Life, 1910-06-23 · page 9 of 40
Life — June 23, 1910 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains literary and typographical commentary rather than political satire. The main content includes: 1. **"Extract from a Popular Novel"** - A dark photograph captioned "Her face lit up the moment he entered the room," which appears to be humorous irony given the pitch-black image. 2. **"Typographical"** - A commentary on typography in literature, discussing how letters like "I" and "E" function in text, with wordplay about dashes and periods. 3. **"In His Daily Walk"** - A small cartoon showing a baby with Life magazine, captioned "No matter what you start, begin early in 'Life,'" which is an advertisement for the magazine itself using the magazine's name as a pun. The page blends literary criticism with self-promotional advertising typical of early Life magazine's sophisticated, intellectual humor.
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“WER FACE Typographical A LL the world’s a page. And all the men and women on it merely characters. They have their commas and their periods, and some in their time cut many dashes. First comes the letter I puffing with his own sounds his own alarum. Then comes the E that marks the birth of ease and the end of crime. and, strange saw, lies at the beginning of the end Next strays along the U that stands at the head of Union strong and ushers in all those unhonored and unsung. And G, with grouch extended, creeps unwillingly to school and ends all striv- ing While these move on—a strange pro- cession—the line of type is full of queries, and the colon, that fails to dam it, gives way until the fuller period comes; and this is succeeded in its turn by some strange capital Strutting and importance, he EXTRACT FROM A POPULAR NOVEL LIT UP THE MOMENT ME ENTERED THE A motley crowd! The exclamation bold, and interjection sharp, while in be tween the mild parenthesis, with no ex- cuse for being, softly and gently inter poses ; and just to show the outside world a star sheds its rays down upon so: tiresome note that grovels at the bott Who knows but when the great re- vision comes ‘twill be all pied and justi- fied no more; or else so full of error laid on the heaped-up caals, and melted to a dross. T. LM. In His Daily Walk HAT makes Pitherting take such mincing steps?"? asks the man with the excess of side whiskers. “He trips along with such short paces that he looks positively funny.” “It's just another of his theorics,”” ex ins the man with the glittering eyes. “He cured himself of dyspepsia by flet- cherizing his food and now he’s trying to cure his rheumatism by fleteherizing his steps.”" ROOM MATTER EARLY wat IN you LiFi START, BEGIN comicbooks.com