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This is primarily a **vacation advertisement** for the Rock Island railroad line, disguised as editorial content in *Life* magazine. The cartoon depicts a romantic scene of train travel through America's natural wonders—the Colorado Rockies, Yellowstone, and California—framing vacation as essential rest for workers seeking success. The ad's pitch: three distinct vacations in one economical trip, with superior dining and flexible routing. This reflects early 20th-century rail travel as a luxury leisure activity for middle/upper-class Americans. The page also includes book reviews typical of *Life*'s literary coverage, plus a **Pepsodent toothpaste advertisement** offering a free 10-day trial tube. Both ads use the magazine's credibility to promote consumer products—a common practice blending advertising with genuine editorial material.

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- LIFE 31 10-Day Tube FREE Among the New Books Your Vacation | As you rest and fit yourself for your work, so will your work progress and success: you. That's why your vacation is most important. And that's why the Rock Island's big “three vacations in one” should interest you this season. ‘When you see the Colorado Rockies, with their majestic peaks and rugged canyons—Yellowstone Park, with its marvelous natural wonders — the Pacific Coast, with the marks of its romantic past and practical present —each in turn will seem the biggest thing in your life, wenerade. Three vacations in one! Low round trip fare! The Rock Island is the route of the ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIMITED and COLORADO FLYER to the Colorado Rockies; the Colorado way to Yellowstone Park; and route of the GOLDEN STATE LIMITED and MEMPHIS-CALIFORNIAN to California, Rock Island passengers enjoy the widest choice of routes — fo one way—return another. Stop- overs anywhere — and meals, “the best on wheels.” Rock Island Travel Bureaus in all principal cities at your service. The coupon below may be for you the biggest thing in this copy of “Life” Mr. L. M. ALLEN, V. P. and P. T. M. Rock Island Lines, 758 La Salle St. Station, Chicago | Please mail me, rea: charge, your publication on — OG Colorado =O Yellowstone {Check the hock or hooks pos dee} Fiction Old Wine. By Phyllis Bottome (Doran). A richly woven tapestry of contemporary Vienna, peopled by some interesting members of a dying aristoc- racy. Alan. By E. F. Benson (Doran). A story for all women with selfish hus- bands. Also for the husbands, The George and the Crown. By Sheila Kaye- Smith (Dutton). Not another “Joanna Godden,” but more characteristic passion and __ struggle amongst — the English — countryside primitives. High Noon. By Crosbie Garstin (Stokes). Adventure stuff plus, ‘way back in the Eighteenth Century. The Chase. By Mollie Panter- Downes (Putnam). The sccond re- markable novel by a girl who is only seventeen years old. Married Alive. By Ralph Straus (Holt). Wherein a Cambridge pro- fessor famed for his declamations against women and love lives to eat his words. Obedience. By Michael Sadleir (Houghton Mifflin). English family life in the days of our dear Queen. Before the Dawn. By Toyohiko Kagawa (Doran). A Japanese best- seller translated for the American trade. And showing how wrong our ideas of Japanese life and character have been. Face C Cards. By Carolyn Wells (Putnam). Burned Evidence. By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow (Putnam). Mystery, murder, cte. Mockbeggar. By Laurence W. Meynell (Appleton). One of those talky, sophisticated English novels, by no means half-bad. Caravan. By John Galsworthy (Scribner). Marvelous short stories. The Mother’s Recompense. By Edith Wharton (Appleton), — Rumor says it's her best since “The House of Mirth.” To be reviewed later. Non-Fiction Mere Mortals. By C. MacLaurin (Doran). The author « Post-Mor- tem” tells from a medical viewpoint how a few more famous people got that way. s It Good English? By John O'London (Putnam). The finer points of grammar on parade. Table-Talk of G, B. S. (Harper). Conversations on things in general be- tween Bernard Shaw and Archibald Henderson, his biographer. The Lost Oases. By A. M. Has- sanein (Century). A book of travel based on a six months’ trip across the Libyan Desert. Rest and Grow Strong. B: - ward Huntington Williams and Ernest Bryant Hoag (Bobbs-Merrill). Under this appealing title, more good news about the glands. The Man Nobody Knows. By Bruce Barton (Bobbs-Merrill). The author's discovery of Jesus. Everyman’s Genius. By Mary Austin (Bobbs-Merrill), Telling where to look for and how to make the most of the genius which the author is cer- tain everybady has. Who's Who in the Bible. By E. Fletcher Allen (Putnam). In case you've forgotten most of what you learned in Sunday School. . What’'ll You Have? By Oliver Herford and Karl Schmidt (Holt). A sentimental farce of the times. To be reviewed later. BL. Mail the Coupon This new way works wonders on cloudy teeth Modern science, by perfecting a new way of combating the stubborn film that covers teeth, now opens the road to whiter teeth, safely. THt cloudy teeth, yellowish, dis- colored teeth can be made whiter is now an accepted fact. Foremost dentists of the world are widely urging this new method. You can have cleaner, prettier teeth if you will start today. This is accomplished by combating a viscous film that covers teeth. A stub- born, hard to remove film that old type dentifrices do not fight successfully. Run your tongue across your teeth and you can feel this film. Under it are the Clear, attractive teeth you envy in others. Combat it, and your teeth become many shades whiter—more glistening. This offers you a 10-day test free. Mail the coupon. The great enemy of teeth Film is the great enemy of teeth beauty. And a chief cause, according to world’s dental authorities, of most tooth troubles. It clings to teeth, gets into crevices and stays. Germs by the millions breed in it. ‘They, with tartar, are the common cause af pyorrhea. It holds food in contact with teeth, invit- ing the acid that causes decay. You can’t have prettier, whiter teeth; you can’t have healthier teeth unless you combat that film. Ask your druggist or mail the coupon for Pepsodent. Don’t expect the same results from old type dentifrices. Begin beautifying your teeth today, Pepsadént The New-Day Quality Dentifrice Endorsed by World's Dental Authority ail t ustoe 10-Da Tube | * Only one tube to comicbooks.com