Life, 1912-03-07 · page 11 of 60
Life — March 7, 1912 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is **primarily advertising** rather than satire or political commentary. The dominant feature is a "Join the Welch Sorority" advertisement for Welch's Grape Juice, showing college women in a social gathering. The ad copy emphasizes the product's uses in punch, sherbets, and desserts—marketing grape juice as essential to college social events. The left side contains miscellaneous smaller ads and poetry, including Edmund Thompson's "I Want to Give You 'Human Energy'" promoting his exercise course. The bottom includes an unrelated poem about a "Gigantic Trap and Sportsman" and a cartoon showing figures hunting. This is a typical early-20th-century magazine page mixing editorial content with advertising, not a political cartoon page.
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Integrity was his mainspring And prudence the regulator Of all the actions of his life. Humane, generous and liberal, His hand never stopped Till he had relieved distress. So nicely regulated were all his motions That he never went wrong, Except when set going By people Who did not know His key. He departed this life Wound up In hopes of being taken in hand By his Maker And of being thoroughly cleaned, re- paired, And set a-going In the world to come. In Linton: Remember, man that passeth by, As thou is now, so once was I. And as I is, so thou must be; Prepare thyself to follow me. Da j (Underneath this, written by a | { VS stranger) : To follow you's not my intent oe rar Unters t Waow which “way gon WERE, % WELCH'S grape juice adds to the jollity of every college “doings. It may be mixed in the punch or frozen into sher- bets and ices. There are many ways to serve it, either as a drink or a dessert. Grape Juice Keep a few bottles on hand and you will find how WELCH’S fits in with the large or small affair, The fresh, fruity flavor makes ita universal favorite and it is none the less acceptable because of its health-giving qualities. WELCH'’S is the pure, unfermented juice of selected Concord grapes. ° | WELCH J h ce of three le: s d one ey I Want to Give You cup of sugar, pint or ELCH'S ‘and ‘quart of water ‘pias “ 29 . erves h |, ish with sli ‘Human Energy | fruits © please the fancy." Serve very cok tn Ta Welch's Mr tock explains the laws rorerning risht exercies WA PRED) Write now for‘our free book of recipes for drinks and desserts. Secuseally directed to reach yout interoal orrane = ¢ Do More Th “ “ cally directed to reach your internal orans— 2 5 all of which are muscular—will co infinitely more for 0 More Than Ask for “Grape Juice yourbealth and strength than liours of random excrcise. } Ask for Welch’s, and Get It Toffer it to you free, because T want you to under : stand the principles underlying The Thompson Course, I unable to obtain WELCH’ S of your dealer, we will send a trial case of a dozen pints which bas brought thousands of men from uncertain for $3, exprese prepaid east of Omaha. Sample bottle mailed, 0c. health and inefficiency into fuller, more useful and Gooner ot ine soo will acon tha pelacigias 6f cs The Welch Grape Juice Company, Westfield, N. Y. Goarse—ait men of sedentary life will. Y. —S——— ———— = — “Homan Energy" a real contribution to the science of waking the most of oneself. It is startling. yet ob- Hoaaly t dis eee ten, crecpt to read it os thought wore wrhtee BF & The Gigantic Trap and Sportsman J. EDMUND THOMPSON All heaven and earth compose a cage, Saite 90, Exchange Building, Worcester, Mase, And vice and virtue in cach age Spread out a net. Life is the prey, And Time the fowler. What a play! —Poetry of the Orient, by W. R. Alger. ‘ou will fi Ir people only made pruaent mar- riages, what a stop to population tnere - ‘would. Be. Gallant Mr. Byrd: Reatty, sss buck, —William Makepeace Thackeray. 18 17 YOU? 1 NEVER WOULD HAVE RECOG: NIZED YOU UNDER YouR DISGUISE! “9 comicbooks.com