Life — January 19, 1928 — page 36: what you’re looking at

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LUXURY CRUISES WEST INDIES PANAMA CANAL Three Glorious Winter Vaca- tion Cruises of Recreation and Romance by the luxurious oil- burning turbine steamer VEENDAM JANUARY 28th and March 17th, 1928 16 Days each, visiting Bermuda, Ja- maica, Havana and Nassau—$230 up. FEBRUARY 15th, 1928—28 Days Havana, Jamaica, Panama, Curacao, La Guayra, and Caracas (Venezuela), Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, St. Thomas, Porto Rico, Bermuda— $385 up. Cruise fares include comprehensive shore excursions, carefully arranged and carried out by the Frank To Company. Mlustrated Booklet "17" sent on requ HOLLAND-AMERICA ‘LINE 21-24 State Street, New York eabarash se and Aerzeg's all princp Gee HAVANA and the PANAMA CANAL via PANAMA PACIFIC LINE New York- California Largest, fastest ships in the service janchuria, Mongolia, Finland. Regularsem!- -month! lings, New York, Havana, Panama Canal, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco. The palatial NEW S.S. CALIFORNIA Largest steamer ever built under the American flag. Sailing westbound Jan. 28, Mar. 10, Apr.'21; eastbound Feb. 18 “and regularly thereafter. fic fic fine jon Me ue, ie pert 408 po is onuma a fin ame Life Letters from Heywood Broun (Continued from page 14) very perfect knight of those who want to have their cake and eat it, too. Like Edna Millay, he managed to give a lovely light even though he burned his candle at both ends. WAS going to say in regard to “The Human Body” that it is a book for laymen, with no long words which are not explained and plenty of charts and other illustrations. These I skipped. It always pains me to observe the intricate plumbing by which and with which we live. Doctors are forever saying that the heart is a fine engine with great re- cuperative powers, but it looks ter- ribly tricky to me and I wouldn’t try to fly across the Erie Canal with no better motor. Dr. Clendening is less laudatory of human architecture than many other physicians. He mentions several fundamental errors in construction which have been al- lowed to creep into the specifications but he suggests no remedy. How- ever, it looks very much as if some of the work had been done by a grafting contractor. TRAIGHT and normal physi- ology is of no interest to me. Why bother about such processes as go on during health? My interest rises only when the self-starter gets jammed, and so I skipped quite a lot in the Clendening book and confined my attention to the chapters which he has written on disease. Ailments are always excellent reading but I think the doctor might be a little less humorous about them. He gets just a shade too much fun out of some of the more fatal maladies. Still, it is engrossing and easy read- ing which he prescribes. One more complaint I should like to make. The old-style “doctor pretended to know everything and had some dog- matic drug for anything which ailed you. That’s not the fashion now at all. Clendening is fond, like all the new-fangled boys, of sz » “OF course we really know nothing at all about this.” This is the more hon- est way but the humility which such a confession implies is largely spuri- ous. A doctor often puts on an air of enormous wisdom in confessing ignorance. He scems to feel that he has done you a favor in testifying that your complaint is baffling. I prefer the old boys who were never at a loss for either a diagnosis or a prognosis. Not, you understand, be- cause I always believed them, but it was fun to listen. Sincerely yours, Heywoop Broun. To break a cold harmlessly and in @ hurry try a Bayer Aspirin Table id for headache. The action of As; very efficient, too, in cases of neuralgia, neurit ! And there's no after effect; doctors give Aspirin to children—often infants. When- ever there’s pain, think of Aspirin. The genuine Bayer Aspirin has Bayer on the box and on every tablet. All druggists, with proven directions, Physicians prescribe Bayer Aspirin; it does NOT affect the heart Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacidester of Salicylicacid GOES ANYWHERE/\ ‘iced ied, Proven thoroughly ellable by two years of used lendid craft for marshy 8 vers, gberied ta Takes: Custom bullt st $4,380; with 90 b. p. engine. Aeteees R. POST Sole Distributce of Pree, Bottom Craft 475 Fifth Avenue, New York. Cortes Coars -MADE AT KEY WEST comicbooks.com wa! fro dri his hor not ex] sm pee wa wh Ee ear a era Cr = I