Life, 1907-06-20 · page 28 of 32
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This page is primarily **advertisements and literary commentary** rather than political satire. **Main Content:** - **Tobey Handmade Furniture ad**: Emphasizes craftsmanship and integrity over mass production - **William J. Long's Books**: Publisher advertisement listing nature/philosophy titles - **Colorado/Rock Island Railway ad**: Promotes train travel to Colorado, highlighting golf and mountain scenery **Literary Section ("The Literary Zoo"):** A humorous essay criticizing young Bostonians' literary pretensions. The author relates how Boston children claim to *write* their own stories rather than read established literature—presented as charming but misguided enthusiasm. A secondary note mocks an English contributor to *Putnam's Monthly* who complains about American newspaper language degrading English, yet the editor humorously notes slang appears everywhere, even in "refined" households. **The satire is gentle**: poking fun at American provincial attitudes toward culture and proper English usage, not serious political commentary. The page reflects early 20th-century middle-class concerns about literature, craftsmanship, and refinement.
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When you buy Tobey Avo ; & Handmade F urniture 'T WAS Dr. Holmes who made the = ff” alarming discovery that within the ex thri You buy of the maker. perience of every human being lay the whe You buy furniture that carries the guar- material for one work of fiction. In the men antee of a business institution upon which for process of the suns the essential soundness pe over fifty years the unquestioning faith of of that sinister doctrine has been amply the purchasing public has been bestowed. justified. Everybody can write a novel, You buy furniture that possesses unsur- and nearly everybody docs. The most ou, buy furnitar BoSur pertinent specific illustration of the uni iL jg intrinsic ‘worth: ‘and, the: highest versal habit that we can recall was afforded, . . some years ago, by the youth of Boston You buy furniture made primarily to » seeped y 7 ; the city where, if we are to credit Mr. serve and secondarily to sell—furniture of Wells, the Winged Victory of Samothrace absolute integrity. more abounds than the rubber-plant in It you are Interested in elegant furniture, we Brooklyn. Our informant relates that being shall be Pleased; to mall our book, at obey interested in the mental development of andmade Furniture,” on reques s illustrated . with apes the cabinet-makers at work, the Boston boy, he took occasion to ques pieces of the furniture, bits of hand carving, etc. tion a group of rising young Athenians ° concerning their studies and pastimes. The Tobey Furniture Company “And what stories do you read?” he asked very pure of Totes Hand. Wabash Av. & Washington St. 11 West 32nd St. them, mindful of his own dime-novel days. made hurmiture heard the CHICAGO NEW YORK To which their spokesman answered proudly, “Oh, we writeour own stories !"— in proof whereof sundry bundles of manu- script were displayed. And so we are not WILLIAM J. LONG’s | COLORADO a ee Jr’s, “A Boy’s Vacation Abroad.” Ps x ; 7 = why are the little Boston girls so laggard? 4 : - 5 NA paper contributed to Putnam's f Monthly for May Herbert Paul, an Eng- Brier Patch Philosophy | E lishman, deplores the decadence of the : English language. He thinks he may be Northern Trails ) forgiven a passing qualm when he finds A Little Brother to the \i ideal in Colorado. a phrase es “leering the pitch” in ‘i : the leading columns of a great newspaper r Bes he bracing moun- which “used to be a fountain of classical School of the Woods | tai English.” He is‘not so “futile and pe- dantic as to wage war against slang. But its proper place is surely private conversa- Beasts of the Field e tion.” ; ‘ 0 Is it? We ourselves are moved to re- Fowls of the Air | corda passingqualm. Only the other day in i a household where the Lares and Penates were shipped direct from the Athens of , * Dh 4 . America, we overheard a conversation be- Life said of Brier Patch Philosophy: tween a nice old lady and the ten-year-old It is William J. Long's repl courteous to John R . 5 daughter of a Radcliffe graduate. It bore Burroughs’s attempt in his * *Ways of Nature” to prove that animals never think. Mr. Burroughs's a arguments were almost as convincing of the con- Wptain Limi d has been newly equipped verse of his proposition as are the animals them- | throughout. D qing-room, al selves, and Mr. Long is as ce natured in his d recli reply as a man who has the best of it can gener- and reclining cars ally afford to be. Only road to Colorado running directly from the East into both Denver and Colorado Springs. GINN & COMPANY, Publishers Special Summer Rates to Colorado effective daily until Sept. 3oth, ako low rates to all Pacific Coast Trade Devt. 29 Beacon Street, Boston Points daily until Sept. 15th. for beautifully illus- inated ‘colorade Bookie. Rock [* der (he Paaquoise Ste Following the Deer I you can oand the prices oy Island IRS seein GOODERHAM & WORTS “SPECIAL” WHISKY Rock Island Lines, Chicago ASK ANY CANADIAN _ THY ADAM PAMILY CLOTHES-PRESS. 832 comicbooks.com