Life, 1905-11-30 · page 2 of 24
Life — November 30, 1905 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and humorous anecdotes** rather than political satire. The main visual content includes ads for **Lea & Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce** (featuring a Victorian-era figure) and **Club Cocktails**. The text sections contain three brief humorous pieces: "His Niggardliness" (about a clergyman's sermon on frugality), "A Profitable Hunt" (a domestic anecdote about poultry), and travel advertisements for Pacific Coast scenery. The tone is genteel humor typical of early 20th-century American magazines—social satire targeting middle-class behavior, domestic relations, and consumer culture rather than explicit political commentary. The period language and references (Parson Woolman, specific magazine citations) reflect the era's concerns with respectability and propriety among educated readers.
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UNDER THE ACT OF 16 Lea & Perrins’ Sauce THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE The Peerless Seasoning Some appetites need to be tempted. Dishes which are ordinarily flat and tasteless may be made Just the reverse by proper seasoning. Soups, Fish, Roasts, Gravies, Salads, etc., are given a delicious flavor by adding LEA & PERRINS’ SAUCE. No other “just as good.”” Joba Duncan's Seas, Agents, New Yors, Talking Points for THE FOUR-TRACK NEWS Which Explain Its Emphatic Success Here are a few reasons why you want Tue For « ‘Track Newson the reading table in your home. Lock , think them over—then send for asample cny+ you don’t think Tue Four-Track News's worth $1.00 a year to yourself and your tamily, {is,goniined to no geographical se always and forever up-to-date. It is a great help to students in history classes There is much in every issue of educational value to every reader. It is entertaining to the father and mother as wcll as to the children. It is eloquent with bright, brief, valuable artictes and superb pictures. Subscriptions, $1.00. Years Foreign Countries, $1 at News-stands, 10 Cents a Copy. A sample copy and our special terms to agents will jing. your address and two references » Publisher, Room No, 45, 7 East 42d Street, New York. “] SHO'LY hates, bruddren and sistahs, to publicly membuh ob dis congregation by name, arked good old Parson Woolimon, during a recent sermon, fixing a basiliskic glare on a certain miserly and unproductive person before him, “Time atter at when de contribution box hab cir- cummambulated around, de brudder under spec- ification ain't flung in nary , but dess sot and sot and soaked up de sermint, and neber said ‘boo!’ about payin’ his predestined pro- ratty. Dar comes a time, muh friends, when procrastinatio’ to be virtuous, and I is now gwine to ax dat disliberal and reluct- ant pusson whyn't he reorganize his ’spon: ‘casional nickel or done c bilities and retaliate wid a a little so’thin’ dat-a-way. Don't you know Brudder Slewfoot—l's gwine to predicate to him—don't yo’ know dat yo’ am due and elect ed to lend to de Luwd? Don’t yo’—?” “I knows all dat, and mo’, too,” doggedly replied the economical Mr. Slewfoot. “1 knows dat, all right enough, and I stands ready and willin’ to lend de Lawd. When de Lawd comes atter de moncy I's er-gwine to fork ober; but I sho’ proclaims in a high, cl’ar dat I ain’t gwine to hand it out to nobody —Tom Watson's Magazine, A Profitable Hunt. CITY woman who recently spent a few. days at a farm bought some poultry from the farmer with a view to their provid- ing fresh eggs for breakfast every mornir She sent them to town by messenger, at t same time despatching a note to her husb telling him to look out for the consignme Her husband, on reaching his home, that 1 asked if the poultry had arrived. He was informed that they had; but, explained the servant, he had carelessly left the basement door open and they had all escaped. A fowl! hunt was immediately organized. The next day the husband, meeting his wife on her re- turn, exclaimed: “A nice time I had w your poultry! I spent three hours hunting for them and only found ten.” “You may consider yourself lucky, the replied his wi for I bought only six.” Harper’s Weekly. in England and the Sterling in America do to silver. When other brands are G. F, HEUBLEIN & BRO. Sole Proprietors, HARTFORD. NEWYORK. LONDON. 1,300 Miles PACIFIC COAST SCENERY LOS ANGELES TO PORTLAND Go west, see and enjoy for yourself the mani out-of-door joys of mid-winter time to be found all along this scenic highway. Nature's wonder work met with at every turn, Mineral Springs. Fruitful Valleys. Surt- kissed Bluffs. 5no~-Capped Mountains. An- clent Missions. Acres of Fragrant Flowers. SOUTHERN PACIFIC The Best Route for Comfortable Travel and Picturesque Scenery. tngatre Bostox, 110 Washington Street, New Yor, PIOLaDELrata, 652 Chestnut Street Batrmorg, Plo r Batiateg, alti ore Street ‘SYRACUSE, 212 Wost Wasuington Street comicbooks.com vid dev