Life — August 23, 1917 — page 37: what you’re looking at

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Cubist Poems (After Gertrude Stein) Katser Winners IT A WITHERED arm and a withered conscience. Blood and ambition and a red welter. Madness and an arrogant mu I must I must I will I can I s\ Lody else shall. All all Tam must have all. What price, any price, get get kill murder ruin T must T must and shall, A trained mustache and a death’s head. Friend Gott partner Gott good little Gott my own nice little Gott me and. Gott a little of Gott and a lot of me. Down down bear down pull down A sea ott wreck destroy maim sacrifice. of blood and ruined altars but with us. Madness and a mustach trainer. Grorcr Creri. A tortuous twisting is leading to an evasive nothing. Abracadabra and presto chango! One egg is a flock of chickens and a run around the block is a battle. There was a something and now there is a nothing plus a Sceretary of the Navy. Touch me not, touch me not! Nasty newspapers, horrid reporters and pry- ing and unpatriotic inquisitiveness. I know, I know, I know. Thou knowest not, he knows not, nobody knows nothing naughty naughty nasty! Corkscrews, spiral staircases and helical convolutes Jobbery blobbers Ema Gotpman Blow, blow, blow! Toot! Toot! Hot air, warm air, stagnant air, foul air. Howl and kick, kic nd howl. A musty and a moldy violence, tumultuousness redness riot Bombs and and trouble, anarchy and an absence of baths. There an ocean of talk with sear- let fog and crimson waves. Down with everything! K. 1. Roberts. A SAFE AND SANE FOURTH The Primeval Fight! In the trackless forest he fought the great cnemy—day after day. There in the wilder- tles this earth Nature, cruel, relentless, ever vigilant—man, weak, alone, determined ! Down through the ages has come that struggle. Today we are knowing the joy of the conqueror It is this struggle that has developed our race. To it we owe all that we are. No longer must we fight for the bare chance to live—we havi gressed further than that, but nature is most fascinating, the most dramatic thing we have ever known, Don't be one of those to whom such wonders mean nothing. ch flower, each bird has had its struggle sainst great odds, These struggles and battles were a part of our own great battles. Learn about them understand more clearly the marvelous struggle of man- kind to develop. has ever seen. & LITTLE NATURE LIBRARY 4 remarkable volumes— 1200 pages—144 page illustrations in full color. FLOWERS WORTH KNOWING Life grows dull and uninteresting only when , Neltje Blanchon has write we forget nature. Turn back to it—to all its astonishing devices—to its absorbing mysteries: to its exciting battles. These things are around you—at your very door. You have only to look about you to find the whole world teeming with romance and adventures. There is so much, you don’t know where to hegin. These hooks have been written to guide you—to point out nature’ most fascinating secrets—ta tell you its most interesting storie: The four volumes are TREES WORTH KNOWING | Julia Ellen Rogers, the famous expert on trees, tells you about them. BIRDS WORTH KNOWING Neltje Blanchon has written about the birds. | No name in all the literature of nature stands | higher than the book on 07 BUTTERFLIES WORTH KNOWING Clarence M. Weed, the celebrated naturalist and teacher, describes butterflies for you. “What bird is that?” “I never saw that tree hefore.” How often do we say these things, and wish we had something that would identify them These books tell you. Get acquainted with the hingfis about the mocking bird besides the < W the haunts of the th the shade o c it? Would you know Learn Know tisite my thing his nt hickory of sithy path by recognizing the gaily colored terilies Hecome friendly with the flowers. Le know Rouncing Met and Wild Hyssop modest Gentian be your friend, This Low Price for a Limited Time Only and ink is greater than before. It is still going higher. Rut be high it will tmally soar we are ge the low price. When it is gone If you want these delightful books—at the coupon without money” and. se cannot promise to supply you an Send it toc DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. GARDEN CITY NEWYORK rich, green clot gold on the back and si Za “full ‘color illustrat wings re we know how The cost of p inary hooks at ow. Send 47 Otherw IPlease send bo 1 TNa Address... ver edition change the ai 18 La sosith for nine moni © For one ham Bternes to 5 comicbooks.com