Life, 1915-01-28 · page 6 of 40
Life — January 28, 1915 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and editorial content** rather than political cartoons. The main advertisement promotes **Cascade Pure Whisky**, featuring a moonlit mountain scene and emphasizing the product's quality and aging process. The distillery is located in Nashville, Tennessee. Below that is a **Life magazine subscription advertisement** offering to bind loose copies into volumes for $4, with $2 credited toward subscription when copies are returned. The right side contains a poem titled **"Sunday Papers"** by James Montgomery Flagg, satirizing readers' frustration with sensationalist headlines in Sunday newspapers. The opening illustration shows a man overwhelmed by papers, complaining about dramatic news coverage ("Eight Russians Broke Their Necks!"). The satire mocks how Sunday papers prioritize shocking, trivial stories over meaningful reporting. A separate feature, "How Do You Do?", appears to be a self-reflective advice column.
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MELLOW AS MOONLIGHT ff 6 ee ve il “Or that I push a fish-ball in my eye!” Sunday Papers ARENT you getting sick of Sunday papers? ‘ I guess that’s quite an awful thing to ask, Cascade quality is founded on grain But I’ve gotten so I see the murky vapors quality—distilled to preserve and bring ‘ . out the best of that quality—purified Before I open up the Sunday task. to isolate that quality—and aged to , mellow it into smooth richness. The week-day news is not at all disturbing; Original Bottling Has Old Gold Label s* Who cares about the murders and the wrecks! GEO. A. DICKEL & CO,, Distillers, There’s nothing that you'd really call perturbing Nasnvitte, Tenn, In the fact that “E1cuty Russtans Broke Tuer 5 Necks!” It's for Sunday, when you crave a little quiet, That they save up all their cataclysmic jolts, And your brains break from their little cells and riot And you feel as if you'd eaten iron bolts! A BOUND With nervous haste I skip the “General Shipping” And read “ New York Witt Soon Br Gotnc Dry!” I notice not my coffee’s spilt and dripping, Or that I push a fish-ball in my eye! And when I see it’s absolutely certain That “We Att Axe Gotnc Nutty In a Week!” It’s no wonder that I grab the window-curtain To wipe the maple syrup off my cheek! When headlines shrick like blare of many trumpets, INTERESTS EVERYONE “Ose Man Pourte In Au New York—For Suamel!” If I bolster up my head with buttered crumpets SEND US YOUR LOOSE | Seen ee EN el Moudjony Fig COPIES AND HAVE THEM ) Q BOUND FOR PERMANENT How Do You Do? pi USE. CHILDREN PORE HAT is your normal attitude toward yourself? Much OVER THEM CONSTANTLY. GROWN , depends upon this. When you look at the great, wide, world and then at yourself in your own little center FOLKS REVEL IN THEM. of it, how does it impress you? That is to say, are you a constant source of surprise and wonderment to your- self, which causes you ever and anon to halt in your PRICE, FOUR DOLLARS A VOLUME. ONLY tracks, look back over the road you came and marvel TWO DOLLARS WHEN YOU RETURN that you were ever able to make it? YOUR LOOSE COPIES. WE WILL TELL _ Or do you take yourself for granted and consider that it is the most natural thing in the world for you to be YOU ALL ABOUT IT IF YOU WILL WRITE where you are and doing what you are? | Or have you been so excruciatingly busy trying to get LIFE, 17 W. 31ST STREET, NEW YORK | somewhere that you have had no time to take these % little mental invoices to discover just where you are and why and for how long? comichoo!