Life, 1913-05-22 · page 4 of 48
Life — May 22, 1913 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page announces Life's "Summer Programme" of satirical issues, each targeting different social topics: - **Brides' Number**: Summer wedding season - **Hoodoo Number**: Friday the 13th superstitions - **Suburban Number**: Commuter culture and domestic life - **Base-Ball Number**: Baseball's popularity with political elites - **Pro-Suffrage Number**: Women's voting rights advocacy - **Harmless Number**: Described as "innocuously innocent" satire The illustration shows a figure holding an enormous "LIFE" globe above a crowd, emphasizing the magazine's satirical reach. The page solicits reader submissions for a contest asking "Which is the Worst Summer Resort and why?"—characteristic of Life's humorous, participatory approach to commentary on American society and leisure culture.
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Our Summer Programme Brides’ Number Ushering in the summer festivities. Hoodoo Number Celebrating Friday, the Thirteenth of June. A talisman of luck. Suburban Number An apotheosis of commutation, conviv- iality and cooks. Base-Ball Number Celebrating the classic game, which is at present occupying the attention of the President, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, our principal Mayors, and a few others. Inthis number it will receive its proper pictorial and typographical meed. Pro-Suffrage Number The cause of Woman Suffrage will be honestly defended. / Harmless Number An innocuously innocent and infinitely / Special unsophisticated attempt at inoffensive bral inanity. Enclosed find One Which is the Worst Summer Resort and why? This at ature | question, with an appropriate prize for its answer, will P Foreign $1.26). thi > . Send LIFE for be sprung on the unsuspecting public sometime during ise thonths ts ] = the early summer. mm ins of bre J adr / Open only to new subscriters: no subscription For Chey tesa tuse fo ESR se Those who missed the Awful Number of Life (dated Pa Jew York 9 March 27) can procure copies—ten cents each—by J LIFE, 17 West 31, New Yor' remitting to Life Office. Va One Year $5.00. (Canadian $5.52, Foreign $6.04.) Per comicbooks.com