Life, 1911-06-22 · page 39 of 44
Life — June 22, 1911 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **primarily advertisements** alongside opinion content, typical of early 20th-century magazines. **Main Content:** The "Reflections" column presents French philosopher M. Gourmont's aphorisms about human nature—observations on friendship, science, marriage, and travel. These are philosophical musings rather than satire. **Advertisements:** - **Travelers Insurance Company**: Promotes accident insurance by citing statistics (1910 data showing half-million dollars paid for vacation injuries). The pitch emphasizes America's increasingly dangerous modern life—automobiles, sports, industrial activity. - **Kelly-Springfield Automobile Tires**: Features a woman sitting on a tire, advertising durability through customer testimonials. **Cartoon/Illustration:** A small sketch labeled "Papa Flamingo" appears at bottom-right, captioned with a joke about tall, long-legged parties and courtship—typical period humor about dating. **For Modern Readers:** The page reflects early automotive era anxieties: new technologies (cars, bicycles) created unprecedented accident risks, making insurance commercially viable. The ads suggest early-1900s America was experiencing rapid, sometimes dangerous modernization.
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Reflections (The following aphorisms. by Guinon appear in a recent nu The Figaro and were spegally tran: The New Age by J. M. Kennedy.) Too many people mistake vivacity for Too great a belief an science is one of the least scientific things it is possible to imagine. We should see our f{mends often, rother than for a long time. When a man is no longer influ- enced by @ particular feeling, he should show himself courageous enough to dis- continue its outward manifestations. When we become intimate with cer- tain people, we come to experience the same feeling of disappointing fatigue as when we try to grasp a vacuum with our hands. / a 1 ome. | Over 1/2 Million HE TRAVELERS INSUR- ANCE COMPANY paid in 1910 over half a million dollars to its policy holders for accidents peculiar to the vacation season. | These enormous benefits, paid by this largest | of all accident companiesfor vacation injuries, should | impress you with the necessity of accident insurance. | Now is the time when many people are injured | in hunting, boating, fishing, bicycling, baseball, golf, tiding and driving, automobiling and _ travel. Every year one in eight of the population is in- | jured, and one death in every ten is from accident. There are more people disabled every year in this country by accident than were killed and wounded in any year of the Civil War. Such is the life we must live. Its density of population—its feverish activity—its desire for fapid transportation—its diversity and mechanicat complexity—its increasing desire for hazardous sports, make protection by insurance an absolute necessity. The benefits are so broad and the cost so smali, that if a man does not carry acci- dent insurance it is generally because he does not know the facts. Let us tell you how much insurance $25 a year will buy. USE THIS COUPON THE TRAVELERS INSURANCE COMPANY HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT How much accident insurance will $25 buy? Name Address___ When you wish to make men happy through disinterestedness pure and sim- ple, begin by convincing them that you have an interest in doing so, otherwise they will become suspicious of you It often happens that, when women marry late, they remain rather old-maid- ish even after their marriage. A young child has only half a muscular sense; he has the sense of direction with- out that of distance. Let us be glad to give; let us know how to take; let as never ask. Thanks to his imagination, a writer may enjoy all the pleasures of drunken- ness without the dangers of alcohol. People who are in the habit of travel- ing make indifferent parents and very trustworthy friends We should, from time to time, sort out our friends just as we sort out old let- ters, retaining some and, throwing others away. When people bear no ill-will, this is dve much less often to kindness of heart than to interest—The New Age. It’s a long wedding that has no Reno. 127 Springfield Automobile Tires The endurance of the Kelly- Springheld Carriage Tire was due to the rubber composition. While the pely Seaeean Automobile Tire is a different construction from the Carriage Tire, quality counts just as much there as it did in the Camiage Tire. I desire to express the perfect satisfactio™ the two Kelly-Springkeld eatings you sold me have given, Thave now rum the tires over 8,000 miles on the rear wheels of the machine, and have had 2,000 miles use out of them since changing them to the front wheels, and they look good for many more miles. L. E, KINCAID, Manager, Oakland Fence Constroction Co,, Gatland, Cal, Specify Kelly Springfield Tires on your automobile. They cost no more than any first-class tire and are better Consolidated Rubber Tire Co. 20 Vesey Street, New York Branch Offices in New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Atlanta and Akron, Ohio, Papa Flamingo: wave you SEEN ANY- THING OF A TALL, LONG-LEGGED PARTY MAKING LOVE TO MY DAUGHTER? comicbooks.com