Life, 1915-08-19 · page 42 of 48
Life — August 19, 1915 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This page combines **advertisements** (left side: Sturtevant ventilation systems) with **satirical humor** (right side). The main cartoon joke references **William Jennings Bryan**, the prominent three-time presidential candidate. A newspaper correspondent rushes through St. Louis shouting that "Mr. Bryan has resigned!" The Speaker of the House (identity unclear from image) replies calmly, "So am I"—a quip suggesting Bryan's political relevance has declined so much that his resignation is meaningless. Below is a "Woman's Part" humor column where Miss Vixe and Mrs. Oaks debate women proposing to men. Mrs. Oaks insists women should *make* men propose rather than propose themselves—typical early 20th-century gender expectations satirized here. The page also features a **letter from a Boston Transcript literary critic** praising Scribner's Magazine, likely part of Life's editorial content rather than a true independent testimonial.
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or lessee of a proper and tilation—and. in case or failure $10.00 for each day. This is from a law of New York State. Many other states have compulsory ventilation laws, and those which do not have them now will enact them soon. Some day you will be forced to have a proper ventilating system in your factory. That day will come soon, too. It’s nothing short of folly to build a new factory or fix over an old one without installing the Heating and Ventilating, Air Con- ditioning or Dust Collecting System that fits your particular needs. While you are building you can in- stall a complete Sturtevant Heating and Ventilating § System for almost the same amount as it will cost you later to put in a ventilating system alone. You've got to install an ap- proved ventilating system sooner or later. The law demands it—or will. ticipate the law and save money. clude in your. building turtevant System of Heating, Ven- tilating, ete, The Sturtevant System has many ad- vantages—many superiorities, employer of labor should know ex- actly what these points are. Write for our book, “Getting Dividends Out of Air.” Catalogue o08 It contains facts you ought to know, B. F. Sturtevant Company Hyde Park, Boston, Mass. And all principal cities in the world Largest Manufacturers in the Wor'd of Fans, Heating and Ventilating Apparatus ‘LIFE whose seersucker coat, rubber boots and modest demeanor at once betrayed the fact that he was a correspondent of the Associated Press. “Mr, Bryan has resigned!” he shouted, in a scarehead-war-extra tone of voice that echoed and re-echoed with scarcely diminishing reverbera- tion through the quiet lanes of St. Louis, “So am I,” returned the Speaker, quietly, as he passed on, leaving the of the ‘pest question’ and en Liehed Sine reporter to his agreeable task of writ ing the observation up into a three column interview for a syndicate of nine hundred and fifty next-Sunday morning papers. Woman's Part Miss Vixe: Do you favor women proposing ? Mrs. Oaxs: Certainly not. When 2 woman picks out a man she should make him propose —Hudson Chronicle. exaninat it g during, 92 The opinion of a well-known Literary Critic of the Boston Transcript comicbooks.com