Life, 1913-02-27 · page 33 of 40
Life — February 27, 1913 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page primarily advertises art prints and house plans rather than featuring political cartoons. The "Popular Pictures" section offers two framed prints for home decoration: Walter Tittle's "Are You a Good Boy?" (a humorous domestic scene) and Walt Kuhn's "Ooh!" (from his "Funny birds" series), both priced at 50 cents. The "News Values" section contains satire about John D. Rockefeller. A young schoolteacher questions why Rockefeller owns vast estates while teachers live in cramped quarters. He responds with the platitude that he built his fortune by "saving his own pennies"—a self-serving myth that obscures his actual monopolistic business practices. The Chicago Public source questions whether this anecdote has genuine news value or merely reinforces Rockefeller's preferred narrative. The lower section advertises Craftsman house plans, typical of the magazine's commercial content.
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Cope. Lite Pub. Co Popular Pictures Here are two LIFE PRINTS with a wide, popular appeal. Are You a Good Boy? is reproduced from an original by _ Walter Tittle and is attractively mounted on white cover stock with a red border around the print. There is many a good laugh in this clever drawing for you and your friends. Hang it on the wall where they can see it. You «4 Goop nor? le in color. Price 50 cents Mounted 12 © 16 inches Cone. Lite Pub, Co. “Ooh!” One of the funniest of Walt Kuhn's “Funny birds.” DISSOLVING A CORPORATION News Values a lesson in news values. The Can be nicely framed at small (0 Tribune of December 27 prints cost and in this form will prove an in the first column of the first page this ssuable additi lie faraist highly important telegraphic dispateh : enjoyable addition to the furnish- Tarrytows, N. Y., Dec. 26.— ings of your den. {Special.]—John D. Rockefeller gave some good advice to a young woman -" school teacher to-day as he was giv Printed on heavy plate stock ing a party of teachers a sleigh ride 3 Psse: over his estate at Pocantico Hills. on hand presses. During the ride the young woman said: “Is it not strange and won- - derful, Mr. Rockefeller, that you “ooul” should have all this big estate and three houses to live in, while we teachers live in a little six by ten By Walt Kuhn foot ina wile e flat?” Mr. Rocke eller turned to the young’ womai . . and said: Save your SG ennic Sent prepaid to any address upon receipt of your remittance The young woman had nothing fur- ther to say. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 31st Street, The news value of that dispatch is at Photogravure, 13!4 x 16 in., 50 cents the end of it—Mr. Rockefeller’s intir tion that he made his fortune by saving his own pennies. Or has it, per- adventure, a humorous value rather than 1 news value?—Chicago Public. “Tuex I'm to tell the firm,” the bill collector said, making a memofandum in his note-book, “that you'll probably s ‘ tle this account next week?” cs eterna Well, I'd hardly put it that way,” beautiful and convenfent. with no useless partitions, no waste space, no over: | hesitating! mi the other, #*Prol homes of thie character for CRAFTSMAN subscribers, Write for booklet, ““Crafteman | hesitatingly answered the other. “* Prob- ‘You will be surprised at the extent of our service. We ald in buying the lot, financing. ably’ is a pretty strong word, Better home planning, land: e proble ry Stand,” Write for beokled tome nn 88d 19 CVEEY Oona OMAN: Rooms X57, tl Weat Sith erect, Nes Yerk City | ake it ‘possibly.’ "—Tit-Bits, comicbooks.com