Life, 1913-02-13 · page 28 of 44
Life — February 13, 1913 — page 28: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical items typical of early-20th-century Life magazine: **Left column**: A brief joke mocking overeducation without practical employment. A college graduate with top grades in political economy hasn't found work, so his parents enroll him in business school and plan to have the Civic Club run him for Mayor—satirizing how credentials and connections substitute for actual competence. **Center**: A mock hotel guide excerpt ridiculing flowery, pretentious foreign hospitality writing that obscures rather than clarifies information. **Right column**: A "Post-Impressionist Poem" parodying modernist poetry's obscurity and pretension—deliberately nonsensical language ("snaky twilight crawls," "shapeless secret booms") mocking the movement's opacity. **Bottom**: A Remington typewriter advertisement claiming the machine has a "Super-Human Brain" for its adding/subtracting capabilities—hyperbolic advertising language of the era. **Small cartoon**: "How dare you, sir?"—unclear without full context, but appears to depict social scandal or impropriety. The page satirizes education, foreign affectation, modernist art, and advertising excess.
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Training for os “How did your boy, Henry, come out at college?’ ’ “Why, I thought everybody in the vil- lage knew. ‘He was graduated at the head of his political economy class.” “Has he gone to work yet?” “Not yet. I'm making him take a two years’ business course at the com- mercial school here. After he gets through with that the Civic Club is go- ing to run him for Mayor.” —St. Louis Republican. English Spoken Here viewfulst place. on modernst principles. The not being adapted for health of ills, is only preserved for the so- journ of passengers, tourists and sports- men. Reputed excellent cooking. No- ble, real, well lain wines ; different beers. The magnificent outlook is grandious. Daily six trains to all parts of the globe. Free view at the lovely lake.” —From a Foreign Hotel Guide. Baths hotel resort “ Finest and A. SHAVING A Post-Impressionist Poem The snaky twilight crawls and clanks; A scarlet shrick thrusts home The jig-saws snap among the planks, Where, lush and loud, Plump, plastic, proud, The coupons crowd Along the road to Rome. Acrid, essential, winged with cyes, The powdered plummet drops; The beldame’s konnet drawls and dies. And, foul or fair, Calm Neverwhere Inseribes his square Amid the malt and hops. Oh! anguish of the slaughtered shaft That skims the sullen looms! Oh! vaguely vaunted overdraft! Oh! savage spin Of twain and twin, While out and in The shapeless secret booms. —Punch One Virtue Poverty is no disgrace, but that's about all that can be said in its favor. MUG —Detroit Free Press. sion, $1.08 after three mouths trom Issues prior to 1910 oat of pri red and addrased envelope. LaPR dees wat held itself Ne respeniible for the last or won-resurn of wnmilcited contr Lapr: {a for sale by all Newslealers in Great Britain and may be obtained from booksellers in all the priscipal cities of the world, ‘The foreign trade supplied from Lirt’s London (ifce, Cannon House. Breas Buildiegs London, E.C. copsrightods For Reprint Rights in Great Britain areis us Lave, 14 ert ef any chante of adivers. — “Lhear it called — | |The machine with the human-brain; | = IcallitThe machine | with the Super-HumanBrai Thus spoke the Auditor. He was speaking of the Adding and Subtracting | ewriter This machine does something that only the brain, directing the hand, has hitherto been able to do—that is, write and cdd (cr subtract) on the same pag. accura’ely than the human brain has ever perform d similar labor. Thus the machine is human in what it does and super-human in the way it Remington Typewriter Company (ine 325-331 Broadway, New York Remington (Wahl Adding Mechanism) But this is not all. It does such work more eastly, more rapidly, does it. Iliustrated booklet sent on request Branches Everywhere “HOW DARE you, SIR?” comicbooks.com