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Life — June 3, 1915 — page 44: Life, 1915-06-03

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This page mixes advertisements with editorial content. The main feature is Life's short-story contest announcement: they're offering $1,000 for the shortest viable short story, with an unusual payment structure—authors earn ten cents per word *not* written (up to 1,500 words). This creates satire on literary economics: a 100-word story pays $140 for words the author *didn't* write, while a 1,499-word story earns only ten cents. The joke satirizes both publishers' cost-cutting and writers' struggles. The cartoon at bottom left shows a voice teacher telling an unpromising student: "YOU'RE NOT MUCH FOR LOOKS, JACK, BUT YOUR VOICE OUGHT TO TAKE YOU A LONG WAY"—darkly humorous commentary on limited opportunities for the unattractive. Surrounding ads (Welch's grape juice, Blue-Jay corn plasters, Houbigant perfume) are typical period advertising, not satirical.

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KeepWelchs in your Ice Ch est ly Keep a supply of Welch’s in your ice chest. It ought to be an every-day family beverage. Welch's “Che National Drink” Welch’s is just the pure juice of choicest Concords--unkeemeseed, un- sweetened, unchanged. It’s safe for young and old. Try Welch Punch today The “diplomatic dinner” beverage which is safe and sane. Take the juice of thee lemons, juice of one orange, cone pint of Welch's one quart of water and one cup of misar Add sliced oranges and pineapple and serve ‘punch has become a standard of excellence. oe wea of grocers, druggists or confec- tioners. Send 10 cents in stamps for trial Junior bottle. Write for booklet, “Marion Harland’s 99 Selected Recipes.” The Welch Grape Juice Company, Westfield, New York “YOU'RE NOT MUCH FOR LOOKS, JACK, BUT YOUR VOICE OUGHT TO TAKE YOu LONG way” How Short Can a Short Story Be? LIFE will pay one thousand dollars for the best shortest short story Ho’ short can a short story be and yet be a short story? Lire would like to know. So would every writer, and, therefore, all writers are invited to join with Lire in making a prac- tical test. Lire invites contributions of short stories, For the best ones received before noon of October 4, 1915, it will award three prizes of $1,000, $500 and $230. Extremely important is the fact that no story must exceed fifteen hundred words in length. Read carefully what follows: All manuscripts which are accepted for publication in Lire will be paid for at the rate of ten cents a word for every word under fifteen hundred words which the author does not write, To illustrate: if the accepted story is one hundred words in length, then the author will receive $140, or ten cents a word for the fourteen hundred words which he did not write. For what he does write he receives no pay. If, on the other hand, the accepted story is fourteen hundred and ninety-nine words in length, the author will receive ten cents. This story, however, will stand an equal chance ing the prize with one which HOUBIGANT QUELQUES VIOLETTES That peculiarly distinc- tive “woody” odor the violet is an exquisite, ay melodyfrom nature’s tudes. The art of Houbigant has succeeded in reproducing that melody. QUELQUES VIOLETTES is a chorus of violet odors. It has true lyric tone, the fresh- ness and lovableness of the violets them- selves, Why not be the first in your acquaintance to possess this won- derful new violet fragrance? At dealersand our stores Face Powder Sample boule of this perfume sent on receipt of 20 cents. PARK & TILFORD NEW YORK Sole Agents for the United States and Canada Old Ways Merely Quieted The Corn The New Way EndsIt Some folks still cling to liquids, to inefficient plasters, or to merely paring corns, They wrong themselves. Their own friends keep free from corns by using Blue-jay plasters. They apply one in a jiffy, then forget the corn, In 48 hours, without pain or soreness, the entire corn comes out. A famous chemist found this way which makes corns out-of-date. One can't prevent them easily, but to keep them is folly. Millions of people know that. Blue-jay Plasters 15 and 25 cents—at Druggists Samples Mailed Free Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York Makers of Physicians’ Supplies is very much shorter (say, one hundred words), as each story will be judged strictly on its merits as a story. The stories will be published in Lire as soon as possible after they are ac- cepted, and will be paid for on accept- ance upon the basis which has just been defined. When they have all been published, then the final award- ing of the $1,750 in prizes will be made in the following manner: The Editors of Lire will first select, out of all the stories published, the twelve which are, in their judgment, the best. The authors of these twelve stories will then be asked to become judges of the whole contest, which will then include all the stories published. These twelve authors will decide which are the best three stories, in the order of their merit, to be awarded the comicbooks.com gy jae the mi au as ha th wi