Life, 1902-05-22 · page 18 of 22
Life — May 22, 1902 — page 18: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising with minimal editorial content**. The small satirical items ("Our Foolish Contemporaries") are brief jokes rather than political cartoons: - One jokes about a child's observation that big ears supposedly signify generosity—but his mother didn't give him anything, undercutting the premise - Another features Horace Greeley's quip about missionary work - A third mocks a doctor's logic about eggs and sherry The bulk of the page consists of **product advertisements**: Trimble Whiskey, Nestor Cigarettes, shoe lasts, various hotels and travel services, and champagne. The only visual satire is implicit in the advertising itself—the Trimble Whiskey ad displays romantic language about faithfulness while promoting alcohol consumption, reflecting early 1900s attitudes toward drinking as sophisticated rather than problematic. This appears to be a **typical Life magazine format** from approximately 1900-1910, mixing light humor with commercial content.
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=< OUR FOOLISH. (CONTEMPORA! Lirtie gobs of powder, Little specks of paint Mako the little Freckle Look as if it ain't, —Sphinz. THE HOUSE PERFECT Has telephone ecrvice, with a station on each floor. It pats the whole organization of a great city at your fingers’ ends, day and night, Rates in Manhattan from $18 a year. New York Telephone Company, 111 West 88th St, 215 West 125th St, “ Uncte, do you believe in signs?" Sometimes, my boy; why do you ask?" ‘anec mamma eald big ears was a sign of generosity, n't give me anything for my biribaa; —Exchange. but you HOTEL VENDOME, BOSTON, All the attractions of hotel life, with the comforts and privacy of home. © Tuene was a witty fellow oat ina Michigan hospita eald Representative William Ald h yesterday, “who bad to be fed on a daily diet of nd sherry. Mis physt- cian asked him how he liked the sherry as old as the exg.*""—IWashington Post, A DRESSMAKING ESTABLISUMENT In Paris, greatly tn favor with the dlife American cllentéle, 1s Masson-Tempiler, 101 Roe Saint-Honoré. This house has adopted ie prin- | ciple of supplying the best and newest models» — mpara- tively reasonable prices, thereby inaugural a much- needed reform in the manner of do!mg busir, with the leading Parisian dresamakers, which has bee ollowed by ‘& well-deserved success. Tlonace Gneetey was once asked for a missionary con tribution, “ What for?" be asked. To eave people from going to Me “ No," said Greeley, * not half enough pe as it is."—Argonaut. was the reply. go to bell Cook's Impertal Extra Dry Champagne. Ask your dealer for it, None supertor, Its quality cannot be surpassed. Cucucn: I see Dr. Cattam has got an antomobile. Gotwax : Coaldn’t kill "em quick enough, eh? — Yonkers Stateeman, $5000 TO CALIFORNIA and return, from Chicago, via Chicago and North-Western, Unton Pacific, and Southern Pacific Railways. First-class round trip tickets on sale May 27th to June 8th. The elec tric lighted “Overland Limited provides the best of everything, Compartment observation cars ; buifet brary cars (with barber and bath) ; dining cars. Correspondingly low rates from other points. All agents sell tickets via this route, “ Many, didn’t [ tell you I liked my beef well dove? “You did, marm, bat I didn’t eay anything, People can have ther whims, if they want to, for all o* me.” —Boston Transcript. OLD POINT COMFORT, VA. Pure, bracing alr, Coast scenery. Tennis, Golf, Yachting, ete. Hotels Chamberlin and Hygets. ALiupine to the fact that it was the late Dante Gabriel Rossetti who induced Hall Caine to adopt the profe @novelist, Austin Dobson recently remarked: “* Yes, raleed Caine." Argonaut. ‘It would be all right, | doctor,’ he valid, “ifthe egg was as new as the sherry, and | “ To every lovely lady bright I wish a gallant faithful knight ; To every faithful lover, too, I wish a trusting lady true.” ‘whiskey Green Label. At All First-Class Dealers. WELL GROOMED men and women will see and appreciate the difference made to their Gat? Dales. kee ? them when not in use on LEAl WHEN TREES ARE NUT USED. — TeteS, It is economy. Wet shoes dry in pe. ‘The sole ts flattened ; the leverage docs it and holds it, Yon need never force yoar feet into curled ap shoe Do not accept hinged lasts or other sabstitutes, Ask your dealer for them by name, which is on every pat For men and women, $1.09 a pair, Illastrated booklet on “The Care of Shocs" free. ‘Money retarned if not eatisfactory, LIONEL N. LEADAM, 130 Palmetto Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. WHEN TREES ARE USED DAILY. OLD CROW RYE seior WHISKEY soe te att Sein comicbooks.com