Life, 1910-11-24 · page 37 of 48
Life — November 24, 1910 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page contains literary and advertising content from an early 20th-century *Life* magazine. **"Rhymed Reviews"** is a humorous poem by Arthur Guiterman reviewing G. Dorset's novel *A Successful Wife*. The satirical narrative mocks conventional marriage advice: a woman rejects a wealthy suitor to marry Stephen Kirkland, a charming but dissolute politician with a drinking problem and wandering eye. The joke is that her patient, non-confrontational tolerance supposedly "cures" him—and the poem's closing moral ironically advises other wives to follow her example of silent suffering, sarcastically claiming this constitutes "husband-taming." The satire targets both the novel's likely sentimental plot and period assumptions about female virtue requiring self-sacrifice and submissiveness in marriage. **The Waltham Watch advertisement** uses an illustration of a man examining a watch, emphasizing inherited family tradition and modern reliability—a standard early advertising approach combining nostalgia with technological confidence.
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EVERYBODY IN NEW YORK dasa sore inger—But Weonly a joke. Sup on The Bleedin: Inger oa amps or cola for The Bleeding or an our big Christ- mas Catalon Nor its, of Novelties, qv dke, Ete. THE NEW YORK NEWS CO. 15 Warren Street New York Rhymed Reviews A Successful Wife (By G. Dorset. Harper & Brothers) My inner-heart’s biography Begins when I was five-and-twenty ; My business, law-stenography, Had brought me work and funds a- plenty; A married patron—call him “ Will "— Said, “Fly with me and live in clover!” I loved him pretty well, but stil! Presumed it best to chuck him over. Then Stephen Kirkland strolled along, Devoid of cash, but high in station, Whose love for Woman, Wine and Song Had earned him quite a reputation. He told me all his Horrid Past; He needed me; his genius charmed me. The parson tied us hard and fast— And soon his goings-on alarmed me. That man just drank and drank and drank! And every pretty face allured him. Griselda-like, I always shrank From scolding him, and that’s what cured him, And oh! his mind was simply great! He wrote like Burns and Arnold Bennett. We went out West; the Silver State Returned him to the U. S. Senate. ASN SONY CHTING CRUISES =: r WESTINDIES — | | VENEZUELA‘: PANAMA CANAL | Finsinevery room, Dark Room Motor Launches Orbs ts, 31 DAYS EACH $1509.00 ris Seats of 6820 Knots294 Hours ic the Cand Route eB Waltham!” How the gift is enhanced by this discovery. WALTHAM was the watch name he knew best in his boyhood—the watch his father and grandfather before him wore,—a watch “hoary with reputation.” This inbred confidence in WALTHAM is strengthened in every generation by the constant application of modern watch-making methods to old-fashioned standards of integrity. Waltham is the oldest and youngest watch on the market. The highest inventive genius is always at its command, designing new models and keeping WALTHAMS constantly in the lead. “It’s time you owned a Waltham.”’ For a high-grade up-to-date watch—made as thin as it is safe to make a reliable timepiece; ask any JEWELER to show you a Waltham Colonial. Prices $50 to $175. WALTHAM WATCH COMPANY, : EE He loved me, but could not resist A charming face or figure skirted Or—never mind, but here's a list Of some with whom my husband flirted: My sister Fanny, Miss Pagee (Who drowned herself with full in- tention), And Mrs. Mary Tempest—she Will be the last I choose to mention; For after all I learned to sway My specimen of genus homo. We're sailing now to write a play Upon the rosy shores of Como. So, patient wives, let love suffice, Your wayward spouses never blam- ing. What's that?—you scorn my shrewd advice? Huh! lots you know of husband- ing! taming! Arthur Guiterman.