Life, 1919-07-24 · page 35 of 40
Life — July 24, 1919 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertising and poetry**, with one small cartoon. The main advertisement is **Beeman's Original Pepsin Chewing Gum**, which claims to cure irritability by relieving indigestion—a common early 20th-century patent medicine pitch linking digestion to temperament and workplace efficiency. The poetry includes "Ballade of an Unfulfilled Desire" by Carolyn Wells, a whimsical piece about longing for an unattainable paradise "Beyond the Dreams of Avarice." "The Utopian Profiteers" essay satirizes political figures who exploit idealistic visions: it references **Lenin and Trotsky** (Russian Revolution leaders) as modern examples of those who profit from utopian promises while delivering nothing, comparing them unfavorably even to Dickens and Hugo, who at least genuinely sympathized with the poor. The small cartoon at page bottom, "Traffic Regulation in Brooklyn," appears to be a humorous street scene but lacks sufficient detail to interpret specifically.
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Ballade of an Unfulfilled Desire journeyed here, I've journeyed Nis there— I've wandered idly to and fro; Ive traveled almost everywhere, From tropic glades to wastes of snow, Bot though most lands and climes I know, There's one untrodden field, I wis— That mystic, unattained plateau Beyond the Dreams of Avarice! Tm sure ‘tis passing rich and fair Ive heard it is a marvel show; Infores me like a magic snare— Ob, I do want to see it so! Tim sure rare flowers bloom and glow: soft, sweet-scented zephyrs kiss brows of those who gaily go d the Dreams of Avarice! ast be grand beyond compare! orgeous palaces a-row ile lackeys blithe and debonair With golden coins the pavement strow! The happy citizens, I trow, lives of cestasy and bliss— d golden, rippling rivers flow ond the Dreams of Avarice! L'Envoi Fate, this one boon on me bestow, Ere I shall cross the Great Abyss; for weal or woe— Beyond the Dreams of Avarice! Corolyn Wells, The Utopian Profiteers ROM the earliest times men have profiteered in Utopias. Someone has said that Charles Dickens and Victor Hugo made a liv- nthly. {) 0g by pitying the poor. Redemptive mansions in the clouds, shicedf) @tles in Spain and golden-domed s of why Jerusalems have been auctioned off at the sof ‘idiculous prices, and the properties, curiously, have never left the hands of the auctioneers. Lenine and Trotzky are the latest proteers in Utopias. They carve earthly paradises out of clouds and Store away the substantial assessments. They are the eternal profiteers. Our Landlords are pikers. ciety of "To interest and | ft develop your boy G00D reading habits started early assure healthy mental traits and develop ambi- on and judement. Th ‘articies, the The American Boy are reading with afuture toft."” dun~ nih. Give your every month, Give splendid stars? . bd oe ‘or on newo-ctando— $200 a year by matt rE PUBLISHING COMPANY American Dulding Detroit, Mich, A THE B "The Biggest, Brightest, Best Magazine ter Beye tn all the World” GHENVING Irritability Decreases Efficiency WHEN a man is irritable and annoyed by little things his efficiency is greatly diminished, because under these con- ditions he cannot do his best work, nor can he get the best work out of those about him. Generally, indigestion in some slight form is the “makings” of a grouch. In most cases of this sort, the routine use after meals of my Original Pepsin Chewing Gum will relieve the indigestion and restore the temper of the individual to a calm, normal condition. AMERICAN CHICLE COMPANY New York Cleveland Chicago Kansas City San Francisco TRAFFIC REGULATION IN BROOKLYN comicbooks.com an we. i