Life, 1919-01-23 · page 40 of 42
Life — January 23, 1919 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes poetry, book review, and advertisements typical of Life's satirical format circa 1920s. **The Poetry ("Home, Sweet Home")**: A sentimental verse by Charlotte Perkins (bylined) about soldiers returning from WWI and rediscovering domestic pleasures—pastoral imagery meant to contrast with wartime destruction. **"Shall Versailles Be Vienna?" Article**: Reviews a book about the Congress of Vienna (1815), drawing historical parallels to post-WWI peace negotiations. It warns that the 1815 Congress's failure to address legitimate grievances (Polish independence, liberal movements) fueled decades of conflict—an implicit critique that the 1919 Treaty of Versailles risks similar long-term consequences by being punitive rather than just. **Advertisements**: The Stromberg carburetor, Biltmore Hotel, and Tareyton cigarettes are period product endorsements with no satirical content. The page juxtaposes optimistic homecoming sentiment against serious warnings about peace-treaty failures—typical Life editorial strategy mixing sentiment with political commentary.
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“Home, Sweet Home” H war is over and our lads come back, What glamour old familiar things shall gain: The call of thrushes through the summer rain; The purling brook; the pine scent of the track Through the deer-haunted woods, the red and black Sun-sweetened berries in the quiet { é : Deed cut lane; In Gas Costs The hum of lees above the yellow grain; The little ducklings strutting, homely quack model and yest of 70 Stromberg Metor Devices Co. more, G4E. 25th St. » play at baseball on the village Chicago, Il. green Pp upon the lake's wide shore, To gather chestnuts when are keen; And winter nights, sit hy a Jtowing log With some good hook, and wy ples, and one’s dog Impulse people in this world than we give them Shall Versailles crit for bein The other ones a very had, indeed. Be Vienna? Ted over heen creetinlipsonteh core T ; ; watch over the he genesis of the war of 1otg-18 them—they uced it. As a rule, the goes back to the Congress of : F : impulse is the spontaneous expression ae nee eae te pigs of pare, unadulterated unselfishness— Che BILTM Oo R E many which made it possible for her to Otieazol selfesaeritice disturh the peace of the world, Here There is nothing of the wisdom the rulers turned a deaf ear to. the ay F Where the social life misery. of Poland; crushed the rising of the serpent about it, and much tide of liberalism in the German Con- of the harmiessness of the dove—that of New York centers racy j strengthened Bourbonism in is, to the object of the impulse; but by day and evening hd set Hapsbure ule. over very often there is harm to the one ger hefore they achieved ut ty. who has been impulsive—harm to his CLOSE just published or her worldly welfare. It is true that a book which is an intimate account of | {cela FaislAny ete, UAL iow glad 16 see TO ALL THEATRES the Congress of Vienna, It is entitled, ee ; AND SHOPS them must be the other fools, who have was compiled by already rushed in and perhaps been translated, with an introduction a welcomed and made at home by the notes, by Harry Hansen. In this bo« aiigels: who: wereonce fools the author has drawn upon the woi A rtehitle Wed dei. he is Wists derful story of social and political in ett ard said, “ Be ye wise as trigue told by the participar selves in their memoirs; ere ven anyone comes fooling around in review such figures as Hardenb gour-dove-yourean set.y yor m s our serpent on Wellington, Admiral Sir Sidney ‘Smith, | > P Gentz, Dalberg, the Prince de Ligne.| h f Count de la Garde, Frederick Will ful eye on impulsive people, somewhat of Prussia, Sof J Marie as it is said to have on sailors and Louise and Napoleon's son drunken men. Let us hope so. ing of Rome, the fascinating Countess Zichy, Archduke John of Austria and — SNM < most of the princes and princesses, T I arey ton dukes and barons and crafty statesmen | was tempted to read his of an age the influence of which sur- book by the advertisements, but 1 | London zy FOll That’s only natural. The ad- | bert Tareyton. Landan Smoking D | serpents and harmless as doves—then him.” Perhaps Providence has a watch- vived even down to our own time. Waa, disappoinied is sold at all bookstores for $2.50. - vertisements are better written than “A Peace Congress of Intrigue” Neo: Sample upon the book. | Falk Tobacco Co, 1792 192 Broadway, New’