Life, 1897-06-10 · page 19 of 20
Life — June 10, 1897 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire. It contains commercial advertisements for various products popular in the early 1900s: wood stain, lanterns, bicycles, chewing gum, railroad transportation, patent pedals, punch concentrate, and cocktail mixtures. The only potentially satirical element appears to be the **Iowa girl's commencement oration excerpt** (bottom of page), which quotes grandiose, flowery philosophical language about human insignificance ("A drop in the sea of life. An atom in the universe of nature"). This excerpt seems designed to gently mock the overwrought, pretentious oratory typical of graduation speeches—presenting her elaborate musings about cosmic vastness and existential smallness as somewhat absurd or amusing for a local newspaper. However, the joke is mild and the page's primary function remains commercial advertising typical of early 20th-century magazines.
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*-LIFE: Shingled Houses are warmer, prettier, cosier than clap-boarded not so prim; and shingles stained with Cabot’s Creosote Shingle Stains have a soft depth and richness of color impos- sible in paints, They wear as long as the best e the wood better,® and are so per cent. cheaper to bay and to apply. Alt the merits of paint (and more) twice the beauty and nalf the cost, Stained Wood Samples and Colored Sketches sent free SAMUEL CAQOT, 74 Kilby St., Boston, Mans AGENTS AY ALL CENTRAL POINT: “Wool treatet with Cereante is not subjert ta dry-rot or other deray. CENTURY DICTIONARY ‘“Search-Light” Always Bright. The Leader! A lantern that does not jar or blow out. Reflecting surfaces are always bright. All riders say it is—THE BEST. For Sale Everywhere. BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO, Send for Catalog BRIDGEPORT, CONN. LU PUNCR A SCIENTIFICALLY COM- POUNDED ARTICLE MADE ONLY OF THE VERY CHOIC- , EST MATERIALS, AND \ READY TO SERVE IN A MIN: | THING FOR AN AFTERNOON | TEA, EVENING- PARTY, | YACHT OR PICNIC. IT MAKES | ENTERTAINING EASY. IT For SALE BY ALL DEALERS HARTFORD. NEWYORK, LONDON @ OUCH & iTzGERAL 161 BROADWAY. 688 BROADWAY. BEEMAN’S THE ORIGINAL PEPSIN GUM Cures Indigestion and Sea-sickness. AL Others are Imitatisss PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. New Cab and Omnibus Service, A complete service of Hansoms, Victo- rias, Coupes (Four-Wheelers) and Omni- buses has been inaugurated at the New 234 Street Ferry Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad, foot of West 23d Street, New York. These vehicles may be engaged at the cab stand in the 23d Street Station at reasonable rates, Orders by telepnone to call at hotels or residences in New York to carry persons to the 23d Street Station will be promptly filled. Telephone No, v2ts—18th St. J. By HUTCHINSON, General Manager. J. R. WOOP, Gen'l Pass, Agt. Here is an extract from an lowa girl's com- mencement oration: ‘tl am a human beiog, placed in the midst of a great world, Far and wide it extends on every side. Majestic in its vastness, bewildering in its ever-changing forms, ic overwhelms by its immensity, Over it bend the eternal heavens, and far away in the infinite realms of space gleam the lights of other worlds. And I, whatam1? A drop inthe sea of life. An atom in the universe of nature.” —New York Tribune, EVERYRODY WHO RIDES 8 Bicycle should have the co RUDDER Pedal Attachment, Pat. Apr. 20, 1897 f A better Cocktail at home than is served over any bar in the world CLuB= COCKTAILS MANHATTAN, MARTINI, WHISKE HOLLAND Gi TOM Main VERMOUTH and YORK. 3 So handy to have in the house; can be ; served in a minute's notice. You will not be $ found just out of the necessaries to make a cocktail, Having tried our bottled “Cock- tails,” you will never be without them. These Cocktails are made of absolutely pure and well matured liquors and the mixing equal to the best cocktails served over any bar in the world. The proportions being ac- curate, they will always be found uniform. AVOID IMITATIONS Sold by Dealers generally, and on the Dining and Buffet Cars of the principal railroads. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props. Y. ‘hartford,