Life — January 30, 1919 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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ts a dependable indicator fa satisfactory COL LA IR ETT,Peanopy Ine. Makers, Troy MeV Virginia Hot Spr ms America’s Premier Cure Open All The Year Equaling the famous springs of Europe, and resembling in the medicinal properties of its waters the popular Aix-les-Bains—Virginia Hot Springs is now the Mecca for those suffering from nervous disorders, gout, rheu- matism, obesity, sciatica and similar troubles. Society and business executives gather at the Homestead, which— protected by sheltering hills—enjoys a winter that is vigorously bracing and unsurpassed for golf and riding. Through Car Service from New York Pennsylvania Station 3:38 p. m. daily. Just over night from Washington. Reservations can be made at the Ritz-Carlton Hotels, New York and Philadelphia. Write for the Homestead Book, Address The Homestead CHRISTIAN S, ANDERSEN, Resident Manager Hot Springs Virginia head rather than of the heart. At any rate, it was ish writer, Vicente Blasco Ibanez, who wrote “ Horsemen of the Apocalypse?” one of the most pow novels the war has produced, and also an unanswe and cutting arraignment of the false and cruel Prussia: philosophy. Masterly in cold irony is his picture of the rifling of a chateau on the Marne by cultured barbarians who esteemed art and beauty so highly that they felt the only thing to do with objects of value was to tran them to their homes. In years to come it is to be hop that even the Germans will blush when Seftor Ibanee’s t is mentioned. And it will he mentioned, many times Perhaps the high spot of Ibanez’s admirable study of the perverted German mind is to be found in the condescending geniality of the Prussian count who established his hea: quarters at a beautiful castle on the Marne. The count was a connoisseur, and was much entertained to find that in the preliminary rifling of the chateau, which had pre- ceded his arrival, the troops had left behind some of the choicest of its treasures, whose true value they were unalile to appreciate. To the owner of the estate he says “Monsieur Desnoyers, I imagine that I am interpreting your desires when I inform you that I intend taking this set of furniture with me. It will serve as a souvenir of our acquaintance, a testimony to the friendship. spri up between us. If it remains here, it will run the risk of being destroyed. 1 will guard these excellent treasur Germany, where you may see them whenever you wis!” And the ironic vulture adds a word ot disdainful criti- cism of the perfumes used by the Frenchman's wife, whose boudoir he has been occupying ! Variety ENJOY him because he changes the conversation so often.” “Doesn't he talk about women all the time? “Well, isn’t that what I said?” To, IT's TIME HE THOUGHT OF CHOos' Hou 1 THO! cComicbooks-com A TALKING vING