Life, 1923-04-19 · page 31 of 36
Life — April 19, 1923 — page 31: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with some literary content. The main features are: **Advertisements:** - **Bayer Aspirin**: A standard medical ad emphasizing the branded product's safety ("proved safe by millions") - **Basline Autowline**: A wire rope towing line pitched as cheap insurance ($4.95), with a testimonial from a satisfied user - Travel cruises by Clark **Literary Content:** - A poem titled "Villonesque" lamenting the loss of old springtime pleasures (cable cars, open carriages, betting at tracks)—nostalgic for pre-Prohibition, pre-regulatory times - "Life and Letters": Book reviews discussing character development in novels - "Dilemma": A brief humorous verse about loving two people with different eye colors **Historical Context for Modern Readers:** The nostalgic poem references Prohibition's impact (loss of "honest fling"), suggesting this is from the 1920s. The advertisements reflect consumer culture and early automotive convenience products. There is no political cartoon on this page.
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Balt | Villonesque Wuere are the days of yester- spring ? To borrow another poet’s thing. Where are the bells that used to ring, The bocks and bars that used to sing Of spring? To-day the spring cannot bring back The cable car, the open hack. Dead are the days of the swinging or, The ‘riendly sawdust on the floor, And open betting at the track: The Jays and ways that used to bring The thrill of spring. Ah! (or the days when men could Before the law was all sublime, And ‘reedom had become a crime. Till ove can have an honest fling, The = ummer, autumn, winter too, Are «vad, all dead for me and you— Good oy, good-by to everything ! (Including spring.) ds Aspirin Say “Bayer” and Insist! Unless you see the name “Bayer” on packaxe or on tablets you are not get- ting the genuine Bayer product prescribed by physicians over twenty-two years and proved safe by millions for Colds ‘Toothache Evrache Neuralgia Headache Lumbago Rheumatism Pain, Pain Accept “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” only. Each unbroken package contains Proper directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets cost few cents. Druggists also sell bottles of 24 and 100. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid. Clark's 21st Mediterranean Cruise Feb. 2 ‘pecially chartered White Star 8. S. ‘Baltic’. 65 days, baad up, Including drives, guides, pees fees. Spain, urkey, Palesting ‘and Eeypt Italy, ete., a ‘th ROUND "THE WORLD CRUISE luxurious liner 4 by chartered * uo. imate hotels, guides, drives, fees. Rep or. in CP, CLARK, Fines Building. ..,.... New York “T Could Buy an Autowline for Half the Cost!” Sure you can; for $4.95 you can buy the original wire rope tow- line, and absolutely safeguard against emergencies. Light, compact, dependable, it’s tow-home insurance at no more cost than a box of cigars. One car-owner writes: ‘Ihave carried a Basline Autowline in five different cars, and have demonstrated it to many a traveler. It’s sure there ‘when a feller needs a friend’.** But don’t accept substitutes—there are many imitators—be sure you get Basline Autowline, made of world- famous Yellow Strand Wire Rope. Can be tucked under a seat cushion. Snaps on instantly with patented Snaf- fle Hooks that cannot Joosen. Now $4.95, east of Rockies. PowersteEL AUTOWLOCK, also made of Yellow Strand Wire Rope, safe- guards car and spare tire. PowersTEEL TRUCKLINE is a heavier line for towing trucks. plain hooks; $10.10 with patented Snaffle Hooks. Price $2. 50. $8.65 with Sold by all good Dealers and Jobbers— Write us for Free Descriptive Circulars BRODERICK & BASCOM ROPE CO. ST. LOUIS—NEW YORK Manufacturers of Celebrated Yellow Strand Wire Ripe— for General Construction Work BASLINE AUTOWLINE Life and Letters (Continued from page 22) Crumb family circle in “Faint Per- fume” (Appleton) is pretty terrible, and Zona Gale has sketched it well in strong, short strokes. She ‘has not, however, been so successful with the young woman. She has instilled her own evident scorn of people like the Crumbs into Leda Perrin without endowing her with the humor and sweetness which would, it seems to me, be the natural concomitants of so much light. If we are to despise the Crumbs as Miss Gale despises them, we ought at least to like Leda a lit- tle better. Perhaps I should be just as bored discussing abstractions with Leda as she was over the Crumbs’ constant concern with the concrete. Diana Warwick. Dilemma Two eyes of brown, Two eyes of blue— I love them both. What shall I do? Both of them mine; Trouble begins. Bigamy? No! Nothing but twins! oe The Paper Hanger knows - the feel of good wall paper— paper that bangs without faw or wrinkle—that gives lasting satisfaction and pleasure—and at ‘modest prices. Quality coupon in every roll. Send dealer's name for colored Se sample book and *" Seer Free. Niagara Wall 220 Walnut St., Niagara Falls, N.Y. $1000.00 in Cabs Prizes to Paper es comicbooks.com