Life, 1910-07-07 · page 43 of 48
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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content**, not political satire. The main feature is a large **Elco Motor Boats advertisement** showcasing their "Gasoline Express Launch," emphasizing luxury, safety, and smooth operation—targeting wealthy leisure consumers. The ad promises comfort without the dirt of racing machines. Below is a continuation of "The Literary Zoo," a profile column about American writers. It discusses novelist Whitman's meticulous writing process and humorist **Emerson Hough**, a prolific author known for hunting and fishing stories. The text notes Hough ironically abandoned an Africa trip because 3,000 other American writers were going there, instead gathering fishing material. The passage humorously captures Hough's priorities: he commits to theatrical and writing projects but admits he'll skip them for trout fishing in the West—satirizing the creative writer's perpetual conflict between professional obligations and personal passions. The **Motor Apparel Shop** ad (left) sells practical motorist clothing.
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ranz rough vith tions, the spr t it is prove 9) PE Fitter) HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart Hartshorn on label. Get “Improved,” no tacks required. Wood Rollers Tin Rollers The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 42) workman, it took Mr. Whitman two years or more to plan and plot and finally to write and compress his suc- ul novel of New York life. Since finished, some time ago, he has o work again, with an eye—as before—to form and the French mod- els; and so the manuscript of his next novel may be in the publisher’s hands before he returns here. Mr. Whitman edited the Tiger in his senior year at Princeton, and some of the humor he ppressed in “ Predestined” is likely to find an outlet in the more joyous theme which now engages his pen. Emerson Hough Goes Fishing Even some bear hunters grow blasé in time. erson Hough, who has killed more Alaskan bears, and written less about it, than any faunal natural- ist of our acquaintance, had planned a trip to Africa, for variety, when re- ports reached him that 3,000 other American writers were headed that way. So Mr. Hough is gathering ma- terial for fish stories instead. By way of a beginning he insists that in May he found the fishing very good indeed lichigan, Wisconsin, Utah, and the + Root Valley in Montana. In Rotor Apparel Shop Everything that Comfort Demands for the Motorist. WOULD you have a dust coat answer- ing every requirement of a practical garment, yet possessing grace and character to an unusu- ally high degree ? 0x, Stiefel & Co, HMUAVE You will never know Motor Boat perfection till you see and ride in an ELCO GASOLINE EXPRESS LAUNCH The smoothness of its operation—its indescribable power—perfect ease of control and absolute seaworthiness are combined with a beauty of grace and finish never approached in any other boat. The thou- sands who have seen them all over the country and at the Motor Boat Shows enthusiastically pronounce them to be “without equal.’” Not “racing machines” but luxuriously comfortable launches, re- markable for their safety, reliability and speed. All the exhilaration of motoring, With none of the dirt or dust; All the thrills of speed, With none of the danger! IN STOCK FOR PROMPT DELIVERY 261.40. P, A cylinder e Speed 18 mites guaranteed of 20 sale 35.60 11, P, Gcylinder engine. Speed #2 miles guaranteed or no sale Electric Launches for lakes and rivers. “The ideal Launch"—safe—reliable—noiseless. Write for our latest catalogue of Gasoline Motor Boats and Electric Launches. 175 Avenue A, Bayonne, %. J. 27 minutes from Nes ‘aed St. Ferry. June he was planning to join W. B. Mershon on his salmon water on the Cascapedia, after another week-end in Wisconsin. In August and September he may spend a month in the Peace River country. Mrs. Hough suggests Skagway, Alaska, or a three weeks’ trip to England and back, as interest- ing excursions for the late summer; but her husband has promised to be on hand for the opening of the woodcock season. Before starting on a moose “a hunt in Ontario, in November, Mr. Hough rather expects to try his hand at work. “But why get into a rut?” he writes. “I have contracted to do a vaudeville sketch, a play, a novelette and six short stories in the next sixty days. I am not going to do it, because the trout fishing in the West is better this year than it has been for a long time, and when busin interferes with fishing, the best rule is to drop the business.” comicbooks.com