Life, 1901-09-05 · page 20 of 20
Life — September 5, 1901 — page 20: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
The main cartoon (labeled "HOW TRUE!") depicts a young woman smoking a cigarette while an older man warns her that "every time you smoke a cigarette you drive a nail in your coffin." Her response—"A woman can't drive a nail"—is the joke's punchline, playing on the double meaning of "drive" (both the cautionary phrase and the literal inability to hammer). This satirizes turn-of-the-century moral anxieties about women smoking, a newly visible social behavior. The cartoon mocks the hyperbolic warnings against female smoking by reducing the moral panic to absurdity: the concern isn't genuinely about health, but about propriety and women's proper domestic role. The remainder of the page consists entirely of **period liquor and condiment advertisements** (Lea & Perrins sauce, Old Crow Rye, Evans' Ale, Maryland Club whiskey, Martell brandy), with no additional editorial content or cartoons. This is typical advertising filler for Life magazine's pages.
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LEA & PERRINS'’ SAUCE Me Original & Genume worcesTe { Makes all Chafing-dish cookery palatable | and digestible.— Gives a delicate flavor to Welsh rarebits, Lobster: rNewburgh, Oysters.etc. fohn Duncan’ Sons, SURE, La Korreng “erapuregs sat | rsnire- HOW TRUE! “YONG LADY, DON'T YOU KNOW THAT EVERY TIME YOU AMOKE A CIGARETTE YOU PRIVE A NAIL IN YOUR COVFINT “OM, NONSENSE! A WOMAN CAN'T DRIVE & NAIL Moonshine. %_GOOD THINGS! A STRICTLY FIRST-CLASS ARTICLE, A GOOD DEMAND FOR IT, AN APPRECIATIVE PUBLIC. | All of which comes from dealing only in the best values and telling nothing but the truth about them. OLD CROW RYE is a Straight HAND-MADE SOUR MASH Whiskey, and has never been equalled. GOLD MEDAL Awarded at Paris, 1900. ‘H. B. KIRK & CO., Sole Bottlers, N. Y. PRESS OF THE 4, W. PRATT COvy NEW YORK. Evans’ Ale Meets the require- ments of the crit- ical American taste fora “dryer” ale, in the fullest degree. Drged for past 15 years Dy Brewery and Hoeling Works, ‘GTodson, N.Y. it is old CAHN, BELT & CO., Balimore, Md. Ask for MARYLAND CLUB And see that you get tt. “A Genuine Old Brandy made from Wine.” — Medical Press (London), Aug. 1899. MARTELL’ THREE STAR BRANDY AT ALL BARS AND RESTAURANTS. _ Dividends and iste: rest. collected apd err remitted. Act 88 fo (Fiscal “Ageot fof BANKERS, sous loses, oe 41 wate st. Noy. [RE ane wet. 8 Members fougdt aed sold 03 N.Y. Stock Exchange. Soma High-Grade Laveatment 3 urities, ts feat Trausact a gee “a Korg coes" Pe NTS GRAHAM, KER & CO. comicbooks.com