Life, 1906-06-07 · page 5 of 42
Life — June 7, 1906 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertising** with some editorial puzzles. The main visual is a Santa Claus advertisement promoting summer travel to Colorado, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and California beaches—a counterintuitive juxtaposition of winter's Santa with summer vacation planning. The left column contains word puzzles and riddles typical of Life's editorial content: anagrams, enigmas, charades, and a square word puzzle. These are lighthearted brain-teasers with literary or philosophical answers. At the bottom, an advertisement for M. Ticla & Co jewelry showcases "reconstructed Rubies and Sapphires," emphasizing they are "practically genuine stones" in "artistic and absolutely exclusive settings"—a sales pitch that paradoxically highlights the products' artificial nature while claiming superiority over imitations.
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Anagram THEY SEE.—Anonyme, Answer: The eyes. “Anonyme’s anagram is the most perfect speci- men we have ever seen.”"—Dorothy Doolittle.) Enigma The First Immutable forever, 1; the earth Was still in swadd.ing clothes when I had birth; My sisters both took precedence of me, Yet Lam surely oldest of the three. The Second Before my dark-veiled sister was, was I. ut still you sce me in my infancy; eglect and desecrate and flout me, ‘et the wisest could not live without me. The Third Youngest and fairest of our sisterhood, Now in dim dread and now in hopeful mood, Man waits my coming here, but sees me never— \las, I come not till I’m gone forever! Mabel P. Answer: Yester (“Universally admired throughout Puzzledom.”” —St. Julian.) Dan D. Lyon (“Undoubtedly the finest *8? ever produced stands to the credit of Dan D. Lyon. There is not a single plural in the combination and but one participle. . this one chef d’ccuvre, not only unsurpassed slutely unequaled, must forever remain an imperishable monument to his genius as a formist.” Majolica.) Charade First Owen Meredith proves we may live without books, Without friends, without hope, without love's | smallest particle; ler will say, when upon me he looks, That I'm a quite indispensable article; For whatever a man’s wants may happen to be, In me he is fitted at once to a T. Second It seems a Yankee notion, clear, Government must not interfere ith liberty, and that its sphere Consent of governed folk determines; But Webster passes by consent In saying Iam “government,” And that “restraint” is my intent. He'd better tell that to the Germans. Whole You may dig underground, you may climb into trees, ‘ ou may cut into cheese you may float in the air; t the stars, or the leg of a chair; into vaults, into graves, into tombs, Into Murray Hill parlors, or tenement rooms; But this fact ‘twould be well in your derby to pin: Wherever you look, you will find me therein Sir Urian. Answer: The-rein. “A splendid example of hiding in plain sight— delightful to the reader and most difficult for the author.”"—M. C. S.) Anagram Quid est veritas? (What is truth?) Answer: E: Vir qui adest. (It is He that is present.) (“One of the finest anagrams ever made is one on Pilate’s despairing words when our Lord was before him, ‘Quid est veritas?’ ‘What is truth?” for your Summer Outing May we suggest — The Colorado Rockies Grand Canyon of Arizona ‘Yosemite, and the cool California beaches? Verv low roun excursion rates all summer Ask tor descripti AL T'&S. F: Ry.. Radway Exchange, Chicago. : ‘The true answer rises with absolute accuracy in the transposition, EST VIR QUI ADEST, It is He} that is present!" —Resolute.) 1 if Seclas reconstructed Rubies and Supphtres - the component parts being real, -are practically gemune. stones, and are mounted only will’ Seclas synlhitlic pearls or-genune Otamonos (no tntalions) tin the most artistic and.absolitely cocclitstve scllings. WE inutte inspeclton of our” new outs XIV Store and tts contents f Ctrt Sewelry. 47 B09 Haussmann: 929 Broadway. Faris. Tew Pork. 683 comicbooks.com