Life, 1914-05-07 · page 50 of 52
Life — May 7, 1914 — page 50: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Life* magazine combines satirical editorial commentary with period advertisements, reflecting early 20th-century American concerns. **"An Old Style"** criticizes American newspapers for inadequate coverage of the Mexican Revolution, arguing that readers have become desensitized to serious news. The editorial laments that spectacular disasters (Titanic, Triangle Factory Fire, Black Hand murders, aviation crashes) have made conventional warfare seem boring—a sharp critique of sensationalism overtaking substantive journalism. **The Wrigley's Spearmint advertisement** is a straightforward commercial promoting gum as a "perfect humidor" and health aid, typical period marketing. **"Have You Labor Troubles?"** advertises the Babson Statistical Organization's labor relations consulting service, positioning itself as providing objective analysis above employer-employee bias—reflecting contemporary Progressive Era interest in "scientific" management of social problems. **"A Sweeping Statement"** offers light satire questioning whether feminist housekeeping reforms represent genuine progress, or merely redirect the movement's energy into domestic labor.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
An Old Style HE fact that practically none of our newspapers had a representative in the field in Mexico was recently commented upon by the editor of the Mctropolitan Magazine. A war going on at our doors, with nameless cruelties and thousands killed and wounded, and which so intimately concerns us, would seem to cal! for more able journalistic analysis than occasional articles by chance correspondents. But tales of cruelty, about such an antiquated thing as war, fail to amuse us any longer. We demand new sensations, new styles of crime. People who have been in the past few years satiated with a Titanic disaster and a Triangle fire, with Black Hand murders in our public streets, with dynamite rendings from below and aviation deaths from above, with almost daily grade crossing smash-ups, and picturesque gunmen killings, can scarcely be expected to be greatly interested in a common or garden war. a perfect humidor.” “I keep my cigars perfect in an air-tight box. This beneficial tidbit is kept perfect with an Keep this always fresh, delicious, beneficial tidbit always handy. Give pleasant, regular aid to your teeth, breath, appe- tite, digestion. Look for the IT BY THE BOX for 85 cents—at most dealers, Each box contains twenty 5 cent packages. They stay fresh until used. CHEW IT AFTER EVERY MEAL It’s clean, pure, healthful if it’s WRIGLEY’S peree 1. caney. vererre Have You Labor Troubles? They can’t be settled by twiddling thumbs or actingup- on prejudice—but they must be settled. Strikes and labor agitations present conditions that affect all our activities, economic, social, political and religious. Our systematic country-wide study of conditions develops so much of vital importance on this subject that we have decided to offer a Special Confidential Service dealing with facts and giving Mr. Bab- son’s deductions and opinions. One Big Feature will be an Impartial review and analy- als of labor conditions everywhere, from the viewpoint of employer and employe, pointing out the shortcom- ings of e(ther side and presenting the broad minded, intelligent plan for working outthis tremendous problem. This experiment is radical—itwill go to the heart of the question, It will deal with nditions, not theories. m, We invite inquiries, and a sample report of the Babson Labor and Social Service will be sent to you free, You should write for it now. Address Dept. A-31 of the Babson Statistical Organization Industrial Building, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Largest Organization of tts Character tn the U. 8. A Sweeping Statement “ For the new housekeeping is just a part of the great Feminist move- ment that is sweeping the world."— Martha Bensley Bruere, in Good Housekeeping. ND may we be so bold to ask what of the great Feminist movement that is sweeping the kitchen? ANSWER TO “FOOLISH PASHION EQUA- TION” ON PAGE 836