Life, 1910-02-03 · page 8 of 44
Life — February 3, 1910 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content rather than satire**. The main feature is a large advertisement for Kranich & Bach pianos, emphasizing their prestige and craftsmanship over "almost four decades" with claims about their superior construction and pedal mechanisms. The right side contains two short articles: "City Bred Boys" discusses concerns about urban children's development versus country-bred children (quoting Dr. Finley of City College), and "Another Discovery" describes a scientific experiment involving balloons and sand's properties. Below is a piece titled "From The Blue Grass Country" about Kentucky horses and Colonel Watterson's perspective on life and publishing. The page functions as a typical Life magazine spread mixing advertisements with light editorial commentary on early 20th-century social observations.
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. MerryEews = Famous in the middle of the 19th Century G | Sandinthe 20th a /, (Leelee Cee: MOTOR YACHT i : L; ao PORT CLINTON, OHIO, v. 8, = | City Bred Boys —s Fig. RESIDENT FID > x Y lege of the City of N x a i i says the country-bred boy is having his innings in this generation, but in the next generation it will be the city boy who will do the big things. City prob- lems are to be the great problems of the future, he says, and city boys will solve them. Dr. Finley is a country-bred boy from Illinois, in charge of a big, free college for city boys. When he says the city Loy is the coming winner, he talks with commendable fidelity to his job. The city boy is a highly stimulated product. The great danger is that the stimulation will begin too soon and con- flict. with development. The hardest things to provide for him are clean, fresh “The Supreme Achievement of Piano Craft’’ f air and play space. The country is ideal . if the mind can be kept actively alive IHE KRANICH & BACH Piano may justly be there, The city is admirable if it does termed one of the Institutional Products of Amer- not stunt the body’s growth and restrict ; : contemplation. Dr. Finley ‘may be right, ica. A half century ago the founders of the Kranich Lut the combidation of ie coininy for 1 ae & Bach house were inspired by a Lofty Ideal—to childhood and the city for manhood has make the best piano that human hands could fashion. worked well heretofore and we do not ROUGHOUT almost four decades of the expect to see ik Deen last century and the opening decade of the . present, all the thought, effort, capital and Another Discovery experience of the original founders and their y The Proceedings of the Society for Ex- direct family successors have been steadfastly consecrated perimental Biology and Medicine, vol. xi, to that intense purpose. April 21, 1909, p. 111, contains an article by H. C. Thacker, M. D., in which the HE ONLY GRAND PIANO in the world capable following account of some experiments g Hires h on rabbits, cats and dogs, appear: y eval tne ee from softest pianissimo to “If a small balloon be introduced into eaviest fortissimo is the Kranich & Bach fitted with the A the right auricle or ventricle [of the celebrated “ Isotonic ” pedal, and the only Upright in the RA heart], its inflation interferes with the world containing the marvelous “Violyn” plate is the Kranich & Bach. R action of the heart and renders the heart Sold det cond . 7] insufficient to perform its normal work Ss See eter we the posal carves iy sleek elon ‘ Wonderful! as who should tell us if ‘ two interesting little books describing the ‘| you open your watch and scatter a pinch Greatest improvement in piano construction RA of sand amongst its works, the watch —they will be sent free with our handsome RA will stop because the sand amongst the 1910 catalogue. wheels renders the mainspring insufficient KRANICH & BACH, 233-45 E. 23d St., NEW YORK for the movements. And this is biology! —Zoophilist. —— 3 ————S=—__ From The Blue Grass Country : T is truly astonishing the quality of Like good wine, Lire grows better as thoroughbreds that come from Ken- it grows older, immeasurably the most tucky. What with Henry Watterson, Perfect publication of the kind in ‘I ; : Christendom. One need . not always THE OXYCEN the old-fashioned courage, the girls, the agree with its satires and. sophistries to . TOOTH POWDER horses and the blue grass and the Elixir read it with pleasure and to admire it of Life, one never knows when to stop hugely —Courier-Journal. Depends for its virtues not upon strong oils, cartel his shouting. or other irritating disinfectants, but upon the prese* There is the breath of life in Ken- No words could better describe the of Oxygen (peroxide )—Nature’s purifier. tucky. Colonel than “grows better as he grows ‘Auk your Dentist—he knows Our opinion of Colonel Watterson is older.” And he surely is “the most OF ALL DRUGGISTS, 25 CENTS best expressed by wha’ the Colonel says perfect publication of his kind in Sample and Booklet free on request eam Shasteadom: McKESSON & ROBBINS - NEW YORK m comicbooks.com