Life, 1914-02-05 · page 34 of 44
Life — February 5, 1914 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page combines political commentary with period advertisements. The main editorial, "Our Enduring Government," praises American democracy's ability to absorb three dramatically different presidents (Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson), celebrating national resilience and flexibility. The accompanying illustration shows a woman in classical dress, accompanying a piece questioning gender and sacrifice. A character "Lorelei" challenges the notion that men sacrifice themselves—she notes they became rich through "robbery" while women actually bear the burden of sacrifice. This reflects early-1910s feminist debates about women's roles and economic inequality. The "Going the Limit" section satirizes the *New York Times'* selective moral outrage: the paper condemns vivisection passionately but avoids criticizing department stores' poor labor conditions. The satire exposes journalistic hypocrisy—the Times applies ethical standards inconsistently based on advertiser interests. The page also includes period advertisements for White Rose glycerin soap and a Cosmopolitan magazine offer, typical of Life's revenue model.
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‘CEE E- Our Enduring Government HEN one pauses a moment to look back upon the achievements of ourselves dur- ing the last decade and a half, one realizes that there is nothing but the brightest kind of hope for the future. In that time, we have had in Messrs. Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson three of the most absolutely different types of men as President. Yet we have received, digested and assimilated each of them with the maximum of neatness and dispatch. Any country that can do that ought to go into the assimilating business. It speaks volumes for the elasticity, tractability, malleability and surviving fitness of our national character. After such a record we must feel that we can de- fend the governmental belt a and that we have but to meet the enemy to take possession of him without further ado.” “ % [= bs JUST look through this pure t Sacrificel It's women who sacri | JUST, Jeok through, thls pure tre fice themselves. Do you suppose any perfume, and feel ite rich, creamy Your | of those men we met last night would lather on your face. You will never again be sat sacrifice himself for anything or any- body? Not much—they became rich through robbery and they're in the iafied with any toilet soap less pure and perfect. An’ White Rose Fo os0.i nT Tf nite Rey wt Bi lnsures a soft clear, Deautifel skin. Three generations of refeed T se . women on both sides of the Atlantic have proven its merits. Sol POKEN in pique, but in every country where beauty is admired, or health desired. Lorelei was com- "4 - your dry goods dealer or druggists. Oc-o! i Per mumple trial cabs, send to exter 30 conte te stamye we wil ered yes 6 Witt soataltt t2 38 : aezi PEE he eats ho ee nowledge the truth \ MULHENS & KROPFF, 298 Broadway. New York Witt Dept. U.'S. BRANCH OF habit of taking whatever they want.” of it. Hadn't she - Wi . Gleekrorane, —Ella E ES been fighting against the very thing for the last j; —— = - two years? Didn't she know Mf a ¥i// y . _ pointe that success came only Going the Limit him th through men? Whata strug- > New York Ti + + handsc gle it was to win and not pay HE New York Times is not posi wis pe the price they asked? tive about many things, but in all him w that mammoth and excellent news- you ha Rex Beach gathering institution there seems to man w exist not the slightest shadow of a is seldi has made the story of this moiety of a notion that vivisection is girl's achievement a fascina- a debatable question. Were it not so ting picture of stage life. the Times would never resort to early Beach knows New York bet- Victorian journalism by speaking of a ter than most of us know our own front door yards. convention of ani sectionists as | “besotted auditors” listening “in gog- é ‘ P ; gle-eyed horror”. The Auction , Advertisers are Interested in so Block LE \f many things these days, entailing such is a kaleidoscope of Fifth 4 ‘ continuous circumspection, that it must ‘Avenue mansions, Broad- i . Ay be great relief for a full-blooded way theatres, the throng- journalist with a normal capacity for ing, teeming activity of the indignation to find a subject that will metropolis. And through enable him to remove all bans from itall gleams the high mind- his utterances and deal out the choicest ed purpose, the steadfast re- epithets in his vocabulary. Manifestly solve of a most beautiful girl. the Times could not use such language Read the story today. toward department store employers, no . matter how bad conditions in those Osmopolitan institutions were found to be Then let us not chide the Times for possess- 119 West 40th St., New York City ing a trait which is so universal. Only a Dollar Bill maiied to us today with this coupon will bring you Tex Meach's master povel in the neat clr pontha of Conmopoltan, "rs very ofter is open only to new aul scribers. Fin your‘sarme now, Tux freshman approached the post office stamp window. “How much postage will this re- quire?” he asked. “It is one of my manuscripts.” : : “Two cents an ounce,” smiled the Lire 25 clerk. “That's first class matter.” “Oh, thank you! "—Punch Bowl, (comicbooks.com