Life, 1914-01-01 · page 41 of 44
Life — January 1, 1914 — page 41: what you’re looking at
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**Main Editorial Content:** "The Progress of Pulchritude" satirizes the beauty industry and cosmetic treatments. The author argues that despite beauty doctors' interventions—bleaching hair, painting faces—humans naturally grow more beautiful. The piece mocks the idea of artificially altering all physical features, suggesting it would create nightmares worse than Futurist paintings. The satire critiques commercial exploitation of beauty anxiety while defending nature's wisdom. **Cartoons:** The page includes a "Vogue's Lingerie Number" advertisement with an illustration of a woman and servant, promoting Paris novelties. Below is a separate cartoon captioned "GEE! AIN'T IT TOUGH TO BE BROKE!" depicting a ragged child, likely satirizing poverty or economic hardship. **Advertisements:** The right side features Nuyler's Bonbons and Chocolates, comparing orchids' rarity to candy perfection. Additional Vogue promotions advertise upcoming issues on motor fashion and spring wear. The page reflects 1910s-era concerns about beauty standards, consumer culture, and class disparities.
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The Progress of Pulchritude T is in spite of beauty doctors that the human race grows more beautiful all the time. Luckily there is very little that beauty doctors can do, for everything that they have practiced, such as bleaching hair, painting faces, and the like, makes for ugliness. Although these things are few, there are enough of them to prove that if all of our features | could be made over to suit our varying whims, the human race would soon think the charge that man descended from the monkey was highly flattering. If we could take as many Ii | ties with our physiognomies as with our millinery, our haberdashery and other of our | sartorialities, life would become one unbroken round of nightmares in comparison with which an exhibition of Futurist paintings would seem like an esthetic millennium. We simply must be beautiful in spite of ourselves. It is too painful to be otherwise. Mother Nature wisely anticipated the danger of leaving this vital matter open to commercial exploitation. Clhe Orchid of Sweets The rarity and costliness of orchids add to their fascination, Dy but if they were as common as § ; carnations their perfection of beauty would still make them the most prized of flowers. Bonbons% Chocolates are the most prized of sweets, not because rarest, or costliest, but be- cause of their perfection of flavor. If only a hundred boxes a day were made they would be priceless. The later ak igo way. Ww ecavad 08 oatear where you live, beanwas ae Boo bons and Chocolates and many other sweet things from eho are sold by <&&e sales agents (leading druggists everywhere) in the United States and Canada. If there should be no sales ogent near you, write us. 64 Irviog Place, New York — Frank DeK. Huyler, President ! Ask for Sha Cocoa and «Lge Baking Chocolate at your grocer’s Pel) ‘HAT is wanted for your linen closet ? Are you satisfied with your tablecloths, centerpieces, napkins? And your own lingerie? Whatever you happen to need, the Lingerie Number of Vogue tells where to get it. Paris novelties in this Vogue include the prettiest imaginable blouses, negligees, night- gowns, and lingerie of all sorts. Also news from all the great “White Sales” about to begin in New York. This is the first Vogue ever devoted princi- pally to lingerie—and it covers the subject all the way from tablecloths to undervests, from handkerchiefs to chiffon dresses. On sale now All newsstands MOTOR AND SOUTHERN The next Vogue—ready Jan. 10, News for motorists; also the earliest hint of the comin, Spring mode as foreshadowed in gowns an hats designed for the Riviera. Tell the newsdealer to reserve this number for you. ‘VOGUE 443 Fourth Avenue Condé Nast, Publisher New York City “cee! AIN'T IT TOUGH To BE BROKE!” comicbooks.com