Life, 1903-01-15 · page 6 of 20
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page 48 The central cartoon depicts a man in Victorian dress covered with pocket watches and timepieces, labeled "LIFE'S FASHIONS, 1903." The caption indicates this is "A PRACTICAL BUSINESS SUIT CONSTRUCTED TO WITHSTAND THE WEAR AND TEAR OF WALL STREET." This satirizes Wall Street businessmen's obsession with time and punctuality during the Gilded Age. The proliferation of watches suggests both wealth-display and the era's emerging culture of time-consciousness in commerce. The absurdist exaggeration—dressing entirely in watches—mocks the impracticality of such conspicuous consumption while commenting on capitalism's preoccupation with measuring and maximizing productivity. The page also reviews recent books, including works on Alaska and historical romance.
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-LIFE- photography and all Il devotees of piete lovers of the beautiful. (Camera Work, 162 Leon- ard Street, New York.) ve Hudson River from Ocean to Source is a handsome volume by Es OST of us have enjoyed Jack Lon- Bacon, profusely illustrated. - dons short si therefore with some fear of losin favorite nowadays and, in the langua that we approach his first novel. A Daw is by Historical Romance out of G ur Mayhew It is one of esof Alaska, Itis the cross-bred productions much affected of the turf, de Sook. wever, is far from disap- and shows both the flightiness of its sire and sting story, and is the staying qualities of its dam. S J.B. Kerfoot, essentially true, b Putnam's Sons.) of early days in the K al conditions Philadelph ing of A Nonsense Anthology would natu- rally seem a worth ask. Thereare some things, however, the futility of which can only be proved by experi- ment 1 Carolyn Wells's labors hay demonstrated t nonsense is one of those delicate wild plants that will not bear domestication. Crowded in a dense throng, between stifling covers, even our dearest bits from Alice herself droop and die. (Charles Scrib- ner’s Sons.) Which subject brings us to Andrew Lang's new book, The Disentanglers. These tales, selected from the records of a company formed in London for solving matrimonial tangles, are deli the dividing line between fc sensible nonsense, and give an amusing glimpse of society in the convex mirror of Me. Lang's humor. (Longmans, Green and Company.) The historical romance has come to resemble a piece of * Louis XV." furniture from Grand Rapids, a well-veneered, machine-made imitation of what passes for a bygone style. Mollie Elliot Seawell hay all the newest machinery, Franzeska is her outpy has the approved swing, the most devil-may-care spirit and the innovation of a ending. (The Bowen-Merrill Company, Indianapolis $1.50.) Harry A. Spurr presents, with certain arguments in favor of its genuineness, a translation of one of tales fathered by the elder Alexandre aving these delicate questions of au- y to specialists in the higher eriti- cism, it suffices to recommend Master Adam, the Calabrian to all who enjoy a good story well told, (R. F. Fenno and Company $1.00.) A new publication, which for taste of workmanship and perfection of illustration has not been approached this side of Paris, LIFE’S FASHIONS. 1903. A PRACTICAL BUSINESS SUIT. WELL ADAPTED TO WITHSTAND 5 7 THE WEAR AND TEAR OF WALL. Alfred Stieglitz. It should commend it-elf — frnerr (GG. P. DRAWING 18 OWN CONCLUSION. The First-Nighter. IS BALLADE. H, for a gleam ot vanished light From prompt books of the long ago. The stage is sunk in Stygian night, Its stars, alas, but dimly glow, the critics’ praises flow ; We're done to death by modern plays, As all theatric bills will show : Oh, for the Drama's good old days! Ob, for one moment of the might That made for wholesome mirth and woe 5 Of Love's young dream, its future bright, Of lifelong friend, of noble foe ; All those quaint things we used to know When sin-sick souls were not a craze Through five long acts of suffering slow : Oh, for the Drama's good old days! Ob, for some respite from the sight Of these mad myths of Pinero ; Of Zaza's tricks, Du Barry's blight, Lieata’s sighs and drops—but no, We are ared a last fell blow, We may not hope for mended ways, Here's Duse and D’Annunzio: Oh, for the Drama’s good old days! Exvot. atic Muse, descend, for lo! “irst-nighters fret with fevered gaze; Must they forever suffer so? Ob, for the Drama’s good old days! Mabei Warren Sanford. (THE good man of basiness never allows his opinion of his partners to escape him. comicbooks.com