Life, 1913-06-19 · page 49 of 52
Life — June 19, 1913 — page 49: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **three separate pieces**: 1. **"Glorious Day" cartoon** (top left): A woman in fashionable dress demands a marriage license, telling the clerk to "get a move on." The satire mocks the casual, transactional attitude toward marriage among the wealthy—treating it as just another quick business deal. 2. **"Is She Going Away?" advertisement** (middle left): Promotes an "Au Revoir Box" gift for women traveling. The satire is subtle but present in the copy's emphasis on impressing girls/wives/sisters with an expensive, permanent keepsake—poking fun at consumerism and gender relations. 3. **Main feature** (right): A New York Central Lines railroad advertisement for Hudson River travel, framed with a scenic landscape photograph. The page's editorial content (bottom text) critiques American capitalists, comparing them to Pharaoh—building infrastructure (railroads) while exploiting workers (miners, seamstresses, stockyard workers, child laborers). The point: industrial progress hasn't genuinely improved workers' lives, only enriched capitalists.
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GLORIOUS DAY “Say, OLD TOP! I WANT A MARRIAGE LICENSE, AN’ GET A MOVE ON!” What is the Answer? In the case of the class of great American capitalists it may be said that the result of their operations has not been essentially different from that of Egypt thirty-eight cent ago. Their class has done great things, it may be admitted, for the development of the Is SHE Going Away? GURPRISE her! Every fellow who cares for his girl—every man who loves his wife— every brother who esteems his sister—is_giv- ing and ought to give this newest prize pack- age—the “AU REVOIR” BOx “Brings welcome memory when memory counts most” ‘What do you think it contains? Write for free booklet [eftins vos late the secret. ‘Something every girl and woman "The girl who gets an “Au revoir” Box as she leaves for Europe or the country cannot forget the one who gave it to her. The gift ‘3 a permanent. one—unlike a box of candy, a basket of fruit or a bouque: of flowers. our store or delivered at steamsh' home or summer residence. In ha box—can be carried as hand-bag if Fits in valise or trunk. for illustrated folder describing many tractive combinations. WILLIAM R. JENKINS COMPANY Publishers, Booksellers and Stationers Sth Avenue and 48th Street New York Three Hours. Along the Hudson River via the LINES Ntraveling between the West and New York City via the New. York Central Lines you ride for three hours—nearly 150 miles—along the Hudson River. This is the great scenic route between the East and West. -Allitickets are good for stop- over at Niagara Falls. country. They have covered it with railroads, as Pharaoh scamed the tian delta with canals, making se ment possible, where it would hardly have been possible without them; and in so doing they scized the opportunity of grasping vast territories of the pco- ple's land. They have started a thou- sand new industries, and by their means have given employment to some millions of workers. But have they added sub- stantially to the well-being of those employed? Should we go for an answer to the mine workers of Pennsylvania, the sewing women and girls of New York, the stockyard hands of Chicago, or the children employed in the cotton mills of the Southern States?—H. H. Lusk, in “ Social Welfare in New land.” Sturgis & Walton Company. “Tue world is a comedy to thos: who thigk, a tragedy to those who feel.” —Horace Walpole, comicbooks.com