Life — December 27, 1906 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Its covers are printed in colors and each issue is made a veritable panorama of the world by the many illustrations (more than given in any other magazine) of noted people, places and events, Many of these illustrations are printed in colors. ‘The result of all this effort is a publication that you will seck with joy because you will know in advance that it will afford diversion for the idle hour, and best of ali—something worth while. THE WORLD TO-DAY is cheerful, progressive and optimistic, It does not believe that the country is going to the bow-wows because there are certain evils that need correcting, While it does not hesitate to criticise where necessary, it can see in these evils only the adve: with every great enterprise, like the upbuilding of a giant nation. ‘This is THE WORLD TO-DAY and it will be the same to-morrow; our policy is unchangeable. 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