Life, 1911-05-25 · page 4 of 42
Life — May 25, 1911 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and subscription promotion** for Life magazine rather than political satire or editorial cartooning. The main content includes: - **"Are You a Blushing Bride?"** — a humorous appeal to readers (especially newly married women) to subscribe, suggesting the upcoming "Bride's Number" is essential reading - **"Coming Specials"** — a list of themed issues (Summer Girl, Coronation, Fresh Air, Boys', etc.) with publication dates - **"Before You Go Away"** — subscription information for summer travelers - A decorative illustration of a bride in a wedding dress at bottom The tone is lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek, poking gentle fun at social conventions around marriage and sentiment, but this is fundamentally a **magazine promotion piece** rather than political commentary or satirical cartooning.
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Se a Are You a Blushing Bride 2 If you are you will have no time to read this, and therefore will never know that next week is one of the most important weeks in the year, namely, when the Bride’s Number of LIFE is issued. In the meantime, if you are not a bride— if you are a hardened husband, or the head of some household, or anyone else in fact— you will naturally see this number. It reeks with sentiment—just the thing that every- body loves, but no one will admit—in these degenerate days (apparently). COMING SPECIALS Summer Girl's Number (June 15) Coronation Number (June 22) Fresh Air Number (July 6) Boys’ Number (July 13) Her Number (July 20) Nicotine Number (August 3) Deep Sea Number (August 10) Bathing Girl's Number (August 17) mcription $5.00 Canadian $5.52 Foreign $6.04 Before You Go Away for the Summer, send us your address. If you are a regular subscriber, send the old one also and we will see that LIFE follows you. If you are not a reg- ular subscriber, send us with your address Five Dollars for one year’s subscription. jEncksed find. one dollar (Can- adi If you are suspicious of our motives, and are afraid to take too great a risk, then F fill in the coupon herewith and get Send: Lire tor LIFE for three months. Write us erveimnaesnes anyway, on general principles. You can’t begin the day by writing a letter to LIFE without feeling happy fer twenty-four hours. w subscribers: no Life, 17 West g1, N.Y. City alesis eT SR A OMRON. POM oe Se aC Aa a Oe ee ne comicbooks.com