Life, 1912-07-11 · page 7 of 44
Life — July 11, 1912 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page presents romantic advice framed as fortune-telling. The header features eight tarot or fortune-telling cards above the word "LIFE," with an illustration of a fortune teller below. The article "Your Best Girl" uses fate/destiny language to discuss romantic inevitability. It suggests every man has a predetermined "best girl" waiting somewhere, and that no matter circumstances or choices, they will eventually meet. The text acknowledges complications (she might be plain, or already married) but expresses hope the reader will be spared such complications. The accompanying illustration shows a couple meeting in a tree-lined avenue, likely representing this fated romantic encounter. The satire gently mocks both romantic fatalism and the magazine's own fortune-telling conventions while offering reassurance to readers about their romantic futures.
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Your Best Girl VERY man has a best girl waiting for him somewhere in the world. The moment that he is born, the catalogue clerk in Time's great factory assigns him to a best girl or else puts him on the waiting list. There is no escaping your best girl. No matter where she may be born or how far apart from her you were when you started, the inevitable attraction will work your destiny, and when you meet you will both know it. All that is lacking is the material realization, and inas- much as all ideas eventually find their way to the surface, yours is bound to come. best girl is homely; sometimes her mouth is not a cupid’s bow, and her features are irregular; that makes no difference; he will love her just the same when he meets her. Also, she may be another man’s wife. Such things have been known. Here's hoping that it will not happen to you. Sometimes a m THE GIRL WHO PROMISED TO WAIT FOR HIM comicbooks.com