Life, 1913-06-26 · page 30 of 45
Life — June 26, 1913 — page 30: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three brief humorous anecdotes and a poem satirizing "ragtime" culture, plus period advertisements. **The humor pieces** mock common social situations: a young couple's romantic misunderstanding, a student's dubious academic achievement, and male behavior in professional settings. These are lighthearted domestic comedy typical of the era's magazines. **The "Ragtime" poem** is the page's main cultural commentary. It critiques the ragtime music craze (early 1900s) as corrupting proper society—making "sedate and proper tunes seem tame" and spreading "insidious persistence" into thinking, speech, and even politics. The poem expresses anxiety that this energetic, syncopated music threatens established propriety and decorum. This reflects genuine generational conflict of the period, where ragtime was viewed by conservatives as dangerous cultural corruption. **The advertisements** (Maillard's chocolate, Fisk tires) are standard period marketing using illustrated figures and product benefits—unrelated to the editorial content.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
She Caught oes The young girl confronted him with flashing eyes. “What did you mea “by kissing me as I lay hammock this morning?” “ But,” protested the youth, “I only took one.” “You did not seven before I awoke.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. she demanded, asleep in the T counted at least Ragtime Oh, the ragtime of the present Is in many ways unpleasant, For it makes sedate and proper tunes seem tame. We stoutly disapprove it And we threaten to remove it, same. It is not in music solely That its influence unholy Is exerted the propricties to balk, But it permeates existence With insidious persistence, But it gets us all a-dancing just the And it gets into our thinking and our talk, An Optomist Sammy was not prone to over-exer- tion in the class-room; therefore his mother was both surprised and delighted when he came home one noon with I got one hundred Everybody now is secking In his writing or his speaking To present the public with a novel shock. There is nothing very clever In serene and kind endeavor, So we all get hammers and begin to knock. Even where the statesmen gather, Language grows audacious, rather ; It occasionally makes us hold our breath. Will this craze for syncopation Give us ragtime legislation As it sets a pace that scares us half to Covet JUDGE GIT'S MoRE'N 1 bo Now.” death? the announceme Sammy! exclaimed his proud mothe “What was it in?” fty in reading and fifty in ‘rith as Sammy’s reply. —Lippincott’s “THERE AIN'T NOTHIN’ IN THIS BUSI- NO MORE. AN ORDINARY SUPREME Wives of great men remind us of it pretty. often. —Woman's Home Companion. —Washington Star. Is ant British : Jn Great tain ae may te olan tram touseier i all the pincaa! a year: ! "rhe foreign trade supplied from LIPK'S Loodoa Usice, Canaun House, Breanss Buildings. od. For Reprint Kights 64 Great Britain apply to Lire, sod ewvelope, APE does Just One Cupful— and you will always drink Maillard’s. It is delicious —and so good and wholesome for you because the unique processes of manufacture ensure every ounce of the goodness of the cocoa bean being retained, Maillard’s is the standard of quality in Chocolate essences. Made in a inute, | Largest Exclusively Pneumatic Tire Builders in the World The Fisk Rubber Company, since its start fourteen years ago, has concentrated its efforts solely on building Pneumatic Tires with no side lines to divert attention from the one object- ive point—that of producing Greatest Service. This concentrated effort has resulted in the For Breakfast, Lunch or Z present perfection of Heavy Car Type Fisk Supper, Maillard’s 5 ae Tires. Ground Chocolate is ” always acceptable. Ground Chocolate Write Dept. S for Latest Fisk Booklet The Fisk Rubber Company Factory and Home Office Chicopee Falls, Mass. DISTRIBUTORS THE FISK RUBBER COMPANY OF N. Y. BRANCHES IN 41 CITIES Maillard’s Vanilla Cake Chocolate—the tooth- some sweetmeat. All. Leading crermeene ee em canerrne ween raza ore at snes roman sree Grocers db ESET ran css wives ase ememes sarod ~ ———— a a | tea Wedod Secs aoe comicbooks.com