Life, 1920-07-01 · page 8 of 56
Life — July 1, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, not a satirical cartoon section. The page contains three distinct advertisements: 1. **"A Summer Cruise"** — American Express promotes a 14-day Niagara-to-Saguenay river cruise 2. **"The Homestead"** — advertisement for Hot Springs, Virginia resort, featuring scenic photographs 3. **"Milo Violets"** — scented gold-tipped cigarettes priced at 25¢ for 10 The only image with potential satirical content is the small cartoon at bottom right, captioned **"Tragedy of the 'Modernist' Who Absent-Mindedly Painted a Tree Green."** This appears to mock modernist/abstract art by depicting someone who ironically created realistic artwork (green tree) when abstraction was fashionable—a gentle jab at artistic pretension of the era.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
8 “LIFE: A SUMMER CRUISE No other vacation just like this one. 14 days of sightseeing and pleasure —chartered steamer from Montreal to Saguenay and return. S Tours July and August Niagara Falls, Toronto, Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence Rapids, Montreal, Quebec, "| The Saguenay River, Tadousac, Murray 5 Bay, Ausable Chasm, Lake Champlain, v4 Lake George, Saratoga Springs, down the Hudson River to New York. Write Dept. L. 10 for Details. 14 DAYS $265 UP AMERICAN EXPRESS Travel Department 65 Broadway New York (Violets | Delicately. Scented Gold Tipped Cigarettes Cfp\- 3 Box De Luxe of 25 Lr} 100-6 252 g deal tsitppl Gree | DC H00 Broce Yok) IN CANADA 36 CATHCART SMIONTREALS fhe HOMESTEAD of 2Chri J. Andersen ° Re: Hot Springs Gascades & TRAGEDY OF THE “ MODERNIST WHO ABSENT-MINDEDLY VAINTED A TREE GREEN comicbooks Metall