Life, 1911-01-12 · page 4 of 44
Life — January 12, 1911 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and reader mail**, not political satire. The main content includes: 1. **Club Cocktails advertisement** (top left) - promoting a bottled cocktail product by G.F. Heublein & Bros. 2. **"From Our Readers"** section - letters to the editor, including one from a long-time subscriber discussing Life magazine's Christmas issue and comparing it favorably to competitor *The Life*. 3. **Rad-Bridge advertisement** (bottom left) - promoting club linen and playing cards. 4. **Major feature**: A full-page advertisement for a free "Manual of Gardening" guide (544 pages, 443 illustrations), offered by *Suburban Life* magazine to acquire new subscribers. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. It's a typical early-20th-century magazine page mixing reader correspondence with commercial advertisements and promotional offers.
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i Ss Sh The finest cocktail in the world—less the trouble of preparingit. Accept no substitute. Martini(gin base) end Man- hattan (whiskey bose) ore the ‘most popular. At all good dealers. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole EW YORK Props. LONDO! HARTFORD NI Witches and Others Epitor oF Lirr. Sir:—Though never a subscriber, I have managed at clubs, and otherwise through honest purchase, to see most numbers of Lire for nearly three dec- ades. You do not often, but still frequently enough to rasp an old-time Massachu- setts man, let slip in a dig at those mythical witch burners. But wi in your fine current Christmas issue, so admirable an artist as Otho Cush- ing and entertaining a rhymster as M. C. S., is each allowed to tumble into the same weary ancient error, I am impelled to “take my pen in hand,” ete. No witch, real or imitation, was ever burned in New England. As to M. C. S.’s instructive jingles, they induce pleasant research and loosen clogged memory without mak- ing anybody mad. But would you mind whispering to him, or her, that CLUB LINEN AN! AYING CARDS ‘Hematitch and “rug” backs patented. Four colors each red, dsc per packs Got edge. 3c, Dealers every: Bo paid on receipt of price. “Send for Catalog ise. Kecomarien, Dept. L.. RADCLIFFE: & CO.. 146 Peart St. New York Marie Antoinette was never an em- press nor Delhi an “English city.” British, if you like, but hardly more English than is Dublin. There will be no more front pedal action coming from me for another thirty years. Meanwhile, cannot jour- nals I dislike be allowed to continue the imaginary witch-toasting for New England? Wis. Ww. Cuicaco, December 4, 1910. FREE | Greatest Garden Guide Ever Published | FREE Strictly Business Lire Macazine, New York City. entlemen:—To the attention of “Gee. Ime. It”: T was among the first to subscribe to your magazine upon the opening of the imaginary subscription list, and have also placed several imaginary ads. (Concluded on page 109) 544 Pages of Essential Information 443 Telling Illustrations ERE is a great book by a great man, which tells how to fight the bugs and funguses, and how to handle the sprays and the other things that are necessary. It is a book for all America, too. There are sug- gestions and reminders for the whole country, north and south, east and west. It is a book for every day in the year, including Sundays. The principles upon which the thousand-acre garden or orchard must be conducted to financial success are given in this book, but the way in which the humble worker can get the best out of a piece of ground the size of a handkerchief is also here. Just how evergreens may be moved successfully, and how a window- box may be conducted with equal success, appear in these pages. The “Manual of Gardening” is the clearest, most definite and helpful garden guide that has ever been published. 1c is also good literature and good reading. If you have a garden, large or small, or are planning one, you surely will want this truly helpful book. You can secure it, absolutely free, through LH Bailey Macmillan 12 mo. Bound in cloth. Published March, 1910 at $2.00 net. Postage 19 cents extra SuBuRBAN Lire, the best magazine for suburban home-makers ; and, of course, this extraordinary free book offer is made to get you acquainted with the brightest, most up-to-date periodical devoted to suburban and country living. First come, first served. Only a limited supply of these books is available for our use. We can mail only a limited number of sample copies of SUBURBAN LiFE, WP CUT OUT THIS COUPON AND MAIL IT TODAY “SBE SUBURBAN LIFE, Harrisburg, Pa. Please send me full description of the ‘‘ Manual of Gardening,” giving details of bow] may secure a copy free of cost. I should also like to have a free sample copy of Suburban Life. Name_ Appress. nary ¢ to kee ence, | down Wh: bindin and ca firm \ booke: displa; Cu Eoiros Sir. Numb: ture ¢ to call your « tive te Ie is rant o to sea ofan pictur You gards the le as Uni 43,000 open ; J de & William comicbooks.com