Life, 1913-11-27 · page 33 of 40
Life — November 27, 1913 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertisements with satirical social commentary. The dominant feature is an O. Henry book advertisement featuring a portrait of the famous short-story writer. It emphasizes Henry's humble origins ("poor boy from the country") and celebrates his ability to capture human emotion and social complexity in 274 stories now offered in a twelve-volume set. The "Inconsistency" editorial snippet critiques governmental hypocrisy: authorities ban race-track gambling while tolerating home card games, suppress anarchist free speech violently, and respond to labor strikes with military force—thereby creating the very conditions they claim to prevent. The satirical "Our Ad Column" mocks various institutions through fake job postings: Custom House officers hired for vulgarity; the New York State Legislature sold as used goods; and English lords waiting to marry American heiresses. This reflects Progressive-era skepticism of corruption in government, Wall Street speculation, and wealthy Europeans targeting American fortunes. The page is otherwise filled with commercial advertisements for tires, books on sexuality education, and household products.
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te “LIFE: Kelly-Springfield motorist to come around to buying Kelly-Springfield Tires. That’s because some people have more patience than others. KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE COMPANY —_ Cor. B’way & 57th St., N.Y, Branch offices In New York, Chicago, Philade . Louis, Detroit. Cincinnati, San Francisco, Los Ange Hearn Tice & Rubber Co., Colsimbais, Ohio + De Inconsistency “We pass a law against race-track gambling, and add to the profits from faro, We raid the faro joints, and drive gambling into the home, where poker and bridge whist are taught to children who follow their parents’ example. We de- prive anarchists of free spcech by the heavy hand of -a police magistrate, and furnish them with a practical instead of a theoretical argument against government es Gesuad, : : ‘ Pe : . We answer strikes with bayonets, and make treason one of the rights of man.”"— peek © ss Gort Caries From “A Preface to Politics”, by Walter . Syracuse, Ne re L Mitchell Kennerley, Publisher. Our Ad Column ANTED: Able-bodied ruffians to work as Custom House officers. Must be common, vulgar, and cruel. No one who respects a woman's feel- ings need apply. Remember, you will have Uncle Sam back of you. Apply U. S. Government at any hour of the day or night. For Sale: New York State Legis- lature in fairly good condition. Slightly NIN SAN RRR NEN Sensitive, avoiding the limelight, this is the whimsical answer that ut oS. HENRY America’s greatest short story writer—made when the world tried to lionize him. “Oh, pshaw! Leaveme alone! 1am just a poor boy from the country."" He damaged at corners, but capable of much use. Apply Albany Capitol. Governess: In private family of great wealth. Governess who under- stands the turkey trot, grizzly bear, and bunny hug, and can make up young girls for Sunday School. Wall Street Brokers: To work on railroads. Easy work manipulating; from 10 to 3. Men used to working in gangs preferred. Lamb shearing on the side. School Children Wanted: Yo learn the English language; also spelling. Apply any Business Office. To English Lords and Dukes: While waiting for completion of negotiations, try the Pills Hotel. Rooms 1sc. Soup, 5c. a bowl. Board by week, $2. Happy Marriage Depends largely on a knowledge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health, This knowl- edge does not come in- telligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary, every-day sources, SEXOLOGY (Illustrated) by William H. Walling, A.M., M.D., imparts in a clear volun M Knowledge 2 Young Woman Koowledge a ne Wit Knowledge a Mother Shor ve. Knowledge a Mother Shor part to Her Daughter. Medical Knowledge a Wife Should Have. Allin one volume, IMlustrated, $2, postpaid. Write for” Other People's Opinions” and Table of Content: Puritan Pub. Co. _776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa, UNDERGROUND GARBAGE RECEIVER ‘G. NO LITTER. NO ODORS. Itself. Clean and sanitary. Sold direct from fhe. preferred the shadows of the street comers where he could gaze upon the hurrying stream Of life, deep inte the beara of men sad pice ture for you the generosity, ferocity, kindli- ness, want, devotion, the laughter and the mockery, the feverish activity and the stark despair—all the complex interplay of human emotions which go to make life. A\ll this he compressed into 274 of the greatest stories ever were written. Packed into twelve rich volumes—yours today for a litle price and kttle pay- ments for a short time only, Soe a San tee: C,H. STEPHENSON, Mir. 46 Farrar St., Lynn. Mase, And in the bargain, just to spread this edition to every comer of the country at once, you get without extra charge the best of ing, in six rich volumes, 179 stories and poems and his great long novel “The Light That Failed.” Send Coupon for 18 Volumes 453 Short Stories 0; Henry 2 Complete Novels by the greatest English and the greatest Ameri- can short story writers. Half a million dollars is what these writers would have been paid for these stories—50,000 people have rushed to take advantage of this offer. The first complete edition of O. Henry’s works sold at $125 and every set was taken before the sheets were in their covers. Already O. Henry has become a classic. His biography is being written in books and magazines, his stories are dramatized for the stage and for the moving pictures, the text books of American Literature Kipling embody them, sculptors are making statues —colleges are discussing his place in litera- ture. This offer is passing. The royalties on both the Kipling and the O. Henry are heavy and we can't afford to make this a per- manent thing. Only the de- mand of thousands of dis- appointed book lovers caused us to extend it for these few weeks more. Send No Money With the Coupon if they're not the biggest, the best thing in the covers of a book you ever saw of read. Better than moving pictures—for these are per- manent, real moving pictures of life. Better than classics, for these are the living stories of to-day, from Mandalay on the China Bay to 34th Street and Broadway, and from the Piccadilly in Lon- don to the ranch on the Mexican border. Send the Coupon before it is too late, Get both sets shipped at once free on approval. 25c a week pays for them. Send the coupon and put the full set on your library shelves and new joy in your heart. Don’t wait till tomorrow and be sorry. Send coupon today and be glad. REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO.. 30 Irving Place, New York