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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content**, not political satire. The dominant feature is a large advertisement for **Studebaker Bros. vehicles**, showcasing their horse-drawn carriages and early automobiles. The ad emphasizes Studebaker's 50 years of manufacturing expertise and lists their numerous distribution points across America. Below are smaller advertisements for art objects and a "Rad-Bridge" product. The left column contains editorial text discussing household management and journalism ethics, unrelated to any cartoon or satire. There is **no political cartoon visible** on this page. The Studebaker illustration is commercial imagery, not satirical commentary. This appears to be a typical issue of *Life* magazine mixing advertising with general-interest editorial content.

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CLICa care, why not try a bit of Bernard Shaw ? There are some little passages in “Arms and the Mar” that would cheer a waitress mightily, and the mere title of ‘Super- man” would just do for the butler unless he were a Japanese. In that case we'd have a carefully selected work on military tactics and the plan of some good fortress for him to memorize. The kitchenmaid who washes the dishes ought to cultivate Tom Moore, and the inscription over the sink must inevitably be: “You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will.” (I won’t let any one suggest. Tennyson in this connection. “Break, break, break” is passe.) ‘The nursemaid would naturally turn to such books as “ Power ‘I hrough Repose” and the plentiful writings on “Worry The Disease of the Age.” ‘These couns one to avoid worry, or to regard it as non- existent. We can easily imagine how the dull and mechanical duty of wheeling a PARED COUNry perambulator might be relieved by a page “ . Suuenwich CONN: : from the work of Doctor Saleeby pinned to O PART of a fine vehicle becomes such by chance. There is its top, where by merely casting her eye h but one best material for vehicle hubs, one best wood for over this paper the nurse could commit its spokes and rims—another for panels—still another for frames. brilliant periods to memory. Something i” ‘i " ask é Z from the “Vedanta” philosophy would be There is one best way of treating each material and best methods of re AON sos | || Coreretes Cubs}| wiser for use in districts where automobiles putting them all together. a . are most numerous, and where one needs In short, every vehicle is a fine vehicle just so far as it is made of the best to be reminded that the chief attainment : materials, and according to intelligent knowledge of the best construction. of the Ego is nothingness. Indoors an It has taken over 50 years of progress for the name-plate on Stude- excellent companion for the nurse would * ‘ Ley - be the Bab Ballads,” especially those ad- baker vehicles to reach its present signifi mirable lines, “Why should I hesitate to cance. The story is interesting — the tell? The pain was in his little tummie result is convincing. For the laundress there might be su Studebaker vehicles, harness and pended above the wash-tubs an inde- accessories are sold at all Studebaker structible slate, which could be furnished repositories LI forth with a nice little thing of George Pi . LAN “a Canning’s about somebody é [23 Who finds with keen discriminating sight STUDEBAKER BROS. MFG. CO. BA 7 \¥ Black’s not so black—nor white so very white. Largest Vehicle Manufacturers in the World S . But the mistress of the household thus SOUTH BEND, IND. ALEXANDRA equipped, whether she make use of the , REposiTories: SAREST: IN aTON plan for herself alone or pass it on to hire- | NEW YORK CITY Studebaker Bros. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.—Studebaker SEATTLE, WASH.—Studebaker Bros. lings and domestics, will never get so far, Co. of New York, Broadway and 48th Bros. Co. of California, Mission and Co, Northwest, 308 1st Avenue, we f Pi in Browning’ birest algo. Weems Bivett SALT TARE CITY, UTAH —Stud re fear, as Pippa’s song in Browning’s EEE OIEY) 7Stnds, DENVER, COLO.—Studebaker Bros. CHICAGO, _ILL.—Studebaker Bros. baker Bros. Co. of Utah, 157 and 159 5 s $ . drama: Mfg. Co., 378 and 383 Wabash Avenue, __ Stato Street. an Mfg. Co., 15th and Blako Streots. God's in his h PORTLAND, ORE.—Studebaker Bros. <icrit gend age heal . KANSAS CITY, MO.—Studebaker Bros. Co. Northwest, 330 to 336 East Morri- All's right with the world! Mfg. Co., 13th and Hickory Streets. ‘son Street. The Literary Snare in Journalism OLONEL GEORGE HARVEY, in M. JOHNSON-BROWN & CO. the Bromley lecture on journalism AMPOUTERS OF LI FE : S which he lately delivered at Yale, declared that a newspaper man ought to be nothing OBJECTS OF ART Travel Number but a newspaper man, and that to succeed in that occupation ought to mark the limit No. 17 West 31st St. New York DATED JUNE 4th, 1908 of his ambition. He gave a number of in- This issue last year contained stances of very able journalists whose 2.660 li £ Railroad and success in their calling had been blighted c Le. Adverticing, by political ambition, and he emphasized Steamship Advertising, vigorously the point that a journalist ought BtS i equivalent to more than mn i i THE PRINCE d N ° Rever to covet office or political prefer- hed rosettes weed eae Blas eleven magazine pages ment for himself. “A tapcn to this pewspaper Jergos. Granted that political ambition is a edie sentence ta . Forms Close at Noon, May 2lst comicbooks.com