Life, 1905-07-20 · page 26 of 28
Life — July 20, 1905 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with short humorous anecdotes interspersed. The main illustrated advertisement promotes **Lake Hopatcong and Sussex Hills** in New Jersey as a vacation destination, featuring a classical drawing of a couple in period dress. The text pieces are lighthearted social humor: - **"One Too Many"**: A literary father dunks his toddler in a creek (following "Spartan" child-rearing ideas); a neighboring farmer intervenes, threatening legal action, misunderstanding the father's intentions. - **"Her Choice"**: A colonial India story where a sickly commissioner's wife refuses to leave; their eight-year-old suggests she "go to heaven" instead—dark Victorian humor about mortality. - **"Bet Was a Good One"**: Wall Street brokers wager over whether Trinity Church's spire will fall across Broadway into Wall Street when it eventually collapses—satirizing both the obsolescence of historic structures and financial district speculation. The advertisements include **Goodrich Tires, Old Crow Whiskey, and Ross's Royal Belfast Ginger Ale**—period products now extinct or transformed.
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Our early season claims sustained by Midseason developments. The prestige of Goodrich Clincher Automobile Tires was never greater than right now. BRANCHES : : New York, 66-68 Reade St. and 1625 Broadway Philadelphia, 909 Arch St. THE B. F. GOODRICH Buffalo, 731 MainSt, | Cleveland, 420 Superior St Detroit, 80 E. Congress St. COMPANY Boston, 161 Columb Ave. Chicago, 141 Lake Se ™ San Francisco, 392 Mission St Det SE AKRON. OID, Denver, 1444 Curtis St London, E. C., 7 Snow Hill Lake Hopatcong and THE SUSSEX HILLS In the highlands of New Jersey, 1.200 feet above sea li hawanna level: cool, dry and invigorating. A region, 90 minutes from Pepe) New York, where you can enjoy your summer outing at moderate cost; sailing, fishing, camping, outdoor sports. fountain and Lake Resorts," a handsomely illustrated book of 128 pages, will give complete information about hotels and boarding places, their rates and location. together with more than 175 pictures. The book also contains a fascinating love story. “A Paper Proposal." Sent on receipt of 10 cents in stamps. Address T. W. LEE, General Passenger Agent, Lackawanna Railroad, New York City. One Too Many. ao | CORRESPONDENT of the Washington Post tells of the amusing experience of a literary friend into whose family a seventh child came last summer. The family were at their country house, and for a time a good deal of the care of the other six children devolved upon the father, who has Spartan ideas as to the upbringing of his sons. | One morning he carried his two-year-old to | the creck near his home, to give him a cold plunge. The child objected lustily to this pro- + ceeding, but was firmly held and ducked, not- withstanding. At the instant of the ducking, however, a brawny hand seized the Spartan father by his | shoulder and flung him back, while the angry voice of the farmer, who was his nearest neigh bor, roared in his “Here, none of that! I'll have the law on you for this!” “And, id the literary man, “it took me half an hour to convince that man that I was. not trying to drown that child. Even then he wasn't wholly convinced. To the very last minute he kept on shaking his head skeptically, and saying: “Wal, I dunno about that, I dunno, You fot six besides this.” Her Choice. HIS is a tale of the Indian plains. 2 The commissioner's wife was ill; but |though her husband begged her to go to England or up to the hills for the hot weath- er, she said that she did not care to m “I don't know what is to be done,” he said, and his litle boy of eight, who had been lis tening to the discussion, advised gently: “L think mam Sporting Tiv °r go to heaven.” The Mest Thirst Quencher | ROSS'S ROYAL BELFAST GINGER ALE | Bet Was a Good One. HEN times are dull as you know, says a York Press, Wall street brokers will pass the time betting on any old thing. On Friday two of the well known members of the exchange dropped down into the Power house at No. 9 New street, and one said to Fred Eberlin: have made a bet of the best Iuncheon you can get up. We want to eat it now, and when the bet is decided the loser will come in and pay the bill, What do you say? Is it all right? “You can bet your sweet life it is,” said the genial Fred. “Just go ahead and order the best in the house.” After the pair had feasted right royally to the extent of about $7 worth, Fred said: “By the way, what was the bet?” “My friend here,” said R., “bets that when the spire of Old Trinity falls it will fall across 5 " into Wall Street, and I bet it writer in the NV here, general; we OLD CROW RYE anion WHISKEY occ ion. comicbooks.com