Life, 1911-01-19 · page 4 of 44
Life — January 19, 1911 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The top section advertises "Life Prints"—photogravure reproductions for sale, including four titled works: "Valentines, Old and New," "Dreams," "Absent Friends," and "Music of the Spheres." These appear to be sentimental artistic prints popular in the early 1900s. The right column contains reader letters debating plagiarism accusations against Life magazine and discussing similar passages in various publications. The bottom includes a Cordial Fronsac liquor advertisement and a brief letter to the editor criticizing a Rockefeller Institute article titled "What Place!" **No significant political cartoons or satire appear on this page.** It represents typical early-20th-century magazine content mixing commercial advertising with reader correspondence.
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The Best Valentine A Life Print Copyright 1905 by Lite Pristubiog Company VALENTINES, OLD AND NEW Photogravure 15 x 20, $1.09 Copyright 1910 by Life Pebithing Company DREAMS Facsimile in color, mounted, 14 x 17, $1.00 + Sent co any address upon receipt of the price LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 3lst Street, New York Copyright 1908 by Life Pobiubiag compan Copyright 1903 by Life Pebluhoog Company MUSIC OF THE SPHERES Photogravure 1§ x 20, $1.00 En1tor oF Lire: Dear Sir:—There appeared in this week's issue a screed entitled “ What a Place!" directed against the Rocke- feller Institute. It is charitable to assume that the family of its author consists of a fat old cat and a wheezy pug dog, both pampered with siik cushions and pet- ted by flabby hands. It is inconceivable that the father of children cognizant of the horrors of infantile paralysis and of the work of the institute in that fie'd alone could bewail the premature decease of a few monkeys in so great a cause. Promiscuous vivisection is most de- 182 plorable, but indiscriminate invective of the sort published is stupid. Tam, sir, December 7, 1910. C.F. Ween, Plagiarism ? Dear Lire:—In your last issue I noticed your more or less justified comment upon a magazine article sub- mitted by one Cahoon, of Pleasant Lake, Mass. I wonder if, while you are on the subject of plagiarism, you have the nerve to tackle a man higher, up. I hold in my hand a little pam; by Elbert Hubbard, being a reprint from The Fra Magazine, and entitled “The Standard Oil Compar On the reverse of the back cover of the pamphlet I find the following: “Lay it down as a safe proposition that the fellow who, every little while, has to shake the baby’s bank for car- fare, isn’t going to evolve into a Baron Rothschild.” I also have on my desk George Horace Lorimer’s entertaining book, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son, and on page twenty-two I find the following : “But I always lay it down as a safe proposition that the fellow who has to break open the baby’s bank toward the last of the week for car-fare isn’t go- ing to be any Russell Sage when it comes to trading with the old man’s money.” I am not informed whether the Sag of East Aurora is also the author of George Horace Lorimer’s book or not, but I am inclined to ask the question: What would the resourceful Fra re- ply were the same question put to him that has so many times been put to his oily patron: Where did he get it? Yours very truly, Hvco P. Remincton. (Concluded on page 153) CORDIAL FRONSAC The World's Best Cordial Nothing could be more refreshing and gratifying after a good dinner. Highest Quality. Aids digestion and adds to the enjoyment of the meal. At all Best Clubs and Hotels. COWIE & CO., Ltd, New York Sole Agents for the U-S. comicbooks.com