Life — March 13, 1913 — page 35: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page combines advertising with a satirical cartoon. The top section is a **stationery advertisement** for Hampshire Paper Co., showing elegant letterhead and envelopes—marketed as "The Stationery of a Gentleman." The lower cartoon, titled "INSPIRATION," depicts a **street artist or caricaturist** sketching passersby. A group of well-dressed men in suits and hats (appearing to represent typical gentlemen or businessmen) watch as the artist frantically draws at an easel. The satire seems to mock the contrast between the refined "gentleman's stationery" advertised above and the lower-class street artists who operate publicly. The cartoon likely critiques either artistic pretension, social climbing, or the commercialization of culture—suggesting that even street sketchers aspire to genteel status.