Life, 1908-05-21 · page 7 of 28
Life — May 21, 1908 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from Life magazine (May issue, based on the decorative header) contains three distinct elements: 1. **Photograph**: "Any Luck, Sir?" shows a man fishing from a bridge over a stream, illustrating the caption's question about fishing success. 2. **Editorial Column "Hindsight"**: Criticizes school surveillance policies, arguing that constant monitoring of children undermines their development and creates an atmosphere of distrust rather than fostering genuine responsibility. 3. **"Styles" Section**: Satirizes changing fashion trends among wealthy women, noting that formerly expensive items (like bankrupted bankers' wives wearing "candid bankrupt" styles) are now being imitated by society women, making high fashion less exclusive. The decorative "MAY" banner features cherubs and a rooster, typical of Life's ornamental style from this era.
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Hindsight OT until a hundred little children had been burned to death, where they were confidingly gathered together for their les- sons, could we look about us and see how many of our schoolhouses have doors open- ing inward. For nothing, it is likely, will ever disturb the proverbial sequence of the stolen horse and the stable-<door. Just as it took an Iroquois to get theatres seen to, for awhile, and a Slocum to get steamboats put in order, for awhile, so a Collingwood had to come that schools might be made safe, for awhile, Eternal vigilance is, of course, out “ANY LUCK, SIR?” of the question. Of that there is hardly enough available to purchase liberty with, let alone life and the pursuit of happiness. Ramsey Benson. Styles SIT that the styles in titled foreigners are changing? Atallevents, where formerly the dukes and counts purchased by our girls were candidly bankrupt, this s portations ha enormously wealthy in their own right. But all the while it is to be observed that love is to-day, as it was yesterday, the sole actuating motive. And the man who, whether he needs the money or not, can manage never to fall in love with any but a rich girl, discovers breeding. It is the accu mulated restraint of generations, flowering in superlative gentility. RB. HO is that stout gentleman in the boss’ room?” said the clerk in the War Office to the private secretar, “Why, that is Secretary Taft. you know him?” No. I've only been here two years.” Didn't comicbooks.com