Life, 1914-12-31 · page 3 of 41
Life — December 31, 1914 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is predominantly **advertising and editorial content** rather than satirical cartoons. The visible ads include: - **Holstein-Friesian milk** promotion, emphasizing the breed's superiority for infant nutrition - **Great Western Champagne** advertisement claiming American-made superiority with French medals - A **Life magazine subscription pitch** ("Your Son's Future") The editorial content includes a **New Year's Eve poem** by Kate Masterson and an essay titled "In Defense of the Present" discussing generational wisdom and morality. A brief **humor section** at bottom features amateur golfers joking about lost balls. The page reflects **1920s consumer culture and American industrial pride** rather than political satire. It's primarily a vehicle for branded advertisements targeting middle-class readers.
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“LIFE: = The best binder for life is a wedding ring. The next best is the one you see here, the price of which is One Dollar Address Lirt 17 West 3ist Strect, New York The binder is black cloth, with gold letter- ing, and will hold twenty-sur Your Son’s Future will be successfully moulded along clean-cut conservative business lines it he can qualify as an active paftner in a firm organised lo develop a special branch of the banking feld. If interested, please send immediately full information asto the qualiations your son possesses, and if satisfactory an interview will be arranged for. Box 77 Life The Militaristic Circle HE uever-ending circle of the militarists is to create bigger armies and navies to make better prep- arations for war to insure peace to raise more taxes to build bigger armies and navies to make better prepara- tion for war to insure peace to raise more taxes to build bigger armies and navies, ete. They are right about everything except that this perform ance tends toward peace. copies, New Year's Eve 70485 LL hail, New Year! you merry greeting, Jocund and young; We wait upon the threshold for the meeting ; Our song is sung. We give Along the road of years we hear you coming With dancing feet, Timing the tune the harp of life is strumming, A lyric sweet. Yet not for us the blossoming and gladness, But measure slow; down the path in faltering and sadness We see one go. Who looks back from the turning hill descending, With outstretched hands, Seeking the way across the blending To promised lands. sunset safe in shadow from brimming roses Silent we wait, Until an old friend goes and twilight closes That Western gate. While your Bear with us, then, and join in requiem royal From vantage here, Bidding this good-bye to a comrade loyal— The brave old year! Kate Masterson, In Defense of the Present HINGS are not worse than they were when you were little. They only seem so. If they have changed in any essential respect, it has more likely been a change for the better. The misleading thing is that when you were a child your elders talked to you so much about goodness and virtue REAT WESTERN CHAMPAGNE MADE IN AMERICA Highest Honors in France Extra Dry 5°% Paris txpestion, France, 1867. Paris Expesttion, Franca, 1900. Urusies Exposition, Baigiam, 1887. Reserve ‘tra Dry) The Only American Champagne Ever Awarded Gold Medal at Foreign Expositions Parts Exposition, France, 1888. Vesna Expesition, Aastra, 1873. Bruxolies Exposition, Belgium, 1910. PLEASANT VALLEY WINE CO., RHEIMS, N. Y. OLDEST AND LARGEST MAKERS CF CHAMPAGNE IN AMERICA |Eminent Physicians Know the Value of Holstein Cows’ Milk for the Baby It is becoming recognized generally that milk from the purebred Holstein’ cow is the vearest attainable approach to breast milk. Because of its similarity to human milk, Holstein Cows’ Milk is especially fitted to meet the needs of infants. As in human milk the globules of fat contained are small, uniform in. size. and for that reason easily digested. In heavier, fatter milks, the curds formed are coarser and full of greasy fat, and the delicate baby stomach is unable to cope with them. Holstein Cows’ Milk, modified according to physician's directions, or fed to the baby without modification, will surprise you in its results. Your baby will thrive on it, as will any other member of the family, for its compo: sition renders it an ideal food for them all Holstein Milk is naturally light-colored. Contrary to rapidly disappearing tradition, rich-looking, yellow k is not better milk. for our free booklet, Milk.” Ask your milkman. for Cows’ Milk Holstein Holstein The Story of a supply of THE HOLSTEIN-FRIESIAN ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA X American Bldg., Brattleboro, Vermont and unselfishness you naturally as- sumed the world to be full of those admirable qualities, and that the older one grew the easier it was to find the right path and follow it. In a word, your elders imposed upon you. If they did not actually lie, they let you believe that the worst things in the world were bad little boys and bad little girls, and that nearly everybody stopped telling lies and being selfish after they reached a nage. And you accepted these and other similar bluffs at their face value, or a very slight discount there- from. You thought that a man who was so kind and looked so wise as the doctor must always know what he was king about; that judges who could wear such majestic gowns must be the acme of perspicacious impartiality, and that teachers could not be so impa- tient without having a great deal of intelligence to back it up. And then you grew up to find that all these people are just people, and that all the wise men are in books, whereupon you did not stop to analyze the matter, but just jumped to the con- clusion that the world is deteriorating. On the contrary. First AMATEUR GOLFER: What are you going around in now? Srconp Amateur GoLrer: five or six. “Five or six! Holes?” “No. Lost hall Oh, i comicbooks.com