Life, 1912-06-27 · page 38 of 45
Life — June 27, 1912 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and filler content**, typical of early 1900s magazines. The main editorial content is a brief, cynical piece titled "An Editor with a Conscience"—a reprint from an old file where an unnamed editor announces his retirement from journalism, claiming he's been pressured to lie about everything and has lost all moral conviction. The satire targets editorial compromise and the corruption of honest journalism by commercial pressure. The rest of the page contains advertisements (whiskey, soap, books on travel and marriage) and a humorous piece arguing for short honeymoons, citing a bishop's opinion that brief togetherness teaches couples about each other without the exhaustion of prolonged intimacy. There are **no political cartoons** on this page. The satirical edge is mild and domestic rather than political.
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“LIFE: The Bell Tower. Carmel Mission California Unchanged From A Century Ago “California for the Tourist” A most interesting book, beautifully illustrated. You will enjoy reading it “Wayside Notes” A kaleidoscopic story of that picturesque This pathetic leave-taking, by an cd tor, is taken from an old file. It carr a modern application : “The undersigned retires from editorial chair with complete convictiv that all is vanity, From the hour i started his paper to the present t has been solicited to lie upon every subject, and can't remember ever having told a wholesome truth without dimin ishing his subscription list or making an enemy. Under these circumstances of trial, and having a thorough contempt for himsclf, he retires in order to recruit and wonderful country traversed by the SOUTHERN PACIFIC SUNSET ROUTE NEW ORLEANS TO SAN FRANCISCO Superior Service all the way Special Round Trip Rates In Effect all Summer These books are yours for the asking L. H. NUTTING, G.E.P.A., 366 Broadway, New York not so soon to be so unpleasantly tested i Happy Harsinge by the inevitable petulances of a seeret ues edge of the his moral constitution. From England: The enormous number of animals used in a single research in some American laboratories proves the prodigal disre- gard of animal suffering where the vivi- sectors are unrestrained by law. —The Zoophilist, London. MMMM MN Z Write for a Sample Cakd \ whole truth ennui, Six days by all means, and then, For 2c, we'll send you a sample o BAS, cbout self and sex and their coh! happy friends, go straight home. cledge does not Whenever you come back, six em Codie, weeks hence or one, you will have just as overy-day 8 sources. , much to stand the fire of a little hard staring, which won't hurt you, and of Lright happiness, which need not vex SEXOLOGY you; and the sooner you are at home (Mustrated) by William H. Walling, A.M, M.D., imparts in a clear, the sooner you will find out what mar- tied happiness means."—From “ He wholesoine way In one voli 7 to Be Happy Though Marricd,” by E. J. Hardy. Reprinted by permission of the publishers, Messrs. Charles Scribner's Enough fora week. In this cry clear soap we have caught ¢ real fragrance of fresh violets. Write today for your sample. Address | THE ANDREW JERGENS CO) Sons. “4 Dept. X Spring Grove Ave., Claciseatl, 0 A Plea for Short Honeymoons In the “Memoirs of Danicl Mac- millan” his opinion is thus stated: out for the honeymoon is a most wise and useful invention; it en- ables you to be so constantly together, and to obtain a deeper knowledge of each other; and it also helps one to s and feel the preciousness of such i macy as nothing clse could. Intercourse in the presence of others never leads THE RAREST OLD WHISKEY MONEY CAN BUY HE Gibson distillation of 1900 is now being marketed in one-gallon demijohns, and be boxed and sent direct from our warehouse on order of your Soleo to your personal address, prepaid—at Ti lars a gallon, purity and quality guaranteed. Made by the most approved methods, Frog ripe, carefully selected rye and Lelow the surface, and it is in the very the sparkling Spring wa of the Monongahela valley, depths of our being that truc calm, deep Drawn from: oping! bare alae, to 41888, numbered and true peace and love lie. Nothing so f g Goveffment, whose books well prepares us for the serious duties i vane ‘ax paid Dec. 15, 1908. of “after-life. . Arsisach. vs As to long honeymoons,” says the Bishop of Rochester, “most sensible people have come utterly to disbelieve in them. They are a forced homage to utterly false ideas; they are a waste of moncy at a moment when every shilling is wanted for much more pressing ob- jects ; they are a loss of time, which soon comes to be dreary and weary. Most of all, they are a risk for love, which ought comicbooks.com