Life, 1914-12-17 · page 4 of 40
Life — December 17, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising rather than satire**. It promotes Life magazine subscriptions through a gift-card system, featuring decorative cherubs framing the "Life" masthead. The subscription offer structure is: - One friend: $5/year - Two friends: $10/year - Three friends: $15/year The text explains that subscribers should send money upfront, provide recipient names and addresses, and Life will mail decorative color cards on heavy cardboard to those recipients. The bottom advertises Life's Christmas issue at 25 cents and annual subscriptions at $5 ($5.52 Canadian, $6.04 foreign). The decorative cherubs and framing suggest this is a holiday-season promotional piece designed to encourage gift subscriptions during the Christmas gift-giving period.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
One friend, one year five dollars. Two friends, one year ten dollars. Three friends, one year fifteen dollars. (For postage, see coupon) Send us the money at: once, at the rate speci- fied above, and to each friend whose name and address you enclose we will forward the card, reproduction of which is printed on this page. This card is printed in colors on heavy cardboard, and will be received with surprise and delight. Special Offer Enclosed find One Dol- lar (Canadian $tty, Foreign $1.26). Send Lire for three months to Handsome premium picture in colors, “WHERE LOVE IS"', groen with each yearly subscription. The Christmas Number of Life is now on sale everywhere. “5. sa, w mw wun wo wh Twent -five cents a copy. scription renewed at this rate. 9 fi PY. LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York Ove Year, $5.00. (Canadian, $5.52; Foreign, $6.04.)