Life, 1909-12-23 · page 3 of 28
Life — December 23, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content**, not political satire. It promotes Life Publishing Company's art prints and home décor products. The dog illustration at top left (captioned "I'm loving mine now") serves as a charming mascot for the ad campaign. The three photographs advertised are domestic scenes: "Their First Breakfast," "Love Me Little, Love Me Long," and "Arms and the Man." These appear to be sentimental home decoration prints depicting romantic or family moments. The accompanying text argues that homeowners should regularly rotate their wall art and decorations to mentally refresh their living spaces—a practical interior design suggestion framed as a duty to oneself. The entire page functions as a marketing pitch encouraging readers to purchase Life's prints for their homes.
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Get the Life Print Habit. Dog Has His Day And the great question naturally arises, Have Some of the Pictures in Your House Outgrown Their Usefulness and Hung Too Long in One Spot? You know it’s an old idea, or rather a notion, not to change things around much. ne 7 Ridiculous, isn’t it, when you come to think of it? But we all do it. We come home to the same arrangement year in “/'m having mine now, and year out. We're mentally lazy. We don’t realize what it means to Wake Up! But the truth is that each one of us owes a duty to himself. And this duty is to keep himself fresh. One of the greatest artists in this country—a man who has done more for our interior home decorations than any other American—made a rule to change his pictures around every week or so. It gave him a new start. Try it and see. You'll be surprised at the result. It will give you new ideas. Take that old etching handed down by your grandfather out of the front hall, and put it in the corner of the living room. Move that landscape from the library into the upstairs hall. Shuffle up the photos on your bureau and try A New Deal Remember, that all of these things are a part of your unconscious mental furniture. When the same old vibrations strike you in the same old place day after day they wear a rut in your mind. You'll do better work outside of your home if you rustle things around occasionally inside. To do this, get a few of our prints and try placing them around. ‘They will give you a new sensation. By and by you will want to change them. Do it. Copyright 1907 by Lite Pub, Lo. iL THEIR FIRST BREAKFAST. LOVE ME LITTLE, LOVE ME LONG. Photo-Gravure, 133% x 16 in. 50 cents. Photo-Gravure, 1334 x 16 in, §0 cents, ARMS AND THE MAN. Facsimile in Color, 11 x 14 in. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West Thirty-first Sireet, New York comicbooks.com