Life — June 20, 1907 — page 12: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page 836 of Life Magazine: Three Profiles This page presents three biographical sketches with caricatures: **Hopkinson Smith** is celebrated as a versatile "master of some trades"—architect, traveler, writer, raconteur—praised for his gentle wit and genial nature. The text calls him a "universal genius in miniature." **Jacob Riis** is noted as Denmark's contribution to journalism and social reform, having written about tenement life and influenced manufacturing practices on Mulberry Street and the White House. **Wallace Irwin** is humorously described as having "roped his Pegasus" (his creative inspiration) in San Francisco, with references to his whimsical writing style and the "Scorn" sonnet, which apparently "fetch[ed] a dollar a line." The page concludes with a brief satirical dialogue about meeting the President.