Life, 1901-09-19 · page 20 of 20
Life — September 19, 1901 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon (top left) depicts an editor speaking with a contributor. The editor offers the contributor work: "a couple of hundred words, and a few sketches" for standard pay. The contributor responds by asking whether he should "swim or walk"—a humorous way of asking if the meager payment will cover his travel expenses to submit the work. The joke satirizes the poor compensation offered to freelance writers and illustrators, suggesting the payment is so inadequate that the contributor questions whether he can afford basic transportation to deliver his work. The page is otherwise filled with period advertisements for spirits, sauces, soaps, and financial services—typical of Life magazine's revenue model in 1901.
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September 19, 1901, A COUPLE OF HUNDRED WORDS, AND A PEW SKETCHES, TUR USUAL KATH, YOU KNOW, 3/8 4 COLUMN, Contritutor; CERTAINLY, AND AS MONEY SEEMS SCAUCE WITH YOU, SHALL I SWIM OR WALK? 1 a0 ALWAYS READY TO OMLIGR, —Moonshine. 3 All dishes such as soups, ers & Perrins sauce. SiORATYRE ON EVERY Bory, F Ler-rend John Duncan's Sons - Agents NewYork. Its least virtue is that it lasts so. Soap is for comfort and cleanliness. Pears’ soap cleanliness— perfect cleanliness and comfort, Sold all over the world, ABBOTTS oricina Angostura Bitters. PRESS OF THE J, W. PRATT CO, NEW YORK. A BOTTLE of EVANS’ ALE Vatute’s glMicus Treweu for pase 115 Yeara by C,H. EVANS & SONS, HcDsox, N. Y. “A Genuine Old Brandy made from Wine.” — Medical Press (London), Aug. 1899, MARTELL'S THREE STAR BRANDY AT ALL BARS AND RESTAURANTS. Transact a general Redmond, (25. Kerr& Co. Fiscal “Agent and negotiate and! BANKERS, fesue loans of rall- 5 roads, street talk 41 WALL ST. .NvY. (wars) gas © come, les, ete. Sect alersbers fount sad ‘sold 0a) or commisston, N.Y. Stock Exchange, ICR Hish-Grade Investment Securities; Lists of current offerings sent oo applicatioa,! PHILADELPHIA CORRESPONDENTS, GRAHAM, KERR & CO. Old Crow --Rye.. IS POSITIVELY A STRAIGHT, HAND-MADE, SOUR MASH WHISKEY. Made by the James Crow formula, which no other distillery can use, it has never beea equalled, Our Scotch Whiskies are also abso | lutely pure. GOLD MEDAL AWARDED PARIS, 1900. H. B. KIRK & CO. SOLE BOTTLERS, N. Y. know the truth, sen “How and Why, by the PExx Live, 921-35 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. comicbooks.com