Life, 1914-05-14 · page 37 of 44
Life — May 14, 1914 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and editorial content** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Advertisements:** Jasco Tank (gasoline containers), Kelly-Springfield Tires, and New England vacation destinations dominate the layout. **Editorial Content:** The "Notes on the Periodicals" section discusses magazine publishing lag times—specifically referencing the Mexican crisis at Vera Cruz, which delayed news reaching print publications. This reflects early 20th-century concerns about journalism's inability to keep pace with events. **"Slum Child's Version":** A brief social commentary piece recounting how a poor London child in Shoreditch retold the Garden of Eden story in working-class dialect ("'ave a bite," "Garn"). The humor derives from contrasting elevated biblical narrative with crude East End speech patterns—a common Edwardian-era way to depict poverty and class difference. It's gentle satire on class and childhood innocence rather than political commentary. The page reflects typical early-1900s Life magazine content: consumer advertising mixed with light social observation.
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Make your Slogan “Safety First” by Equipping your car with a JASCO TANK the drawn steel, seamless, tinned and tested gasoline tank that positively cannot leak. All styles, all sizes, at your dealer's or direct. New York Office: Hudson Terminal Building Notes on the Periodicals LL the magazines are proper ob- jects of sympathy in that it will take them about three months to catch up with the news from Vera Cruz. When there comes a real jolt like that, issues of periodicals made up before it came are bound to have a fossil flavor. The best hope for them in the present case is that the flurry will mod- erate and readers’ minds return to normal interests before the June issues get out. Quarterlies are increasing in num- ber and are useful in affording publi- cation to articles that deserve it, but are too long or too wise for the more popular magazines, The Yale Review is an’ excellent new quarterly, hand- some and interesting; and there is Mr. Holt’s Unpopular Review, which has achieved a second number, and Silas McBee’s Constructive Quarterly, and the excellent Hibbert Journal, and only serious readers know how many more. The Century still cares to be hand- some, and is handsome; just now in typography and color the handsomest. member of the magazine family. Slum Child’s Version A well-known philanthropist was giving us the other day a slum child’s version of the story of the Garden of Eden. She was sitting with one or two other children on the curb outside a public- house in Shoreditch, and her version of the story, picked up rather vaguely at fre ae White Mountains of New Hampshire Unrivalled combination of scenic grandeur, outdoor heal i yet oe iant summer life, i Settee banks of wonde forgotten by the outside Mountains a mile high, hundred-mile views, 200 square mil of hundreds of miles Nerve building, state peaks, woods, valleys Ifyou want to be ‘Camp on the that are almost It has well bee Thousand Wonde called the Island of a Anisland—but filled with great ; less sea-views, but also the ya node Match- Send for free booklet. For booklets and full WACATION BUREAU information address Room 200, 171 Broadway, New York street-corner mission meeting, Kelly- Springfield Automobile Tires There is no such thing as an everlasting tire any more than there is such a thing as perpetual motion. But there are mechanisms that outlive others, and there are tires and tubes of conspicuous endurance. Need we add that we refer to! Kelly-Springfields? KELLY-SPRINGFIELD TIRE COMPANY Cor. B’way & 57th St., N. Y. Branch ofices: New York, Chicago, Philadelphla, Boston, Seattle, Atianta, Cincinnati, San Francisco, ‘Angeles, Cleveland, St. Loals, Detrott, Akron. 0. Atkinson Tire & Sapply Co., Jacksonville. Fla. Central Rubber & Supply Ca., Indianapolis, Ind. C.D. Franke & Co.. Charleston. S.C. K. & S. Auto Tire Co., Limited. Toronto, Cas. Todd Rubber Co., New Haves. Coma. Harmar & Michael. Ruflalo. N.Y. sounded deplorably like the recital of some public-house row. After a few preliminary details she proceeded : “Eve ses: ‘Adam, ‘ave a bite?’ No,’ ses Adam, ‘I don’t want a bite.’ Garn!’ ses Eve. ‘Garn, ‘ave a bite.” I don't want a bite!’ ses Adam.” The child repeated this dialogue once or twice, her voice gradually rising to a shrill shrick. “An’ then Adam took a bite,” she finished up, dramatically. “ An’ the flamin’ angel come along wiv ‘is sword, an’ 'e ses to ‘em both: ‘Nah, then— comicbooks.com