Life, 1916-05-04 · page 48 of 52
Life — May 4, 1916 — page 48: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines three distinct pieces of content: **Left side:** An advertisement for "Pennsylvania" Quality Lawn Mowers, emphasizing durability and value—a straightforward commercial pitch. **Bottom left:** A brief comedic sketch about two people attempting to quote Shakespeare's *Macbeth*. They repeatedly misremember or disagree on the exact wording of the line "cribbed, cabined, confined," each confidently "correcting" the other until they give up and switch to *Hamlet*, which they claim is easier to quote accurately. The joke satirizes people who pretend to deep literary knowledge while being imprecise with actual texts. **Right side:** An advertisement for *Ainslee's* magazine (June issue, 15 cents), promoting its fiction. It humorously depicts perpetually dissatisfied readers: the magazine offers a story by Samuel Hopkins Adams about romance in South America, yet imagines complaints that it should also include novelettes and short stories by other named authors (Ethel Watts Mumford, Alan Dale, Albert Payson Terhune, George Weston, F. Berkeley Smith, Horace Fish). The satire targets readers with insatiable demands for more content.
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