Life, 1912-04-04 · page 8 of 80
Life — April 4, 1912 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is a title page and editorial announcement for a special issue of Life magazine focused on bachelors. The central illustration shows a group of children of various ages arranged together, captioned "Be Warned In Time." The editorial text humorously announces that Life is retiring its long-running bachelor advertisements, claiming the magazine will no longer feature "the reprehensible and irresponsible bachelor in his true light." The editors express relief at ending this content, stating they're giving up writing such advertisements because "there will be no more experience in the English language which have not been worried to death." The satire suggests bachelors have been a recurring satirical subject in Life's pages, and this "final" bachelor issue marks the end of that running gag or commentary on unmarried men.
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ERE? ia eS LE & aS RSS BO Ly 75 a3 = sy be is 3 bp i] ¢ Be Warned In Time The Bachelor’s Number of if TRUL Strange as it may seem, people are getting married now who never were married before. Whether OFFER this coming number of LiFE will be the means of saving any hitherto respectable young man ated from doing his duty by his country, we cannot now say. Let us hope for the best. find One Doliay In the meantime, we call attention to the fact that this number, while it undoubtedly $1.13, Foreign exhibits the reprehens and irresponsible bachelor in his true light, is neither dedi- -, Send cated or devoted to a . The words dedicated and devoted, after a long and honorable career in these columns are hereby relegated to a comfortable oblivion. We shall never use them again. Also, we are not going to call attention to anything any more. There are some things that even the American people cannot stand. In the course of time we shall have to give up writing these advertise- ments because there will be no more expressions in the English language = = which have not been worried to death; we shall then take to book reviewing. In the meantime, if you must read L1FE—and espe- ‘Open only aw sabeTeay ao wubesios cially the next number—don't do it on our account. We read tion renewed at this rate. Trial subscriptions the paper ourselves—but then we have to. should be sent to us direct; not through an agent or dealer, In spite of which we are almost invariably cheerful. LIFE, 17 West 31, New York. ONE YEAR $5.00. (CANADIAN $5.52, FOREIGN $6.04.) Please register letters containing currency.