Life, 1905-07-06 · page 31 of 44
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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political satire. The left side contains three short humorous pieces: "An Optimist" (a poem about finding silver linings despite modern anxieties like stock market crashes and automobiles), "Over Police Headquarters" (satirizing police station discipline), and "Sacrilege" (an anecdote about a suburban resident annoyed by a neighbor's chickens). The right side is dominated by a **Tiffany & Co. advertisement** for ladies' gold brooches priced $5-$20, along with promotional text about their mail-order service and upcoming relocation from Union Square to Fifth Avenue. The content reflects early 1900s middle-class concerns: financial uncertainty, automobile anxiety, and luxury consumer goods. The humor is gentle and domestic rather than pointed political satire. This appears to be a typical Life magazine page blending entertainment with commercial advertising.
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Se ‘LIFE: An Optimist. LTHOUGH they often cause me grief, I sometimes view them with relief And even point with pride. w bulls and bears are wildly tossed smors strange confuss I turn about no fortune lo: Lhave no wealth to lose. Though wagons moved by gasoline and sear, May sadly m: 1 view them with am I have no motor car, ad We read of drownings swift and std, With sympathetic shock. I'm sometimes I have no boat to rock. well-groomed woman than a stylish and a A dainty E air of Sorosis shoes will N. B. lice Headquarters, thi gs are 1 discipline, The people who “drop O VER run on occasions with no particular bu 1 and ss in} he newspaper men who are there Iways walk with cautious tread and ) awe-struck expression on their faces. he explat dle little no- mis found s that has 1h ted he telephone erks tice. A man is specially engaged 1 the shout- ed in nd kept on the premises to dc . eu and swearir this est nment sis kept to d the growling. Our man and chucker-out has won seventy- ats and has never been beaten; shot with the revolver. undertaker calls he "—Detroit Free Pr + every morning « Sacrilege. A SUBURBAN resident’ of C— was greatly annoyed by the raids of his shbor’s chickens. One Sunday morning he ed to be the rear of his lot and saw TIFFANY & Co. Diam: and Gem Merchants Strictly Retailers. No Agents Ladies’ Gold Brooches All 14-karat gold. Photographs upon request No. 7. Scroll with white and blue enameled Forget-me-nots - - $5.00 No. 8. Myrtle with diamond and baroque pearl - - - - 6.50 No. 9. Entwined floral design with enameled snowdrop, diamond center 7.50 No. 10. Crescent with enameled pansies and two diamonds - - 9.00 No. 4. Enameled four-leaf clover, diamond center, border of half-pearls 14,50 No. 2. Wreath half and whole pearls 18.50 No. 3. Diana Crescent with fifteen whole pearls - - - - - 20.00 No. 5. White enameled daisy, dia- mond center - - - - - 20.00 No. 6. Pink enameled wild rose, pearl center - - - - - 20.00 Designs of richer brooches if desired Mail Orders Upon receipt of satisfactory references from any National Bank or responsible business house, Tiffany & Co. will send on approval selections from their stock to any part of the United States. Tiffany & Co. always Wwelcome a comparison of prices Union Square New York The Tiffany Blue Book Tiffany & Co, have just published the 1905 edition of their annual Blue Book, the last to be issued from theirold Union Square store, as within the next few months the firm will remove to their new homein Fifth Avenue This Book, with its 490 pages, conven- ent side index and handsome leather binding, isa gradual development. of a modest little thirty- page leaflet, their firstcatalogue.issued just sixty years ago. Through all these years it has retained two of its distinctly individual features, compactness of f and careful ai ance of illustration, It gives concise de- scriptions and range of prices of neatly everything sold. by this’ establishment, from the most inex: pensive trifles to the richest jewelry. It is a valuable ‘guide for shoppers and itis to be had for the asking.—New York Titbune Removal During the summer Tiffany & Co. will remove to their new building, Fifth Ave- nue and 37th Street Letters sent either to Union Square or Fifth Avenue will re~ ceive prompt atten= tion nv her yard ent her ch + neighbor nett 1p his vei y indifferent to ons were merrily digging promising crop of young onions Mrs. Murphy,” said Mr. C. longer, here, now, yo must kens at home, or else [Il ble. I'm tired of this!” Mrs. Murphy regarded him for a moment Well,” she said, “one thing’s certain. You uin't got the love of Jesus in your heart to let little thing like that bother you on the blessed bath day !"—June Lippincott’s, cool em for my An Artist’s Mistake. HE ploring a nd himself beset by the par Entering a small restaurant of somewhat nder rib at FORD, while recently ex- briskly be and sle doubtful aspect. he ordered a The waiter, after a long dela ing a plate on which reposed a chop.” mashed “Oh, beg pardon; potato and a much overdone chop of micro- ford, peering at it closely, “I thor scopic proportions and with a remarkably long a crack in the plate. e the famished mote part of New York. started off to attend to another customer with- of hunger. out further ceremony See here,” calle “Yes, sir,” answered the man. “There it is.” ched. Clapping this down ist, the waiter do Herford, “IL ordered a that’s true,” returned Her- ht it was ening Post, "Saturday E comicbooks.com