Life, 1905-04-06 · page 50 of 62
Life — April 6, 1905 — page 50: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements and humorous short stories** rather than political cartoons. The main visual content includes: - **"Alice in Peter's-Land"**: A playful advertisement referencing Lewis Carroll's *Alice in Wonderland*, showing Alice at a tea party. The joke is that Peter's Chocolate is "always inviting"—a commercial pun rather than satire. - **Small comic sketches** ("Mutual Friends," "Traveling Incog") with generic humor about gentlemen in hats. The text pieces are **satirical anecdotes**: - **"The Star and the Violets"** is a theatrical mishap story: an actress receives flowers at the theater, only for the "dark-haired lady" to frantically demand them back—revealing the bouquet concealed her hat, not a romantic tribute. - **The Raynor anecdote** mocks a newly-elected Senator's pompous remark that "everything is either a luxury or necessity." A deliberately unkempt colleague asks if taking a bath falls into either category, embarrassing Raynor into a cutting retort about the man's poor hygiene. The page reflects *Life*'s satirical focus: social embarrassment, theatrical pretension, and political pomposity—not hard-hitting commentary.
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y " uret Chotelate Powders Lowoey"s Breakfast Coteay and a Lowney Receipt Rout. ‘THE WALTER M. LOWMBY CO., 447 COMMERCIAL STREET, BOSTON, MASS, MUTE-UAL FRIENDS, Alice in PETER’s-Land This isn’t a circus,” said the Hatter, severely to Alice. High as the Alps “t's a Tea Panty, and you're nol invited.” in Quality “OhI yes, | am,” said Alice. “ There's Peter's Choc- olate on the table, and that’s always inviting.” 5 juss 9 PETERS Absolutely wholesome, yet so dainty and PETER: S delicious that it is a revelation to the CHOCOLATE chocolate lover. CHOCOLATE FREE SAMPLE and illustrated booklet, “An Ascent of Mont Blanc,” upon request LAMONT, CORLISS @ CO., Sole Imnorters, Dept. P, 78 Hudson Street, NEW YORK “Irresistibly Delicious” The Star and the Violets. HE curtain was rung up for the third time, and Margaret Blake, whose remarkable acting had made “The Burden of Love” one decided hit of the season, stepped forward and responded to the prolonged acclamation of her admiring audience. She spoke with a graceful modesty that charmed, then gathered her floral tributes. Was it the intense excitement, or the blind- ing array of foot-lights that dazcled and con- fused her? Quietly reposing on a lower box rail by the proscenium she saw a magnificent bunch of violets—her favorite flower—ostensibly placed there for her by the sweet-faced, dark-haired lady behind them. With applause still ringing in her ears, Miss Blake leaned forward and took the lovely bouquet, acknowledging the gift by a pretty bow. The sweet-faced, dark-haired lady reached after her with a strange and sudden haste. “Give me back my hat!" she cried hyster- ically. —Lippincott’s Magazine. SIDOR RAYNOR, the new Senator from Maryland, has been a leading lawyer in that State for thirty years. He was in Con- gress while the McKinley tariff bill was under discussion. One day, while arguing an amend- ment, he casually remarked that “everything is cither a luxury or a necessity.” Here he | was interrupted with a question from a mem- ber whe generally kept himself in / most. un- kempt condition, “I understand you to say that everything is either a luxury or a neces- sity,” said the disheveled member; “now, I have just taken a bath. Which would you call that? Angered at such a trivial interruption, Mr. Raynor replied, icily: “In your case it is both a necessity and a luxury; a necessity because you need it so badly, and a luxury because you take it so rarely."—Argonaut, comicbooks