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This page primarily contains **book reviews and advertisements** rather than political cartoons. The main content discusses literary works: Samuel Johnson's growing reputation (appearing in a play by A. Edward Newton and a novel called "Midwinter" by John Buchan), and Julian Street's satirical short stories. These are straightforward literary critiques with no apparent satire or political commentary. The advertisements—for Hohner Harmonicas, a writing machine, and Bellans indigestion relief—use typical early 20th-century marketing appeals (novelty, convenience, health benefits) but contain no satirical intent. The large **Reedsdale Cigarettes advertisement** occupies significant space, emphasizing quality tobacco selection and careful packaging. This reflects the era's open cigarette marketing before health warnings. Overall, this is a **miscellaneous content page** mixing book reviews with commercial advertising, lacking the satirical or political commentary a modern reader might expect from Life magazine's name.

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+ LIFE - — (pom Unt Some New Books One Samuel Johnson, an impe- cunious character who used to hang around a good deal at the Cheshire - Cheese in Fleet Street, is coming into quite a sizable reputation in literature. Not long ago one of our most literary writers, A. Edward Newton, used him as the subject of a play, highly read- : able but not adapted to the boards. Do they wait for the men to make the music? = 5 i ° Never again! Watch those rosebud lipslure| In this production Miss Fanny Burney ing the heart throbs from the sentimental is made to give a fillip to the fancy by Hohner! It’s a whole orchestra in itself. reflecting the legendary lexicographer SWEET- SIXTEEN and champ heavyweight journalist in ° the rdle of a ladies’ man. Comes now A tt HARMONY Colonel John Buchan and in a tale cigare e Hohners for girls is the latest fad. Youcan) called “Midwinter” (Doran) intro- learn to play beautiful musicinan hour on this werar lh of mouth organs. Get oneforyoure| duces the shabby scholar in the novel that has the respect self and be the life of the party. Give them| character of a soldier, with incidents ° to your friends Cones. No other gift fos founded upon supposititious unpub- of 1ts makers the price will be half as welcome. As! e Se . * . oo. cis for the Hohner Free Instruction Book; fished a et found in the etic We make these cigarettes conscientiously, if he is out of them, write “M. Hohner, New 3oswell. Jo nnson as a near-soldier, — | of carefully selected and blended tobaccos. York” for a copy. Hohner Harmonicas are] rigged out in a yeoman’s second-hand We pack them jealously in a new and spe- sold everywhere—50c up. riding-coat and with a heavy cut-and- | cially designed package that keeps them ‘ thrust blade, appears as a pretty bad fresh, unbroken, and uncrushed to the last. OH N ER actor; it is his well-worn moral So the smoker who takes his cigarette fervor, as expressed in sounding | With some seriousness is given a cigarette FD PGES) seriods ited not over-dexterously | in prime condition, and in ts orginal form. ~ 7 . fish out crushed, bent, and disreputable- .. . his heart honor. It is a well-known looking cigarettes that he hesitates to offer To a New Writing Machine fact, or it is a fact which should be a friend or to smoke in public. Tue hour$ I sspend withthEE, dear well known, that university professors Furthermore, a cigarette with its origi- heartt , everywhere sit up all night reading nal form and aroma preserved will smoke ¢ like A string of yeARS to Me.. Buchan. As a yarnist, who “since with much greater satisfaction to anyone - a with a trained “smoking sense.”” eaD myffingerss Every ONe Stevenson?” and so forth. As a tale A “ ind stART of high adventure, “Midwinter” has, The Reedsdale is not exactly “an exclu re 4 : ie 2 a 5 sive cigarette for the ultra-fastidious,”’ but —— My druDGagery. indeed, all the “ingredients” of its it is for men to whom cigarette smoking . . model. But does the thing come off conveys a fairly substantial pleasure. wOrd A meSS, ,EA?h page a in a way that gets you particularl. . Bblend obs od It suits many men addled Wit an¥%o NERVESUN- Whether you will like this cigarette is a strungg, ; Juttan Street is a youth (who has matter we cannot prophesy with certainty. e up eaCH Line / — and been going on for some considerable It may fit your taste and it may not. atthe en%d time, at that) with a frolicsome turn Many men do prefer the Reedsdale to all bell IS RUng ¢&?. for social satire. His book of short | other cigarettes they have tried. We expect stories, “Cross Sections” (Doubleday, that, in time, Reedsdale smokers will con- FE rar : napere - stitute a goodly proportion of American Page), is in the vein of his ‘Welcome cigarette smokers. to Our City,” which will be recalled But we are sure that you will like and be eit by old-timers. He is not one of these, appreciate the container in which these has trayyed o . now, devastating iconoclasts; he’s | cigarettes aresold and carried in the pocket. TPipound eacth Key,anfod STRive | merely out for a lark. Wild oats like. | _ So we might suggest that you buy your atlast tO LEARN first package of Reedsdale Cigarettes be- TOMake th3 grq%de OO al lid cause of the way in which they are packed. GOSSHH How that lad, Arthur Train, can Other factors being equal in your mind, To make THe grADE ? % ! sling ink! His latest volume is aimed _| this package alone will make it worth your CRS. (unerringly) at the honest character while to switch to Reedsdale. who demands “good stories,” and who Popularly priced will leap up and yell when he has come Reedsdale Cigarettes are 20c for a to the end of one he downright likes. package of twenty. They are now sold by “Tut, Tut! Mr. Tutt” (Scribner) is many tobacco dealers and their distribu- the new collection of Mr. Tutt stories, tion is being rapidly extended. _ . in which gusto is piled on with a drip- If you have any difficulty in finding ing brush. In his wily tussle with them we will send you a carton of 5 pack- ue a wy ; a ages of Reedsdale Cigarettes (100 ciga- y crime, the adroit old jawyer with his rettes) postpaid for a dollar. Smoke one 6 BELLANS old-school make-up is as full of smart | package at ourrisk. If you don’t like them, Hot water tricks as ever. It seems rather rash return the four remaining packages and = from the Boswellian pages, which docs Thoug*ts t*at FULMInate and b7rn ! . 1, sergmbled WORds, and hOpes 4, = . to undertake to dispute any detail of we will refund your dollar. Address Reed A= SureRelief | x6. train's Criminal Courts Building | Tobacco Co., 101 South 2ist St.. Rich- Be I | = NS atmosphere, and yet it is hard to be- | mond, Va. i illy To Retail Tobacco Merchants: If your jobber lieve that Billy the Bloodhound ever caanne epply you pitt Recdetele Olgsrotten: Reset FOR INDIG TION used the expression “an icicle in | Tobacco Company, Richmond, Va., will gladly send Hades.” you prepaid by parcel post a carton containing one 25¢ AND 75¢ PACKAGES. EVERYWHERE R.C.H. | thesameDrice you would pay the jobbet comicbooks.com