Life, 1910-04-21 · page 6 of 44
Life — April 21, 1910 — page 6: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The visible advertisements include: - **Knapp Felt hats** ("Hats for Men") - **Egyptian Deities cigarettes** - **Brocard's Russian Milaja Perfume** - **The Outing Magazine** cover promotion The "From Our Readers" section contains a letter debating whether Life should have published a parody on "The Star-Spangled Banner," suggesting religious sensitivity concerns about using sacred national symbols for satire. The only cartoon visible is a portrait sketch labeled "Egyptian Deities" for cigarette advertising. This page reflects post-WWI American commercial culture rather than political commentary.
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LIFE: Him whose very name is sacred. Cer- tainly if you wish to oppose a parody on 1 token of a people whose poor course The first Derby made in America was a a century and a third you yourself refrain from par- 2 token of a being whose course ited by eternity whose worth Not, be it understood, that t His cause can be injured by an irreverence any more than the 1 States can be red by the r parody, but merely in order that reverence may be accorded where it is On this regard | would refer you to an excellent bit of common sense to be found in Matt. 7: 3 to 5. Iam, sir, Yours truly, Croax Rarips, la., March 21, 1910 [if you should sce fit to publish the above, | would prefer that you on name.) The gentleman's Scriptural reference is to the sin of hypocrisy, and it was to rebuke the holier-than-thou quality int ck Exchange that Lire made bold to use the literary form of the Fen Commandments, Just as the gen- Made in two grades, $6 and $4. Sold by the best dealers. | Write for THE HATMAN. | ibe Crofat & Koapp Co., Broadway at 13th St., New York. | Heman implies, that use t hurt the | Ten Commandments, and there is a faint hope it may influence some mbers of the Stock Exchange to ree- cir devious ways’ In that te event the good done would @ The best all-round number gh the harm even to the . " Eedinserdinios ‘ of OUTING ever published. hypersensitive feelings of our esteemed correspondent @ Beautiful color pictures of college sports. Whigham’s r Pemtasiiye Cowr nce ren ¢ iconoclastic || COMMON SENSE OF GOLF. New York, N.Y. American breast. There is a conscious Wonderful game bird photo- a recent number of Lire I wi graphs. COMEDIANS OF THE 2 censure—and very. prop: - }|} Diamonp, by Van Loan. certain actress for sing Lire cann ing a parody on our national bymr @ Two ON THE TRAIL breathes baci Star-Spangled Banner.” In th : iavue T also'note that sou pu the spirit and romance of the n clever parody on the Ten Com- | {= wilderness. It’s a bully story. This strikes me as b most inconsistent. Is there not en: , @AN News-stands, 25 cents. secular literature to write parodies on | 7 without your dra the Holy Scrip $3.00a year. Send fifty cents tures into tis field? It seems to me that | f in stamps to-day for three any one with the slightest scruples for | ~e ||] months’ trial subscription. religion, or even for co should have sufficient respect for things sacred and holy to keep him from com: ate « THE OUTING MAGAZINE * ni alizing men passa; i It rt | BY pl 1an SIS FIFTH AVENUE » NEW YORK CITY interest you to know in that pas in question is a sentence forbidding th | * G irreverent use of the name of the Cc ] ] @ mighty. Mere respect for what is good should prompt you not to use for such LU LIOST in Cigarettes’ ness, however, that it tries to increase it by a not entirely irreverent use of the commandment form and a simul- tancous exec f commercial BROCARD’S RUSSIAN : ‘This, by the way, our correspondent MILAJA PERFUME after theteast mistakenly calls a hymn. He has prob- A delicate, lasting odor of exquisite daintiness in alway ably. mixed: it Gp with Our other’ pa: Extract, Soap, Powder and Toilet Water. a ASE triotic song, “My Country, 'Tis of At All Department Stores and Druggists’. we Pe Thee." —Eprror. IBROCARD & CO. 7 West 22d Street, New York City (Continued on page 713) Send 10 cents In stamps fo: imples to Dept. C. an inconsequential purpose the words of comicbooks.com