Life, 1913-04-17 · page 6 of 52
Life — April 17, 1913 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising for Ainslee's Magazine**, not a political cartoon. The three small comic strips on the left illustrate a domestic scene where a husband appears to be leaving home, with his wife asking "Haven't you forgotten something, dear?" He responds "Why, er—no, I don't think—" and finally says "Oh! Yes." The humor is a genteel marital joke: the wife is reminding her forgetful husband of something (likely a kiss or affectionate goodbye), playing on early 20th-century domestic stereotypes about absent-minded husbands. The main text promotes Bernard Shaw's essay "G.B.S." and other May issue content, noting the essay critiques England—"not apt to meet with approval in England." This is straightforward magazine promotion, not political satire.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
SISRIEF Yes To tne Epitor oF Live: In your issue of February 20, page 387, you have a picture of spanking which is intended to be laughed at. Such pictures are very common in ordi- nary newspapers and are often laughed at, but they are not funny and they do harm. Spanking is always visited upen the small and weak, and under every such picture the word “shame” should be printed. Yours, Auict Park. Pato Ato, Cat, ilin everything he writes, he pays his disrespects to THE MAY AINSLEE’S “As full of spirit as the month of May.” —KING HENRY IV. The current number of Ainslee’s, on sale at the nearest news stand, contains a delightful cure for mental ||dyspepsia compounded by Bernard Shaw ! He has labeled it “Causerie on Handel in England,"| | but as is characteristic of 5 ‘GBS’ | . ra Fs ‘ many things. i For obvious reasons this brilliant little essay is not} | % apt to meet with approval in England. Y The fiction in the May number of “the magazine ‘ ss . t that entertains” includes a novelette by Alma Martin} | i: Estabrook and eleven Ainslee short stories by such} | writers as Herman Whitaker, J. J. Bell (the “Wee Macgreegor” man), Edgar Saltus, Joseph Ernest, Anna Alice Chapin, Andrew Soutar and Mary Heaton Vorse. Fifteen cents on the stands; in your possession it's " MINSLEE’S ie comicbooks.com