Life, 1912-10-03 · page 45 of 56
Life — October 3, 1912 — page 45: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political commentary. The dominant content is a full-page advertisement for the Angelus Grand Player-Piano by Wilcox & White Company, showcasing piano models from 1896 and 1912. The small political cartoon in the upper left, titled "Le 'Bouton' Electoral Aux États-Unis" (The Electoral Button in the United States), appears to reference **U.S. presidential campaign buttons** from what seems to be the 1912 election. The French source critiques how different candidates' supporters wore buttons with different slogans—Roosevelt/Taft supporters wore buttons saying "Hallo Bill," while Wilson and Clark supporters had different inscriptions. The joke likely concerns how American political campaigns used such buttons to signal allegiance, a practice seemingly noteworthy or amusing to French observers. The remaining articles ("Cheating Conscience," "Exaggeration of Science," "Faith," "Steady Habits") are brief anecdotes unrelated to the political cartoon. "Hats with a Noble Lineage" advertises Knox Hats.
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Le “Bouton” Electoral Aux Etats-Unis (From a French Newspaper) Liembléme des partisans de Taft porte, en au-dessous de Vimage souriante du prési- ende: “Hallo Bill.” 18 Roosevelt on peut lire The Angelus Grand Player-Pieno of 1896 dent, cette | Sur les bout cette devise Varéne. Tout homme de I “ Ouest * en comprend le sens. Car, suivant un vieil usage du pays des cow Mon chapeau est dans The Angelus Grand layer-Piano f 1912 boys, on jette, en signe de déh, son j chape quelqu’en, veut provequer Les boutons du progressiste Wilson nvont pas de devise mais portent sim- plement cette inscription: “For presi- dent, + Ceux de Clark ont pour f légende le commencement d'un refrain yn aire qu'on peut traduire ainsi le leur a bien rendu—puisqwils ont frappé mon chien.”—I/ndependent Cheating Conscience When Lully, the celebrated composer, was once dangerously ill, his friends sent for a confessor, who, finding his ituation critical and his mind much ated and alarmed, told him there was only one way by which he could obtain absolution, and that was by burning all that he had composed of an unpublished | N 1896 we brought out our first GRAND player-piano in a form at that time welcomed by the-public. We now incor- porate the ANGELUS entirely within the GRAND piano without appreciably enlarging the case or breaking its graceful lines. It is the harmonious union of the highest type of piano j was informed of the sacri with the ANGELUS, conceded to be the best means for I had made, “And so,” said he, “you playing the piano, with the possible exception of the human fingers. 3 have’ burnt yote ‘opera; rand’ you are This magnificent instrument satisfies both the trained musician and the untrained music lover, for it is always ready to be played either id, dope” GAN? Ly, from the keyboard or by means of the perforated music rolls. rT knew very well THE KNABE-ANGELUS GRAND is the union of the Angelus with the Knabe. It 5 has the celebrated tone and touch which have earned for the Knabe the proud title of "the world’s best piano." Only ANGELUS instruments have the following devices and ai to produce musical effects equaling those of the most accomplished pia: pera. Remonstrance was) in vain. burnt his music and confessor withdrew. On his recovery, a nobleman who was his patron, calling to sce him, © which he really stich a blockhead as to believe in the absurdities of a monk 1 “Stop, my Eric whispering in his ¢ what | was about—/ hh another copy.” “1 postr know what to do with my son, He's so irresponsible. ct him on the Weather Bureau.” THE PHRASING LEVER, giving absolute diminish the accompaniment note: —Washington Herald. control of tempo, enables you to instill into pleasure. the music your own individuality. THE ARTISTYLE MUSIC ROLL. containing ua ich brings out the only a single expression line, giving yor jon, note for note, _ thorative interpretation of the composition. against a subordinated accompaniment. THE VOLTEM RECORD ROLL, which en- HATS WITH A THE GRADUATING ACCOMPANIMENT, ables you to give an exact repetition of any which enables you to swell or particular virtuoso’s rendition. NOBLE LINEAGE THE WILCOX & WHITE COMPANY Basiness Esteblished 1877 — Pioneers in the Player-Piano Industry 233 Regent St., London s Agencies All Over the World Meriden, Conn. Exaggeration of Science Faith The sanitary scientist. was gathering Porson said that Pitt carefully Mic y said to him, “lest con- wild Nowers in mi . ful,” th you meet a lion.” meet osquit Just a little FALL SHAPES They cl: beast and then ran a full sized Marathon said one New Yorker to another. “ Did 7 and fell over a cliff ‘a mile h ° Now Ready Query: What does he do when he Sunrise meets a mosquito? “Why, 1 Jand Plain Dealer. sidered his sentences before he uttered mself imc jod Ale that Fox threw hb middle of nd eft it y to get hit ain ther pm any day than a Steady Habits at the “We had a fine sunrise this morning, ter he met a lion, he looked once ou see it? said the second always in bed before York L rise." —. 1925, comicbooks.com