Life, 1908-10-15 · page 11 of 28
Life — October 15, 1908 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine (page 409) contains two distinct elements: **Top cartoon:** A chaotic domestic scene where someone appears to be sewing or crafting, with various household items scattered about. The dialogue references "Marina Sacramento Jaramillo" and "Sunday-go-to-meeting jeans" versus a "sheath-skirt"—satirizing women's fashion choices and domesticity, likely from the early-to-mid 20th century. **Bottom section:** An article titled "A Title That Was Good Enough to Borrow" discusses an 1885 *Life* poem by E.S. Martin called "A Little Brother of the Rich." The piece explains how Joseph Medill Patterson later borrowed this title for his novel, with the accompanying cartoon showing what appears to be a shipwreck scene with the caption "But you ten worms that's the wreck of the zeppelin airship." The satire critiques literary borrowing and possibly early aviation mishaps.
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“Say, YOU! DONNA MARINA SACRAMENTO JARAMILLO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY BEST SUNDAY-G TO-MEETING JEANS? *” “WAY, PEDKO, DEAK, I'M MAKING ME A SHEATH-SKIRT.”” A Title That Was Good Enough to Borrow S long ago as March, 1885, there appeared in Lire some verses under the title of “A Little Brother of the Rich,” with a picture by F. G. Attwood. The name appeared agein two of three years later on the title page of a slim Look, to wit:—"A Little Brother of the Rich, and Other Poems, by E. S. Martin, New York; Mitchell & Miller, 28 West Twenty-third Street, 1888." Only s00 copies of this book were printed, and it quickly ran out of print. It was republished in 1890 by Charles Scribner's Sons, and since that time has continued to edify mankind. A good many thousand copies of it have been sold, and its annual distribution con- tinues. This book, and the verses that gave it its name, are pretty well known hereabouts, but seem not to have penetrated the consciousness of present-day Chicago, where Joseph Medill Patterson has used their familiar title as the name of his new novel. He has done it with amusing innocence of Plagiaristic intent. He thinks he invented his title, and has £0 confessed to the newspapers. Those were pretty good verses, with a valuable infusion of youth in them. Professor Charles Eliot Norton used to read them, we have heard, to some of his classes (at Harvard) as an example of something that was good of its kind. Joseph Patterson's novel will probably outsell Martin's youthful verses time and time again, but thirty or forty years from now. when Martin is dead and Joseph has, perhaps, become sensible in his opinions, the verses will still Le alive, and still be known, except, perhaps, in Chicago Precaution SYMA your own Srreoty: Oh, I don’t understand running a car wel! enough yet to use my own Lend you my auto! What's the matter with “BET YOU TEN WORMS THAT’S THE WRECK OF THE ZEPPELIN AlRsHIP: comicbooks.com