Life, 1906-01-18 · page 4 of 28
Life — January 18, 1906 — page 4: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and letters to the editor**, not political satire. The main cartoon shows a silhouetted figure serving drinks to guests, illustrating an advertisement for Club Cocktails. The "Letter" section contains a lengthy response about divorce law and morality, discussing how some states treat divorce differently. The writer argues against the notion that divorce itself causes immorality, suggesting instead that poor legislation and social conditions contribute to marriage failures. The remaining content consists of commercial advertisements for Evans Ale, sugar products, stock brokers, European tours, and condiments. There is **no clear political cartoon with identifiable figures or caricatures** on this page—it's primarily a commercial vehicle with an advice column addressing contemporary concerns about marriage and divorce law.
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-LIFE- OES a considerate host serve guesswork drinks to his guests ? Of course not. CLUB COCKTAILS are pre- ferred because of their uniformly high quality, and readiness at all times. They’re made from choic- est old liquors, blended in e: quisite proportions and aged to Perfection. Just strain through cracked ice. CLUB is the original brand—specify the name to get the genuine. Seven kinds — Manhattan, Martini, Vermouth, Whiskey, Holland Gin, Tom Gin and York. G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Proprietors Hartford New York London THIRTY TOURS TO EURO tader superior management; ex ‘Tours Around the World: 4: Vrogram W. Free. fe WASSERMANN BROTHERS 42 Broadway, New York New York Stock Exchange Members of } New York Coffee Exchange TWO TO JAPAN Chicago Board of Trade BRANCH OFFICES: Astor Court (Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.) Windsor Arcade, corner 46th St. and Sth Ave, End, N.J., daring Sammer months, 120 Years of Purity Progress Popularity A Letter. IFE PUBLISHING COMPANY. Dear Life: Anent the Metcalfe affair, perhaps you are not aware that since it arose, several of the States have passed laws requiring the admission of all proper persons to am nt houses and providing a penalty for violation, California is among the num ber, and at the last session of the Legislature passed 54 of the Civil se. It is highly would have been | th h legislatio New York had acted decently ne ittance to any per © of twenty-one such place. . oF who is person of lewd any such trae C prov is Entitled to ‘recover. from or from any OF ‘uasociation, oF the ‘one hundred 198! tion in your cheer: >, it should lis actual Jition thereto, F . Stats, © else become abso- espondent seemed to think divorce which board. On States the morals cannot | 1 board, that ul not be per lutely divorced. Ye was some v dia not attach to a contrary, the highest courts have tole it is conducive to immorality mitted. And in a general way, act in son held that a divorce merely fre if you will allow me to divorce cannot be to say that at whi express my is indeed a evil, the re cured by leg marriages nther plac assume the Tf such were the nsibilities of the lower ¢ begins, and is due, in nt condition of so-called Monogam and family cither req) ¢ once proud to call h nor in- or family are not brought up with a eful or orna vite what we w , and young pe view of b cither life. is little opportunity { to develop in the city-bred child, of the wealthy or those in comfortal at to be the chief reason for so many ng married people. “civilized city life" does not give to become really acquainted, because they must. vent ninety per cent. persons an oppor and they marry b! The way to of the Tt may | ast not one which needs any from a sac nn standpoint. An formal marriage is certainly not | created of Heaven, but is purely of the law's creation, and, being so, is very properly subject to destruction by the law, or sol consideratio: roper or n Respectfully yours, George W. Lone. San Franctsco, Cat. An Invitation. R® AD the Bee and cuss it if you must. But read the darn thing —Antwerf, O., Bee. A New Imported Segar LA SAVOIE Perfect in every detail Made in sixteen shapes and sizes Sold exclusively In the Humidors of this company in the basement of the Waldort-Astoria Motel Main Office and Humidors WaldorfAstoria tS Fear, launch or engine PLE AUTOMATIC HATTERY CHE Fasily tnstalled mlckly ean end to all battery tromkes by Cf eran them alwaya rapplied with yuh es” “Wel e today for full intore ce Nand Cuicws Am Battery ~ ra. C0, io Charger Oni When the appetite is a “little off’? and nothing “tastes good ’*—try a dash or two of Tabasco on your food, Only be sure it's MeILHENNY'S—the original —in use half a century. A potent aid to digestion. It makes more palatable—salads, soups, roasts, fish, eggs, oysters, gravies, etc. The housewife will find hundreds of uses for Mellhenny's. rite for dood of rrciper—sent upon request. NNVS TABASCO, New tueria, La. rings