Life — March 30, 1922 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Rhymed Reviews The Story of Mankind By Hendrik Van Loon. Boni & Liveright NE vacant summer afternoon O That Muse of all the Muses, Clio, Conferred a boon on H. Van Loon (Professor; Antioch; Ohio). He learned to winnow wheat from chaff ; ondensation none is apter; ipire,—that’s a paragraph; era,—possibly a chapter. ows how nations went to pot ugh trusting all to royal dum- mics. old Egyptians knew a lot, now they’re just a bunch of mummies. (reeks were bright, but talked too much ; it the Jews, opinion varies; Xome, like Carthage, lost her clutch vugh putting faith in mercenaries. sift review the ages pass, plendid pageant, sadly brilliant. earn that Man is half an ass, most amazingly resilient. You see what crooked paths he takes, The wiser counsel mostly spurning, Repeating all the old mistakes Yet slowly rising, slowly learning. Where pen and crayon thus record le good and ill that Man inherits, Why, even Mr. Henry Ford May own that History has merits. A hundred pictures! only look! ( Truth may need High Art to speed it). Your children ought to like the book, And if you're good, they'll let you read it. Arthur Guiterman. a oI Dont worry about your | complexion when blotches, roughness, redness and other skin ere are quickly relieved by -RESINOL Soothing and Healing eee Te\JOGUE IN FRANCE As France leads in Fashion so she leads in comfort and luxury. Those familiar with the fine foreign cars are aston- ished at their graceful movement and their drawing room steadiness on the long trips which Europeans take as a mat- ter of course. Motor fatigue, which physicians call “motor nerves,” has been largely eliminated from motoring abroad by the Hoo-Dye method of hydraulic control of the car springs which holds the car body by a liquid cushion on an even line of travel no matter how rough the road, and which completely eliminates shocks and vibrations now known to be the cause of so many nervous disorders. If motoring wearies you or makes you conscious of your tired nerves, send for our book ‘How Motoring Shocks ect the Nervous System” by Dr. R. Kendrick Smith. ., D.O. one of America’s foremost physicians osteopaths, ‘For your own health’s sake you should h copy—send for it today and learn the health way of moto ing. Ride easy with Hoo-Dye Hydraulic Shock Absorbers, Tue Hovpartte Company, 1418 West Ave., Buffalo, N. Y- Manufactured by the Houde gineering Corp. Canadian Dist.: Canadian Fairbanks Morse Co. Ltd., Montreal (HOUDAILLE ) Hoo-Dye compels your car to move with velvet ease over any kind of a road, turning fatigue to relaxation no matter how long and arduous the trip. Hoo-Dye is regular equip- ment_on the majorit the finest foreign cars and in this country it is standard equipment on Cunninghams, w hil many thousands been applied to ards, Pierce - 4 Cadillacs, _Studebakers, Hudsons, Buicks, Mer- cers and other of Amer- ica’s best cars. Call Tel-U-Where for Our Nearest Dis- tributor HOO-DYE SHOCK ABSORBERS YDRAULIC {THE LOST LOVER) 77 “Yer ain't missed nuthin’, kids—it’s the old stuff about the licenshus clubman what gets killed by a auto ’n the pote woiking goil what marries the son of ss.” comicbooks.com