Life, 1912-02-08 · page 34 of 44
Life — February 8, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **advertisements** interspersed with light editorial content. The major ads are for Welch's Grape Juice (depicting a social fraternity scene) and Club Cocktails. The substantive content is a **poem praising Charles Dickens**, defending him against contemporary literary criticism. The poem argues that modern "cultured folks" dismiss Dickens as a mere "minor artist" and "type painter" rather than a serious psychological realist. The author defends Dickens's merit, contending he authentically captured human life—poverty, work, love, grief—without pretentious psychological dissection ("peeling a soul"). This reflects early-20th-century literary debates between realists/modernists and traditional novelists. The page also includes three brief humorous anecdotes under headings like "Spare Our Blushes, Gentlemen" and "Equal to the Situation," typical of Life's satirical comment on contemporary manners and politics.
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ARES fe Re in HERE'S good cheer in WELCH’S, morning, noon or ni and after the game, Before or the quiet evening, or the occasional celebration, WELCH’S furnishes a zest. Welch's She bas, Drink Grape It’s a food-drink without being a fad- drink. Nature puts elements in the grape that help the human system— brains, blood and nerves. We keep those elements there. AA corking good punch is the Welch Grape Punch. ly. Juice of three lemons and one orange; small cup of sugar; pint of WELCH’S; quart of charged or plain water. Garnish with sliced fruits to sutt taste and serve cold. make it in a jil Juice The juice as you pour it from the bottle is just as Nature made it in the grape—full of summer’s sunshine and autumn’s rich- ness. You can la? ve Stewards and housekeepers of Fraternity Houses and College Clubs: Write us today for our free book of recipes for WELCH drinks and desserts. Get the Welch Habit — It's One That Won't Get You. A sample 4-0z. bottle mailed for 10 cents. Ij you cannot get Welch's oj a dealer we wilt send a dozen trial pints east of Omaha, The Welch Grape Juice Co. Westfield, N. Y. 3D), ADR EE Di A for $3, express free a. Cat Charles Dickens “A Minor Artist!” pipe our Newly- Great, Our callow, fledgling literary chickens, “We'll have to set him down as seventh- rate; He was no Realist, your Mr. Dickens.” How truc! He only dealt with human- kind; To tell a tale remained his chief en- deavor ; He could not atomize a State of Mind, Till Cultured Folks should say, “ How deuced clever!” He viewed his teeming world with Field- ing’s smile, Yet scourged its faults personified, like Bunyan; He never seemed to think it worth his while To peel a soul to nothing, like an onion. He gave us what he knew and felt and saw— The life of home and tavern, shop and gutter, The shifts of Poverty, the tricks of Law, Joy, Grief, Love, Hate, Hard Work and Bread-and-Butter. “He pictured Types, not Men!" they love to say. And still, how recently the enterpris- ing Spare Our Blushes, Gentlemen A recent issue of Lire (New York) was a regular whale of an automobile number with more and handsomer ad- vertisements in proportion to its hun- dred page total than any other January periodical we have seen. —Concord Monitor. Sue: Just look at the trouble money can get you into. He: Yes, but look at the trouble it can get you out of —Boston Transcript. Equal to the Situation Governor Wilson of New Jersey at a dinner in Trenton, praised a certain stump orator, man’s wit is unfailing. “He was speaking one night in a hall of the opposite sse to depart. “But the speaker held up his hand and his hearers, being Party, rose almost en and shouted: “Wait a minute, gentlemen. I've got a few more pearls to cast” —Los Angeles Times. 318 en when his audience is unsympa- said Governor Wilson, “the The aging of a cocktail is as necessary to perfect flavor as the aging of wine or whisky. The delicious flavor and aroma of Club Cocktails is due not alone to the precise blending of the choicest liquors obtainable, but to the fact that they are softened to mellowness by aging before bottling. Manhattan, Martini and other standard blends, bottled, ready to serve through cracked ice. Refuse Substitutes. AT ALL DEALERS. G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sele Prove Hartford New York Gist: Cais “MADE AT KEY WEST