Life, 1920-06-03 · page 48 of 52
Life — June 3, 1920 — page 48: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews**, not satirical content requiring historical context. The dominant feature is a **Resinol Soap advertisement** using "The Vision of Youth"—an idealized illustration of a young woman to market soap as essential for achieving beauty and success. The copy suggests that clear skin is crucial for young women's ambitions, linking personal grooming to social advancement. Below are additional **product ads** (Freezone corn remover) and **hotel/resort promotions** (Hotel Aspinwall in Massachusetts). The remaining space contains **literary reviews** discussing poetry collections and nature writing, including references to Edith Cavell (likely the WWI-executed nurse), indicating this is a wartime or immediate postwar issue. No political cartoons or satirical commentary appear on this page—it's a standard magazine layout mixing advertising, consumer products, and cultural criticism typical of early 20th-century *Life* magazine.
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_ re of the fellow who “didn't mind rifle fire” but couldn't stand high-explosive shells. He makes you share the feeling, makes you understand; at the end he makes you share his opinion—and Edith Cavell’s- that “patriotism is not enough,” and that Hate is the only thing which may safely be hated. The Haunted Hour, by Margaret Wid- demer, (Harcourt, Brace & Howe.) Un- der this felicitous title are gathered close to a hundred poems dealing with the On the threshold of womanhood, filled with school or college ideals, youth sees a world of joy, of con- questand success,—butit often fails to recognize the homely truth that a healthy, radiant skin carries its possessor far towards the desired goal. For the wisest, therefore, there is Resinol Soap with its pure, copious lather which refreshes the skin while cleansing it, and overcomes the tendency to embarrassing de- fects. Excellent for the bath and shampoo. Sold by all druggists and dealers in toilet articles, sinol Soap return of spirits to earth. If we must have anthologies of poems about trees, gardens, ghosts, etc, this one may serve as a model, The selection runs from the Ingoldsby Legends to such younger con- temporaries as Francis Carlin. In gen- eral, readers will find more new things they are glad to know than old verses they are fain to seek. Adventures Among Birds, by W. H. Hudson. (E. P, Dutton & Co.) Some of Mr, Hudson's papers, contributed in HOTEL ASPINWALL LENOX, MASS. High and Cool in the Berkshi "MOTEL oF is sieerashires Opens June 12. Bier Desirable Cottages with Hotel Semigey HOWE & TWOROG:! Winter Resort, Princes Hoe nase, the last few years to English Periodicals, are here refashioned into a book with delightful headbands and _tailpie a bird book of 1826. He birds in England, but does ti Under the spell of such “Goldfinches at Ryme “The Immortal Nightingale,” t certainly does not. Best of all, t s an index— for this is one of those books the reader is always pulling down from the shelf, The Thunderbolt, by G. Colmore. (Thomas Seltzer.) Starts cial come- dy and. satire, passing thirds of the way through, into an affair of the same tragic sort as Bricux's Dam. aged Goods, The irony toward the end is somewhat ghastly, as when, on the last page, we read: “It is a faint little satis. faction to Georgina that Dorrie died of an illness she can talk about.” Well written. Lift Corns out with Fingers A few drops of Freezone loosen corns so they peel off Apply a few drops of Freezone pos a tender, aching corn or a callus. The soreness stops and shortly the entite corn or callus loosens and can be lifted off without a twinge of pain. Freezone removes hard corns, soft corns, also corns between the toes and hardened calluses. Freezone does not irritate the surrounding skin. You feel no pain when applying it or afterwart A small bottle of Freezone costs bet a few cents at drug stores anywhere comicbooks.com