Life, 1913-08-28 · page 36 of 40
Life — August 28, 1913 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily features **literary advertisements and book reviews** rather than political satire. The main content announces the September issue of *Century* magazine, highlighting serialized fiction by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott ("The White Linen Nurse") and Maria Thompson Daviess ("Love By Lightning"), alongside contributions from prominent authors and artists like Theodore Dreiser and Frances Hodgson Burnett. A sidebar editorial titled "A Perfect Expression" satirizes a Wisconsin high school's choice of the Latin motto "Perturbaremur" ("We Should Worry")—mocking the Springfield Republican's complaint that it shows disrespect. *Life's* counterargument: the slang phrase perfectly encapsulates modern education's actual priorities. Another brief item, "A Doubtful Benefit," humorously questions Missouri Governor Major's "good road days" policy, suggesting that if millionaires actually worked on highways, it might cure their indigestion—a lighthearted jab at wealth and idleness rather than serious political critique. The small cartoon joke at bottom involves a man monopolizing a telephone while speaking to his wife—a domestic humor bit common to the era.
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A Perfect Expression Try One of Our HE Springfield Republican is concerned over the fact that the Racine (Wis.) grad- Dry Varieties T uating high school class has taken for its motto: “ Perturbaremur,” which means “We Should Worry,” on the ground of its untimely levity and lack of reverence for the classics. Martini—Brut (very dry) But, on the other hand, if we assume that the object of language is to convey our Manhattan—Regular meaning correctly, could anything be more peculiarly appropriate than this phrase, applied Manbattan—Dry toa graduating class? Does it not indicate an attitude of proper humility toward what At all dealers is coming? And does not the fact that it is slang in reality typify the kind of an educa- Gir Hesbias tion which one is more than likely to receive in a high school? & ro. Sole Prop's. “The White Linen Nurse” hurries on its iridescent way in the September Century. Eleanor Hallo- well Abbott, author of “Molly Make-Believe,”’ gives us the second sec- tion of this sparkling A Doubtful Benefit Z : ; three-part tale of the Lit- GOVERNOR MAJOR, of Missouri, , - tle Girl, the big Senior recently set apart two days, ‘ ¢ . " known as “good road days,” during i Surgeon and the White which he requested able-bodied citizens be ; Linen Nurse. Yes, in- ‘everywhere, no matter who they were, i : 5 deed, there is a synopsis to work upon the public highways, to improve them. The Governor himself of the first part ! set the example. This is an alluring idea, but in our humble opinion it should be confined to the poorer class of people, or at least to those in moderate circum- e e stances. If our millionaires and multi- millionaires should get into the habit | OV e B y I ightning of working personally on the public highways, think of the result! It on . . . would cure them of indigestion, keep by Maria Thompson Daviess, is a poignant story them ‘from being intermined on the that will add to the already long list of those who business conditions, and lengthen their . , ; lives. Would this be advisable? admire the author of ‘The Melting of Molly.’ And is Governor Major's idea, looked at even in its other aspects, a Te astute Congress cag Theodore Dreiser, Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, roads is stimulated, Congress might have to appropriate some money for Prof. Munsterberg, Oliver Herford, Maurice Maeter- this purpose. How can we afford to . : do this and keep up our pension fist? linck, James L. Ford, John Sargent, Geo. Inness, Jr., also share in making the September Century excep- tional in literature, art, and poetry. After the Automobile Burned Up No Time for Interruptions Jounson: Look here, you've been in there half an hour and never said a Th S = tember Centur Tite Mae 1 THe Teueruoxe Boots e September Iam speaking with my wife, sir. —The Sphere. comicbooks.com