Life, 1907-06-13 · page 2 of 24
Life — June 13, 1907 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a full-page advertisement for the **Pope-Toledo automobile** (Type XV, 50 H.P., priced at $1,250), manufactured by Pope Motor Car Co. in Toledo, Ohio. The ad uses typical early 20th-century marketing language, emphasizing the car's power, construction quality, and superiority to competitors, and invites potential buyers to request a catalogue or arrange a demonstration. The right side contains "The Literary Zoo," a humorous poem by Willadene Jenkins about attempting to read difficult literature, followed by a brief essay titled "Bensons" discussing the three Benson brothers and their literary achievements. Below are smaller advertisements for nail polish and a rotary toothbrush—standard commercial content for the period.
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Type XV, 50 H.P. Pope-Toledo Price, Fully Equipped $4,250 You can learn more about a really high-class motor car in an hour’s ride in the 50 H. R. POPE-TOLEDO than we could tell you in ten pages of this publication. A demonstration will prove to you that this car is more powerful, faster, easier handled, easier riding and sweeter running than any car on the market. Comparison will show you that its construction embraces more alloyed steel, more ball bearings, more of the world’s best and latest practice in design, workmanship and material than any other American car. All we ask is investigation and comparison. The more you com- pare, the closer your investigation, the more you'll become convinced your choice should be a Type XV Pope-Toledo. SEND FOR CATALOGUE Pope Motor Gar Go. A.L.A.M. TOLEDO, O. On Week-End Visite—Take CALDER’S ; NAIL-POLISH TABLET Culder's Dentine—Por WHITE Teeth Albert L.Calder Co. Sex US AT JamesTows Like the brash the dent: Cleans tetren the tert along thi across it AML without fate acto oot or descriptive book and broctiure on care of the teeth, as ROTARY TOOTH BRUSH CO. ; Fhe Srey: The Unattainable "VE read it backwards and forwards, I've stared at it upside-down, I’ve played both ends 'gainst the middle, I've tried’ it with smile and frown. I've turned it to Greck and Latin, I've put it in Portuguese, I’ve done it in pure Esperanto, In French and in Georjadese. I've stood on my head and read it, I've sat in a tub likewise, A cold bath sponge on my forehead, And goggles set over my cyes; And still like the mists of heaven, Or will-o-wisps at their games, Its meaning eludes and evades me— That latest of Hennery James. Wilberforce Jenkins, Bensons OME confusion, it seems, has arisen in the minds of certain readers respecting the identities of the three Benson brothers, and we have been called upon to supply the proper tags. We cheerfully comply Our sympathy always goes out to the young person who, in the carnest pursuit of culture, is beset with the not uncommon embarrassment involved in the failure to associate the names of Looks with the mere makers of them. We recall one young student of literature whose special per- plexity was the classification of the per- formances attributed to the three Arnolds Matthew, Edwin and Benedict. On the other hand, an excess of learning has known to trouble the minds of the be “well-read.” ‘Thus, in a cautious en- deavor to wean a bright young woman from the delusion that two new novels a week were putting her in a fair way to acquire a liberal literary education, we were prompted to recommend certain biographies in the “English Men of Letters” series. To which she demurred For, as she remarked archly, and with a far-secing sense of consequences, “If I read all about Goldsmith and Thackeray, then I shall have to go to work to read about their biographers, too.”” x * # ITH this preamble, we note that Arthur Christopher Benson is a con- tributor of not less than three volumes to the sh Men of Letters”’—concerning Rossetti, Edward Fitzgerald and Walter Pater; but though he was born in 1862 and has turned out many books of prose and verse since he began his literary career in 1886, it is but recently that he has made a considerable stir in the minds of the cur’ ous persons addicted to the old-fashioned his his comicbooks.com