ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Life, 1910-03-10 · page 33 of 36

Life — March 10, 1910 — page 33: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Life — March 10, 1910 — page 33: Life, 1910-03-10

What you’re looking at

This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The left column contains **product advertisements** (garters, clasps) and an essay titled "A Dangerous Attribute" discussing whether precocious young writers—specifically **G.K. Chesterton** and **Rudyard Kipling**—can sustain their creative output beyond their early success. It's a literary critique questioning whether their youthful brilliance will fade as they age and face life's responsibilities. Below that is a brief satirical piece called "The Little Father," listing Russian proverbs about the Czar that undercut his absolute power—suggesting even an emperor cannot control nature, death, or heaven. This appears to be commentary on limitations of autocratic rule, likely contemporaneous with early-20th-century Russian upheaval. The majority of the page is a **fashion magazine advertisement** for *L'ART de la MODE*, promoting subscription to a high-end fashion publication. The text emphasizes the magazine's authority on women's dress and offers a discounted introductory subscription rate.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

‘LIFE: ® Swivel Catch Adjust If to ev- ery motion by the swing of the swivel. q xC-M-C Clasp Cannot unfasten or slip. e Only Garter Yt I Without Objections ligence Men prefer it because rusting Tl vaill not tear the stocking cay — Th sod will not bind the leg S ceats will convince you vet dealers have them. of sample i mail. Send your dealer's name and CLARK MFG, CO. fammer Street, Boston, Mass, New York, 77 Broadway ‘Trade Mark on every box The Little Father The Czar of All the Russias, the “ Lit- tle Father"? of his people, appears fre- quently in the proverbs of ordinary Muscovite speech. The following are a few of the popular sayings : The crown docs not protect the Czar from headache. Even the Czar’s lungs cannot blow out the sun. The Czar’s back also would bleed if it were gashed with the knout. The Czar’s arm is long; but it cannot reach to heaven. The hand of the Czar also has only five fingers. It is not more difficult for death to carry a fat Czar than to carry a lean beggar. The voice of the Czar has an echo even when there are no mountains near. What the Czar cannot accomplish time can do—Sunday Magazine. A Dangerous Attribute Tue perils of precocity in a popular witer are grave. Having early made lis mark and familiarized the public vib his juvenile genius, can he persuade tis readers to accept riper and worthier ay be heavier work at his hands? Mr. Chesterton, for example, find If forced to continue writing Ches- se for the next thirty or forty or will he be able to drop the pernalistic cocksureness and epigram- tatic smartness that have so well served hus far? He is only thirty-five, and e prospect of forty years more of Ches- tronic paradox somehow daunts one. Us. Kipling, a somewhat older writer, is ¢ whose later work, whatever its ex- lenge, seems to suffer by comparison web those first fine flights of his imagi- nition before the cares of his country weighed on his mind and prompted him 's produce rhymed homilies on imperial- Another early successful author is Mr. Anhur Christopher Benson, from tose pen we are not getting many new ecks of late. Is it possible that he has tecribed his own fate in “The Altar Fir” and that his pen, once so fertile, ten itself out? And yet Mr. Besson is still several years under fifty. is to be hoped that he is simply re for ements in literature. To be handi- ed by youthful fame is worse than muffied in a not easily penetrable Security —Dial. Avoid Substitutes With the Great Changes in Fashion A Woman Needs An Authoritative Guide IN 17HE MATTER OF DRESS AS NEVER BEFORE L’ART de la MODE, “The Fashion Authority,” is the guide of thousands of the best-dressed women in America. Double the circu- lation of any other high-priced fashion magazine. APRIL NUMBER is now on sale on the newsstands. If your dealer is “sold out,” notify us and we will see that you are supplied. The regular, prompt and certain receipt of L’ART de la MODE can only be assured through subscription. The newsdealer is supplied with but suffi- cient copies to meet his expected demand —these being exhausted, regular custom- ers and others are disappointed, Special Introductory Offer We want every woman to know L’ART de la MODE and L'ART de la MODE Patterns, which thousands of L'ART successful dressmakers pronounce the best patterns ae cee made. Send us ONE DOLLAR, and we will send " i you FOUR NUMBERS—these four numbers on the newsstands would cost you $1.40—and they will contain all the latest spring and summer fashions. L'ART DE LA MODE 31 East 2ist St., New York Enclosed find $1.00. Please send me four Address comicbooks.com