Life, 1913-12-18 · page 38 of 40
Life — December 18, 1913 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily an advertisement for *The World's Work* magazine (December 1913 or early 1914) and a liquor advertisement, with only one small cartoon. The cartoon at bottom right shows a young man explaining to a woman that he learned his "trade" as a clerk in a blacksmith shop—an absurdist joke playing on the mismatch between his claimed experience and his actual job. It's a mild, fairly generic humor piece. The magazine's promotional text emphasizes "forward-looking" content, including an Alexander Graham Bell interview on eugenics as "constructive" science—reflecting early-20th-century enthusiasm for eugenics among progressive intellectuals, before its association with Nazi ideology became apparent. Articles also promise coverage of "judges being just" and economic matters like tariff revision.
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