Life, 1915-04-15 · page 41 of 44
Life — April 15, 1915 — page 41: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not editorial content or satire. The main feature is a Bell Telephone System advertisement titled "The Agency of a United People." It argues that the United States, though younger and smaller in population than Europe, has achieved greater national unity through superior telecommunications infrastructure. The piece compares the U.S. map overlaid on Europe's, noting America has nearly three times as many telephones per capita. The rhetoric celebrates how the Bell System's transcontinental line enables coast-to-coast communication, fostering national cohesion among America's diverse immigrant populations—framed as "amalgamating of different races." This is corporate messaging presenting technological progress as a unifying force for national identity, wrapped in patriotic language ("E Pluribus Unum"). The page also includes advertisements for the Hotel Biltmore (New York), Galloway Pottery, and a sanitarium daily schedule. No political cartoons appear on this page.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
sunshine thes are r means mediate rady to ooklet men’s py Co. lass. of [AT IDRIS. BILTMORE NEW YORK SPehe Center IM of Business f and Social Se Life of the Metropolis + + 1000 OUTSIDE ROOMS YONN MEE. BOWMAN, PRES. St <S eZ SEEN SE. sie. GZS oe IFES s t I 1 re RRR SS seal SL EOCENE SO! Why Retire? ERE is the daily program for the patients in a famous Western sanitarium 6:00 A. M.—Rise and take a cold plunge or shower, after which dress and take part in a series of morn- ings exercises under the direction ot a trained instructor. 7 :40—Breakfast. 9:00—Report to physician under whose direction you are resting and being taught how to take care of yourself, 9:30 to 10:30—Receive a bath treatment, prescribed by your physi- cian and given by an expert operator according to the hydrotherapeutic methods taught at this resort. Fol- lowing a swim, if you wish. 10:30—Mechanical exercises in Swedish Department, followed by ames or exercises in the gymnasium or a leisure period. 12:00 Noon—Period for sleep or relaxation, 1:00 P, M.—Dinner, After dinner you may exercise in the gymnasium, play volley ball or 565) your Garden be Small.a ‘Sundial Bird Font or Gazing Globe adds the Essential touch.while your Plants will have New Beauty in Artistic GALOWAY Pots Boxes and Vases. ‘AWealth of Suggestions for Maki Uap Sri willbe: inour Cat Tee ciicdpanns wie The Agency of a United People Astriking comparison between a homo- geneous country and a_heterogencous group of countries is obtained by placing over the map of the United States the map of Europe. hese represent the same area —about 3,000,000 square miles—if a few of the remote provinces of Russia are omitted. Europe has the advantage in popula- tion, with more than four times as many eople as the United States, in the num- Ber of large cities, with two and a half times as many cities of over 100,000 population. Yet the United States, a comparatively young country, has outstripped Europe in the diffusion of civilization, because of its wonderfully greater means of communi- cation between all s of its area. The United States not only excels in transporta- tion facilities, but it has nearlythree timesas manytelephonesasEurope, orabouteleven times as many in relation to population, By the completion of the Transconti- nental Line we now talk from one end of this country to the other, while in Europe the longest conversation is no farther than from New York to Atlanta, and even that depends on the imperfect co-operation of unrelated systems. Europe, with twenty-five countries and many different languages, serves as an il- luminating contrast to the United States, with one language and a homogeneous people, despite the fact that our popula- tion has been derived from all parts of the world, During the last forty years the steadily extending lines of the Bell System have contributed in no small measure to this amalgamating of different races. The latest achievement—the linking of coast to coast—has given greater force to the national motto, “E Pluribus Unum.” AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy indulge in any other amusement pro- vided at the institution, In summer this includes tennis and golf, 3:00—Wand drill, followed by volley ball, swimming and other sports. In winter the wand drill takes place in the indoor gym- nasium—in summer, in the outdoor gymnasium. 4:00—Massage needed or desired. s:00—Lecture or in the parlors. 6 :00—Supper. treatment, if entertainment One System Universal Service 7 :00—Indian club drill in the gym- nasium, 7:10—Grand march, in charge of the director of physical development This lasts until 7:30. 8:00—Health lecture or social en- tertainment in parlors or gymnasium. 9:00—Retire. This is not com- pulsory, but recommended. We wouldn't want to retire after a day like this. We should much pre fer passing the rest of the night hunt ing the proprietor with a shotgun. comicbooks.com