Life, 1906-02-08 · page 3 of 24
Life — February 8, 1906 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with three main comic anecdotes in the center column. The title story "The Generous Printer" satirizes a printer's naive assumption about sports. Ordered to create a football Cup-tie poster, the printer—from a town where soccer is unknown—mistakenly illustrates a Rugby "scrum" instead. The joke hinges on the printer's ignorant generosity in offering to correct the error cheaply, fundamentally misunderstanding what sport he's advertising. The surrounding anecdotes mock British institutional confusion: a magistrate unfamiliar with legal terminology, and a naval officer baffled by basic table etiquette. These brief humor pieces ridicule upper-class incompetence and miscommunication rather than targeting specific individuals or political events. The page otherwise features period advertisements for corsets, soap, and hair products.
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ENE RES THE COAT FEATURE OFA 19. modern Idea—the shirt goes “On and Off like a Coat” For morning, afternoon or evening, correct styles for every occasion —exclusive color fast fabrics oF 1a white, $1.50 of more CLUETT? PE. YY & CO., ‘Lares est Makers of Collars and Shirts ta the World. Pocantico Lodge, Briarcliff Menor, N. Y, NOW OPEN for the Winter season and throughout the year. Doubled in capacity and with new and desirable res. A toboggan slide, of model construction wear hotel, is a new winter sport property. Davin B, Puumar, General Manager POCANTICO LODCE, open all year BRIARCLIFF LODGE, June 4 to Dec. 1 There is so much Sweet Almond Oil and Olive Oil in Reuter’s Soap that chap- ping and roughness are simply impossible. Send a two cent stamp fora trial cake BARCLAY & COMPANY 44 Stoce 8t., New York The Generous Printer. ]* a town where Association football is all the rage a newly-established printer was ordered to prepare the posters for an impor- tant Cup-tie match. Unfortunately, however, he came from a town wher * was unknown, and when the announcement appeared on the boardings it was garnished with a highly-colored pic- ture of a Rugby “scrum”! “What on earth made you put that in, Mr Printer?" remonstrated the secretary of the club. “Our spectators will simply how! when they see it. They come to watch us play with a round ball, not with an oval one.” Well. never mind,” said the printer sooth- ingly. “If they make any bones about it, buy a ball to match the poster, and I'll stand the price of it!"—Exchange. What a Court Really Is. AGISTRATE ROBE CORNELL, of New York, has acquired a new and valuable legal definition. An aged but robust negro witness who testified before him the other day wouldn't stop talking when coun- sel objected, but kept on roaring his testi- mor op!” the magistrate commanded. “Don't you know you're in court a-as’r,” replied the negro. “Well, don't you know what a court i aid the old fellow with a low bow. r; a co't is a place whah dey dispenses with justice !"—Saturday Even- ing Post. APTAIN RYAN, the new British naval attaché, said at a dinner in Washington: | The strength of the heads of some of our | old school farmers is quite meredible. “At a harvest supper, a feast similar in its | way to your Thanksgiving dinner, there was an old farmer who drank a good deal of cham pagne. The moment his glass was filled he | would toss it off, and then, of course, it would be filled again. “But the old fellow grew quieter and quieter the more champagne he drank. A frown set: tled on his forehead. His eyes flashed angrily under his heavy gray brows. “Finally, when the waiter filled his glass with wine for the twelfth or thirteenth time, he shook his head and said: ‘James, when are you going to put the whisky on the table? These minerals are get- ting tedious.’ "—IVashington Post, | CURIOUS case of wholesale libel is on in Paris. A newspaper of that city told of a certain gallant adventure in which it was alleged that a parish priest unnamed had | figured. There are sixty-six parish priests in) Paris, and all have instituted slander suits, each with the object of vindicating himself. Each asks $200 damages—New York Tribune. REDFERN Corseting is as smooth as a snug-fitting fine kid glove. The figure reveals the full beauty of the lines and curves of the model, which is scientifically designed as the proper base for figure fashions, There is a Redfern Model to mold all types of form into correct lines for all modes of dress. Filled with Arctic whalebone, made of choice fabrics and trimmed in lingerie effect. “SECURITY” Rubber Button Hose Supporters on all models. Sold at the best shops at from Three-and-one-half to Fifteen dollars per pair. THE WARNER BROTHERS COMPANY, Seven Sutherland Sisters’ Scalp Cleaner makes a delightful, creamy lather that cleanses the hair and scalp thoroughly, removes dandruff and all other hindrances to healthy hair growth, It does not rot and bleach the hair like soda, ammonia, etc. @ Aid the scalp cleaner with the “Hair Grower.” Neither con- tains an element but what is good for the hair and scalp. Sold by druggists and de- partment. stores. “It’s the Hair--not the Hat’’ That. makes a woman attractive comicbooks.com