Life, 1904-12-01 · page 56 of 64
Life — December 1, 1904 — page 56: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with brief satirical commentary and jokes. The **main content** discusses **public lotteries in England**—specifically debating whether government-supervised lotteries are preferable to unregulated gambling. The writer argues that since people will gamble anyway (at racetracks, stock markets, card games), a controlled lottery with state oversight is safer than allowing them to be "robbed by Chinese lottery skin-games and by Central American sharpers." The piece cites England's profits from lotteries between 1793-1824 as justification. The three **brief jokes** below concern unrelated topics: a deceased football player who actually drives recklessly; and a knight losing sleep to a young visitor. The **advertisements** promote luxury goods—French liqueur, German wines, and Baltimore whiskey—all marketed to wealthy, "polite society" consumers, positioning alcohol as a status symbol for the genteel classes. The page reflects early-1900s American attitudes toward gambling, class, and consumption.
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“EE The Liqueur of Polite Society LIQUEUR Peres Chartreux —GREEN AND YELLOW— This famous cordial, now made at Tarragona, Spain, was for centuries distilled by the Carthusian Monks (Péres Chartreux) at the Monastery of La Grande Chartreuse, France, and known throughout the world as Char- treuse; the label and bottle formerly used have been abandoned. The genuine article will henceforth be known only as LIQUEUR PERES CHARTREUX, distilled by the same order of Monks who have securely guarded the secret of its manufacture for hundreds of years, and who alone possess a knowledge of the elements of this delicious nectar, At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés. BATIER & 00., 45 Breadway, New York, ¥. ., Sole Agents for United States, The Golden RHINE AND MOSELLE WINES of Hinckel & Winckler FRANKFURT A/MAIN Established 1784 Which you must have enjoyed in the German Wine Res- taurant at St. Louis—where they were served exclusively— have been awarded THE GRAND PRIZE Highest possible award at the St. Louis Exposition, 1904. You may now serve to your guests as choice a wine in as perfect condition as they ever enjoyed on the banks of the storied Rhine. A catalogue of these fine vintages will be forwarded on request. C. H. ARNOLD & CO. SOLE AGENTS 27 South William Street New York Public Lotteries. ITH the curious _ perversity noticeable in the staidest of peoples, there seems to be a feeling in England that the public lottery | t be a good thing. Even the stminster Review has taken the se of the lottery to itself, and ghtily argued in favor of a govern- | ment supervision of games of chance. |The lottery is really out of good |society less than a century. The British Museum was helped out bya lottery; Harvard, Yale and Princeton, all strictly sectarian in their early |days, employed the lottery as a | praiseworthy and honest mode of getting funds Germany to-day recognizes the public lotte and j here in n Francisco the five dailies print twice a month the drawings of foreign lotteries patronized on this Coast The main argument for government lotteries is the fact that the speculative instinct is too strong to be quashed, and if not given a lottery, where the liability of the spectulator is limited, people will rush |off to the stock market, to the horse race, and eke the whist table. Some even see in them a method of trust | busting. Possibly the excitement attendant of the drawing would be good for the complexion. But the great argument advanced is that England, between 1793 and 1824, profits of £346,795 from public lotteries. The Westminster Review writer is probably fighting for no very practical project, but we may remark without offense that it might be better to buy tickets in a strictly honest lottery, upon which Uncle | Sam would keep a paternaleye rather | than to be robbed by Chinese lottery | skin-games and by Central American sharpers.— Argonaut, | WILLIAMS I haven't seen | * anything in the paper lately about Wedgeley, the great football player of a few seasons ago. Is he dead ? Erruxt: Dead! No. He's more | terrible than ever. He drives a racing automobile now. — Chicago Tribune, * OD wot!” said Sir Percival ; “likewise oddsbodikins and go to; but that youngster is a terror!" “In what way, prithee?"’ “Every night since his arrival he done me out of a knight's sleep.” \—Houston Post. The Premier Honor. The world-wide reputation of Hunter Baltimore Rye as the highest standard for purity, quality and flavor has been justly and ely sustained at Exposition by the award of the GRAND PRIZE after a most careful con- sideration of the relative merits of all other Rye brands exhibited. May the thousands who will appreciate its value all the more for houschold uses and for the cheering comfort of Home's Hos- pitality, enjoy a Merry Christmas. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Raitimor, Md