Life, 1917-12-13 · page 5 of 40
Life — December 13, 1917 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The left side features a **Fownes gloves advertisement** playing on notions of colonial masculinity—referencing the "Cape of Good Hope" and marketing to "officers and civilians." Below that is a section titled **"Dogs and Men"** responding to a New York Tribune suggestion about increasing food conservation. The satire here is dark humor: the writer sarcastically lists benefits if all men were killed (no wars, murders, etc.), then undercuts this with practical observations about dogs' actual utility—they guard families, do draft work, and provide companionship while men sleep. The right side advertises **Virginia Hot Springs resort** and the Homestead Hotel as a winter destination. The cartoon at bottom left shows military figures, captioned "Why Father Joined the Army," though its specific meaning is unclear from this excerpt.
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77 ” Cape —a name derived from the Cape of Good Hope— designates a glove-skin used whole and dressed right- side-out, or “glace”. If it’s a Fownes Cape it designates the genuine Cape skin from Africa, making the smartest, strongest, oest fitting gloves procurable, Washable, too. “Standard equipment” for officers and civilians: — OWNES that’s all you need to know about a GLOVE. *Dogs and Men Referring to a suggestion in the New York Tribune that we kill all the dogs to increase food conservation, Mr. E. B. Peters asks, in that paper: Why not kill all the men? They eat far more than the dogs, and if all the men were killed there would be: No more kings No more wars, No burglars. No murderers. No unhappy marriages, ete. Of course there are some good men; also there are some good dogs, also some useful dogs. Dogs are, at present, saving lives (at the risk of their own) on the battlefield, Doxs are guarding property while their owners sleep, or attend elsewhere to their duties Dogs are guarding women and chil- dren (guarding them from other brutes, often human) while the men are at the front. Dogs take the place of draft animals in many countries (and inereas present), The Esquimaux dogs do all the draft work. There are regions where | have seen them sent a mile or two, with heavy bas- kets, to do the marketing. They are most necessary as herders of sheep. Regarding the current superstition about “rabies” perstition which caused a man recently to throw a of the window of a moving train), New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will tell Mr. Gren- that ont of fifty thousand bites in- ted, in many cases dogs with “virulent rabi & their bitten employees of one in- stance in which the bitee was in the The n recovered of the bite; the dog it was smallest degree inconvenienced.“ that died.” (Another reason why the men should be killed.) HAT is the road to happiness? Sages and philosophers have sought the answer to this world mys tery for centuries. The road has at last been found, aud is deseribed on page 992. MOTHER DP! SON 2% Sor WHY PATHEK JOINED THE ARMY The CURE at 2500 Ft. Elevation The famous connected with VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS Open Alll the Year The celebrated baths—water naturally heated at 106°—offer to sufferers from rheumatism, gout and nervous diseases all the benefits of such European resorts as Carlsbad, Vichy, Aix-le-Bain, Harro- gate and others, now inaccessible on account of the war. Complete hydro-therapeutic apparatus Swedish gymnastics and massage The Hot Air Treatment are all at the service of visitors in a modern Bath House directly The New Homestead Hotel No pins are spared in making THE HOMESTEAD an idee! winter resort The same ste d of excellence in the table and service is maintained through: 1 out the year. A variety of outdoor sports, the location of the hotel and the dimatic conditions make it a unique spot for the Cure, Rest and Recreation. Write for The Homestead Book with complete description. Christian S. Andersen, Resident Manager Hot Springs, Va, Booking Offices: Rite-Carlton Hotels lew York, Philadelphia comicbooks.com