Life — September 20, 1917 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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“He had a dream and it shot him!” | RIGHTENED—ragged—dirty—the boy stood. It was | midnighs and the doctor, waked up from sleep, demanded | —“But how did they shoot him?” The boy trembled—stut- tered. “He had a dream and it shot him.” Don’t you remember it—how that boy was Huck Finn— and how Tom Sawyer was shot—and Huck’s preposterous, terrified explanation? ~ How it rolls back the years! How it carries you back to the day, when as a youngster you read and read Huckleberry Finn until you nearly died laughing. Have you read Huck Finn this year and realized its bigness philosophy—its sadness—all those things, which now to you, become so mixed with the laughter of youth? For Mark Twain was the most serious of all our writers —he was a great fighter for freedom, for lib- erty, for ideals. MARK TWAIN 25 VOLUMES “He traveled always such a broad and brilliant high- way with plumes flying and crowds following after"— and his death left nations weeping. But in a larger sense he is not dead. He lives forever in work more BOYS’ STORIES Remember that Tom Saw: only one of the boous” in which ” Mark Twain shows his wonder- ful of boys. No one has ever written of boys as has Mark ‘Twain, HISTORY Read “Joan of Arc” if ou would know Mark Stain in all his greatness Some Objections to Medical Inspection ICAL inspection promotes vae- nation, which is a prolific source many diseases, besides being a cause of injury to the eyes and teeth. Medical inspection is a step in the di- rection of compulsory med ical treatment. Medical inspection is 4 al and sur- graft promo- tive of increased political power and increased taxation. Medical inspection causes many un- necessary and injurious operations to be performed Medical inspection is an interference with ental and family rights and ption of the rnment Prussianizes our cone functions of the gov Medical inspection utilizes — the schools for a purpose for which they were not intended and which is not within their legitimate scope. Medic; is a step toward the universal medical inspection of the entire population and ical treat- al inspection of school children compulsory medical and su ment of the entire population, which would destroy the spirit of individual liberty. Diagnosis of disease is largely guess- work, particularly when attempted by the class of physicians that are em- ployed as medi inspectors, and therefore medical inspection is apt to lead to positively injurious treatment. Porter F. Co, UST before the gifted but unhappy Mary, Queen of Scots, entered upon her imprisonment at Fotheringay Cast she made sure of keeping up her spirits by sending the moncy for a year's sub- scription to Lire truly American than that of any other man. RUDYARD KIPLING, writing to the most important officials in India, said: “I have seen Mark Twain this golden morning, have shaken his hand, and smoked a cigar—no, two cigars with him, and talked with him for more than two hours! Understand clearly that I do not despise you; indeed I don't. Iam only very sorry for you, from the Viceroy downward. Perhaps you think you have read a good deal of Mark Twain. Are you sure? Have you read all the novels? All-the short stories? All the brilliant fighting essays— all the history? Why the Price Must be Raised To Mark Twain two things were precious above all others— one was a love for his wife—the other was a love of the pe HARPER & ve, At every side be was surrounded by tributes of honor. by —f BROTHERS Joyous affection. In every corner of the world he was known a and loved. And because of this it was his desire that his / Msrpecbag ta! York Hooks te so, made and sold at such alow price that every” / Mase Sead ane family could own a set \ A So this set of id at'amuch + VORKS. 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ROMANCE Everything he wrote was touched with the goléen freshness of youth and romance whether in su books as "The | Pr and the Pauper” — Connecticut Yankee “Roughing It.” SHORT STORIES They are so many and so good ESSAYS He could not see injus- fice without fighting it The flame of his anger seared and burst forth in essays that will live for- ever 0 within five h for TRAVEL You have not seen the world until you see it through | Mark "Twain's | next edition the price must he higher. Name .... wise humorous eyes. If you send the coupon at once you canhave His books of wanderings your set at the low price—but send the cou- 4 Address .. see —will be revelations to you now who read them only in your youth. ee iene 7 For our beautiful sed half eather Harper & Brothers)’ giorno ter 1817 NEW YORK 1917 7 twenty months. = TiTH J. CAREY, PRINTER MENTAL GOLF comicbookssmy