Life, 1917-02-15 · page 5 of 42
Life — February 15, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: **Left side:** A hotel advertisement for the Hollendon in Cleveland, and a poem titled "To the Littlest of All" by Arthur Guterman celebrating small things. Below is an illustration showing children with what appears to be a catch-key scenario. **Center/Right:** An editorial titled "No Use" arguing that efforts to eliminate poverty have failed despite attempts by professors, practical men, and society women. It concludes cynically that poverty persists because efforts prove ineffective. **Bottom:** A Standard Oil Company advertisement for "Nujol," a laxative product, featuring a photograph of soldiers in a trench (likely WWI-era) and promoting the product as treatment for constipation—a common wartime complaint among troops. The page juxtaposes social commentary about poverty with commercial appeals.
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The Center of the City DRAW a line through the best theaters in Cleveland, and it will make an irregular circle, with the Hollenden Hotel at the center. Consider the shopping, financial and business districts, and you will again find the Hollenden most ad- vantageously situated. Fight hundred rooms; service and i unexcelled; Club Breakfasts, ncheons and Dinners; good music d many individual characteristics. European plan, with bath: For one person, $2 to $s. For two persons, $3 to $6. With twin beds, $4 to $6. Suites at various prices. Cleveland (_) To the Littlest of All LITTLE songs are prettiest, Little tales are wittiest; The little, little, little cloud Is whitest in the west; Little brooks are tunefullest, Little lakes are moonfullest ; The little, little, little trail Can climb the mountain best. Little rooms are cosiest, Little hands are rosies: The little, little, little home Is*Heaven’s dearer part. Little wiles can charm a man, Little smiles disarm a man; A little, little, little maid Can nestle in his heart. Arthur Guiterman, MOTHER, BABY SWALLOWED THE Y! RUT IT’S ALL RIGHT—I TIED No Use HERE is no use trying to abate poverty. We have tried and tried and tried. And our professors have thought and thought and thought. And our practical men have neglected profits so that they might turn their attention to the problem. And our society women have foregone bridge and tangoing in order that they might help. And our middle-class masses have stayed home from Coney Island in order to lucubrate upon the matter. But, in spite of all this unremitting sacrifice, poverty refuses to be dislodged. This is, of course, very impolite and inconsiderate of poverty, but the fact is there, and we cannot be expected to go on forever wasting our energies on such stub- bornness. 'HE only cats that do not have nine lives are those that worry about what is going to happen in the other eight. FIGHTING TRIM WHETHER your battle is fought in the trenches, behind an office desk or in the home you need to keep fit. It’s comparatively easy for the soldier to keep up to scratch, The civil- ian—man or woman—hasa harder task, Sedentary habits, Insufficient exercise, too much food and too much harry about eating it, combine to cause a more or less chronic condition of constipation, Don’t think you can dispose of constipation with a cathartic pill. Lax- atives and cathartics cause more constipation than they cure and their persistent use is likely seriously to undermine your health, NUJOL relieves constipation effectively and has none of the objections whicharecommon toalldrug remedies, Itacts asan internal lubricant, preventing the bowel contents from becoming hard and facilitating the , normal processes of evacuation, NUJOL, put op in pint bottles only, fs sold at all drug stores, Refuse substitutes—look for the name NUJOL on bottle and package. Dept, 15 STANDARD OIL COMPANY (New Jersey) Bayonne New Jersey Send for booklet “THE RATIONAL TREATMENT OF CONSTIPATION.” Write your name and address plainly below. - Address. City. -State. comicbooks.com