Life, 1905-06-29 · page 13 of 29
Life — June 29, 1905 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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**Top Cartoon**: A man whispers to a woman who gazes ahead indifferently. The caption satirizes romantic clichés—he claims to love her "therefore" he's in love, while she knows he loves her because "all the world loves a lover." The joke mocks hollow romantic rhetoric and the circular logic of sentimental declarations. **"Religious Wars" & "Discipline the Magazines, Too"**: These articles argue that Midwest states (Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan) should pass legislation regulating magazine construction. Life complains about wire-bound magazines and thick inserted color advertisements that are difficult to handle and tear out. The satire suggests these practical nuisances deserve legal restriction as much as anti-cigarette and anti-tipping laws recently passed. Indiana, being wealthy from publishing, should lead by example. **Bottom Cartoons**: "The Impossible" mocks a woman worrying her bathing suit will shrink—an absurd concern. The final cartoon jokes about cheap bric-a-brac received as gifts rather than purchased. The page emphasizes early-1900s consumer frustrations with magazine design and romantic sentimentality.
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Copyrtoht, 1908, by Life Publishing Oo. “WHY, F LOVE YOU; THEREFORE, UM IN LOVE Religious Wars. ELF-INTEREST has shed but little gore. When freak meets freak, then comes the tug of war, Discipline the Magazines, Too. T will be a pity if the valuable re- strictive legislation so popular now in the States of the Middle West, and exemplified in the anti-cigarette laws of Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana, and in the anti-tip law lately passed by both branches of the Wisconsin Legis- lature, is permitted to subside without timely attention to the defects and drawbacks of the magazines, In all the Union there is no State whose literary products are pecuniarily so valuable in proportion to the wealth and population of the State, as Indiana. In that State, if any, the interests of He: Shes YOU LOVE ME, 1 KNow, ND HOW DO YOU KNOW ? readers may be expected to receive attention. If the Indiana legislators have not yet escaped to their homes, will they not please make a law ex- cluding from their State all magazines, the leaves of which are fastened with wire, or which include in their adver- tising sections the stiff, thick, inserted color-pages which are so difficult to tear out, and which make the magazines so much more troublesome to handle? The wire binding is a nuisance, The publishers use it from no high motives, but merely because it is cheap and handy. The colored ‘inserts’ are a nuisance, but our lawgivers in this State won't do - thing about them, We look to the uses of Indiana to make an examp! them, and they had better make ha =: about it before the Dracos of Wisconsin snatch this waiting honor from them. ALL THE WORLD LOVES A LOVER, AND YOU ARE ALL IN THIS WORLD TO ME.” The Impossible. LARA: I hope my bathing suit won't shrink. Mavpe: I don’t see how it can “THAT'S A FINE COLLECTION OF BRIC-A- BRAC YOU HAVE THERE—IT MUST HAVE COST YOU A FORTUNE.” “NOT AT ALL—THEY WERE FAIRLY FLUNG AT ME.” comicbooks.com