Life, 1918-12-05 · page 10 of 76
Life — December 5, 1918 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: 1. **Virginia Hot Springs resort advertisement** - promoting a health spa as a winter destination 2. **"The Homestead" hotel advertisement** - showing a pastoral resort landscape in Hot Springs, Virginia 3. **"A New Idea in Binders"** - promoting a LIFE magazine storage binder with gilt cover design 4. **"Pancho" - a Christmas poem** by Charlotte Becker about a children's dog who dies in military service ("died for France"), framed as sentimental wartime content 5. **Accompanying illustration** showing Santa Claus with a child, with dialect-heavy caption ("yer gotter let me wipe yer nose") The page reflects **early 20th-century commercial publishing** mixed with patriotic, sentimental holiday content. No obvious political satire is present.
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Virginia Hot Springs | Wy) 5 Open All The Year ser Society’s Favorite Cure 812 “CHRISTMAS LIFE: Here amidst sheltering hills, riding, golf and tennis flourish through- out a bracing, zestful winter. Waters that in curative properties equal the renowned Ai make this American cure the peer of Europe's famous wateri for treatment of nervous disorders, gout, rheumatism, obesity, and similar troubles. Society and business executives gather here to enjoy the unsurpassed benefits of this perfectly equipped cure amidst all the comforts of a com pletely appointed private home. Just over night from Washington. Reservations can be made at the Ritz-Carlton Hotels, New York and Philadelphia. Write for the Home- stead Book. Address A CHRISTMAS EVE DREAM THE H OM ES TEA D WHAT THE WORLD WANTS MOST OF ALL Christian S. Andersen, Resident Manager HOT SPRINGS cs VIRGINIA Pancho E was the children’s friend, he drew their cart, Joined in their games and guarded them all day As their light feet run swift to work or play; And they enlisted him to do his part, When the plea came for dogs to train and start For active service; so he marched away, His great brown eyes and coat of shaggy gray Enshrined for always in each childish heart. They watched the post to gather news of him— Three times his deeds were cited, then there came A letter, bearing-a great general's name, Which made their wistful eyes with proud tears brim: “ Saving,” he wrote, “a regiment's advance, Pancho, a gallant poilu, died for France.” Charlotte Becker. IDEA IN BINDERS Until now LIFE has never’been able to supply its readers with an entirely satisfactory binder for the convenient and safe preser- vation of the copies of the journal. The new invention expands or contracts at will, and makes a convenient volume to handle as well as being very simple in operation. It is handsomely made, the outside being black Art Buckram with cover design in gilt, and is made to hotd a full year’s copies ° i Sent post free to any address in the United States on receipt of $1.50 LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West Thirty-first Street New York City “JOHNNY, YER COTTER LET ME WIPE YER NOSE IF YER WAN’ ME TER LET YER KISS SANTA CLAUS”