Life, 1914-03-19 · page 34 of 44
Life — March 19, 1914 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content is a satirical column titled "Thoughts of a Modern Young Woman" that mocks the intellectual pretensions and scattered interests of affluent women of the era. The satire targets a young woman who claims serious intellectual pursuits (reading Bergson philosophy, studying Etruscan vases, the Montessori educational system) while simultaneously admitting to frivolous pastimes like watching breadlines from automobiles and obsessing over "psychic harmony" and "auras." The piece ridicules how she performs depth of thought while intellectually dabbling superficially in whatever seems fashionable. The column particularly mocks the period's interest in pseudo-spiritual concepts like "soul mates" and "psychic auras," presenting them as pretentious affectations replacing older, equally shallow romantic terminology. The remainder of the page contains typical period advertisements for photography services, fruit trees, chestnuts, and pecans—standard commercial content with no satirical intent.
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Thoughts of a Modern Young Woman I'm taking up Bergson this week. Next week I'm going to take up Etruscan vases and the Montessori sys- tem. Ob, no, I haven't lost my interest in sociology. Only last night we went down in the auto and watched the bread line. Of course, one can take up too many things. Concentration is necessary if the world is really to become bettered. And it’s the spirit in which you take a thing up that counts, Sometimes I think the spirit in which you take a thing up counts more than the thing itself—counts in its effect on you, you know, Of course, the way to get the real Ps meaning out of anything is to put your- If you prefer Plain E self in a receptive attitude. for the Milo Re In serious things the attitude counts for everything. One mustn't scoff. If you look at it seriously and scien- tifically you'll sce there’s a great deal than you suspected in all this and soul mate craze, for in- Tips in the Milo eHow Label Bow our psychic powers count for the better- cance Portfolio Photography Not that I care for the words “ soul mate” and “ affinit particularly; they ment of the world. I am very psye! Some are not. This man had the most interesting eyes and the silkiest beard, and he said his aura was pink. If he should mect a girl, you know, with an aura just the shade of pink that his aura is, why then they would know they were in psychic harmony, Simple, isn't it? But then all truly ‘What would you not give fora picture of yourson ordaughter or some one equally dear toyou? De- ferred intentions often cause regrets. Photographic likenesses in the latest art portfolio mountings insuring permanent preservation are the specialty of Francisca Bostwick. Your time and convenience not intruded upon. Appointments for studio or home sittings by correspondence. Highest references. have been so tulgarized, somchow. The best people don’t use those terms any more. Psychic harmony is the new term. The loveliest man explained all about it to us the other day. I belong to a little group of thinkers, who take a serious interest in these things, you know. Francisca Bostwick We are trying to find out how to make 19 West 31st Street, New York. Paper Shell Pecan and English Walnut For Zero Climates It stands to reasen that trees grown at the 434 Parallel of latitude, close to the Canadian border, with water tem perateres far below sere mast possess and that safety in planting is more likely to be secured with trees procured from the most northern, locality possible. ‘Mantura MAMMOTH * pa SOBER PARAGON sweet cHestNuT ONE CROP BROUGHT. fo Plant for proft, tor pleseure or for decoration—plant a thousand trees or a single on fe tree to plant or in bet climates. Succeeds in rouabt, in frost, in poor soil oe steep hi TOAE Cins roughest of lands. EVERY TREE WE SHIP is, SPRING BORE CHESTNUTS LAST SEASON, We have had exchnive trol 7, when 0000 ents, it and sora the Sot rece Pipl ftom year out stock has improve trees to offer, trees bse ovr metal, copyrighted eal with the trade mark name "Sober Paragon RANERE Everbearing Raspberry -2"3cir Luscious, sugary, bright crimson berries every day from June till nteous supply summer and autumn, the firet Covers a 25c piece Tbe strong plants offered you for planting this Spring will supply table this season. So profitable for mar ie called the“ Mortasge Lite English Walnut Covers a Se. piece Strong drower— drought and cold. Que, PM Calalone and Flonive Gui at nt Cutture tm the North, telly sehere to plant. MAILED FREE om | GLEN BROS, Inc. apa great ideas are simple, aren't they? But if his aura was blue, and her aura was yellow, then, of course, they would quarrel, That's what makes so much do- mestic unhappiness. But he said something that gave me the most frightfully insecure feeling. He said the aura changes its color as the soul progresses. Two people may be in harmony to-day. and both have pink auras, and in a year hers may be green and his golden. What desperate chanees a woman takes when she marrics, docsn't she? I sometimes think life must have been a much more comfortable thing before the world got to be so terribly ad- vanced. But, of course, it is our duty to sacri- fee personal comfort for the future of the race and the betterment of the world. As I was looking at the bread line the thought came to me that the chief differ- ence between this advanced age and other ages was in the fact that people to-day are willing to take a serious interest in such things. People are willing to sacrifice them selves to-day, you know, It is food for optimism, don't’ you think? Not that I was really uncomfortable in the auto, you know, I had on my new mink coat. —Don Marquis, in N. ¥. Evening Sun comichooks.com