Life, 1900-11-01 · page 19 of 20
Life — November 1, 1900 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This *Life* magazine page contains a satirical cartoon and period advertisements (circa 1900). **The Cartoon:** Two Scottish fishermen discuss holiday season tourism. The first asks if the second has given up fishing; the second replies that while he hasn't stopped fishing for fish, he now fishes for "men" (tourists spending holidays) instead—a biblical reference to disciples becoming "fishers of men." The joke satirizes how local communities exploited seasonal visitors for profit, treating tourism as a commercial opportunity rather than a leisure activity. **The Advertisements:** The page heavily promotes luxury goods—Pears' Soap (emphasizing its Paris Exhibition award), Prudential Insurance (offering financial security), "Canadian Club" whisky (marketed to "connoisseurs"), and Leadam's shoe trees. These ads reflect early 1900s consumer culture aimed at affluent readers, positioning products as markers of sophistication and respectability.
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Pears obtained the only Grand Prize awarded solely for toilet soap at the Paris | Exhibition, Feet ae \, Hi \. 1900. This is the highest award obtainable for anything. Pears’ Soap has obtained IN THE HOLIDAY SEASON. 2t International awards. Pirst Fisherman: \'VE NAW SEEN YE OT FISUIN’ WI’ THE BOATS LATELY, ANDREW. TAK YR GUEN IT UP? Second Fisherman: WEEL, NAW—I'VE NAW GI'EN UP FISHIN’, BUT SINCE A’ THEY POLK ARE COMING HERE TO SPEND THEIR HOLIDAYS I BECOME A FISHER O° MEN LIKE THE DISCIPLES O° AULD, — Moonshine. The flavour of oY nn boo aa aa aan >The Benefits of Life: Insurance are well known and the need for it almost universally recognized. Nearly everyone believes in Life Insur- ie ceales wit ite ance. What you and your family need, dded after ward, and water cannot wash it out. A High Ball made from “‘Can- adian Club” is an extension, not an extinction, of the perfect quali- ties which have meade “Canadian Club” so popular 9 with connoisseurs however, to assure protection, is not mere KNOWLEDGE, but the Actual Possession of a policy in The Prudential AMOUNTS— $15 to $100,000. Write for particulars. ress Dept. O. THE PRUDENTIAL $ INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA 3 j Z ; i JouN F. DRYDEN,Pres. y i , Sapling, easy to ure. HOME OFFICE: Newark, W. J. f i} Ph wry tomer ws 3 MY ob ort drylog when Leads ‘res ai 4 : GAS All sizes and styles for men and EE Seti te, size and at LIONRL a. ‘Of shore tree,” 80 Wall St., New York.