Life, 1918-12-19 · page 4 of 34
Life — December 19, 1918 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a full-page ad for GEM Damaskeene Razor's "Khaki Service Outfit" — a shaving kit marketed to soldiers and sailors during wartime (likely WWI era, given the military context). The left side shows illustrations of soldiers/sailors with shaving equipment. The ad's appeal emphasizes "American ways" and practicality for military personnel "at home, abroad, or on the seas." The right side contains "Rhymed Reviews," a literary column reviewing William Beebe's "Jungle Peace." This is editorial content, not satire. The page number "920" and "LIFE" masthead confirm this is from Life magazine's advertising-heavy format. No significant political cartoon or satire appears here.
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920 Yankee Ways Win Out MILITARY N° 7 DAMASKEENE RAZOR Khaki Service Outht There’s a “*get-there’’ quality in American ways —a punch, an ‘‘edge’’, like the edge of the famous GEM Blade that gets there when a soldier or sailor wants a quick, comfortable smooth shave. ‘The little GEM Khaki Service Outfit is the constant companion of our boys, wherever they may be, at home, abroad, or on the seas—compact, light-weight, dependable, durable—wins out everywhere on its merits. The Gem way has won out for over a quarter of a century—millions of Gems in use today. . . - / Complete Brighten his Xmas My. Compact wtha GAL ; $ GEM i 1 i 00 Outfit Trea Maree bas Complete Add S0¢. to abore prices, jor Canada Gem Cutlery Company, Inc., New York Canadian Branch, 591 St. Catherine St., W. Montreal Little Boy Angel: 11 HAVE ANY SATE ROY Rhymed Reviews Jungle Peace (Ry William Beebe. Heur ET every feathered biped s The praise of Mr. Wil Whose hooks have taught m tell \ Cassowary from a Pheebe Who captured Pheasants br: re Among the Thibetans and B Who winged his flight: thr sper air, . And scattered bombs on hostile Ger- nown the toils of War. sium, Nirv Nepenthe, Peace and forest And found them all in moist Guiana He slept where woolly spiders take Nocturnal walks about your He noosed an eight-foot pizen But missed the Giant Armadill He saw the quaint, pre-glacial s That climbs and dives—the Hoatzin, He threaded wilds (a pesky j That monkeys nurse their furry brats in He met with clouds of Humminy-b And fowls of plumage hardly Whose charms he paints ir words On jungle backgrounds rich is While Mr, Beehe, lik Has filled the € And Jaguar full of BB shot, He doesn't put that down on pape Because he writes of Peace, you see, With graceful pen that never lningle And utterly convinces me That Writers ought to live § Jungles. Arthur Guitermoas.