Life, 1912-09-12 · page 43 of 52
Life — September 12, 1912 — page 43: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily contains **advertisements and reprinted fiction**, not political cartoons. The main content is a George Ade fable titled "What He Would Be," which satirizes class pretension. An orator confronts a farmer who keeps interrupting a Republican campaign speech, asking why the farmer supports Democrats. The farmer replies his father was a Democrat, as was his grandfather. The orator responds with sarcastic logic: if your ancestors were fools, what does that make you?—**a joke mocking both the orator's insulting rhetoric and the farmer's unthinking party loyalty.** The page also includes **advertisements** for a Simplex automobile (a luxury 7-passenger vehicle marketed for wealthy leisure activities like "Park, Calling and Shopping"), and Vulcan-Set shaving brushes. A brief sidebar titled "Socialism and Sentiment" discusses whether socialism neglects human emotion in favor of materialism, apparently referencing J.P. Morgan as an example of capitalist materialism. The page reflects early-1900s American concerns: class mobility, political partisanship, and luxury consumption.
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mon was superfine and dandy thing that worried the con ion was the fear that if it wished to retain such a whale it might have to boost his salary In the meantime the preacher waited for some one to come and a Polenta, Amebius, Ramtazuk, Quarolius and the great Icelandic poet, Novrojh But no one had the confess his ignorance of these celebrities. The only about ce to step up and The pewholders didn’t even admit among themselves that the preacher had rung in some new ones. They stood pat and merely said it was an clegant sermon. Perceiving that they would stand for anything, the preacher knew what to do after that Moral.—Give the people what they think they want, —From “Fables in Slang.” by George Ade. Copyr 1899, by H. S. Stone & Co.; Duffield & Co., successors, through whose courtesy we are enabled to republish this selection, What He Would Be During a Republican campaign speech an orator became quite exasperated at the remarks of an old farmer, who kept g as he interrupted the speaker at he was a Democrat. sir, are you a Democrat, * thundered the orator, may I ask Meadow Brook Hunt Club Fall Style 7 Passenger Landaulet tis father before My father was a Democrat, as was him,” replied the farmer. “Well, now,” asked the orator, “ sup- pose your father a fool and your grandfather was a fool, what, under your Z “They _ Don’t Shed Bristles } Vulean-Set Shaving Brush f is held firmly in place. Each has all of its original life and elasticity because the bristles in TRADE MARK IN RUBBER SHAVING BRUSHES have not been subjected to heat or acid treatment tending to injure them. Vulean-Set Brushes do wear out, but only after a long period of useful- ness and with all the bristles they originally contained still in them. For Sale in All Civilized Countries , JOHN INWHITING-J.J B FONS Bens makers for over ene headeed years, and the largest ia the world HE Simplex landaulet for the coming season will be equipped with large side windows, thus combining the advantages of the limousine with those of the landaulet. Wide doors, ample body room, modem appointments, and luxuriously comfortable upholstery are among the features that make these new models exceptionally appropriate for Park, Calling and Shopping purposes. Distinctiveness of design is shown in the chassis as well as in the bodies. SIMPLEX AUTOMOBILE COMPANY 240 WEST 59th STREET NEW YORK CITY Socialism and Sentiment the United States. Yes, “ purely 1 Socialism has always been open to the charge of a neglect of human senti ment, of those finer forces of the mind that exercise a greater leverage on human action than anything else. In other words, Socialism is too materialis- tic. It measures human happiness by money terms, and heedless of the fact that the do ce of purely material sc ged every day within rancisco Argonaut. If this be true, then Mr, Morgan is one of the leading exponents of Socialism in 1783 rial fortune is challenged every day,” it always has the password. With both the capitalists and the cialists “ playing up” the material where a poor sentimentalist to hitch his wagon? “Water does your husband find time to do all his reading?” “Usually when I want to tell him something important.” —Detroit Free Press comicbooks.com