ComicBooks.com Register / Loginit's free!

Life, 1914-03-19 · page 35 of 44

Life — March 19, 1914 — page 35: what you’re looking at

📖 Open the full issue in the page-flip reader →
Life — March 19, 1914 — page 35: Life, 1914-03-19

What you’re looking at

This page combines editorial commentary with period advertising, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **"Teachers and Teaching"** satirizes educators' tendency to overcomplicate subjects, making material seem more complex than necessary. The author argues teachers—from dance to grammar instructors—inflate content importance to appear indispensable, causing students to waste time on non-essentials. Philosophy is singled out as particularly guilty, since "there is little to learn" yet instruction takes excessive time. The satire blames this for students graduating "uneducated." **"The New York Fire Horse"** celebrates horses' continued utility during recent snowstorms, when automobiles proved unsuitable for fire response. The piece uses this practical necessity to nostalgically defend horses against mechanical obsolescence, framing snow emergencies as preserving "noble animals" and "human sentiments" against modernity's march. The **Sanatogen advertisement** targets wives, suggesting they don't understand business strain's nervous toll on men. The product claims to restore vitality through "feeding exhausted nerves," endorsed by 19,000 physicians. This reflects period anxieties about male workplace stress and gendered domestic roles.

📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

r . a aS Gite S. |] tour our Baggage Policy enables you to travel INSURE YOUR LUGGAGE! ‘Whether a brief vacation or an extended with a carefree mind and thoroughly enjoy every minute of your trip. Tademnifies you against loes trom fire, thelt, transportation, etc. in custody of railroad, express com- pany.steamship,hotelorclubhouse. e are the oldest joint stock Inurance Company in America and guarantee prompt settlement. Write for full information. INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH AMERICA 236 Walnut St., Philadelphia The New York Fire Horse T appears that the horse in cities still has his uses. According to the New York Sun the recent snow-storms in New York developed the fact that horses were the only possible way of getting fire-engines to fires, as the auto- mobile engines were not suitable for this purpose. There appears to be no way of pre- venting snow-storms in’ winter, and there appears to be no immediate possi- bility of inventing an automobile fire- engine that will get to a fire through a snow-storm, or over banks of snow, and so the horse has shown himself to be a necessity during these emergencies. Thus we sce that even a snow-storm in a city has its uses. If it will con- tinue to preserve for us the picture of those noble als employed by the city doing their duty, at least it will add one mere bulwark to those rapidly diminishing human sentiments which the age of modern machinery is ren- dering obsolete. THE ENGAGEMENT RING Teachers and Teaching IEACHERS, like all other frail mortals, wish to be considered indispensable. Ac- cordingly, it is to their interest to impose upon the neophyte and make out that there is a great deal more to learn than there really is. In pursuing this interest, teachers are apt to include-so much that is unimportant about their subjects that the pupil has great difficulty in getting hold of the important thing. This is true of all teachers, of dancing, of swimming, of singing, of grammar. No group, not even college professors, is exempt from this manifestation of material interest. It is true of the scientific department, in which there is much to learn, and it is true of the phi- losophy department, in which there is little to learn, That is one of the reasons why it usually takes two years to do one year’s work, and why so many come out of our schools and colleges uneducated. Some Wives Don’t Understand FEW wives, however thought- ful, appreciate always the strain that business puts upon the nerves of men. When this strain is prolonged and nerve exhaustion begins to tell upon the general health, the system needs prompt help. The grateful praise of Sanatogen, from hundreds of famous men and women, is based on its extraordinary success in feeding the exhausted nerves and cells of the system the very food they require; and on its remarkable power of instilling fresh vigor and endurance—not by mere stimulation but lastingly and thoroughly. When you consider that the letters of over 19,000 practicing physicians acknowledge the revitalizing power of Sanatogen, is not YOUR confidence justified? Sanatogen is sold by good druggistsevery- where, in three sizes from $1.00 up. Sanatogen received the Grand Prize at the International Congress of Medicine, London, 1913 SAN, AT © G_EAN Send Waa GNIZED BY OV 19,000 PHYSICIANS for Elbert Hubbard’ s new book—'Health in the Making."” Written in his attractive manner and filled with his shrewd philosophy together with capital advice on Sanatogen, health and It is free. Tear this of as a reminder to address THE BAUER CHEMICAL CO., 24-E