ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Life, 1907-02-28 · page 21 of 28

Life — February 28, 1907 — page 21: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Life — February 28, 1907 — page 21: Life, 1907-02-28

What you’re looking at

This is primarily **advertising and a contest announcement** from *Life* magazine, not satirical content. The top half features a **Prudential Insurance Company advertisement** emphasizing prompt claim payments to widows and families—a selling point for life insurance in an era before social safety nets. The "Rock of Gibraltar" logo conveys stability and strength. The bottom half announces a **$3,500 artistic competition** inviting illustrators to create paintings interpreting famous literary quotations (from Burns, Pope, Tennyson, etc.). Winners receive $250 per illustration, with an additional $500 prize for the best overall submission. Entries must arrive by July 1, 1907. This reflects *Life*'s dual role as both satirical magazine and vehicle for advertising and cultural competitions targeting educated, middle-class readers. The quotations emphasize moral virtue and romantic idealism—typical themes for early-twentieth-century illustrated journalism.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

1% The PRUDENTIAL’S Promptness in payment of claims has relieved thousands of families [E IS worth much to a man to know that when he goes, his wife and children will not have to wait for his life insurance money. Lg RMAS THE / QC STRENGTH OF GIBRALTAR Promptness,—hearty, systematic, very welcome promptness means much to the beneficiary. Be prompt in securing a Prudential policy. The Prudential will be prompt when settling the claim. A post card will bring rates. Write Dept. O. The Prudential Insurance Company of America INCORPORATED AS A STOCK COMPANY BY THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY JOHN F. DRYDEN, President Home Office, NEWARK, N. J. OF INTEREST TO ARTISTS| THIRTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT PICTURES II NE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING Q $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of 1. Oh wad some power th gi ‘To sce oursel’s as others see us!—Burns. $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of 2. When lovely woman stoops to folly.—Goldsmith. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 3. God helps them that help themselves.—Benjamin Franklin, $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of +. Knowledge is power.—Lord Bacon. * $250 will be paid jor the best illustration of 5. In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us.—de Rochefoucauld. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 6. Those who dance must pay the piper.—Old Proverb. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 7. For if she will, she will, you may depend on’t; And if she won't, she won’ there's an end on’t.—Aaron Hill. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 8. None but the brave deserves the fair.— Dryden. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 9. But ne'er the rose without the thorn.—Herrick. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 10. But has nothing half so sweet in life young dream.— Moore. $250 wi itt re paid for the best illustration of 11. Hope springs eternal in the human breast.—Pope. $250 will be paid for the best illustration of 12, In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.—Tennyson. Two Hundred and fifty Dollars will be paid for the best illustration of each quotation, the awards to be made by the Editors of Lire. five Bundred Dollars Additional ‘The method of will be paid for the best of these twelve drawings. awarding this prize will be announced later. If one or more of the quotations should fail to inspire illustrations suitable for use in Lire, there will in that particular case, or cases, be no award. Illustrations and all correspondence concerning this contest must be addressed to Tue Quotation Eprror or Lire 17 W. Trirry-rmst Streer New York Crry and must be received not later than July first, 1907. ‘The awards will be made immediately after that date. The illustrations be made in any medium—line, wash, oils or color—although it should be borne in mind that th ¢ to be reproduced in black-and-white; and they should also be of suitable for reduction to about thirteen inches wide by eight inches high. y artist may illustrate as many of the quotations as he pleases, and nd more than one illustration of any quotation. accepted and paid for illustrations, together with all rights of publication, become absolutely the property of Lirr. Each illustration should bear the name and address of the artist and also the quotation it is intended to illustrate. Artists should arrange for the return of unsuccessful illustrations, in case their return is desired. 33 comicbooks.com