Life, 1905-10-19 · page 3 of 30
Life — October 19, 1905 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content**, not political cartooning. The left side promotes two books: Mrs. Persia Mather's *The Counsels of a Worldly Godmother* (letters about society etiquette) and Charles Edward Russell's *The Greatest Trust in the World* (described as exposing corrupt American business practices). The right side features a portrait drawing by Otto Schneider of "an American girl," offered free with a Metropolitan Magazine subscription. The drawing appears to be a professional artistic piece rather than satire—a typical early 20th-century magazine premium. There is **no political cartoon or satirical commentary** on this page. It represents standard magazine advertising practices of the era, using literary recommendations and artistic giveaways to attract subscribers.
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capyAIGHT FOR GREAT BRITAIN BY JAMES HENDERSON UNDER THE ACT OF 1801. IF YOU ARE GOING OUT INTO SOCIETY this season, there is a book just published which we are sure you will find interesting. Pray do not let this suggest to you some banal and philistine manual of deportment, for “THE COUNSELS OF A WORLDLY GODMOTHER” by Mrs. Persis Mather (the book we have in mind) is far from being that. It consists rather of a series of sprightly letters dealing with the daily round of modern society life, social success, the value of ancestors, the folly of Bridge, the fad of philanthropy, the art of conversation, snobbish- ness, vulgarity, the subject of marriage and divorce, and all the incidentals of worldly life, as known in what are generally termed the “inner circles.” Mrs. Mather is thoroughly amusing and her warnings to her young goddaughter are illustrated with stories which may possibly remind the reader of actual occurrences in certain quarters. To mothers and débutantes these letters will be of very decided interest, and fathers and brothers will find many home truths in the keen thrusts at “mere man;” so that the book will doubtless create much pleasant discussion. You will find “THE Counsets or A WortpLy Gop- MoTHER” (Houghton, Mifflin and Company) at your bookseller’s among the latest fiction, at the usual price. "JUST PUBLISHED—$1.50 The GREATEST TRUST IN THE WORLD CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Its figures and statis- It tells graphically, convincingly, t S about the Beef Trust. It isa tragic romance of systematic commer- cial baceaneers. tics are unanswerable. They tell a tale to which no vivid writing can add one jot and from which no sophistry can take one jot away.—The October Bookman. This Superb Drawing Free An artistic fac-simile of Otto Schneider’s famous portrait of an American girl, done in red chalk, size 12% x 18 inches, ready for framing, will be sent to any address Free of Cost upon receipt of a year’s subscription to The Metropolitan Magazine at $1.80. You will receive the maga- zine for one year and the picture will be forwarded to you, charges prepaid, all for $1.80. It is a history of the real conditions existing in the American Address the business world of to-day, considered calmly, dispassionately, yet ‘robbing with fascinating interest. It is the work of a careful lavestigator who as a writer has few if any equals in his mastery pure, picturesque, forceful English. METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE Dept. F, 3 West 29TH Street, NEW YORK For sale at all Bookstores or of the Publishers Tue Ripgway-THaver Company, 31 E, 17th Street, Union Square, New York comicbooks.com