Life, 1905-08-03 · page 40 of 44
Life — August 3, 1905 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** for Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company's bathroom fixtures, occupying most of the layout. The page includes several **humorous anecdotes**: 1. **"Like Father, Like Son"**: A clergyman scolds a boy for playing football on Sunday, only to learn the boy's father is participating in the game as goalkeeper—undermining the moral authority of the rebuke. 2. **"The Last Straw"**: A cartoon depicting office boys discussing why one quit his job, using working-class dialect ("ole Bangs," "de mull office"). The humor derives from the cumulative frustrations of an exasperating boss. 3. **"Taken In"**: A anecdote about a draper's assistant who deceives a customer about fabric quality, then justifies it with Scripture—satirizing religious hypocrisy. 4. **"The Check Rein in New York"**: A letter to the editor criticizing the cruel practice of check reins that restrict horses' natural head movement, advocating animal welfare. The page represents typical early-20th-century *Life* magazine content: light satirical humor mixing social commentary with consumer advertising.
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PORCELATh Baths & One 88 Beet ei EKG arrange your bathroom, and on decoration, tiling, etc. for six cents postage. and has our trade-mark “Staedand” cast on the outside. Your House is not Modern Without a Bathroom Equipped With ‘Statdard” Ware It is sanitary because its snowy surface is non-porous without crack or crevice for dirt to lodge. Each piece is per- fect, no matter how inexpensive. can be bought and installed at a very moderate cost. room equipped with “Standard” ware adds a cash value to your property far in excess of the expense of installation, and brings more comfort and satisfaction than any room in the house. Our Book, “MODERN BATHROOMS," tells you how to plan, buy and illustrates many beautiful and rooms, showing the cost of each fixture in detail, together with many hints The ABOVE INTERIOR No. P. 36, costing approximately $84.00—not counting piping and labor — is described in detail among the others. CAUTION: Every piece of “Stantars” Ware dears our guarantee “Stantanf “Green and Gold" label, Untess the label and trade-mark are on the fix. ture, it is not *Stasdang” Ware. Refase substitates—they are all inferior and will cost you more in the end. Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. deot. ss, prrmsBuRGH, PA. Offices ard Showrooms In New York: “Standand” Building, 35-37 West 31st St The complete equipment A bath- inexpensive FREE Londen, England 22 Malbarn Viadvet, €.¢. Like Father, Like Son. HILE taking a quiet stroll one Sunday afternoon, last October, a clergyman came across some men playing football on a piece of waste ground. As one of the younger players was about to throw the ball in, the par- son stopped him with the remark, “Young man, do you not know that it is very wrong to play football on the Sabbath Day? What would your father say if he knew about it?” The boy quietly dropped the ball, looked vacantly at the parson for a second or two, and then replied, “You'd better ask him; he’s keeping goal.”"— Tatler, How About It? A’ the circus the clown is usually the best man in the company. The best men are always easiest to make fools of —Boston Transcript. THE LAST First Office Boy: WHY DID YER ROW UP YER Jon At BIPPUS AND BANGS? nariexc ys WHY, 1 COULDN'T STAND OLE BANGS Me, RIGHT TER | sie PACE, AND BEFORE DE MULL OFFICE, TER GIT OUT UY DE ME MAD DE CRUST TERT PLACE AND NEVER COME BACK! DAT WUZ DE LAST STRAW! Taken In, A RTAIN draper only excused the f: of nis assistants if they could justify by Scripture. One day a lady entered the and asked to see some material, but refus buy it because it was too cheap. After show her some other goods, the assistant brought back the sa crial and asked a higher pr and the lady bought it. The proprietor | witnessed the transaction and afterw: proved his assistant. The latter, remembe the rules of the establishment, replied, r, and T took her in.” He was xchange. ma ‘ds re- THE REAL THING ROSS'S ROYAL BELFAST GINGER ALE. The Check Rein in New York. T° THE EDITOR OF THE SUN—Sir: As a visitor during the last nine months in New York, I would like to express my of ion regarding the way the horses are treated here. It seems almost impossible that educated people can drive behind a poor beast that can neither close its mouth nor move its head from the unnatural position in which it is held by that inhuman device, the check rein. (I have often seen them so in Central Park.) What about the heat people can hardly bear? They at least can try to make themselves com- fortable, but not so the willing horse, which has to suffer doubly from that, and all on ac- ‘count of the eruel check. Can nothing be done to stop this dreadful abuse? In England one rarely, if ever, sees such a thing. Owing to the efforts of the King, the Duke of Portland and all the prominent horse owners, this unnecessary harness was abolished years ago. I know of no better way of reaching the public than through the columns of The Sun. I shall hope some day to see that you have taken this matter up seriously. _D. M. G. New York, June 20.—New York Sun. - F comicbooks.com