Life, 1918-05-23 · page 38 of 40
Life — May 23, 1918 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct elements: **Left column**: Two advertisements—one for *The Christian Science Monitor* (promoting unbiased news reporting) and one titled "Tie 'Em Up!" A humorous piece satirizing vigorous elderly men (naming Chauncey Depew, Clemenceau, Cardinal Gibbons, John D. Rockefeller, and others) whose continued activity and influence the author jokingly suggests should be "restrained" lest younger men follow their example. The accompanying cartoon shows men in outdoor pursuit, illustrating the theme. **Right side**: An advertisement for *"Ladies from Hell"* by R.D. Pinkerton—a war memoir about the London Scottish Regiment (identifiable by their kilts, which Germans allegedly called them by this nickname). Published by Century Co., it promises firsthand accounts of WWI combat written during the conflict itself. The page primarily functions as advertising rather than political satire, though the "Tie 'Em Up!" piece contains gentle humor about generational differences and the energy of prominent American figures.
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“It Wears Well” How much satisfaction do you get from a newspaper ? Do you put it down with a confident feeling you have learned the exact facts of the principal recent occurrences that have taken place through- out the world? Do you find therein information of sufficient interest to warrant pass- ing your newspaper along or cause you to save it to read again? Do its statements speak with authority ? The readers of The Christian Science Monitor can answer these queries in the affirmative because this great international daily newspaper has its own reporters all over the world gathering true stories of daily events, which are published uncon- taminated by personal opinion or biased conclusion. The Christian Science Monitor, 3c a copy, is on general sale throughout the world at news stands, hotels and Christian Science reading-rooms. A monthly trial subscription by mail anywhere in the world for 7Sc, a sample copy on request. THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY BOSTON U.S.A Sole publishers of all authorized Christian Science literature. Tie ‘Em Up! OMETHING will soon have to be done with our frisky old men Many of them are so active that un- less they are reasonably restrained their example may spread to the sleepy young fellows of forty and fifty Take the octogenarian. What shall be done with human dynamos over cighty like Chauncey Depew, Premier Clemenceau, Cardinal Gibbons, Ex- AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE “WHAT MAKES YOU THINK THIS ARMY WOKM 1S AN OFFICE! “Me's THE KERNEL OF THAT NUT.” President Eliot, Lyman Abbott, Henry M. Alden, Uncle Joe Cannon, not to mention General Horace Porter and William D. Howells? As for the younger fry who are between seventy and eighty, certainly they need looking after. Think of John Wanamaker, ator Clark, John D, Rockefeller, ‘ah Bernhardt and Edward Payson Weston, who recently walked across the continent to keep himself in condi- tion, A society for the protection and ton- ing down and curbing and inhibiting and duly restraining these “bad” old men ought to be formed at once If we don't do something, there'l! be no living with them. The grub that makes the butter fly is, as everyone kn . a@ buck- wheat cake, but the thing that makes gloom disperse is an annual subscrip- tion to La “LADIES from HELL” By R. D. PINKERTON This is war. Mr. Pinkerton was a member of the now famous London Scottish Regiment, which went into the fight- ing at the very beginning. called the Scotchmen in through their lines. The from the Marne on, Mr. “Ladies from Hell” the Germans kilts or skirts who came tearing Scots were in the thick of things . Pinkerton came to know war for what it is. The first draught of the entire book was done in the midst of the terrific conflict, and the book has captured the very atmosphere of the Western Front. The reader will re-live, with the author, in minutest detail, his months of training and fighting; the reader will become a comrade in arms of the captivating “Ladies from Hell.” his Scotchman flashes that tremble in viv poet at heart. There are in his book idness against the tremendous black background. And at the end the reader will know more of what war is—its horrors and its splendors—than he ever knew before, unless he already has been at the heart of the greatest event of modern times. Mlustrated from photographs. Price $1.50. Published by THE CENTURY CO. new York city PETER J. CAREY, PRINTER comicbooksen