Life, 1904-04-14 · page 15 of 20
Life — April 14, 1904 — page 15: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains two distinct elements: **Left side:** A photograph of a sculpture titled "For the St. Louis Exposition." The monument appears to be a commemorative piece featuring a robed female figure with raised arm, flanked by smaller figures, likely representing Massachusetts's contribution to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. **Right side:** An illustration of spring flowers in bloom—a straightforward botanical drawing with no apparent satirical content. **Center:** A brief Sunday-school joke where a teacher asks about "movable feasts" (religious holidays with varying dates), and a student provides a literal, humorous answer: "Easter Sunday and the first of May"—treating the term as physical movement rather than calendar flexibility. **Top:** Book reviews of contemporary novels, including works by Elizabeth Miller and Bram Stoker. The page functions primarily as a magazine section mixing cultural commentary, illustrations, and light humor rather than political satire.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
-LIFE- days that one has to examine themin bunches. This week, if we may be pardoned the Hibernianism, we desire not to call attention to two of them. C/ ry's Child, her latest, and Little Joan, its immediate predecess ¢ both love stories written by th rd in Mrs. Stan and Little Joan ii d by a new symptom use of very sloppy English. SBR The Yoke. By Flizabeth Miller. (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, In- dianapolis. 7 n Stars. By Bram Stoker. (Harper and Broth- «Wife. By John D, Barry. (The Smart Set Publishing 250.) mperiatist. By Mrs. Everard Cotes (Sara Jeannette D and Company. $1.50.) y Henry A. Beers. (T by John Strange Winter. ¥ John Strange Winter. S N HOOL TEACH : Can any scholar tell me what are the movable feasts? Bricut Boy ster Sunday and the first of May. FOR THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION FLOWERS THAT RLOOM IN THE SPRING, comicbooks.com