Life — January 25, 1900 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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| ‘IF E* Glory. SAT upon the bleak North Polo And shivered in the wind, Wondering why it was that man Had sought so bard to find Bo bleak a joint, 80 bare a place, Such an ungodly spot; And wished that some poor other fool My place in life had got. My bunes were iced, my nerves were gone, I should have died, I'm suro, Had I not pictured to myeolt My coming lecture tour. Reverence: A Trade. ‘TWO publishers have recently tlt upon the same {dea, vlz.: a publication in thelr ~ respective pertodicals of a Life of Christ, although helther of them authorizes this specific title One calls Its enterprise # Life of the Master,” and |= the other “The Story of a Young Man.” “IP YOU CARE TO APOLOGIZE FOR HAVING REIT ME AYTER SCHOOL, MISS SMITH, I'LL CONSIDER IT.” ‘These two publishers are unaulmous, however, in one thing. Each desires it emphatically to be known that the subject bas been treated In a reverent manner, It would seem to be a falr inference, from the fact that the publishers #0 73 urgently insist upon this, that the mere pubitca- tion tn AfcC 1re's Magazine or the Ladies’ Home Journatot the story of the only Perfect Man might be taken In some other way. As, for Instance, a mere business enterprise, a question of dollars and cents, Hence, we are assured In advance that it has been done reverently, “The undertaking,” kayx the editor of Mc- Clure's, “was entered upon with a reverent determination to spare. nelther themselves nor thelr resources "* The Reverend John Watson, “ famitiar to every housebold In two continents, was selected for the task, The text has been read, and “it 1s & work deeply reverential In feeling.”” The * Life** 1s, of course, illustrated by ‘a series of beantifal pletures—reverent, and yet full of the reality of life tn the Palestine of to-day, ‘Saja the editor of the Ladies’ Hume Journal ; “In slmpte modern language, with # reverent hand, Mr. Howard has written,” ete, What these two pertodicals are doing 1s to extend thelr advertising methods from common place to xacred things. Mr, Bok 4s slighting the Difarcated skirt for the sacred garments of dl vinlty. Af Clure's ia on the same tack. ‘They aro both doing it to catch the crowd and make money and nothing else, and they are “reverent” because ft pays. UP AGAINST THE REAL THING. “ TOT BAY, ‘ES ONE OF THEM BLOODY 'CRRICANR FIGHTERS, VE KNOW, BUT WAIT TILL. MOL ‘IT ‘IM! WAIT TILL Hot ‘IT ‘IM! ‘OW DO Mol LOOK ANY ‘ow? comicbooks.com