Life, 1909-08-26 · page 3 of 28
Life — August 26, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main feature advertises Life Publishing Company's new 25-cent pocket edition of *Life* magazine containing 160 reproductions of "most artistic and pleasure-giving pictures." The top images appear to be **theatrical or literary scenes** — the left shows a woman at a writing desk; the right shows a dramatic pose. The title "Do You Ever Go Home?" likely references the serialized story or literary content within the magazine itself. The page also includes advertisements for **Sterling Tires** and **Sterling Blue Tubes**, using period marketing language about product quality and durability. This represents Life's mid-20th-century function as an upscale magazine blending humor, literature, and advertising for middle-class readers.
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isi bal GELB ge A SFARKING PLUG (Continued from page 28) The Literary Zoo that our manuscripts are examined t be denied that the imposing of such Va zine whose plan, no less than plane. precludes the volunteer's offering is a pertivoas imposition. It scrms possible that the prevailing error of imagination referred to in our opening paragraph is not wholly unrelated to those “constant in- iries’ by would-be contributors (vide Rejec- tion Ship) with which the house of Harper is eset. [1 is an error that invites only the gentlest ce it appears to rest on a logical proc- cting the avowed editorial desire for hing of interest to cultivated American with responsive outpourings not in any ching merit, but simply—(ah! you can thus sentence yourself ?). own imagination of a magazine editor's spered by a careful observation of zines. The technical difficulties of the ust alone require as much time and s can be devoted to the critical ex- of manuscripts. As it is seemingly to “cut down" a sonnet (though we the thing done with some success by an of a newspaper composing room), story must be made to break as best it the aid of some more plastic filler. The c: “At this moment the rifle of the (To be continued in our next)" is ob- | improper to literature. It also de- on the editor to see that the underlines ustrations in some measure correspond, sist that the artist shall not altogether perusal of the story he would picture 2 pathetic collection of letters in our n, we know that much of the editor's time fa severe mental struggle against ac- ceptins that which appeals to him personally, but wh feels is nmich too good for his readers. There ion't any known way of building stronger tires than Fach layer of rubber and fabric has special care and Ench tire has from eight to twelve In: is, and Is guaranteed factory perfect F will hear of a Sterling * second.” first In war, frst im. peace aid Fapldl ret in the hearts of all car-owners, : Sterling Blue Tubes The only blue tube, Blue for a reason. “Ask us thy.” Tell os what tires you use and where vou bry them, and ell tell you how to get a Sterling Blue Tube—FREE. RUTHERFORD RUBBER CO., Rutherford, N. J. Sterlings becom: l= Do You right 1905 by Life Pads Coy “Tm awful busy just now, Jack. Coul you make ne other night?” Photogravure, 134 in. so cents, Then beautify your home with cheerful things. On reccipt of twenty-five cents we will send you our litle book, the new pocket edition of L/JFE’S PRINTS. containing 160 reproductions of these most artistic and pleasure-giving — pic- tures. w% ely in Color, 11 X14 in. $1.00 LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1 Go Home? 190% by Life Pod, € be ——) FounD India Print, 18 x2 The prints described, whose prices are given, are PHOTO-GRA- VURES of the high- est possible quality and finish. Neither care nor expense ‘has been spared to attain the very best artistic re- sults. 160 Pictures Ie West grit Street, NEW YORK Some day, perhaps, he will find the time to in- vent a more plausible excuse than that of his “present needs ’—a truly preposterous paradox when you consider that, with some few excep- tions related to the journalistic tendency, an a cepted poem or article is commonly postponed in the printing until it has become a dim memory in the busy writer's mind. W. T. Larned. Practical Literature. The fears entertained by many thoughtful parents that a college education may prove of no practical value to their sons are in a fair way to be dispelled. Reports from various seats of learning go to show that old-fashioned ideas re- specting the frills of ornamental knowledge are rapidly giving way to modern notions. Over in conservative England they still cling to the clas- sics, and many young Englishmen are still able to understand and appreciate the languages spoken by the accomplished heroes in the novels of Lord Lytton, In our own country none but druggists and physicians and Catholic priests have any real use for Latin, and the tongue of Plato is affected only by a few professors and the students who ke part in the Greek plays. When a thing is of no practical use it has lost its hold on the American mind; and it is not surprising that Dr. G. Stanley Hall, of Clark University, would give the dead languages a decent burial and lay their ghosts beyond the possibility of resurrec- tion. On the heels of Dr. Hall’s declaration comes (Continued on page 260) comicbooks.com