Life, 1906-12-20 · page 36 of 46
Life — December 20, 1906 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily advertises *The World's Work* magazine, a serious journalistic publication (not fiction or satire). The advertisement promises investigative journalism on contemporary issues: trusts, universities, medical advances, international comparisons, and business practices. Notable figures mentioned include E.H. Harriman (railroad magnate) and President Taft. The right column contains "The Lieutenant and the Lions," a humorous light verse by Kent Packard (published in *St. Nicholas* magazine). It's a mock-heroic poem about a British naval officer, Lieutenant Peters-Brown, who defeats sea lions by force-feeding one a Navy regulations handbook ("General Orders"). The satire gently mocks British naval formality and pomposity—the idea that rigid adherence to regulations conquers all obstacles, even wild animals. The page reflects 1907 progressive-era concerns with exposés of corporate power and institutional accountability.
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Regular Cover PAL COMMA APIS 8 ‘A Special Number “The Marvels of Communication “—For January Not a scrapbook, and not a fiction magazine. The World's Work tells the human stories of every month's greatest activities, and illustrates them with an unequalled richness of clear and interesting photographs. It is a record of all the important things that go on in politics, business, education, books, art, human achievement. In the coming year will appear: THE WORKINGS OF THE TRUSTS: A remarkable series of articles by Mr. C. M. Keys, unveiling the method: and open, of these colossal c ing just where they are benefits and just where they are menaces. DOES HARVARD DO ITS JOB? Not Harvard alone, but Yale, Princeton, and other colleges. A series showing how our uni- versities are doing what we expect of them. MEDICAL SENSE AND NONSENSE. The death-rate has been lowered but life short- ened. Marvelous discoveries have been m This series will bring home to every man and woman the ways in which life can be lengthened. WHAT OTHER COUNTRIES CAN TEACH US. Stories of the things they do better in England, France, Holland, Germany, Canada, Japan, THE AMERICA OF TOMORROW. What our cities, our transportation, our fortunes, our living and working will be in 235 years if present tendencies continue. THE MEN WHO ARE MAKING TODAY. ‘That mysterious figure, Mr. E. H. Harriman, explained. The real Taft, “Secretary of Peace,” shown as he is. Other notable Americans pictured and analyzed. THE SECRET OF BUSINESS SUCCESS. Not a series on business forms and office methods, but intimate revelations of big business men laying their plans and fight- ing their battles, showing how they get their results. INVESTING YOUR MONEY. Regular monthly articles that will tell investors, big and little, what they want to know about sound investments. These are but a few of many timely features. Wideawake Americans need this magazine. SUBSCRIBE NOW. 25 cents a copy, $3.00 a year. Send your name on a postal and receive further details of special interest. Doubleday, Page & Company 133 EAST loth STREET, NEW YORK | The World's Work for 1907. The Lieutenant and the Lions H, A strictly naval person, and a man of genera fame, Was Lieut. Gadzooks Peters-Brown, of H. M.S “The Flame.” He was fair and he was forty, he was fat as fat could be, And he was the bravest British tar that ever put to sea. While in the Bay of Biscay he was sleeping in his bunk, When a hundred fierce sea lions sprang upon him with a plunk. “Bah Jove!” cried this gallant seaman, “I must find out what to do.” So he grabbed his “General Orders,” paragraph number two. Now, as luck would have it for him, the first lion bit in twain That book of “General Orders,” used “For Con- duct on the Main.” You must know, my gentle reader, the sea lion is a beast ‘That dwells in ocean’s surges, twenty fathoms at the least, And when that “extra dry” blue book pervaded his inside, That poor, misguided animal, he laid him down and died. When they saw this his companions to the sea raced back in flight, For the fate of their brave leader had endued their hearts with fright. But Licut. Gadzooks Peters-Brown threw out his chest with glee, And exclaimed, “I am the went to sea!” atest thing that ever And a medal from the Admiralty, engraved with his full name, Hands down to his posterity his everlasting fame. —Kent Packard in December St. Nicholas. Down with the Home [Charlotte Perkins Gilman. in a current magazine artick argues against “home worship.”] IF WITH pride your heart’s been swelling o'er your modest little dwelling, it would seem it’s up to you to cut it out; If at home you've loved to linger, and with pride to point your finger, it’s apparent you don't know what you're about; For it’s not the proper caper—sce the latest Gil- man paper—to bear such old-time notions ’neath our lids; , Don’t love anything material—pick something quite ethereal—and don’t ever kiss the missus and the kids. If you've loved to spend your hours in those shady backyard bowers where your children romp around you and “play herse.” You're the victim of tradition and this lady with a mission can show you where you're in the wrong, of course She can make you pessimistic with her sermons altruistic, and will prove that wrong is all your selfish Wife and children—don’t you love ‘em; put the human race above ‘em; let the home slide and embrace the hoi polloi! —Denver Republican.