Life, 1907-11-21 · page 6 of 32
Life — November 21, 1907 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political satire. The left column advertises "Everybody's Magazine" with a quote attributed to "LAWSON" criticizing law enforcement and municipal corruption—a reference to the muckraking journalism era. The list of notable contributors (Wells, Shaw, Abbott, etc.) emphasizes the magazine's literary prestige. The center features biographical notes on writer **Thomas Dixon Jr.**, discussing his prolific output and writing process. The right side advertises **Thomas L. Masson's book "A Bachelor's Baby"** and **Feathersilk petticoats** with the tagline promising they "cost four times as much" but wear like cheaper alternatives. The page reflects early 20th-century magazine culture: serious literary journalism mixed with consumer advertising targeting middle-class readers.
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See Who’s Here “Law is represented by municipal employees armed with bludgeons, violently suppressing casually obnox- ious persons, and doing hom- age to Purity (which in America is a quaintconspira- cy to convict creation of in- decency) by confiscating the property and incarcerating the persons of those whom Mr. Anthony Comstock, the celebrated Purity Witch Doc- tor, points out to them as be- trayers of the shocking secret that women are bipeds.”’ That’s SHAW. THE CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY’S has secured PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN ARCHBISHOP IRELAND BOOTH TARKINGTON G.BERNARD SHAW VANCE THOMPSON WILL IRWIN 0. HENRY ELEANOR ABBOTT H. G. WELLS HERBERT N. CASSON THOMAS W. LAWSON SAMUEL McCHORD CROTHERS **A good man loves chil- dren and horses, and the dogs mistake him for the Santa Claus of their fireside dreams." That’s LAWSON. If this isn’t EVERYBODY’S MAGAZINE WHOSE IS IT? 15 cents a copy $1.50 a year 8 months for $1.00 THE RIDGWAY COMPANY Dept. K. UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY Zoo a, IOS be used in this connection. For several weeks after the completion of a tale I am horribly depressed. It is nothing less than nostalgia; 1am lonesome—for I have grown to know and like my characters in the tale, and it means good-by forever to them all when they leave my hands. For I seldom look inside one of my books after it has left the binder’s.” * * & THomas DIXON, JR., who writes all his books “literally with my fect in the tide,” as he puts it, is rejoicing in a new home on Riverside Drive. It hangs on the cliff at One Hundred and Fifty-ninth Street, and his study windows look out over the Hudson, north, south and west. In his work on “The Traitor” Mr. Dixon has been pursuing his usual plan—devo- ting a year to the preliminaries and then writing the novel under great pressure in from thirty to sixty days, working from fif- teen to sixteen hours a day. His least daily output is 3,000 words (an equivalent of two newspaper columns), and his maximum 8,000. The quantity depends upon the kind of chapter he is working on and the amount of time he may be devoting to chapters already written. He usually re- vises and interlines his manuscript three or four times before tuming it over to his wife to be typewritten. The most of the funda- mental changes are in plot construction; the revision of sentences and phrases is constant and at every stage of the work un- til five proofs have been read. Mr. Dixon writes with a big, soft, editor’s pencil. “I neveremploya stenographer,” hesays. “In fact, I can’t work with any one in the room.”” * * & [T, SEEMS impossible that John Ken- drick Bangs can have done so much in longhand alone, yet the pen is his one tool of trade. Confronted with the evidence of his guilt in the seventeen book-shelves con- taining his incomplete works, he hums an air suggesting ‘‘Little drops of water, little grains of sand,” and confesses that he works four hours a day, 365 days in the year, “except in leap year, when I throw in an extra day.” By the exercise of greater straint he has-been known to limit his day’s product to ten words. At other times, with his elbow in good working order, he has recklessly written 5,000 before the one o’dock whistle wamed him to stop. He finds that revision of his manuscript is “not necessary, but desirable,” and he prefers the country, with the sea near by, for a workshop. Mr. Bangs suggests that an in- quiry into the state of literature would yield really valuable data if authors could only be prevailed upon to answer questions like these: 1. What breakfast food conduces to the best poetry ? THE NEW BOOK BY THOMAS L. MASSON Managing Editor of LIFE A BACHELOR'S BABY This distinguished collection of Mr. Masson's latest and maturest humor is a book for every sane American and should have a place in every library. It so A GIFT BOOK OF HIGH DEGREE. Uniform with “A Corner in Women.” Elaborately Illustrated by Flags. Blashfield, Creaby, . Richards, etc. $1.60 Net. (Postage, 16 Cents. MOFFAT, YARD & CO., NEW YORK > | ‘TRADE MARE ight | ‘Strong : >Pure Dye Made of the New Taffeta Feathersilk; Light, Strong, Pure Dye. Look and wear as if they cost four times as much as they do. For sale everywhere. Feathersilk Petticoats cruciat broken the nu upon | Review She( bospital cases w but the the doc avoid, The ment, t it Mer death ii certain death ji aover the doc Give it. Prevent cancer tis ¢ morphi Cases th dreadfu ecdure, the doc Means | Bercy. _ Bat, it, beca re, RS. comicbooks.com