Life, 1913-10-09 · page 31 of 44
Life — October 9, 1913 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with light editorial content, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. The main editorial piece, "When Critics Disagreed," is a brief anecdote about literary criticism. Professor Lounsbury recounts how three famous poets—Tennyson, Wordsworth, and Sir Henry Taylor—gave completely contradictory assessments of Robert Burns's work on the same day. Tennyson praised his songs but dismissed his serious work; Wordsworth reversed this judgment; Taylor found both tedious. The joke satirizes **critical subjectivity in poetry**—the notion that expert opinion is merely personal preference dressed up as authority. The remaining content consists of product advertisements: Everett Piano, Palmolive soap and beauty products, and Evans' Ale. The Palmolive ad emphasizes "natural beauty" and historical use of palm/olive oils. There's a humorous definition of "Roofs" (likely filler humor), ending with a topical joke about suffragettes "raising the roof"—a contemporary reference to women's rights activism of the era.
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