Life, 1912-03-07 · page 9 of 60
Life — March 7, 1912 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content is a large Firestone Tire advertisement featuring an illustration of an early racing car with an oversized tire, promoting Firestone's manufacturing superiority and durability ("Most Miles per Dollar of cost"). The left column contains a **"Rhymed Review"** of a literary work called *Christopher* by Richard Pryce and Houghton Mifflin Company—a light, witty poem about a character's life and prospects. Below this are smaller advertisements for "Whitire" shoe polish and other products. The page's modest satirical content is the *Christopher* review itself, which gently jokes about the book's protagonist becoming a writer despite humble beginnings, but this is literary criticism rather than political satire.
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Pret ao eel re Ses! ——— Rhymed Reviews Christopher (By Richard Pryce. Houghton Mifflin Company.) While Christopher had some mishaps, I vow, and challenge contradiction, ‘That there are few more lucky chaps Than he in Realistic Fiction. For blest was he in kith and kin, In native wit and education, * (and ten times lucky not to win The lady of his adoration. His birth, his childhood days in France And England, mirrored well and clearly, His widowed mother’s sweet romance, ‘Account for half the book, or nearly And then we find him tempting Fate: Though bright his youth, his prospects brighter As heir to Grandma's fine estate, He sets to work to be a Writer! But now you know, says Mr. Pryce, Until he’s had to pine and suffer A Writer lacks in vigor, spice And truth; he’s bound to be a duffer. So here's our hero hard and fast In love, which might not be unpleas- ant, But Cora’s mother has a Past ‘And Cora’s self a threatening Present. Your Tires Look Like New Not only this, it makes them wear longer and adds to the Individuality of the car. French’s London White - “ @ge 9 Whitire (Trade Mark) Used extensively abroad. Quickly and easily applied. Trial” will Convince. Gt! 25¢ pound $], an Samuel H. French & Co. 9 Callowsiil Su, Pidedetpnta, Pa, ING CO., 43 Pembroke Place, Liverpool, Eng. ables, “Travel Lives I") or vey Bureau, 88° Huth ee.) New York City UNDERGROUND GARBAGE RECEIVER juaranteed. Cireular free. rar Street, Lynn, Mass, Tires hold the . world’s record for durability and % speed. IRESTONE’S WAY of getting extra mileage out of a tire is to build extra mileage into it. That is why “Firestone” Tires cost considerably more to build than others—stouter construction, more durable rubber, more rigid inspection — and why they have never had an off-year. The small price difference commanded by “Fire- stone” Tires over tires made the ordinary way is paid back, many times over, in extra miles of service. —the Most Miles per Dollar of cost:*? THE FIRESTONE TIRE & RUBBER CO. “America’s Largest Exclusive Tire and Rim Makers" AKRON, OHIO, AND ALL PRINCIPAL CITIES Yet Cora, frank and kindly, too, Reveals her inborn faults and failings; No, no, it really wouldn't do; And thus they part. With sad bewail- ings. Our hero gricves awhile, and then Perceives that Sorrow’s keen incision . Has somehow freed and winged his pen, Has given him the Deeper Vision. He finds he has a tale to tell, That glowing fancies upward lead him. And if he phrases half as well As Richard Pryce, I'll gladly read him, Now, Gentle Reader, can't you guess What bitter, voiceless passions flow through The lines we pen—what sharp distress Us Writers always has to go through? Arthur Guiterman. comicbooks.com