Life, 1910-02-03 · page 37 of 44
Life — February 3, 1910 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political satire. The main content includes: 1. **Rauch & Lang Electric Car advertisement** - promoting an electric automobile as "the most commodious of all electrics," emphasizing spaciousness, comfort, and safety features controlled by a simple lever. This reflects early 1900s automobile marketing when electrics competed with gasoline cars. 2. **"Our Academy of Immortals"** - a tongue-in-cheek essay discussing the imminent founding of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, with satirical commentary on which artists/writers deserve membership. It pokes fun at the omission of certain figures and notes the under-representation of universities. 3. **Real estate advertisement** for a country home near Boston by H.A. Barker. The satire is **mild and literary** rather than political—the piece gently mocks institutional pretension and the subjective nature of canonizing "immortal" artists. No specific political figures or events are caricatured. This represents Life magazine's general approach as a sophisticated humor publication for educated readers.
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AN, ideal Heaney equipped with Hirstec docels. EXCELSIOR | vesceee, cress SPRINGS, | icecrcewccene || SS ; WISSOURI, |= SESS The Most Commodious tera. Exceisior Springs Is one night's es | Y of Alll Electrics If you'll examine all the electrics what is correct and we know how you'll see that the Rauch & Lang to produce it. is the roomiest. The fact that the demand for our The car, unlike others, is actu- electrics last year was nearly ally spacious inside. double the number of cars made That's one of the reasons why shows what an extraordinary ma- it is known as the most luxurious chine we turned out. -|. car on the market. Our Academy of Immortals i» The seats are wide, deep and The Car That’s Safe Ere these words appear in type it is | comfortable. You never get Any woman can run the car likely that a bill granting a charter to cramped. safely. the American Academy of Arts and 2 _ The long wheel base and effi-. “All the power and a strong brake Letters will have been passed by the cient springs make the car ride 80 are controlled through one simple National Congress. The membership easily that you can travel the Jeyer, of this important body, whose aims whole day without feeling the least The car can't possibly start ’til and organization are chronicled in re- fatigue. this lever is first cent numbers of The Dial and The | . in the neutral po- ‘ears nt F Outlook, embraces 45 names more or J 5 sition. less celebrated in the fields of paint- Carriage Makers oshk Yet all power t can be shut off oe ing, sculpture, architecture, music and We have been carriage mak- re letters. There are still five vacancies ers in Cleveland for fifty- instantly withthe » to be filled. eight years—serving lever in any position. " The list is certainly representative P) Cleveland's most The car is proof against : in so far as it includes the obviously particular carelessness on the part of eligible. Abbey, Sargent, French, ) people. the operator. Chase, La Farge, Howells, James, a We know It has proven to be the best car made Clemens, Muir—these and other for hilly cities. It will go as far on one i charge as you will ever care to ride ina names would readily be selected by a the average amateur with a nice taste ‘The highest type of Exide Batteries are used fa in . Ww . —noted for their extreme ruggedness. Our in immortals. Who would balk at Re cars_are equipped with Palmer Web Pneu- Burroughs, Brownell, Bigelow (mean- matic or Motz, Rauch & Lang Special Cushion ing John, not Poultney)? It gives us ‘Cut out the memo to send for the catalog. a SGH when We chuerve dal Ge only We have dealers in all the principal cities. playwright in the temple is William | The Rauch & Lang Carriage Co. Vaughn Moody, until we remember Ee Werk 2008 Steet, that our only other playwright, Bron- : Garsient Obs son Howard, is dead, The only drama- ; siya focal oeeaes ee tit! We had almost said the only ewes Poet, too; but Mr. Howells and Dr. sd : Name____ Van Dyke are here—yes, and Mr. ; Johnson, and dear Mrs. Howe. The universities are by no means ignored, yet their representation somehow sems incomplete. Ah! we have it. The F's have been overlooked, and editor of the “Harvard Classic: Address. F YOU want a beautiful and cooling his heels in the corridor. When it comes to living American modern country home sur- historians the amateur's memory will rounded by a lovely park, be hazy; the official list may, perhaps, and only six miles from Boston illuminate his ignorance, with some 4 additional help from Who's Who. it will pay you to investigate Music? Well, we have two composers this property. Can you name them? And architec- ture. It is represented by one name— H. A. BARKER the name of a modest graduate of the 311 West 43rd Sueet NEW YORK CITY (Continued on page 222) comicbooks.com