Life, 1907-05-02 · page 9 of 48
Life — May 2, 1907 — page 9: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content**, not political satire. The left side contains ads for Pabst Extract (a tonic), Globe Optical Company goggles, and a Mexican Palm Leaf Hat. The center features "The Literary Zoo," a column discussing various literary and historical figures including George Bernard Shaw, H. Rider Haggard, and others who achieved success despite limited formal education. The right side advertises Whiting Papers and French Chambray writing materials. At the bottom is a brief editorial note titled "The Silent War," referencing Uncle Tom's Cabin and slavery abolition. This is a typical early 20th-century **Life magazine page mixing advertisements with cultural commentary**—not primarily satirical cartooning.
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Art catalog of Mexkan Sombreros free. THE FRANCIS F. LESTER CO, Dept. B TG, Mesilla Park, X. Largest Retailers Indian-itexican Handicraft in World ’ 50c. schools. Because his father had the bad judgment to go into business, for which he was unsuited, George Bernard’s formal education was limited to what he could acquire up to the age of fourteen in a Methodist school in Dublin. Yet even- tually he “picked up” enough exact infor- mation to act successively as art, music and dramatic critic of various London news- papers and periodicals. We detect here an analogy to the disputed learning of Shake- speare, and regret that we have not the space to pursue it. One does not think of W. S. Gilbert as a military man (he is now a justice of the peace), yet for many years he held a captaincy in the Third Battalion of Royal Highlanders—where he doubtless got his “model of a modern major- general.” * * * H.RIDER HAGGARD helped to hoist * the British flag over the Transvaal ‘Territory in 1877. Had not the Boers for- bidden, he might have fallen fighting the Zulus years before, but he lived to awake in London, to find himself famous as the author of “King Solomon's Mines.” Rob- ert Hichens studied to be a musician, and had written and published many lyrics for music before he produced “The Green Camation,” in 1894. He has meanwhile been a prolific writer, but it took him an- other ten years to gain popularity in the United States with his “Garden of Allah.” It must strain the memory of Sir Gilbert Parker to recall the days when he was a professor in a deaf and dumb institute in a small Canadian town, and a deacon in the Church of England. It is not so surpri- sing to leam that the author of “Typhoon” —Joseph Conrad, master in the merchant service—took to sea at the tender age of thirteen, after his father, a Polish revolu- tionist, had died at Warsaw. It took Thomas Hardy a long time to discover himself as a novelist. He came to realize it only after he had made some headway in his profession of architect, and when he had decided to abandon architecture for art criticism. * * ‘OUR true American is apt to be many things in the course of his restless career. If F. Marion Crawford had not carly found his metier as a maker of ro- mance, he might have sailed the seas for a living. As it is, he holds professional mas- ter’s certificates from the Association of American Shipmasters and the United States Marine Board. George W. Cable is entitled to some leisure in his New Eng- land home. At the age of fourteen he was helping to support the family. A trooper in the Civil War, he became at its close a cashier and bookkeeper for a firm of cotton factors in New Orleans, and remained at that employment for fourteen years, till 1879, when he made his literary reputation Gor Are the Standard Fine Writing Papers for Social Corre- spondence, the Club, the Boudoir, the Den, the Office. the Hotel and general business Use. They set the fashion and have led the trade for forty years. Make forty tons a day of Standard Fine Wnt- ing Papers, including the famous French Chambray French Organdie, Organdie Glacé and other specialties in Woven Linen and Bond Papers. ! Awarded the Grand Prize at the last Paris World's Exposition. The only first prize ever given American’ papers. Sold by leading stationers everywhere. _ Whiting Paper Company 148-150-152 Duane Street NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO, Mills at Holyoke, M “THE SILENT WAR” may prove as potent an influence in releasing Americans from the thral- dom of the money tyrants as did “Uncle Tom's Cabin” in liberating the negro from bondage. A Victim of the Trusts. comicbooks.com