Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1916 — Magazine Covers. [ARTICLE]

Magazine Covers.

To those who concern Ihe hi Selves with the intellectual progress of the nation the now.si and, with its display of weekly aml monthly periodicals, is a melancholy spectacle. If it be true that magazines are sold by their colored covers we have just cause, for grave concern. Fully half of these covers contain the portrait of a wax doll with red cheeks and blue eyes, said to be a young girl. In eome oases She stands beside a. horse; in others she is alone in. her foolishness. A current number of a widely circulated Weekly shows her in company with a young man, both grinning idiotically. To illumine her face with the slightest suggestion of mentality would be a gross Violation of the most sacred canons of magazine art,. Men who frequent moving picture shows have been known to fall in love with heroines of the films and to regret the impracticability of waiting at the • ta£e floor to see tlie adored one depart for her home. Soubrettes and show; girls have countless admirers and many offers Of marriage, but nobody ever wooes the girl on the cover or shows a wish to meet the original of the portrait. The face of the girl one would like to marry never appears on a newsstand. Nor is it possible to find on any cover a cartoon or picture to mean something or suggest ah idea above the comprehension of a kitten. —New York Herald.