Life, 1900-06-14 · page 20 of 20
Life — June 14, 1900 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an advertising page from Life magazine (June 14, 1904) with one small cartoon at center-top. The cartoon depicts a minister's wife reading the biblical story of Adam and Eve to what appears to be an elderly couple. The caption reads: "Old Mary: 'DEED, MEM, I CANNA HAUD WI' FOLKS THAT WEARS NAE CLAES AND EATS RAW APPLES LIKE THEM.'" The joke plays on Scottish dialect ("I canna haud wi'" = "I can't abide with") and refers to Adam and Eve's nudity and their eating of the forbidden apple. The implied humor is that Old Mary—likely a working-class Scottish woman—finds the biblical couple's primitive state morally shocking, with her comment about "raw apples" serving as a euphemistic complaint about their nakedness and uncivilized condition. The rest of the page contains liquor and travel advertisements (Martell's Brandy, Old Crow Whiskey, Champagne, the Santa Fe railway route to the Grand Canyon, etc.), reflecting early 1900s consumer marketing.
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