Life, 1918-07-25 · page 34 of 36
Life — July 25, 1918 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not political satire. The main content includes: **Left side**: A Waterbury Radiolite watch advertisement emphasizing its luminous radium hands and affordability ($5-6), marketed as a practical timepiece. **Center**: Book reviews listing recent publications on WWI-related topics—novels about Belgium's destruction, war experiences, and works on President Wilson and Russian politics (Rasputin, Revolution). **Bottom left**: A moral verse from Proverbs attributed to the Kansas City Star, condemning pride, lies, and bloodshed—likely an anti-Kaiser editorial statement, given its placement alongside war-focused book reviews. **Right side**: Hair removal product advertisements (Evans's Depilatory Outfit) and Cuticura skincare ads. The page reflects **wartime America** (circa 1918): commercial normalcy coexists with serious engagement with WWI literature and implicit moral judgment against German aggression through the biblical passage.
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Waterbury Radiolite HIS is the stylish small size watch, a jeweled movement en- cased in solid nickel. Itisstaunchly construct- ed on the soundest princi- ples of watch making. Real Radium makes the sub- stance on the ds and fig- ures glow the time in the dark. The luminosity is guaranteed for the life of the watch. The Waterbury Radiolite sells for $5.00. In a high-grade English pigskin wrist strap it sells for $6.00. ROBT.'H, INGERSOLL & BRO. 315 Fourth Avenue New York Boston Chicago San Francisco Montreal An Address to the Kaiser These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood. An heart that deviseth wicked imagina- tions, feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. —Proverbs vi, 16-19. —The Kansas City Star. Books Received Fiction The Time Spirit, by J. C. Snaith. (D. Appleton & Co., $1.50.) A_ romantic social comedy of pre-war days in Eng- land. The Unpardoneble Sin, by Rupert Hughes. (Harper & Brothers, $1.50.) A dramatization of the ruin of Belgium in the story of an American girl in search of her mother and sister. The Point of View, by M. G. D. Bian- chi. (Duffield & Co., $1.50.) A novel dealing with the humanizing effect of the war in terms of two futile persons who tried to rationalize the New England conscience. Paulownia, ‘Translated by Torao Take- tomo. With a foreword by John Erskine. (Duffield & Co., $1.25.) A unique collec- tion of seven Japanese stories and sketches from three contemporary writers of distinction. The Smiting of the Rock, by Palmer Bend. (G. P. Putnam's $ An adventurous story of life and char- acter in the unsettled regjon of Oregon. Mimi, by J. U. Giesy. (Harper & Brothers, 75 cents.) A. war-time love story staged in the student quarter of Paris. History and Biography President Wilson's State Papers and Addresses. With an introduction by Albert Shaw. (George H. Doran Com pany, $2.) A compact volume of the President's official utterances and other contributions to political thought. The Real Colonel House, by Arthur D. Howden Smith. (George H. Doran Com- pany, $1.50.) A portrait of Colonel House and an account of his work in American politics and international di- plomacy, with a sidelight on President Wilson and his policies. Rasputin and the Russian Revolution, by Princess Catherine Radziwill, (John Lane Company, $3.) The story of Ras- putin and the revolutionary drama as re- counted behind the scenes. Feodor Vladimir Larrovi by William George Jordan and RB son Wright. (The Authors’ Club, New York, $21) Chapters on the life and work of Larrovitch, originally read at the Authors’ Club centenary of his birth. The War in France, by Ring (The Bobbs-Merrill Com The laughable adventures of a baseball reporter on a trip to Paris and the fighting front. Mobilizing Woman-Power, by Harriot Stanton Blatch. Foreword by Theodore Roosevelt. (The Woman's Press, New York, 25.) A summary of the war for American women and an account of women’s war-work in England, France and Germany. AN on at Bay, by Sergeant Ruth S. Farnam. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, $1.50.) The war experiences of an American woman who volunteered for active service in Serbia German Plans for the Next War, by J. B. W. Gardiner, (Doubleday, Page & How to remove hair i in 5 minutes Pour only enough pow« the bowl for immediate Add a little water. Work the depilatory water into a smooth, paste with the horn spo Spread, the paste evenly and thickly over the hair. Leave it | on_a few moments _ Then wash it off and apply ans’s Soothing Cream. Your druggist sells this too. The skin stays hair-free and velvety smooth for a long time. . At drug or department stores or sc with the order direct to 1108 Che Chestnut Street Fil Depilatory * Outfit 75c. ‘Reans's Depilatnrs Peardter A brief account of German ialistic aims and ambitions » World Peace and After, by Cal Grabo. (Alfred A. Knopf, $1.) Aq essay on the new internati industrial and political democracy The Structure of Lasting Peace, by Kallen, (Marshall Jones Company, s.) A pragmatic thesis for a demo- cratic commonwealth of nations. Draft Convention for League of } tions, by 1 Group of American Jo and Publicists. Description and co’ by Theodore Marburg. (The Ma Company, 25 cents.) The edited text of a tentative Draft Convention framed on the prospectus of the Le: Peace. NE long-range German gun didn't do much towards bringing war to an end when it landed its pro- jectiles ina Paris church. If someone could only shoot about ten thousand annual subscriptions to Lire into German people this might end t Hohenzollerns and the war at the same time. Rely On Cuticura For Skin Troubles All drugatsts; Soap, Ointment 2 &{0, Taleo 2 Sample each free of *Cuticara, Dept. B, Bestoo. “The New South’ esti “The agro on mt uct D a