Life, 1905-10-05 · page 42 of 44
Life — October 5, 1905 — page 42: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and light satirical humor pieces**, typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. The main satirical content includes: **"Professor Osler's Hint to Doctors"**: A humorous anecdote about a physician who advises a foreign patient to drink hot water before breakfast. The joke plays on the patient's literal interpretation—he couldn't maintain the regimen for more than ten minutes, suggesting the advice was impractical rather than medically sound. **"A Definition"**: A brief joke where a child asks what "cursory glance" means; the mother defines it as the disapproving look fathers give when wanting to curse but restraining themselves. **"Never Accept a Substitute for President Suspenders"**: A satirical advertisement highlighting how salesmen push inferior suspender brands because they offer higher profit margins, encouraging consumers to specifically demand the President brand despite dealer resistance. The page otherwise contains standard product advertisements for fur garments, correspondence paper, ball bearings, and trunks—representative of early-1900s consumer marketing.
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Do not let a salesma THE NEW FALL CATALOG OF THE ORnOper a an offer you SCANDINAVIAN When you get Fur & Leather Co. ‘I ansdowne” | Eaton-Hurlbut shows all that is the you get |Correspondence -apers Jatest and best in Auto cnect &4 jeer roost Sih ri weet ‘The Eaton-Hurlbut papers are correct in every Garments detail of the latest fashion, All the famous But be sure you and all out-of-door apparel get it. anything else when you ask for linens, Highland Linen, Two-tone Linen, and Berkshire Linen Fabric bear the stamp of NEW MODELS from our agents in Paris, The only way to Copenhagen, and London of suits, coats, wraps, be sure is to re- hats, caps, in fact everything in wearing apparel member that the is shown in all the latest designs and fabrics. Genuine is pertorated every 3 Our prices are most moderate. Send for illus- a Wvedge trated catalog Special Wholesale Department. < Pittsfield, Mass. elegance, with enough range in color, size ar surface to show your own good taste. Eaton-Hurlbut Paper Company SCANDINAVIAN FUR & LEATHER CO. “The Gentle Art of Letter reand 16 West Tiixry-Tiaieo for sale at all good . Writing,” a delightful desk book Opp. Waldorf-Astoria NEW YORK stores p for all who write letters, sent fre Sole agents for the Pacific Coast on request for the name of Roos Bros., Inc., San Francisco, Cal. ¢ ~ es dealer who doesn't sell Eaton. Hurlbut Correspondence Papers Professor Osler’s Hint to Doctors. every morning. The patient took his leave Z - and ina week he returned. R -LIAM OSLER, Regins Professor a4 o . D' WIELIAALOSEES Profe “Well, how are you feeling?” the physician od. “Worse, doctor; worse, if anything,” was the of Mec at Oxford, relates an_ it dent in one of s books which illustrates the importance of precision in the writing of pre- : . Ahem! Did you follow my advice a A young foreigiier one ‘day visited a physi ; drink hot water an hour before breakfast?” cian a malady that had I did my best, sir,” said the young man, “but I couldn't keep it up morn ten minutes at ihe't d, stretch." —Tit-Bits “is to drink hot w hour before break ever: A Definition. down, doct so ‘on't forget it r, y YS: Ma a vhat is a ‘cursor Write it down, d I won't forget i Teachers wens po THE wap LITTLE Does GLADYS: Mamma, what is a “cursory said the patient Go TO WHEN THEY pie? glance Accordingly the physician wrote the direc Chorus: TO THE SAUSAGE FACTORY. Mamata: It is the kind of look that your tions down—r y, that the young man was father gives when he wants to swear but to drink hot water an hour before breakfast doesn’t dare.— Roslyn N Never accept a substitute for President | mad Nyccestes wise Suspenders We hare prored the merits of Presi- > dent Suspenders so fully that most men Vive fies neatly [a kno the President is just the sus- the hat) compartment y want. Some ask for them + Be aatter: pow many © stores, and aro discouraged by on oF, how Jew garment the salesman from buying them. Why? Wides" Keep this tree Because dealers prefer to sell suspen- appeal to well dressed from wrinkles. ders upon which the margin of profit = Tien who must have is larger. Bucalarger marzinof profit tele bose neat a i - Th ABC for the dealer means an inferior sus- Aecurely ed. Ls e sident is the a 4 W d b T K suspender fiaegn ny Ba Nese ardrobe irun you want, th pala . is the one perfect trunk for both men and women. ask your i. Every article in it is instantly accessible, No trays dealer for it at on the first pair to lift—drawers for everything—lasts a lifetime. and insist on and you will never ac- Price $35.00 and Upwards. his supplying you. Insist on having them See ctes went Write sor our seuss and you can get thei y time, as, if your dy youecnt Tipe te Tragelers: dealer will not supply you, we will’ send them hame color preterre to you direct. and we will mall them 50c. and $1.00, Every pair guaranteed. soon direct, . Wis, THE C. A. EDGARTON MEG. CO., Box 353, Shirley, Mass. brolinplok mp sorb oe] Pi ies of quailty ipa and @ comicbooks.com