Life, 1912-11-28 · page 35 of 44
Life — November 28, 1912 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **two unrelated items**: poetry and advertising, typical of Life's mixed-content format. **Left side:** A philosophical poem titled "All is Each, and Each is All" explores pantheistic themes—the idea that all creation (mountains, bees, humans, flowers, stars) share divine unity and origin. It's reflective rather than satirical. **Right side:** A full-page advertisement for Pennsylvania Vacuum Cup Tires. The ad addresses a practical consumer concern: "oil disease"—oil soaking into tires from roads and garage floors, causing deterioration. The company claims their tires resist this problem better than competitors. This is straightforward product marketing, not satire. The page juxtaposes spiritual philosophy with commercial materialism—a characteristic Life editorial approach. No political cartoon or satire is present; this is primarily a poetry-and-advertising page from an early 20th-century magazine.
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Allis Each, and Each is All The sullen mountain, and the bee that hums, A flying joy, about its flowery base, Each from the same immediate fountain comes, And both compose one evanescent race. Proud man, exulting in his strength and thought, The torpid clod he treads beneath his way, One parent Artist's skill alike hath wrought, And they are brothers in their fate to- day. There is no difference in the texture fine That’s woven through organic rock and grass, And that which thrills man’s heast in every line, As o'er its web God's weaving fingers pass. ‘The timid flower that decks the fragrant field, The daring star that tints the solemn dome, From one propulsive force to being reeled 5 Both keep one law and have a single home. Vhe river and the leaf, the sun and shade, The bird and stone, the shepherds and their flocks, Are all of one primeval substance made— A single key their common secret locks. ‘The aging of a cocktail is as necessary to perfect flavor as the aging of wine or whisky. The delicious flavor and aroma of Club Cocktails is due not alone to the precise blending of the choicest liquors obtainable, but to the fact that they are softened to mellowness by aging before bottling. Manhattan, Martini and other standard blends, bottled, ready to serve through cracked ice. Refuse Substitutes. AT ALL DEALERS. G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props. When you realize what a larg percentage, of your yearly tiréexpense is’ due irectly to “oil disease” you ‘lose. ho tim “1 ccs a set of Not every motoft ali 3 : Q Re effects a roads and pave the pores and percentage of tires are guara erd the tires that p D8 ¢ In addition to Tires are guar! further guarange printed condi popularity clail PENNSYL Reorganized Februy an Each atom holds the boundless God con- crete Besides whose abstract Being nothing is; Each mind, each point of dust, is God complete ; Who knows but this, the magic key is his! The curdling horrors, doubts, of fear and woe Dissolve and flee before his solving gaze; Absorbing light sets death’s abyss aglow, 2303 ANITA TIRES Tites| take up oil from Stor standings and\garage floors. It soaks into Réad friction dped the rest, A very great * which no other ip your car with and | growing Will convince you. Fills evil's night an all-explaining blaze. Between heaven's bright domains and blackest hell's The separating limits swiftly fall; A dazzling flood of glory streams, and swells, And interfuses absolutely all. —From “ Poetry of the Orient,” by W’. R. Alger. Copyright by Messrs. Rob- erts Brothers, Boston, Mass., through whose courtesy we reprint the above. comicbooks.com