Life, 1919-06-26 · page 34 of 43
Life — June 26, 1919 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines commercial advertising with post-WWI political satire. The main content is a **Faultless Pajamas advertisement** (left side) promoting comfort and sleep quality, featuring an illustration of a relaxed man in bed. The satire appears in the **"War Trophies"** section, which mocks the Peace Commission's proposed disposition of German war spoils. The jokes target American political figures and events: the Kaiser's crown is mockingly offered to **William Randolph Hearst** (the powerful newspaper publisher); captured German war material goes to the Senate for "piecemeal donations" to parks; and **President Wilson's typewriter** is jestingly bequeathed to Postmaster General **Burleson** for his "never-to-be-published" proclamations. The right side includes a poem called **"Geography"** romanticizing Japan, and an advertisement for a **Bolshevism book by John Spargo**—reflecting post-WWI anxieties about communist threats and the "Red Scare." Overall, this reflects 1920s American concerns: political leadership, war's aftermath, and ideological threats.
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SINCE 1881 l) Pajamas & Night Shirts REST ASSURED— Merely to see Faultless nightwear is to “sense” comfort. All that induces refreshing sleep is in Faultless Pajamas and Night Shirts. They are made of soft, cool, skin-soothing, seasonable lightweight fabrics— roomy, well proportioned, specially sewed and finished inside and out. They ‘‘Exceed Expectations” — being noticeably different and perceptibly better than the look-alike other kind. There’s the reason for the recognized take-the-lead, set-the-pace reputation of “The NIGHTwear of a Nation!” _ Recommended by 11,886 dealers E. ROSENFELD & CO. Baltimore and New York War Trophies Report of the Peace Commission on the Assignment of War Trophies T" E TRENCHES.—To be used as an eternal resting place for our deported Bolshevists Tue U-Boat Devtsentaxp—To become a submarine cabaret managed by those im- poverished war victims, the New York Restaurateurs. Will open July znd. Three miles out and a mile down fue Kaisex’'s Crowx—To William Randolph Hearst, as an expression of the gratitude of all the Allies. Dex Kronratxz—To weep on the shoulders of American ladies who have written senti- mental reports on the homesickness of our soldiers. Aut Carreren Germax War Matexiat—To the Senate of the United States, that it may spend the remainder of its days in eloquent piecemeal donations to the-City Hall Parks of America, and thus never again lack a harmless occupation, Prestpext Witsox's Tyrewaiter—Completely renovated by Mr. Tumulty, this supreme trophy of the war is bequeathed to Mr. Burleson for the typing of his never-to-be-published best seller, “ Proclamations and Explanations.” WHAT MOST OF US NAVE THOL SHOULD LIKE TO DO Geography F I'd been born across th In a little house of clean ta Among the flowering cherry trees If I'd been fed on fish and rice The queerest nuts that ever sre And all the different sorts of teas— If I'd been used to jinrikisha, And never seen a railroad car. Perhaps it wouldn't seem so nic« To be a Japanese. We have such very common thin Like pigs in pens—and coops of ! "Round corner stores that snill of cheese— While they have storks with spreading wings That live among the reedy fens Their girls have paper parasols And painted fans—as well as dolls— They wade in flowers to their knees And live a life of jovous case These happy Japanese. But Mary Jane does sound so plain Compared with “Neo Una Yan.” And such a place as “ Jones’ € (That's where I live and must re Could not be found in all Japan Instead of “ Pike's” or “Skinner's” Peak, Of Fuji-yama there they speak- The Sacred Mountains by the How elegant geogra Must be in Japanese! s Bolshevism By John Spargo “THIS book, more than any other. sp" a deliberate and scientific stu: ism and not an ex-parte indictment.”-—P. Press. i “No evidence of passion or prejudice,” —Bafe Express “Tf all Americans who talk so much, and often so ignorantly, would read this book they would be immeasurably better for the experience "Ne York Sun, “The first careful, intelligent study which bss been done in English." —New York Globe. ¢ ee HARPER & BROTHERS €&:. 1617 | stra fami 1 noe sulte comicbooks.com