Life, 1909-05-27 · page 29 of 32
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with one notable satirical piece about Gustave Flaubert. ## The Flaubert Section The main editorial content celebrates French author Gustave Flaubert, noting that his novel *Madame Bovary* (1857) caused scandal—the French state sued him for "offence against Public Morals." He was acquitted and is now "recognized the world over as France's greatest master of fiction." For modern readers: This commemorates a famous literary censorship case. The piece celebrates how controversial, morally challenging literature can endure and achieve greatness despite initial outrage. It's a defense of artistic freedom against censorship. ## Satirical Elements "The Amateur Gardener" column contains **mild satire** on gardening advice—absurd tips like "sow oats with peas to fool the crows" and the suggestion to grind family skeletons for fertilizer are obviously tongue-in-cheek humor. "The Advance Notice" mocks the garbled English of a Siamese newspaper, presenting humorously mangled syntax as comedy based on language differences. The page otherwise contains straightforward period advertisements for luggage, motor oil, and travel services.
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When planting your pea-seeds sow oats along ee with them. This will fool the crows, pigeons, . It's the b y ; the way of greatest horses, and other insects that prey upon the } nfort an garden when there is nobody around to. shoo A toch for our, Calera ook 7 ou alee Phra) Seni themaway. Much backache will be saved beginners forado and Vellowitone Park 10 the Alaska. Vukon-Pacifc Expo in gardening if they will remember to curb their sition” free on request. They will supply the details you need. enthusiasm and let the hired man do all the work. r 4 JOHN SEBASTIAN, Passenger Traffic Manager Bone-dust is good as a fertilizer. You will, A fi . © LaSalle Street Station, Chicas: Itis not enough that the motor goes. It should go just right and that is a matter of lubrication. The Advance Notice A volume might be collected of innocent but : a) Dixon’s barbarous perversions of the English langua Ticonderoge Flake The latest comes from the projectors of a ne Siamese newspaper, who have distributed the fol- = lowing notice Ca] The news of ish we tell the latest. Writ in perfectly style and most earliest. Do a mur- der git commit, we hear of and tell it. Do a Graphite Eo i i , j each one been college, and inva motor, Vou will at oes dee lite write like Kipling and the Dickens. We circle mon sense of it when you get Sar tocklax every town and extortionate not for advertise- hee ; ments. Buy it. Buy it. Tell each of you its on lubrication. Write to Department A. “wWornors! HAVE SIX OP MY LIVES CONE? greatness for good. Ready on Friday. Number JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. HAVE 1 HAD TOO MUCH CATNIP?” om ne one.—Youth’s Companion. therefore, do well to save all your family skele- tons until spring, and then after running them 3 through the coffee-grinder, place them where ul ta V au t—N t uilt they will do the most good. Ss e r 0 If everything goes wrong with you always, no TRIED ACQUITTED —— COMMENDED —— IMMORTALIZED! matter what you do, and you want a fine lawn, When Flaubert’s * Madame Bovary "* appeared, France was in an uproar. Praise alternated with blame. The put in cight hours a day trying to raise weed State sued him, charging bis work “an offence against Public Morals.” Flaubert was tried, acquitted, and Ares, Bilal mig alae to-day Is recognized the world over as France's f it master of ficti There is no use of trying to train cut-worms to Y sake Smee a cot Rowers for yom, “Then ase dull ead lethergi ‘The writings of Gustave Flaubert areso original,daring, truthful, yet imaginative, that they cannot injbrate powerr and have the lowitovte (0 preter be weighed or udged by other standards. Being original, he has served as. model for many, but caliiages ta roe Flaubert remains Flaubert—individual and inimitable, the peer of the foremost writers of France. A two-by-five toad set in the middle of your Flaubert’s Works are a delicious revelry, a feast of faultless characterization, exquisite diction, finden will bea great assivience to you in ride and to illuminative, harmonic, virile, that the reader reads and re-reads with ever-increasing pleasure, diag it of insects De cast ace tbe Uae tea ||! To the healthy student of human nature, the absolute frankness and utter scorn of the conventional The capacity of a toad of the aise epeciied is appeals with irresistible force and conviction. His thoughts breed thought. While his writ- forscven eubie yards of insect to the minute ings may glow with the pple Hams of ssion, the grossncs is saree out by the pu kagh etia a ieled e fe magic of his genius, one = =<: k, into the ages, ves the life ES NY : a which, but for him, had been buried in oblivion. ¥ Automobile I STS LTTE DCTPORUCTORE Orme Das ° H ienave ofcr you as 4 readerel Lirn n aaving of 60 percents ourists Ling. the price t0 you for this spectal edition for & shot tne @1 6. {a small moathly paymeats. Sign and mall the coupon now. Fi eins § SATION, CHARGES PREPAID. Look the books While traveling in rance t ary.” twill d terest you. 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