Life — November 7, 1907 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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ipeeeeee Jbdble Jeg The ONLY MACHINE | preter’ ‘The only machine ever invented which will add, mul- tiply and divide by automatic, instantly responsive keys. No lever to operate ; : OREOVER and besides, the Saturday U The only machine which can prove its claims for being ‘Reviewiid oat seahe z th the most rapid adding or calculating machine. new ts notspecine. 16 cr S The only machine which can show a record (16 yrs., 8 a generalization, unfortified by mos., 13 das.) for durability to exceed 8 years without a When it sa the Ameri single repair. - shricks, we immediately retort, “Name The only machine which has been used on all additions, || 31" Whom can it mean? Surely not multiplications and divisions found in bookkeeping, bill pan ae cane “Surely Pol extending, cost keeping and pay-roll departments of practically every line of business and proven suc- Mr. Howells, whose literary style is so N cessful in every place modulated that readers of a boisterous 1 he only machine ever invented which will add all the columns at one time by the simple touching temperament, slightly deaf to the tones of of keys and nothing more. Write for pamphlet and special trial offer. Comptometer sent, express pre- paid, on trial to responsible parties in the U. S. or Canada. : ree FELT & TARRANT MFG. CO., 837 N. Paulina St., Chicago, I claim mentally, “Louder, please!” Not Mrs. Wharton, whose phrases and people move in an atmosphere of good breeding. \ Not Owen Wister—but the roster of our 1 immortals is too long. And, anyw suppose some of us do lift up our voice It is an age of emphasis and superlatives ul made necessary by a public deaf as adders 1 to the utterance of art. Mr. Charles | Battell Loomis has shrewdly remarked “Holler in the middle of the night if you is want to be heard.” The truth is, the Satarday Review has a profound prejudice against republican institutions, including the greatest of all American institutions— si the novel. Doubtless it would have found i fault with Freedom shrieking as Kosciusko 1 fell. Wo TLL p polite expression, have been known to ex ‘ Encouraging the Young Writer MERICAN newspapers are affording r wide publicity to the announcement ’ that an English publisher, Mr. her Unwin, who, some years ago, offered a prize of £100 for the best novel by a new writer, was so pleased with his experiment that he is about to repeat it. Noting the si increased cost of living in this country, and f the advance in the price of paper, he has 0 considerately increased the prize to one hundred guineas. Novels submitted must contain 75,000 words. Women’s club periodicals please copy Almost any lady author, who can count rapidly on her finge see at a glance that at this rate of payment—which we r ourselves have been obliged to work out : by tedious mathematical processes—she r would, or might, receive 50,400 cents, or d Yes of accent per word. Mr. Fisher Unwin i is an artful angler; but as a speculator in f other people’s brains his attempt to bear the American market invites rebuke. Any f literary housewife in the “States,” seeking ' to make ends meet, knows that she can do as well as this by writing household recipes r for the woman’s page of our newspapers. i In England, we believe, it is otherwise. : KN OX The professional journalists of that coun- HAT try, if report be true, turn’ out an amount f of copy that would paralyze an American | has been known for nearly three score and ten years ana hat which invariably “mill-hand.” Our most expert versifiers, fulble these reawirements ona ition commends itself to the economical on if paid the Briti h rates, would speedily be reduced to living on buns—a form of nutriment affected by the late Percy Bysshe Shelley with indifferent success. Only very young American writers of the male sex are likely to bite at Mr. Fisher “Good form” is usually just good taste reduced to a formula. In the matter of hats the formula is simple: get a becoming hat; get a hat in the current fashion ; avoid vulgar extremes. The « tr f t comicbooks.com