Life — June 6, 1912 — page 52: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

“LIFE: Complete Visible Writing This is the great distinctive feature of the Complete Visible Writing means not only that the writing itself is visible, but that the operating machinery which produces the writing is also visible. Above all, it means that the keyboard is completely visible. Why? Because it is the only typewriter having a key for every character—hence the character printed by each key is always the same. This distinctive feature has won for the Smith Premier Typewriter an immense army of loyal users. nu Smith Premier Department Remington Typewriter Company Uncorporated) New York and Everywhere ROUGHING IT Politics and the Aldrich Bill ple want most to know about the Aldrich, Dill is its “ chicken-coop” features, [tg omission of “ politics” won't excuse the * poultry" opportunities it seems to ofer to the privilege-hunting barker crowd —Chicogo Public. In commending the Aldrich currency Lill, President Taft says he has no fear that anybody can play “politics” with it, Whenever it is proposed to keep politics out of public measures, we are reminded of the white man’s story about the trustee of a colored church in “the poultry belt,” who hinted to the minister that he had better preach “ religion pure and undefiled ” and “let this ’ere chick- en-coop business alone.” What the pco- Aw old French nobleman told a lady that formerly his polite atten taken for declarations of 1 now his declarations of love for polite attentions. A Son aint Wordless Wooing was theirs, different from yours, but almost as interesting. It is a Sum- mer Novelette, called “The Pictures of Polly.”” Maybe you can guess if it was wireless or letterless and gift- less also. Anyhow, it was not girl- less, for Polly is the heroine of an absolutely new kind of love story. “Harper's Young People” The Bazar’s pages for younger readers—full of keen interest and entertainment—now fly the old flag— * Your father read Harper's Young People when he was a little boy. Your mother read it, I feel sure, when she wasa little girl. aly right, there- fore, and beautiful, too. I think, that all the Bazar's Happyland boys and girls and all the readers of these pages should be Harper's Young People, too.” Fashions A-Plenty in Harper’s Srom the double-page picture “The Joyful Occasion” Kissing the Chains Which Bind A June article for brides—and for every woman. “I picture her as a slim, meek, pale, bowed, weary figure—standing timidly on the threshold of life, peering through the open door but not daring to enter’—and to her there are strong and helpful words in Inez Haynes Gillmore’s article, “The Average Woman” The Call of the Cradle ‘The Cradle of Tears in New York is really the birthplace of sunshine and joy. One big-hearted woman has adopted riine of these “Bargains in Babies” and a rich bachelor is educating twenty-t¥0 How Love Passed Me By They tell me I am a success!” is the cry in “Confessions of a Business Woman” who points t@ what is really her failure in life—warning others of the heart-emptiness she found at the p>! ALL NEWS-STANDs, 15 CENTS A COPY, SUBSCRIPTION, $1.25 A YEAR HARPER & BROTHERS, Franklin Square, New York 4192 comicbooks.com