Life, 1914-12-10 · page 6 of 40
Life — December 10, 1914 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and subscription promotion** rather than political satire. The main content includes: 1. **Arrow Shirts advertisement** (left): Features an evening dress shirt called "Donchester" marketed to men 2. **Life Magazine subscriptions** (center-left): Promotes subscription benefits and a color art reproduction premium titled "Where Love Is" by Angus MacDonald, depicting a desert scene 3. **The Craftsman magazine promotion** (right): Advertises art book subscriptions with classical relief imagery 4. **Cartoon** (bottom-right): Titled "After the War is Over," shows a figure riding or clinging to a large bomb or projectile with a cross marked on it The bomb cartoon likely references **World War I** (ongoing or recently ended) with dark humor about post-war consequences, though the exact satirical point remains somewhat unclear without additional context.
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For You and Your Friends! 1. You may have the exquisite Bas-relief shown above, absolutely without cost, all charges | prepaid, if you subscribe to ‘The Cr raftsman (“the most worth-while madizine in Ameria ? for four months, $1.00. i} 2. You may fenpine" Bronske famous master al charges pre if you subscribe to The C1 forone year $00. Each insce of The Crafteman hs really a book of 150 to 200 pages on art, good taste ir building and furnishing, etc. If not entirely pleased for any reason whatever, your remittance will be instantly returned, and you may return Bas-relief or Book Ends at our expense. Use These as Xmas Gifts: send as many subscriptions 8 you like for your friends—magazine and gifts may go to the same or separate addresses, as Gwenta g SH I RT S | = =e | you direct. ae, Life, and ros ~~ "Qonchester’ A dress shirt with the bosom put on in such a way that it remains flat and in its place, whether the wearer sits, stoops or stands. It isthe most practical, popular and com- fortable evening dress shirt made $2 783 CLUETT, PEABODY & CO.,Ixc., Makers of ARROW COLLARS, TROY, N. Y. READING AND WRITING" Life’s Premium to Subscribers Copr. Life Pub. Co. WHERE LOVE IS (By Angus MacDonall) A reproduction of this picture in full color, show- ing the vivid golden light effect of the desert, and measuring 15 by 10 inches on paper 21 by 16 inches in size, will be sent on each yearly subscription en- tered before April 1, 1915. A subscription to Lire is the best possible gift, whether to yourself or some one else—a copy of Lire every week, fifty-two copies a year, and this picture, all for the regular subscription price.* * Subscription, $5.00 Canadian, $5.52 Foreign, $6.04 LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 3lst Street, New York . AFTER THE WAR 1S OVER comicbooks.com