Life, 1906-02-01 · page 10 of 48
Life — February 1, 1906 — page 10: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** mixed with short humorous articles and an illustration. The main content includes: - **Wayne Automobile Company advertisement** featuring early 1900s cars - **Wassermann Brothers** (New York) coffee exchange ad - **White Rock Mineral Water** advertisement with classical imagery - **Krementz collar buttons** ad The illustrated story **"None to Take His Place"** depicts a traveler who stops at a farmhouse seeking dinner. The farmer's family has no milk (their cow died) and limited food. The joke plays on social awkwardness: the traveler, initially discouraged, is assured by the host that such excuses for poor hospitality are common—implying that rural poverty and hospitality failures were frequent enough to warrant casual explanation. The tone is gently satirical about rural life's hardships. The other brief text items ("Social Influences" and "Those Biscuits") contain aphorisms and mild social commentary typical of early 1900s Life magazine humor.
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The Wayne Automobile Company manufactures a complete line of high- grade Automobiles, from the luxurious 7 passenger, 50 h. p. Touring car at $3,500 shown at the top of this adver- tisement to the speedy and powerful 1 14h. p. Runabout at $800 shown below. We can supply cars to meet nearly all demands in con- struction, style and price. The following is a brief description of the Wayne Models for 1906. MODEL Fy 4 cylinder, vertical, 50. bs 5 Price $3500.00, imousine $4500 & ODEL K, ¢ cylinder vertical, 35 h. p. engine. Price $2500.00. MODEL B, ¢ cylinder vertical, 24-2 Price $2000.00. EL C, Double opposed 20 hp. horizontal motor, Price $1250.06 ODEL. H, Two-passenger Re Double opposed 14 h. p. engine unde 3 transmission with direct bevel Crank case and transmission ca the entire engincis " and can be taken apart of : thee regarding . Detroit, Mich. WASSERMANN BROTHERS 42 Broadway, New York j New York Stock Exchange Members of ) New York Coffee Exchange Chicago Board of Trade BRANCH OFFICES: Astor Court (Waliorf-Astoria Hotel.) Windeor Arcade, corner 46th St, and 5th Ave, Imperial Hotel. Fifth Avenue Hotel. Ocean Avenue, West End, N.J., during Sammer monthe. -LIFE- _ None to Take His Place. ER was once passing on horse ough a backwoods — region | where the inhabitants were notoriously shift less. Arriving at a dil ted shanty: atthe noon hour, he inquired what were the pros The he sorbed in “resting” on a log in feat of ins ~ Who had heen ai dwelling, replicd that he “guessed ma’d hey | suthin’ onto the table putty soon.” Thus encouraged, the traveler dismounted. | But, toshis chagrin; he found the food to be | | | such that he could not force himself to. par take of it. Making such excuses as he could for lack of appetite, he happily bethought him self of a kind of nourishment that he might venture to take there, and one sure to. be found on a farm. He asked for some milk “We don't hev milk any more,” the head of the house. “The died week afore last.” drawled | he dog!” cried the traveler, “But what has that got to do with i “Well,” explained the host, meditatively “the critters don't seem ter know ‘nough ter cm up ter be milked theirselves. The dog. he used ter go ‘hn’ fetch ‘em up."—Youth’s Companion Social Influences. I S England it is not what you know that is of importance, but who you know: not what you are, bu do for yc who you are; not what you elf, but what others will de for yeu—London Truth LIAR is cither so depraved that he js not ashamed to be known as at liar, 9 so stupid as to that he can be a tiar t being found out.—Honte and Abroad. THOSE BISCUITS H “Gee wiz! LADY, 1 DIDN'T ASK FOR WORK. 1 ONLY WANTED A arte To RAT.” health it bubbles to the brim— Those we love are pledged therein tines! “Water that flows with the good-fellowship at the banquet board—that gives pleasure and sparkle to all oc- casions of H QUALITY J} sx*zsz ‘The Unbreakabl« Collar Battone that don't hurt the neck, Fasy to batton and anbutton :xtay buttoned. Made in Gold and Rolled Plate. If damaged in any may. exchanged for now one at your jeweler’ oF haberdaaber jooklet om request. Krementz o Co., Geen ‘St, Newark, N. J.