Life, 1910-11-03 · page 13 of 72
Life — November 3, 1910 — page 13: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes editorial content with advertisements. The left column continues "The Literary Zoo," satirizing French intellectuals as self-governing but producing "a Platt, but no real Plato." Below is "The Madly Great," questioning why Christian Scientists defend Mrs. Eddy's sanity, referencing Prof. Joseph Jastrow's psychological assessment calling her a paranoiac. The article argues great historical figures often showed signs of madness. The main visual is a Peerless Motor Car advertisement showing a luxury limousine, emphasizing comfort and quality. Bottom half features a Pères Chartreux liqueur advertisement with two bottle illustrations. The page is primarily **advertising-focused**, with brief satirical commentary on intellectual pretension and mental health discourse typical of early 20th-century Life magazine.
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The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 739) how dull they are. The French are the most gifted people of modern times, and what a failure they made of bs their great revolution. Their first re- public was crushed under the iron heel u TT of Bonaparte. The second was ex- tinguished by the third Napoleon. The destinies of the present French republic are imperiled by the brilliance of the Parisian man milliners and dressmakers, who need a monarchy, with its court, to display their crea- tions in. Liberty is safe in London because the English are so slow and heavy. Thackeray ridiculing the stu- pidity of the Georges is all very well, but that stupidity was a blessing to Britons, since it guaranteed their free- dom. There is not a producible in- stance in human annals of a great people capable of self-government. This is the secret of our own history. We can govern ourselves, and that is all we can do. We produce a Platt, but no real Plato; a Roosevelt, but no real Chantecler. The Madly Great Why should the Christian Scientists grieve at efforts to prove that Mrs. Eddy is insane? Prof. Joseph Jas- trow, the University of Wisconsin’s psychologist, has written a paper in Model 31 Four-Cylinder Thirty Horse-power Limousine Hampton’s to demonstrate Mrs. Eddy Londen a paranoiac. This American preju- dice against insanity is odd. The great men of all times have had a touch Laveiclow was. Woceee sat aaa IS REQVISITE AND DESIRABLE secnlotloasl, Hectacreitcal bt IN MOTOR-CAR CONSTRVCTION sanity among the American people CATALOGVE Q SENT ON REQVEST cannot be a bad thing if, in conse- quence, we become as creative as the THE PEERLESS MOTOR CAR. COMPANY Greeks. They were, it seems from a 2449 EAST 93° ST. CLEVELAND OHIO fecent monograph, degenerates. The Statues of Praxiteles were evidently | LIQUEUR Péres Chartreux —GREEN AND YELLOW— fashioned from models in whom the stigmata of degeneracy were conspicu- ous, All the Greeks of the age of Pericles, according to modern alien- ists, were more or less mad, especially Socrates, who was always proclaiming the dire warnings he received from the demon that attended him. Why can we not be gloriously mad, like them—make inimitable statues, write immortal poems? Because we are too sane. The frenzies are not in us. We have only common sense. The The original and genuine Chartreuse has always been and still ls made by the Carthusian Monks (Péces Chartreux), who, since thelr expulsion from France, have been located at Tarragona, Spain; and. although the old labels and insignia originated by the Monks have been adjudged by the Federal Courts of this country to be stll the exclusive property of the Moaks, thelr world-re- nowned product is nowaday s known asLiqueur Peres Chartreux At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés. Batjer & Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Sole Agents for the United States. (Continued on page 742) comicbooks.com