Life, 1907-12-19 · page 23 of 28
Life — December 19, 1907 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **mostly advertising** interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes typical of Life magazine's satirical format. The **main content** comprises: 1. **Theatre Magazine advertisement** (top): Promoting a subscription deal offering a biography of actress Maude Adams 2. **Four short comic anecdotes** (left column): "A Sly Hit" about Henry James and a jam manufacturer's snobbishness; "Good News" about a condemned man's lawyer; a Marshal Lefebvre story about comeuppance; "No Antiques" (brief joke). These are genteel, mild humor targeting social pretension and irony. 3. **Magazine subscription service advertisement** (right, dominant): J.M. Hanson's Magazine Agency promoting bulk magazine purchasing that saves money through consolidated ordering—consolidating 3,000+ publications into one check rather than individual subscriptions. The page reflects **early 20th-century consumer culture**: magazine proliferation, subscription services, and advertising's growing sophistication. The anecdotes exemplify *Life's* characteristic urbane, class-conscious humor mocking social affectation.
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“a RES THE THEATRE MAGAZINE brings the New York Theatres to your home each month—a sumptuous maga- $4.50 VALUE FOR $3.00 zine replete with interesting text, exclusive portraits, splendid illustrations, and authoritative criticisms of the plays and players people are talking about—adiittedly the next best thing 10 seeing the pI $4.50 Value for $3.00 For $3.00, the regular subscription price to THE THE we will enter your nameas a subscriber for the next twelve m you at once absolutely free the new and valuable Biography of Maude Adams treguiar price $1.50, bound in silk cloth, illustrated with 24 exclusive photos, vividly interesting narrative of Miss Adams's life by Ada Patterson). THIS OFFER 1S LIMITED, SEND AT ONCE THE THEATRE “THE WATER OVER IN THE BROOK 1s MUCH BETTER—IT HAS BUGS IN IT.” A Sly Hit RY JAM id a publisher, “lives at Ryc, one of England’s cinq portes, but re- he left Rye for a time and took a house in the country near the estate of a millionaire jam manu- turer, retired. ‘This man, having married an s daughter, was ashamed of the trade whereby d up his fortune. manufacturer one day wrote Mr. James sorry to hear that my serv- ants have been poaching on your preserves. —Excuse my mentioning your preserves. —Washington Star. Good News G story is told at the expense of a ot Baltimore law who, like most . signment he bench. Tis client had bee ‘ted for surder, and his conviction was a foregone conclu- son, as his guilt was unquestionable. {of the trial was a sentence to be hanged; n made an appeal to the Governor for a and was anxiously awaiting a reply thereto is lawyer visited him in his cell. “Well—no. ‘The fact is the Governor refuses to n uncle of yours has died and left ed dollars, and you will have the satis- Letion of knowing that your lawyer got paid, you Enow,"” was the comforting explanation.—Har per’ s STORY is told of Marshal Lefebvre, Duke of Dantzic, that favorite of Napoleon, . which ’ s his own consciousness of the qualities that hod made him what he was. He was vexed at the tee of envy and unkindness with which a com- ion of his childhood, who met him in his pros- spoke of his riches, titles and luxury, and “Well, now you shall have it all, but which I have paid for it. We will go into and I will fire a musket at you sixty nen if you are not killed everything shall -Argonaut. No Antiques ouise get the antiques she wanted?” Her house is most comfortably fur- —Woman's Home Companion. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER \ts parity has made {t famous.” THE THEATRE MAGAZINE, 22 W. 33d Street, New York City iar with THE THEATRE MAGAZINE, send ws twenty five cents for Our y, Nein 0 ther, one hundred pages of text, end hundred and ffty siustrations, late How to save money in buying magazines What we have done for thousands we can do for you Our new cata- logue shows you exactly how to save on over 3000 magazines, newspapers and combination offers. Not only does our system save you money, but it saves you all the bother. You make out one check for all the magazines, instead of a check for each one. If you want a dozen magazines you make out one order, instead of twelve and save from twenty to fifty per cent. Our new catalogue contains new ideas, new offers, new suggestions, valuable information about mak- J.M. Hanson’s Magazine Agency, Lexington, JMMANSON'S * MAGAZINE AGENCY, LEXINGTON, KY. comicbooks.com