Life, 1913-02-27 · page 38 of 40
Life — February 27, 1913 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and light satirical verse**, not political cartoons. The main satirical content is "The Study Hour," a poem mocking pedantic education. It depicts a father attempting to help his struggling son with prosody and rhetoric, then bluffing his way through with jargon-filled but meaningless advice about meters, forms, and verse types. The satire targets pretentious academic instruction and parental posturing rather than politics. A secondary piece, "Letter Writing is Not a Lost Art," humorously presents a college freshman's shameless begging letter to his mother—requesting gymnasium suits, ties, gloves, laundry service, and money while complaining she hasn't written him. This satirizes the entitlement and dependency of young students. The remaining content consists of period advertisements for typewriters (Smith Premier), window shades, European motor tours, vacuum cleaners, etiquette guides, and marriage advice books—all typical early 20th-century commercial messaging designed to fill magazine space.
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Complete Visible Writing This is the great distinctive feature of the Model 10 Complete Visible Writing means not only that the writing itself is visible, but that the oper- ating machinery which produces the writing is also visible. Above all, it means that the key- board is completely visible. Why? Because it is the only typewriter having a key for every character —hence the character printed by each key is always the same. This distinctive feature has won for the Smith Premier Typewriter a vast army of loyal users. Smith Premier Department Remington Typewriter Company (Incorporated) New York and Everywhere HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of Stewart Hartshorn on label. Get “Improved,” no tacks requl ‘ed. Wood Rollers Tin Rollers Rake Tour Europe by Motor Car nurlous Motor Care FOR MIRE for any lod tor TOURS ‘anywhere in KO Frciaele Rates x ous Extras Finest Automobile Hi ico In Europe. Experienced, Touring Chaateurs ‘Routes compl tess. Write for tlluatrated = “Moron cat TOURS 14 NEAT DIT, FRASER, McLEAN Auto Tours & Hire Co. Hambarg-Ameriva House. 16, Coc 1, LONDON, &.W., Eng Aeente Kor UR atsoun & Winirous Co The Study Hour As custom grew to habit, Once more the laddie sat Upon the knee paternal— And a kindly knee at that; And now from overstudy The boy was almost sick; It was prosody he struggled with In Whately’s Rhetoric. “Dear father,” said the earnest child, “T try to comprehend, But most of it means nix to me, Your help I pray you lend.” The father knew ‘twas up to him, This knowledge was enough; And so he threw his progeny This pedagogic bluff: cores. Pindarics are quite different from Lim- ericks ; Hexameter has six feet to a verse— Dactylic and spondaic for the most part Are difficult, but sonnets are much worse. fambuses are trochees, hind-side fore- most ; A foot with two short syllables is a pyrrhic; Sestina is a very high-brow verse form, And a poem to be sung is called a lyric. —Saturday Evening Post. Letter Writing is Not a Lost Art This is a copy of a real letter written by a freshman at the University of Kan- sas to the loved ones at home: “Dear Mother: | must have a gym- nasium suit and a pair of tennis shocs; please send them to me. If I get them here I will have to pay for them out of my allowance. Also send along three ties, a pair of gloves, a laundry bag and a lounging jacket—of course I would not think of getting a smoking jacket. I am sending a pattern for a fraternity pillow, which please embroider and re- turn. And, say, mother, kindly slip me a five occasionally, as Dad does not give me a very liberal allowance. Now, you do not deserve this letter, as you have not written this weck, so I am not go- ing to write you another word. Your loving son, —Kansas City Star. “How to Behave At a Banquet” With suggestions for making a hit while dining out—will start your din- ner with a laugh and keep everybody jolly. A dinner favor that entertains, It tells how to gargle your soup when it burns you, how toassure your neigh- bor that you reallv didn't care for the coffee you spilt in his lap, any- way, and not to mind it at all, ete., etc, Sead Xe. (stamps or cola) ine sample. @1.00 a Goren a your eater’ Or direct The A. M. Davis Co, 701 Russia Bldg. Select Re Country Places Reter t» Raymond 1. Thompson ‘Or Cheater Montgomery Tel, 866 Greenwich HE Married ? by Foun es {|)ustrations. this is the most valuable book on the juarriage re relation ever issucd. Circular giving full | information free. 4.8. OGILVIE PUBLISHING CO., 107 Rose St., New York sweep or dust by electricityeat a cost of 2c per hour and with much greater results with @ The HOOVER Electric Suction Sweeper. It automatically rais- 3 the floor covering 14” off the floor, thakes, sweeps and suction cleans, No work—just fun anda clean house. You owe itto yourself to investigate it, Write for booklet. The Hoover Su Everywhere and D SCIENCE OF A NEW LIFE. 1. M.D, 400 pages. 100 THE LONG CONTINUED POPULARITY HUNTER BALTIMORE EXTENDING OVER 50 YEARS, IS OF ITSELF CONVINCING PROOF THAT THE PREFERENCE GIVEN TO IT BY THE PEOPLE IS FOUNDED UPON ITS SUPERIOR QUALITY, ABSOLUTE PURITY, AND UNIFORM EXCELLENCE Sold at all Orst-class cafes and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md NS!) comicbooks.com