Life, 1910-04-28 · page 38 of 40
Life — April 28, 1910 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily a **book review and advertising page** rather than political satire. The left side features a prominent **Old Overholt Rye whiskey advertisement** with a caricatured frontiersman—typical period marketing using crude ethnic/regional stereotyping common in early 1900s advertising. The main content includes book reviews and two editorial pieces: one praising a French woman's $65,000 bequest to create an orphanage with an **anti-vaccination clause** (reflecting early 20th-century vaccine skepticism among "thinking people"), and another advocating for a **parcels post system**, criticizing express companies' influence on blocking postal innovation. The center spread advertises **Life Publishing Company's framed art prints** ($1 each) titled "Illusion," "Home Ties," "Heirs," and "Dreams"—sentimental domestic scenes typical of the era's popular art market. The page closes with a **subscription notice** reminding readers to update address changes when moving.
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ERE A Study of the Drama, by Brander Matthews. (Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.50.) Tess of the Storm Country, by Grace oftice taser Miller White. (W. J. Watt & Co.) NEN PUAYING CARDS Psychic Control, by Walter Winston ght inl Bday Cord Deer aon Gone Sioa reek Kenilworth. (R. F, Fenno & Co. $2.00.) Face thease st ate pcre ee Aes eet Thurston of Orchard Valley, by Har- Radcliffe & Co, wt ds Peart old Bindloss. (F. A. Stokes Company. $1.30 net.) The Death of Maid McCrea, by O. C. Go Forth and Find, by H. D. Pittman. Auringer. (Richard G. Badger.) (Richard G. Badger.) Hereford, by M. Dunton Sparrow. Over the Quick Sands, by Anna (Richard G. Badger.) | Chapin Ray. (Little, Brown & Co. $1.50.) A Welcome Gift Copyright 1909 Lite Publuhieg Company Copyright 1910 Life Publishing Company The World Moves When the late Anna Maria Helena, of Hyéres, France, left $65,000 to found an orphanage tor the daughters of Church of England clergymen she made one condition which all other schools might do well to follow—that no child should be vaccinated. It is one more indication of the revolt among thinking people against a time-honored danger. Why Not Have a”Parcels-Post? There has never been any trouble in the Post Office Department, cxcept through Senatorial influences exercised in behalf of the express companies. The work of the department, where it has been permitted to take natural channels, These prints are facsimile reproductions in the colors of the orig- has been done well. Valuable letters are inal drawings. handled rapidly and safely. They are mounted for framing 14 x 17 inches and cost $1.00 cach. ILLUSION HOME TIES The Latest Books {LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 W. 3ist Si The House of the Whispering Pines, y Anna Katherine Green. (G. P. Put- Copp 119 Lite Pang Company nam’'s Sons. $1.50.) Sir Orfeo, by Edward Eyre Hunt. (Harvard Co-operative Society, Cam- bridge, Mass.) Beatrice, by Harold De Wolf Fuller. ‘Harvard Co-operative Society, Ca bridge Mass. ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE? If you are, of if you have done so recently, don't forget to notify LIFE. of your changed address. The Post-Office will not_forward @ periodical as it will a letter. Therefore each week's delay means a copy of LIFE lost. Don’t wait until you have moved before you notify us. When ordering a change give the old as well as the new ress. Notice must reach us by Thursday to affect the following week’s issue. Subscription Department LIFE, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York comicbooks.com