Life, 1904-10-06 · page 30 of 38
Life — October 6, 1904 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page combines satirical humor and advertising, typical of Life's format. The left side features "Our Foolish Contemporaries," a recurring section of short anecdotes mocking human behavior. The jokes target social pretension—a guest arriving without luggage, a fashion-obsessed wife, friends being served inferior cigars—capturing middle-class anxieties of the early 1900s. The dominant image is a fetishized illustration of a woman in classical dress reclining beside an early automobile, advertising Oldsmobile motor cars. The juxtaposition is deliberate: automobiles were new luxury items, and the image connects mechanical progress with feminine allure to market to wealthy male readers. The bottom anecdote about a derailing train mocking passengers' fear adds dark comedy typical of the era. Overall, the page reflects early-20th-century consumer culture and gender attitudes while satirizing contemporary social foibles.
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passenger For Ive not had mptom yet That your old ship's f IF YOU ARE LOOKING for a perfect condensed milk preserved without sugar, buy Borden's Peerless Brand Evaporated Cream, It is a perfect food for infants. Ix this picker-up of those red trifles which that master of style, Charles Lamb, delighted to dwell on, I may record one of the quaint sayings of a little girl who was re ed by a philan thropic fantile humanity thrown from ctropolitan life in which their parents have been wrecked. This tot, who is as pretty as the prover ure and wise beyond her years, was hu cther day to catch a train; and, unconscious that I} was taxing the little one beyond her power, I said, | with masculine prusqueness: | ‘Walk faster, walk faster, or we'll be left!” ting reply; “I'm all out of air."—Boston Budget Tue Sovrn rox Hosrrratrry: The Manor, Asheville, North Carolina, is the bestinn South, Booklet, Nisirox (ot Putin Bay): What do you do in here | all summer? Native: and fish, “And w “We dor “Do you mean to say y rth trouble | in keeping your wife dressed in the height of fashion?” “That's what 1 said. My troub) es when 1 don't keep her dressed that wa hiladelphia | Press HOTEL VENDOME, BOSTON. The ideal hotel of America for permanent and transient guests. jon at Bar Harbor the other ev for Miss Alice Roosevelt, a young man wa duced to her, In the embarrass: say something, he stammered: “Miss Roosevelt I'm very happy to meet you—T have often heard of | your father."”—<Argonuut. He: After all, you know, there’s nothing to beat a good musical comedy! we (hesitat No; except, perhaps, Shake: Dasnaway: Have you got a cigar fora friend? Craverton (bringing out two and handing hive one) Yes. Try this. Dasuaway: Not on your life. IM take the other, which I see is one of Fonseca’s. I don’t want the cigars you give your friends. d a t w « h u m P: . q The Best the Field Affords By Reason of 1—Oldsmobile motor—ripe product of over twenty years successful experience. th 2—Simplicity of mechanical construction. st The absence of all gaskets. Cylinders and th cylinder heads cast integral. Bearings self- oiling; cam shaft gearing entirely encased. 3—Easy to start—absolute impossibility of a “kicking back” in starting. al 4—Style, comfort, power, plenty of speed. i] S—Light Tonneau Car equipped with tilt- ge ing steering post, divided front seat, honey- comb radiator, etc. _ On the recent Automobile Tour—trom New York to St. Louls—the Oldsmobile Tonnyau Car easily held its own with cars costing from three to fifteen times as yo touch. It maintained an average speed of twenty 7 miles an hour over the entire trip. Oldsmobile Standard Runabout, $650.00; Oldsmobile Tourtes gr Runabout, $750.00; Oldsmobile Light Tonneau Car, $950.00. ; All prices F. O, B. Factory. Catalogue free. Address Ye Dept. J. int Olds Motor Works ; Detroit, U.S. A. tor Member of the Association of Licensed the Automobile Manufacturers ay “We were bounding alo on a local rate of about seven miles per he train was shaking terribly. I expected every moment | to sce my bones protruding through my skin sengers were rolling from one end of the car to th T held on fi to my seat. Presently we | bit quic t least, T could keep my teeth didn’t chai © was a quiet-look » with a. ghastly smile, We are going a bit smoother, 1 sec." es,’ he said; ‘we're off the track now.’ ” London Golfing, Copyright, 1904, Lire. BY APPOINTMENT to A Facsimile in Color . Alter BAYARD JONES aun MOUNTED READY FOR FRAMING—SIZE 131; x18 Price, $1.00 LIFE. PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West Thirty-First Street Vg New York comicbooks.com