Life, 1913-08-14 · page 36 of 40
Life — August 14, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with a short fiction piece ("The Crush") as filler content. **Main advertisements:** - **White Rose Glycerine Soap**: Targets women seeking clear complexions; offers free sample for 2¢ stamp - **Harper's Magazine**: Appeals to middle/upper-class parents selecting preparatory schools, emphasizing that HARPER'S readers represent a desirable social class - **Heublein cocktails**: Promotes pre-mixed "dry varieties" (Martini, Manhattan, etc.) to consumers - **Kelly-Springfield Automobile Tires**: Standard product advertisement **"The Crush" fiction snippet**: A humorous romantic vignette about a narrator at a "Bohemian highbrow aggregation" party spotting an attractive woman across the room. The brief excerpt emphasizes immediate attraction and shared worldly cynicism between strangers. **Historical context for modern readers**: These ads reflect 1920s consumer culture targeting affluent audiences—personal grooming, education status-signaling, cocktail consumption (likely post-Prohibition), and automobiles. The content assumes readers' purchasing power and social aspirations.
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LIFE A Sample Cake for a 2c. Stamp Thousands of refined women the land over have already taken advantage of this offer. Why not you? If you value a clear, fresh complexion it will then pay you to make the acquaintance of ATID Ghycerins Soap Pure, transparent, with an easy lather and a persistent, yet delicate frgrances No. 4711 White Rose, because of the generous quantities it contains of that ideal skin ood, glycerine, ithe most widely used soap in the wed Yon lcppradae why cceyea pre ke bal Wer wile drggits everywhere can wpply you with this exquisite tet soap —or if you'll sen Ze wamp today. weil gledly tal You a tral cake post |. Just address Mulhens & Kropff, Dept. L, 298 Broadway, New York Another of the No. 4711 Toilet Preverstions that will delight i he fa a8 . 4711 Eau de Cologne, made in the ancient city of Cologne since TOT Seid everywhere ia ¢ os. bottles at SSe Ferd. Mathens, No, 4711 Glockengasse, Cologne o/R Germany U. S. Branch, Malhens & Kropf, New York With the Movies A soldier of the legion lay pierced by foemen’s steel. As things befell, The lad got well. It made a lovely reel. ud Muller in the meadow lot was busy raking hay. Young people go To such a show. « Such nearly always pay. The boy stood on the burning deck; de- fied a hostile realm, He knew his trade And really made A most exciting film. The village blacksmith plied his sledge; a scene of peaceful bliss. And now and then The worst of men Like pictures such as this. The Crush PUSHED my way laboriously through the overheated and strug- gling mass of men and women in the other room. There was a kind of singing going on, which, however, did not seem to disturb the hubbub that was taking place around me. The worst of it was that I didn’t know where I was going, until suddenly I caught a vision of a remarkably beauti- ful face away off on the other side of the room, and started on a desperate struggle to get near it. One of the beauties about a Bohe- mian highbrow aggregation like that is that you can speak to anybody. I came up to the face at last, and found that it was more beautiful than I had realized. Such a demure face; and when I looked into those eyes I knew’ that I had at last met in all that vast crowd one person with whom it would be a pleasure to hold sympa- thetic converse. Strange how one can feel all that in an instant's look. F your son or your daughter is ready for school this Autumn it would hardly seem fair to select a school without first consulting Harper's Maga- zine for August. ec hundred and twenty preparatory schools and colleges are told of in the advertising pages— schools to suit all purses and all types. This is a larger number of such schools than has ever been advertised in any one magazine. Why? Because most HARPER’S MAGAZINE readers would like to have their own children associate with the children of parents who regularly read HARPER'S. It stands for those qualities which many of us would lke our children to have. Try One of Our Dry Varieties Martini: Regular Manic Bree (meen) it Manhattan—Regu gular Mashaten—Dor At all dealers G.F.Heublein & Bro, “You are a stranger here?” she said, looking up at me inquiringly. “Yes,” I replied. “Billy Stacker wanted me to come; but between you and me——” I lowered my voice and looked around fearfully, about to say some- thing more, when she held up her hand. “Don't,” she whispered pleadingly. “TI know just what you mean and I agree with you. It’s awful, isn’t it?” There was a gap, and I led her through it up into a little alcove just off the hall, where there happened to ‘be a couple of chairs and we could look in at the struggle. “The moment I looked at you,” I said, “I knew that you were different from this crowd. What's the matter with people anyway? Why do they want to get together at a horrible thing like this?” “I know it,” she murmured. “I Kelly- Springfield Automobile Tires 2srieri= mileage into a tire. One is a pet fect rubber composition. The other is painstaking hand workmanship. A number of well-knowo tires, we believe, are made of long-wearing rubber composition. But no well-known tire except the Kelly-Springfield 1s made by hand. —Louisville Courier-Journal. Love Conquers Before a circle let appear Twice twenty-five and five in rear; One-fifth of eight subjoining them KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE COMPANY, Cor. Bway. and 57th St., N.Y. Will quickly show what conquers men 4 acon recat s : § Braoch offces ia New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, San Fi What is it? : Las"Angelea, Cleveland, Bakimore, Seattle, Adlanta, Akroa, O., Bafalo. Latwice twenty-five (50); Oxcirele: hs Hea Tie & Rubber Co. Columban, Ohio. Bering Tirbe and Rubber Co., Houston, Tex five; Exone-fifth of e-i-g-h-t, and é rn Hldwe & Weedsocl Co, Lid, New Qreans, La. Aiken Tae Sul, Ca fcr Fl LOVE conquers. —New York World. y Reber & Sere by ED Fenske & Ce Heston, S. C. comicbooks.com