLEN’S FOOT=EASE}) ec%scc‘scokea to meet the hero in the The Antiseptic Powder to Shake Into Your Shoes cradle; to tag him through school and college; to attend him in sixteen love and sprinkle in the Foot-Bath. : . takes the sting out of corns and bun: aflairs—two before and thirteen after nd ions, the friction from the shoe marriage—and will even then only get qe de ing, swollen feet. Nothing relieves him settled temporarily, at the beginning H if eee lgen rot Hektor age ehsesioa of what he takes to be a new life, while Te erbert gig au ene ka ate areyton Mrored Ty seoree enone fon be fooled by “Richard Richard” (Penn all over the world. Try it to-day and Publishing Company, $1.35), by Hughes London Cigarettes an, Don’t accept any substitute, Mearns. It isn't that kind at all. It be- oki 's TRIAL PACKAGF. git ii ii . rotttxe W FREE TRiau fackacr. gins, whack! in the middle; develops a | Herbert Taner ton London ca ing Mixture gives rest and comfort to tired, ach- genuine relief, Allen's Foot= Ease the sequel is being written. But do not Don't Satter, be comfortable. Sold everywhere, 25¢. romantic mystery; plays “ Mother, may T % 1b. 5 Sample upon reauert ALLEN: S.\OLMSTED, La Roy.\N.'¥- go out to swim?” with psycho-analysis; | Palp Tobacco Co. , 58Wes ‘COMmIGDOOKSFEom