Life, 1913-10-30 · page 37 of 40
Life — October 30, 1913 — page 37: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and light satirical essays**, not political cartoons in the traditional sense. The main content includes: 1. **"Senses of Shame"** — A philosophical essay questioning what "shame" means: Is it inherited or self-made? Machine-made or authentic? The references to "Shavian or Bokian, Strindbergian or Comstockian" invoke contemporary playwrights and social critics (George Bernard Shaw, August Strindberg, Anthony Comstock). This satirizes modern anxiety about authenticity and social propriety. 2. **"Environment"** — A brief satirical piece mocking determinism, using absurd examples (Mark Twain's story about Scottish Jews; duck eggs under hens) to argue that environment alone doesn't determine character. 3. **Advertisements** dominate: Hopewell Dainties chocolates, Austro-American shipping line, and Cook's champagne—positioned as appeals to sophistication and refined taste. The page reflects early 20th-century *Life* magazine's style: mixing consumer culture advertising with mild social satire targeting educated, middle-class readers anxious about propriety, authenticity, and taste.
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AChocolate Number| of Life qrold contain nothing sweeter nor better than the story of HOPEWELL DAINTIES CHOCOLATES or BON BONS To prove this we'll GIVE you a GET ACQUAINTED BOX ic U. S. only) if you send us your dealer's address ied five cents (mailing and packing cost). |SOPEWELL DAINTIES are the equal of any confection in xl Anerica. They sell regularly for 60 cents, 80 cents jyod $1 the pound. Mailed on receipt of price. | They are made in the country and are typical of the | _ fngract purity of the open fields. HOPEWELL CHOCOLATE CO. HOPEWELL, N. J. Environment Man is man the world over... The French child reared in an Indian wigwam is all Indian, just the same as the negro born in Dub- lin speaks the Irish tongue. —The Independent. ID you ever try to raise a pet lion or hippopotamus among a family of children? Did you ever put a set- ting of duck’s eggs under an old hen, and were you amazed when they didn’t go clucking about, and that they all had webbed feet? Mark Twain once told a pathetic story of the only two Jews in Scotland who couldn't raise enough to get out of the country. Their environment hadn't done them any good. Environ- ment “is much; not all. USTROAMERICAN LINE European Trips for the Rough Season The Quiet Southern Track to Algiers, North Africa and the classic sunny south in the Mediterranean and Adriatic Regular Stops at Algiers (North Africa.) Naples (haly,) Patras (Greece,) Trieste (Austria—near the Trol) Austrian Riviera, Austro-Bohemian Watering Places, and the whole European Continent. Seven to eight days crossing the ocean, and six days Pleasure trip through the Mediterranean. Sight-Seeing trips in every port. Free stopovers. Senses of Shame AVE you a sense of shame? If so, how did you acquire it? inherit it or did you go forth into the world and fashion it for yours Is it a machine-made sense of shame or is it hand-made and therefore inter- woven with someone’s own peculiar personality? Is it an antique sense of shame which has been an heirloom in the family for several generations or is it a bright, new, garish sense of shame still redolent of the factory? Is it a sense of shame that you are proud of, that you delight in exhibiting on all occasions? Or is it a sense of shame that you are a little ashamed of—that you conceal from the world as much as possible? Is it a sense of shame that really hampers you, that keeps you from doing things, that prevents your enjoying yourself, or is it merely one of those ex post facto senses of shame that never gets busy until too late and therefore deals with regrets only? Is it Shavian or Bokian, Strindbergian or Comstockian, Rockefellerian or Carnegiesque? PHELPS BROS. & Co., Gen. Agts., 11 Battery Place,N.Y. Legs Straight ? If not, our new invention will give the trim, straight, finished effect shown here. Impossible to detect. Sent on approval. Write for information—mailed sealed. ALISON CO., (Dept. 0) 1401 Maia St. Baffalo, N. Y. What you want is quality. You don’t care what the price may be— large or small—if only your taste asa connoisseur be pleased. That’s why connoisseurs insist on Pl) SKS E=tra Dry Champagme It has all the qualities that make = Ti for superiority —supreme purity; WY yy ) lasting liveliness; exquisite bou- We WY quet; delightful flavor. It pays =5=— no duty to Uncle Sam—it pays no ocean freight; these items total the difference in price between Cook’s and imported cham- pagnes, Sold Everywhere and Served Everywhere American Wine Co. St. Louis, Mo. comicbooks.com