Life, 1910-10-06 · page 45 of 60
Life — October 6, 1910 — page 45: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **mostly advertising** with a modest cartoon and serialized fiction. **The Cartoon ("Hungry Dick"):** A simple visual gag showing two vultures discussing feeding arrangements. One bird jokes that if aircraft are fed according to size, he wants to be present when they "bring on the bird seed"—playing on the double meaning of "bird" (the aircraft and actual birds). **Main Content:** The page is dominated by a large **Angelus Player-Piano advertisement** from Wilcox & White Co., claiming superiority over competitors through features like the "Melodant" and "Phrasing Lever" that allow artistic expression. This represents typical early-1900s advertising claims of technological superiority. **The Makaroff Cigarette Ad** emphasizes purity and absence of "nerves"—reflecting period anxieties about cigarette effects. **"A Cure in the Hills"** is serialized fiction (continued from page 578), depicting domestic/romantic drama in what appears to be a rural setting. The page reflects pre-WWI consumer culture and leisurely magazine reading conventions.
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Hungry Dick: if Twest AEROPLANE FIRDS ARE FED ACCORDING TO THEIR SI2x, 1 WAST TO BE AROUND WHEN THEY BRING oN THE BiRD serp! A Cure in the Hills (Continued from page 578) love, a man must always be to a wom- an like @ plumed knight on horseback, with a rose on his shield and a song in his heart!” I thought this was rather good! Quite in the Wardlough manner. I saw it in a magazine somewhere. He looked at me in a surprised way and paused a moment to let it sink in, “And Billy is just a plain man, is that it?” he asked, still with that va- cant smile. I was awfully rattled. “Not exactly plain,” I replied, some- what stifly. “He's a Son of the Rev- olution.” He lit a cigar. For a sick man he smokes awfully. It made me home- The Cigaret you can smoke all day without a trace of “nerves — because it’s just pure, clean, sweet tobaccos, blended by artists. Prove it. MAKAROFF RUSSIAN CIGARETS 15 cents and a quarter AT YOUR DEALERS. ~ Bectrn il address—95 Milk Street, Boston LAYERPIANO From the U.S. Official Census Report “In 1895 Messrs. Wilcox & White, of Meriden, Conn., be- | gan manofacturing an interior attachment, and in February, 1897, built their first ‘Angelus,’ a cabinet piano player. This instrument, the invention of E. H. regarded as the Pioneer of the Various Similar attach- ments which have since been placed upon the market.’’ . H. White, may be IHE ANGELUS has strong competition commercially. But not in artistic worth. e most impressive of all tributes paid to the superiority of the ANGELUS is the enormous sum expended yearly by rival makers in vain efforts to offset this supremacy. @, Compare the ANGELUS and its competitors by personal investi- gation. Let your artistic sense determine your choice. @ It is these devices—found on no other player-piano—that place the ANGELUS far beyond any instrument in artistic worth: THE MELODANT which brings out the melo- dy or theme of the composition strong and clear while subduing the accompaniment, Such ability constitutes one of the greatest charms of manual playing. It distinguishes the real artist. ‘THE MELODY BUTTONS give absolute con- trol over tonal volume so that none of the beauty cf artistic effect of a composition is lost. They also put the accentuation of the melody under the personal control of the performer. THE PHRASING LEVER gives absolute mas- tery over tempo. It has been aptly termed the “Heart of the Angelus,” for itenables the performer to reflect his whole person- ality in everything played. THE ARTISTYLE MUSIC ROLLS have one single expression line which simply but very clearly indicates where to empha- ze, subdue, accelerate or retard, Even the novice soon #0 proficient that the most difficult music is rendered as easily and well as the most simple, @, The ANGELUS—and the AN- GELUSalone permitsanyonetoplay ‘THE DIAPHRAGM PNEUMATICS give the “human touch,” e0 essential to artistic playing. ‘The tubes which run from the tracker-board to. these pneumatics are of metal—not perishable rubber—always insuring action true to every requirement. the piano with artistic personal expression. Send for name of nearest representative and book of the descriptive KNABE-ANGELUS, the EMERSON-ANGELUS and the ANCELUS-PIANO. THE WILCOX & WHITE CO., ee Regent House, Regent Street, London Business Established 1877 Meriden, Conn. sick for a whiff of one of Billy’s gold . toppers. I mentioned it to Wardlough, but in that same preoccupied up-in- the-air way he called a be a telegram, never apologiz thing. The man’s mind is weakening day by day. Any one can see it! Billy is here! We are all packed to go home. In the most surprising way in the world he walked into my room this morning “at like a ghost—white and old-looking, and took me in his arms, trembling, and something snapped in my brain and we both cried and cried and cried. There's no one in the world like my Billy! “Tell me, Billy,” I sobbed, “why did you leave me alone all this time?” And I sniffed at him severely as I could, “T couldn't come until Dr. Ward- (Continued on page 582)