Life, 1910-09-15 · page 10 of 40
Life — September 15, 1910 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several distinct sections: **"A Magazine Recipe"** offers satirical editorial advice: take a "soft shelled muck-raking article," combine with human-interest stories and outdoor content, then "season with a little relish of high life" and advertisements. It's mockingly instructing how to construct a popular magazine formula. **"The Honorable Way"** depicts a lending transaction where one man asks to borrow a bike, offering to repay it later. The joke plays on the phrase "it ain't mine"—suggesting he can't lend what he doesn't own, yet he offers anyway. **"The Early Bird Gets the Worm"** (bottom cartoon) shows a classroom scene where a teacher instructs children about disobedient worms rising early, with the caption emphasizing the lesson's ironic moral. These are light satirical sketches typical of Life's humor focus.
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426 Life’s Fresh Air Fund Previously acknowledged. $6,946.86 Dick and Johe. 10.00 Halance of ‘the proceeds of 17.37 $.00 S00 Estelle Wilder Neville, Jaywickes Pattison and Marg: Corn . eee ; Map $7,004.23 , ACKNOWLEDGED WITIE THANKS Two boxe: fromthe Nati Orange Com y. Riverside, Cal. A basket vegetables from Mrs. Ridgefield, Conn. A Magazine Recipe F OR making a popular magazine, the rong the editorial cooks in the United Ay 1 Knox, following recipe is very popular helled muck-raking ar- 1 Take one soft ticle, chop into small paragraphs, with italics, exclamation points and edi- torial notcs stir with stron human interest article garnished photographs. Mix in, stirring thoroughly, five or six love stories, until they come to a light f Pour in next the yolk of one outdoor article, beating until stii. Put in then three or four chapters of a serial with a little relish of high life. Add one Western story and thicken with vignettes. Add a double handful of but- lered announcements of what's coming next month, mix in a pinch or two of verse, season with a cupful of ancedotes, smother with advertisements and. serve in a cover casserole of four colors, hot The Honorable Way i ILL mie “T dassent loan it to ye, ‘cos it ain't mine, but I guess maybe it'd be all right to rent it to ye.” and one with loan yer bike, Jim- "CHE EARLY BIRD] GETS THE WORM Teacher: NOW REMEMBER, DEAR CHILDREN, THE LESSON FOR TO-DAY—THE DISOREDIENT WORM THAT WOULD PERSIST IN GET TING UP TOO EARLY IN THE MORNING \ fi tlt, } \ i —_ 4 MAN'S: RIGHTS SURURMAN This Sounds Clever, But is It > * A ND so you will not believe anything y in, gleefully. 1ins in your head, don’t you?" annot see?" inquires the other m Well, you think you have L “But you can’t see them, can think you have them, then?" “Why, [think I have brains because we think with brains, and if I didn't have brains, how could I think? If the brains aren't there to think with. I can’t think I have them, can 1?" you? What makes you AKE care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of your heirs