Life, 1916-04-06 · page 12 of 80
Life — April 6, 1916 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **advertisements** for Easter gifts (Maillard chocolates), lawn care (Ideal Power Lawn Mower), mixed with editorial content about banking safety. The **cartoon** at bottom shows a domestic scene: a woman at a doorway speaking to another woman, with the caption "WILL YE PLEASE TELL MISS TILLIE SMITH 'AT MR. BOBBIE JONES WANTS HER TO COME OUT AN' MAKE MUD PIES." This appears to be a **gentle humor sketch** about childhood and courtship—a boy asking a girl out to play, framed in working-class dialect ("'at" for "that," "'an'" for "and"). The joke likely plays on the contrast between innocent childhood games and romantic pursuit, though the exact satirical point is subtle by modern standards. The page is primarily commercial rather than political commentary.
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“OQ Chocolates French Bonbonnieres FIFTH AVENUE AT THIRTY-FIPTH. STREET | GiveYOUR Lawn | Better Care Proper lawn care in the spring counts greatly toward a beautiful summer sward. Start your lawn care right this season. Have the Ideal ready for the very first cutting. It will provide double care— more eficiently and more economically—now, and’ all summer long. The Ideal Junior Power Lawn Mower for 1916 offers all the fea- tures on which Ideal has built its splendid reputation, with many new refinements and improvements—simple, reliable clutch, automobile throttle control, gearless differential. It stands unexcelled in the field of lawn mowing machines. Write to us for full particulars—now, while making your plans for a beautiful la The IDEAL rowes LAWN MOWER COMPANY . E. OLDS, Chairman 408 Kalamazzo Street LANSING, MICHIGAN P3225 Mower Purely Elementary Until the politicians at Washington have some com- prehension of the elementary problems of banking, it is idle for them to rail at the banks for taking pre- cautions absolutely essential to their own safety.—Elmer H. Youngman, Editor Bankers’ Magazine, in New York Times. FA be it from us to say aught in extenuation of the politicians of Washington. We are prepared to be- lieve about them even some of the things which an expert banker might say. But what are the “elementary” problems of banking? So far as human experience points out, they consist in making as large a profit as possible for the bankers, Banks are not in business for their health. That is why, when we hear of their taking much- needed “ precautions,” we assume that they are doing this in their own interest. The “ safety” of banks may, of course, be the of the public. But not invariably, any more than the “safety” of a man who sells you a horse may consist in his charging you twice as much as the horse is worth, The public is also entitled to take precautions for its own safety. The fact that this may be a new idea in the circles in which Mr. Youngman moves and has his being does not make it any the less true. safety” VE you succeeded in demonstrating that astronom- ical theory of yours? “Certainly not,” replied the scientist. “As soon as an astronomical theory becomes thoroughly demonstrated it loses half its value as a subject for magazine articles.” “WILL YE PLEASE TELL MISS TILLIE SMITH ’AT MR. BOBBIE. JONES WANTS HER TO COME OUT AN’ MAKE MUD PIES” that mon foe peice, 371 comicbooks.com