Life — August 21, 1902 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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CS Bea WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. TH STAGE VILLAIN OF THE FUTCRE INTERCEITS A MESSAGE, Authors’ Readings. UTHORS’ readings re- flect our sturdy sense of national selfhood. Time was when our womenkind could not make proper fools of themselves except over a Hindu swami or a Polish pi _ But authors’ readings have discovered in our own civilization the means of gratify- ing the most fastidious neuroticism. To be sure, freaks are still brought from abroad, but as a matter of choice and not of necessity. The Twentieth Century Oceanic Passenger Service Company. REALIZING the impossibility of rendering ocean travel comfortable as well as perfectly safe upon the unstable surface of the sea, and the unlikelihood that satisfactory sub- marine vessels will ever be constructed, this company has been engaged in a new and somewhat startling enterprise exclusively for passenger service. The ordinary whale of commerce, when subjected to our new and secret process, is able to acconiplish the entire transatlantic journey at the rate of sixty miles per hour, landing passengers two days after deglatition. Each patron is swallowed in a specially prepared rubber bag, guarded by air cushions, so that scarcely the slightest discomfort is experienced, and regurgitation is accom- plished under the same satisfactory precautions. The interiors of the animals have been fitted out in the most sumptuous manner with an electric plant, buffet, bath, and all the modern conveniences and luxuries that the age demands. The motion is delightful, resembling the light wafting of a summer cloud, and proving an enormous advance over the more laborions passage of vessels operated by steam. Another great advantage is that sea- sickness is entirely unknown to patrons of our whales, the animals maintaining a horizontal position throughout the entire voyage. Each whale accommodates from four to eight passengers and a steward and stewardess. The company offers the advantages of unsurpassable JOY IN CHICAGO. “MOLY FADER ABENAMAM! OM, PLE-E-E-FASE WIT ME AGEN, MisDER KoBMEK! 1 MUST The Parrot: 1 wevinn'r pink THAT! ONP SEEN TWO TOUSAND SOLIDAIRES VORT A MILLION DOLLARS Arince 1"? comicbooks.com