Life, 1909-11-04 · page 5 of 52
Life — November 4, 1909 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial content or satire. The dominant right-hand image is a **Diamond Rubber Company advertisement** for "Grip Tread" wrapped-tread tires, manufactured in Akron, Ohio. The ad emphasizes superior efficiency and durability through the visual of a large tire. The left side contains **"The Literary Zoo,"** a column of rhymed book reviews, specifically reviewing "The Goose Girl" by Harold MacGrath. The review is lighthearted verse commentary on the novel's plot involving European intrigue, a Yankee consul, and a princess. Below that is an **Automatic Windshield advertisement** for a $25 product that operates "up or down with one hand." There is **no political cartoon or satire** on this page—it represents typical early-20th-century magazine layout mixing editorial content with advertisements.
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Aikiay- Aw. Rhymed Reviews The Goose Girl Harold MacGrath—The Bobbs- Merrill Company.) SERT a map of Ehrenstein \mong your gazetteer’s addenda,— . forty leagues beyond the Rhine \nd east by sou’-sou’-west of Zenda; (\ lively realm, where Gypsies steal \rchducal babes and suchlike prizes, \\here Statesmen plot with wicked zeal And Monarchs rove in base dis- guises). ere little Gretchen tended Geese With great éclat, and loved sincerely \ Stranger whom the cry “ Police!” (Or “King!") affected mighty queerly ; And here the Yankee consul, barred By birth from all but admiration,— With lovely Princess Hildegarde Pursued a desperate flirtation. You think the situation dark? Nay, presto, change!—A sceret ses- sion, \ pair of tiny shoes, a mark Upon an arm, a rogue’s confession, — ‘Automatic: we WINDSHIELD aa / Nae Up or Down With One Hand : Without Stopping Your Car # No goggles, no wind, no daust— just ‘solid comfort when you ride behind a Mezger Automatic Windshield. Always ready, al- ways works—no set screws to _ tinker with—never rattles. Polished French plate glass set in bronze felt lined channel, free from vibration. Namo Mezger Automatic 1s on every Automatic Wictahieta. “If your dealer will not supply you we will ship on receipt of price, 4l-Inch, $25; é+-inch, $27.50, Thustrated descriptive bookiet mafled oa request, ONTED MANUFACTURERS 905 Broadway & 7eth St HY TREAD Diamond WRAPPED TREAD TIRES USERS KNOW Op A Not only superior efficiency, but very superior durability. THE DIAMOND RUBBER CO. AKRON, And little Gretchen proves, by right, The Princess Royal—he that sought her Is Frederick, King of Jugendhcit! While Hildegarde, the guiltless daughter Of him who “mixed those children up,” Relieved of rank that seemed to bore her, Is free to drain the golden cup Of wedded bliss with her adorer! Though democratic fancy clings To tawdry medieval glories, Of thrones and crowns and dukes and kings, I'll go to Grimm for fairy stories; He never calls a “Frau” a “ Frau ”"— Oh, gentle Author, heed my sermon, And when you write again employ A lexicon of decent German! Arthur Guiterman, (Continued on page 610) comicbooks.com