Life, 1920-05-13 · page 4 of 52
Life — May 13, 1920 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **editorial/promotional content** rather than political satire. It's a "Number Two" installment of "How Do You Read LIFE?" — essentially the magazine defending itself against criticism that readers consume it too hastily. The text argues LIFE contains superior art and literary contributions unavailable elsewhere, and claims these works represent American cultural achievement. A quoted friend endorses LIFE's quality, humor, and "genuine Americanism." The accompanying illustration shows **cats wearing LIFE covers**, apparently meant as humorous visual endorsement of the magazine's worth and appeal. Below is a **subscription offer** for new readers ($5 annually; $5.52 Canadian; $6.04 foreign). This is **self-promotion**, not satire or political commentary—LIFE essentially asking readers to appreciate (and pay for) what they're reading.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
How Do You Read LIFE? Nu or Tivo Last week we asked you how you read Lire, and suggested that possibly you read it too hastily, thus doing injustice to both yourself and Liri of the number may have been formed by a single minor drawi with which you did not agree Your opinion or pa a and this with only the most fragmentary notion of what the paper contained as a whole Are you aware that reading is a great artiand that few people have learned it? @5 < \re you aware that the newspapers have destroyed this adding ? \re you—but of course you ar¢ GQE Lh, Phe best art-contributors to Lire are not only the best in America, but the BK drawings of a large proportion of them appear in Lire alone. You cannot see them cisewhere Phe same thing is largely true of the literary contributors. Lire is cs controlled by no” interest,” trust, proy 2 irty. Itis the representative of only one country: The United States ¢ A friend, who does not always agree with us 8) aid the other day: “All things considered, for fifteen cents Lire contains more art, more humor, more more inction and more genuine nism than any other periodical in the country.” Next week—Dickey’s Dog Cover “ Responsibility”’ Dickey’s dogs, appearing regularly in LIFE, have become famous all over the world. erie pit for ands ia aseuy. Open, only to new. subscribers; no sub- scriptions renewed at this rate. 130 LIFE, 17 West 31st Street, New York “We PEEL LIKE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE One Year,$5.00. (Canadian, $5.52; Foreign, $6.04.) CENTS. AND AT THAT WE'RE WOKTIL TWICE THE money” comicbooks.com