Life, 1905-10-19 · page 27 of 30
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This page is primarily **advertising and travel promotion** with a diary column excerpt titled "During Our Winter Months the Summer Climate of the West Indies." The small cartoon at top-left appears to show **Noah's Ark** with animals, introducing the diary's comedic conceit: the entries are written by someone aboard the ark during the biblical flood. **The satire's premise**: The diary treats Noah's voyage like a modern cruise ship experience, with mundane complaints (wife nagging about pipe smoke, seasickness, red ants) replacing the apocalyptic significance of the flood. The humor lies in **deflating the mythological event** to petty domestic grievances—complaining about the "woman idea" wife's bossiness, amateur minstrel jokes, and animal management problems. The joke for 1906 readers: applying modern, turn-of-the-century married life irritations (smoking bans, women's liberation anxieties, passenger ship culture) to a sacred biblical narrative, treating transcendent history as banal tourism. The page is otherwise filled with **Hamburg-American Line cruise advertisements**, theater promotions (the Hippodrome), and soap advertisements—typical Life magazine content mixing satire with commercial notices.
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gi by) JE Bye During Our Winter Months the Summer Climate of the WEST INDIES is enfoyed to the best advantage on the Winter Crulses of the ‘ Prinzessin Victorla Luise.” Three carefully planned trips have been arranged 1, To the West Indies and Ni a, teaving. New York in 19 cost $125.00 and p ‘The Spanish Main ‘and Nassau, leaving New York February 6th. Dura- tion 26 days; cost $175 00 and upward. Ill. To the West Indies and Nassau, feaving New York March 8th. Duration 23 days; cost $180.00 and upward. To the Orient, and Holy Land| by the luxurious S. S. Moltke on a 76-day cruise, leaving New York January 30, 1966, Ports of call in Madel raltar, Algeria, Haly, France, Sicily, Malta, Ej Vand, Turkey and Greece. “Ample t extensive shore trips. Cost of Cri . Spain, Gib- s the Holy at euch port ¢ October, Ni cuises vary in durati nd cost from $75 upward. | Detailed in- n, (tincraries and beautifully illustrated booklets will be sent promptly to any address upon application to the HAMBURG-AMERICAN LINE 1229 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. 901 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. 37 Broadway, New York St., Chicago NEWYORK ['ppodrome Block of Gth Ave., 43d to 441h St, Colossus of Modern Productions ‘A YANKEE CIRCUS ON MARS”’ WITH IMPERIAL VARIETY CIRCUS and “THE RAIDERS” DAILY MATINEES REUTER’S SOAP If you want a toilet soap made from the purest stock and in the cleanest way, you should purchase Reuter’s In no department of pro- duction is expense curtailed where perfection of quality is procurable. At all Department Stores. | sceording to my | she t Appropriate, but pretty thin stuff for a grown April 25.—Amateur minstrels last night. I was the middle man. Japhet got off a dandy; asked me, “When is a door not a door Answer, “When it's ajar.” A jar, see? Made a hit, but seems to me I've heard it somewhere before. Mighty few new jokes nowadays. Japhet made a first-class actor, but his brother was a Ham. April 26.—More red. ants. are off on the red ants, All race suicide bets April 28.—Wile objects to my smoking on board, Says a pipe smells up the whole pl I positiv refused to quit. Wife getting entirely too bossy ‘since up with new woman idea. pril 29.—No sleep. Wife fussed all night. 2 P. M.—Decided to give up smoking in the ark. Think maybe it affects my heart, anyhow. April 30.—Who said the leo his spots? It's always chai brute on board. Says the re eral complaint on this score. insect powder on board. ce. d couldn't ‘em—most nts bother him, And not a speck of And no anteater! May 1,—Only time I ever remember the first of the month vill lors around, Silver linings to these clouds all ri May 6.—Row today. Shem trying to do burnt-wood designs on the elephant. vised her to work on the re There's about 2,000,000 of ‘em that we could spare without a lot of wife started it, Ad- in the icebox. t to say that it's never missed a n business beginning to be ove notion. Nothing else happening. May 13.—Fierce storm. ybody seasick, I stood it for a w » but after din: T gave up, too. Compelied to batten down the hatches in the afternoon, ML hands thrown together informally and nobody ap- peared to hold anything back. Humpty Jackson, the see han anybody. Tonestly, at T thought that camel was trying to turn himself inside out. [told him if he tasted anything slick in his throat to swallow it back quick; it would be his liver, Calmer toward evening. Memo.—In my m zine article on the voyage shall head this chapter, “And the Ark Was Pitched Within and Without.” May 16. atural history, I fi the camel has seven stomachs. No wonder Hu Jackson suffered yesterday. Look hew I felt, and me with only May zo.—Iurrah! today for about five mi fering ed worse 0! Reading up on Clearing up at last. Sun out Shem went to bed suf. m nervous prostration, and Ham has his job f the red ant department. Ham says it's the hardest work he ever tackled. May I'm afraid we're in for a malarial summer, even after the roads dry off May 29. n today to find a real estate agent if possible. Am in the market for a good high, sclid 1 utes. boss Water going down. Sent out the rav fg with the raven. Guess he come back on account of the ants. like to get away myself. » raven yet. Sent out the dove. may make a better advance agent for this floating Wife inclined to be se 't blame him June 3. ppish—says T ought to have the first place. ne 6.—Dove back to-lay, bringing handbill an. ng a hargain sale of dry goods, slightly damaged by water. Mrs. N. and the boys’ wives all worked up at the prospect of getting in on it. Dove meant well, I guess, but T can see mighty well his selection of read ing matter is going to cost me Ham and nown enough to send out the dove in nou me money. Shem, het feel the same way. J 12.—Landed swampy section. Don’t recognize the country, but it looks to me like parts of Arkansas. Anyway, I'll bet it's a long ways from Broadway Aug. 14.—It is’ Arkansas, but I've got no kick coming. I'd be willing to stay anywhere awhile just to get shut of the red ants. —New Vork Evening today in L GH. 7 MUMM& COS Extra Dry of the new vintage now arriving is con- ceded to be the finest produced this decade. Naturally Dry. Selected Brut ‘The finest brut champagne in the market Made of selected cuves of vint ars especially adapted for brut wine ery Dry Champagne of exceeding Purity. J. CALVET & CO. BORDEAUX, CLARETS AND BURCUNDIES. 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