Life, 1909-02-04 · page 9 of 40
Life — February 4, 1909 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content consists of: 1. **Book advertisements** (left column) - listings of recent publications with publishers and prices 2. **Hartshorn Shade Rollers** ad (top left) - window treatment product 3. **Angelus Player-Piano advertisement** (center/right) - the largest feature, promoting an automated piano that plays pre-recorded music rolls, allowing anyone to perform classical compositions without musical training 4. **Knapp-Felt hats advertisement** (bottom left) - men's hat styles 5. **Life Publishing Company subscription offer** (bottom right) The Angelus ad's pitch—that musical genius is now accessible to everyone—reflects early 20th-century consumer culture's promise that technology democratizes elite experiences. This represents no satire but straightforward marketing of mechanical music reproduction technology to affluent households.
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ee eS SSN POSES "LEE HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart Hartshorn on label. Get“Improved,” no tacks required. Wood Rollers Tin Rollers Latest Books Lila Sari, by William Lee Howard. (Richard G. Badger, Boston.) Social Education, by Colin A. Scott. (Ginn & Co. $125) The Art of Natural Sleep, by Lyman P. Powell. (G. P, Putnam's Sons. go cents.) arge, by Arthur Christopher Benson. (G. P. m's Sons. $1.50.) ory of My Life, by Ellen Terry. (The Me- Clare Co.) Septimus, by W. J. Locke. (John Lane Company. The Opera-Goer’s Complete Guide, by Leo Melitz. Mead & Co, $1.20.) ard MacDowell, by Lawrence Gilman. (John ‘ompany. $1.50.) Time and Clowd Time, by Andrew Harvey (R. F. Fenno & Co.) te Confessions of Seymour Vane, by Ellen Snow. (&. F. Fenno & Co.) The Kiss of Helen, by Charles Marriott. (John Lane Company.) The World and His Wife, by Charles Frederic Nirdlinge itchell Kennerly.) The Winterfeost, by Charles Rann Kennedy. (Har- per & Trros, $1.25.) The Art of Pointing, by Edmund von Mach. (Ginn & Co., Boston, Mass.) The Two Hague Conferences, by William I. Hull. (Ginn & Co., Boston, Mass.) Wolf, The Memoirs of a CaveDuweiler, by P. B. McCord. (B. W. Dodge & Co. $1.00.) The Home Builder, by Lyman Abbott. (Hough- ton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. 75 cents.) The Calico Cat, by les Miner Thompson. (Houghton, Passing of y Jerome. (Dodd, Mead & Co. $1.00.) The first Derby made in America wasa c&K. HATS FOR MEN KNAPP-FELT hats are made in a variety of smart shapes. KNAPP-FELT DeLuxe hats are Six Dollars. KNAPP-FELTS are Four Dollars, everywhere. ‘Write for the Hatman. THE CROFUT & KNAPP CO. BROADWAY, AT THIRTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK | If you were playing the “Pilgrims Chorus,”’ [ how much would it mean to you to have |e the composer, Wagner himself, by your side to tutor you in the way that every note and phrase of the music should be rendered? , This, in a word, is the function of the ARTISTYLE An Asit Antistyle Appears in Music-Roll pedal Actual Use. F the Artistyle Wagner and all the great composers give definite direction as to how their music should be played. These, the composers’ own aids to your playing, appear before you so clearly and so plainly in the Artistyle music-rolls that, even for the novice, an error in interpretation is made practicaily impossible on the ANGELUS PLAYER-PIANO HINK what this means to every home! The products of the musical genius of the world at the finger-tips of all! The ANGELUS PLAYER-PIANO opens a new vista of enjoy- ment in the correct rendering of the music your particular temperament desires and, wali is of even greater moment, allows you to impart to it the touch of -your own individuality. The ARTISTYLE, the MELODANT, and the PHRASING, LEVER, known to musicians as ‘‘ The Three Wonders of the ANGELUS,"’ are exclu- sive features of the Knabe-Angelus, Emerson-Angelus and Angelus Piano. Let us send you our beautiful new book and name of convenient representative. THE WILCOX & WHITE COMPANY Regent House, Regent St., London.) MERIDEN, CONN. Established 1876. Copyright 1908 by Life Pub. Co, UPON receipt of your subscription for one year, at lar rate of Five Dollars, we will send you, with LIFE’S compliments, a special photograv- ure reproduction, 10x12 inches in size, on plate paper inches, of Mr. Charles Dana Gibson's latest drawing ‘ABSENT FRIENDS!" miniature of which is shown herewith. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, New York Canadian Subcriptions, $5.52 Foreign Sebseriptiohs, $6.04, comicbooks.com