Life — December 21, 1928 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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At home, at the theatre, while shopping er traveling, or if you ot Sad yoaralf |in time to fight in the Great War and | how afterwards he came near returning to that Island forever. With much amus- 2| Rampole Island, one of those undiscov- LIFE READING MATTERS “Mr. BietrswortHy on Ram- by pore Istanv” (Doubleday, Perry Doran) is the latest book by Githens H. G. Wells, and, as such, de- serves your attention. Accord- ing to the title page, it is the “Story of a Gentleman of Culture and Refinement who suffered Shipwreck and saw no Human Beings other than Cruel and Savage Cannibals for several years. How he beheld Megatheria alive and made some notes of their Habits. How he be- came a Sacred Lunatic. How he did at last escape in a Strange Manner from the Horror and Barbarities of Rampole Island ing and Edifying Matter concerning Man- ners, Customs, Beliefs, Warfare, Crime, and a Storm at Sea. Concluding with some Reflections upon Life in General and these Present times in Particular.” Mr. Wells is up to his old tri I call your attention to the words, ing....Reflections....Life in General.” There you have it. Mr. Wells is nothing if not “Edifying.” He has the classroom voice, the professorial manner. He couldn't say, “Good morning!" without tracing the derivation of the word “good,” telling you what it was in Early Saxon, Late Paleolithic and Middling German, and explaining the exact astronomical significance of Pets a Mr. Wells promises you card tricks, but the moment ¢ steps upon the stage, it becomes a plat- form; the magic wand with which he was oing to drag a good story out of a hat mes a pointer, a blackboard mate-| rializes from somewhere, and the lecture | is on..... This time, the learned old gentleman | feels that we in the cheap seats should | know something of early tribal customs and their bearing on what is optimistically | called “civilization.” So he takes’ us to ered places, full of prehistoric mammalia, | which are so convenient when somebody | wants to prove something. There, in the company of the gentlemanly Mr. Bletts- worthy, we discover the utter loathsome- ness of the savages. Just as we are con- gratulating ourselves on being civilized, we return to the world, and—what do you think?—the Germans have invaded Belgium and it looks like WAR! As a matter of fact, it is war, only we didn’t know it, having been confined in an asylum along with the unfortunate Blettsworthy. Instead of the good old re- liable dream sequence, Mr.—or perhaps I 16 and 40 No Excess Fat ° It’s easy to avoid Everybody knows that excess fatis nowhere near so common as it was. Mothers look like daughters. Slender figures are the rule. 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