Life, 1912-11-28 · page 5 of 44
Life — November 28, 1912 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and light satirical content**, not political commentary. The left column features a "Rhymed Review" poem about a marriage by H.G. Wells, satirizing a young professor (Trafford) who abandons scientific ambition after marrying Marjorie. The joke targets how domestic life and household expenses force idealistic men into practical compromises—a common early-20th-century social observation about marriage's constraining effects on male ambition. Below is a Mallard Breakfast Cocoa advertisement. The right side shows a **Theodore B. Starr silverware advertisement** featuring decorative objects (urns, vases, clock). This is pure commercial content promoting Sterling Silver goods at a Fifth Avenue New York location. The bottom contains continuation of the Wells poem with pastoral imagery of the couple finding contentment in Labrador.
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; Rhymed Review Marriage (By HG. Wells. Duffield & Co.) The monoplane on which he rode Came smashing down with all it car- ried In front of Marjorie’s abode— And that’s why Ie and She were married. This “ He,” perhaps I should have told, Was brilliant young Professor Traf- ford, Who toiled for Science, not for Gold, Despising those that bought and chaffered. But Marjorie, whose cager mind Knew naught of cooking, washing, mending, Appeared deplorably inclined To fits of injudicious spending; And Trafford soon was forced to learn— (From scientific dreams awaking), That Fathers often have to turn From Higher Things to Money- making. If Fortune deems him worth a smile A husband can’t afford to snub her; So Trafford went and made his pile By turning out “ Synthetic Rubber.” And thus his spirit drooped its wings; He slaved among the money spinners While Marjorie kept buying things And paying calls and giving dinners. The futile stuff that modern life Compels us all to waste our time with 2 Ss = = = = = oe rT THEODORE B. STARR. INC. Estatlished 1862 Silverware that is Distinctive O one silversmith, no one coun- try’s silversmiths are responsi- ble for the unexampled collection of interesting objects in our Depart- ment of Sterling Silver. This collection comprises the best that the silversmiths of the United States, England and France have produced. Every demand for Christmas gifts of Sterling Silver has been anticipated. The majority of the objects shown can be obtained nowhere else in this country, and embrace all the adapta- tions, useful and decorative, to which Sterling Silver can be put. Thus the extensive variety, the exclusiveness of pattern and the elas- tic range of price, will make selection a matter both of ease and pleasure. Our prices are invariably as low as prevail elsewhere for equal quality. 5TH AVENUE AND 47TH STREET NEW YORK A morning beverage that makes one feel optimistically inclined and bene- fited to a degree that is most re- freshing in these days of harassing social and business requirements. Through one wild winter’s bitter weather. She saved his life superbly when A savage lynx had nearly killed him, How social frills had served to And when they sailed for home again smother New hopes, new aspirations filled Her husband's hopes, and saw, aghast, him. That though they loved they’d lost Most novels end with wedding-bells each other. And “after that they lived in And so they fled to Labrador; clover”; They built a hut; alone together But—take a tip from Mr. Wells; They talked and worked, true mates He says a lot worth thinking over. once more, Arthur Guiterman, Enchained this loving man and wife, Though both had brains and means to climb with; Till Marjorie perceived, at last, At Leading Grocers Fifth Avenue at 35th Street New York CHOCOLATES, BONBONS, FRENCH BONBONNIERES Afternoon tea served im the Luncheon Restaurant, threeto six comicbooks.com