Life, 1910-02-10 · page 35 of 36
Life — February 10, 1910 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **two brief satirical anecdotes** and extensive **advertising/editorial content** promoting westward expansion. The two jokes: 1. **"The Wrong Catalogue"**: Tourists at the Louvre museum misidentify a modern nude painting (with a black cat) as Whistler's famous painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 2" (commonly called "Whistler's Mother")—satirizing how people confidently misrecognize modern art. 2. **"An Advantage"**: A Scottish minister and railway worker compare decades of coupling work. The minister claims superiority until the worker notes he can "uncouple" while the minister cannot—a crude joke playing on the double meaning of "coupler" and suggesting the minister is stuck in his vows. The bulk of the page is **promotional material** for "The Pacific Monthly" magazine, depicting the American West not as frontier wilderness but as developed, civilized farmland with orchards and prosperous towns—countering Eastern stereotypes of untamed frontier. This represents early 20th-century boosterism encouraging westward migration and development.
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The Wrong Catalogue Recently a party of tourists were visiting the Louvre. By mistake one of the tired number carried a catalogue of An Advantage A well-known Scottish clergyman got into conversation in a railway carriage with a workingman, who informed him that he had been a coupler on a rail- LIFE: the Luxembourg. Upon being con- fronted by a fantastically modern nude way for several years. “Oh,’’ said the study with a black cat in the background, minister, “I can beat that. I have becn she turned to the corresponding number a coupler for over twenty year: and complacently announced to the “Aye,” replied the workman, “but I astonished listeners: “ This is Whistler's can uncouple, and you canna! "—Demo- Mother.’—Brooklyn Life. cratic Telegram. An exquisitely dainty, non-oily toilet cream of re- freshing Jacque Rose fragrance. “Vanishing Cream” quickly heals and effectively prevents Chaps and Windburn Free Sample oo request or send 4c in stamps for regular Id tube, POND'S EXTRACT COMPANY Dept, F, 78 Hudson St. N.Y, The New West HE impression prevails in many sections of the United States, particularly in the Atlantic Coast States, that the West is still more or less uncivilized, and a mention of Oregon, Idaho or Wyoming suggests to the Easterner the land of cowboys, coyotes, the blanket Indian and vast and unsettled tracts of sage- brush waste. Few Easterners know the West—the West of to-day—as it really is—a land of progress, development and plenty; a land of boundless resources and of limitless opportunity. The traveler fortunate enough to visit the West finds each day, each hour, full of surprises. Instead of an illimitable stretch of sagebrush desert, he sees Besobia Palla fice Ph fruit-laden orchards, heavy-headed grain, green meadows and vast fields of alfalfa. inne we ktewend Cirsiaaton. He finds a contented and prosperous people, comfortable homes, modern and wide- (B. W. Dodge & Co. $2.00.) awake cities, splendid schools and excellent churches. In addition to wealth pro- Variations on an Old Theme, by ducing orchards and farms he finds the best of God's out-of-door couatry—clear | ely Porechers: “CR: (Gu Badgers skies, pure air, snow-clad mountain peaks, waterfalls, the odorous pine woods The Song of Six Pence Picture Book, —all that goes to make life worth while. Latest Books by Walter Crane. (John Lane Company. $1.25.) Do you want to know more about what we of the West call “ God’s Coun- The Demagog, by William Richard ; am . Hereford. (Henry Holt & Co.) Do you want to learn how you can live in comfort on a ten-acre orange Cock-a-doodte Hill, by Alice Calhoun orchard in Southern California, or a twenty-acre apple orchard at Hood River in Haines, (Henry Holt & Co. $1.50.) Oregon? Do you want to know about dairying, bee keeping, fruit raising, business patreder, by Wilfred T. Grenfell and tine aniterioeati : ie aati ac i eos others. (The Macmillan Company. $2.25.) opportunities or irrigation farming, and the Government reclamation projects? If The Awakening of Helena Richie. The you do want to learn more about the West, read “ The Pacific Monthly.” It is a Margaret Anglin Edition. (Harper & magazine with a mission—it is the voice of the West of to-day and the interpreter ae . eis0) — i Othe! Weet ot ltos . Oe ae a a ARE he Swiss Family Robinson, by David 3 the West of to morrow—clearly, vividly and truthfully it depicts the West. Wyss. (Harper & Brothers. $1.50.) The Pacific Monthly ” is a beautifully illustrated magazine, containing clean, The Spirit of the South, by Will Wal- wholesome stories and forceful articles. The price is $1.50 per year. To have you lace Harney. (Richard G. Badger. get acquainted with “ The Pacific Monthly ” we are making a special offer. Fill Waters from an Ozark Spring, by out the coupon below. Howard L. Terry. (Richard G. Badger. $1.00.) A Smoker's Reverics, by Joseph Knight. (H. M. Caldwell Company.) The Pacific Monthly, Portland, Oregon. Enclosed find $1.00 for which you may send “The Pacific Monthly” for 8 months. (The Christmas number will be sent free under this special Address THE WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY comicbooks.com