Life, 1906-03-15 · page 32 of 38
Life — March 15, 1906 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements** for consumer products (underwear, garters, cigarettes, bitters) interspersed with three short satirical pieces. The main satirical content includes: 1. **"J.C. and the Waits"** — A social satire about a wealthy man ("Mr. Chamberlain") encountering Christmas carolers ("waits") on New Year's Eve. The humor lies in his confusion about who they are and class assumptions about "his own people." 2. **"Racial Discrimination"** — A brief anecdote about a French-Italian steamship where the English/American passengers segregate from Continental Europeans in the dining room, with anti-German sentiment expressed ("God in Himmel!"). This satirizes ethnic and national prejudices of the era. 3. **"Prof. Barrett Wendell"** — A humorous story about an absent-minded Harvard Latin professor who walks through Cambridge reading a book, collides with a cow, and continues reading, oblivious. The joke plays on academic absentmindedness. The page reflects early 20th-century *Life* magazine's satirical focus on social pretension, class distinctions, and ethnic stereotypes typical of that period.
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CIGARETTES... ps 25% Sold by all Clubs, Hotels and Prominent Dealers, if unprocurable, write us: NESTOR CIANACLIS CO., BOSTON, MASS. are the pioneers of Egyptian Ci ettes—still inimitable in their true Oriental delicacy. Also in tins of 50 and 100. Maxe the best cocktail. A delightful 5 ANGOSTURA Mertatic for all wine, spirit and soda Seeeuraatapecnfalin an oance OFT eReTY de sweetened meals, affords relief and aorda rect and nlceairestion BITTERS _ important to see that itis Abbow's. yless to say he J. C. and the Waits. R. CHAMBERLAIN bury one New Year's Eve to call upon a Jfriend, and after adjusting the well-known astrachan collar about his chin he was fixing the familiar in the light, satiric eye. As he did so he turned it on a group of men about the porch who were staring unusually hard at him considering he was “among his own people,” as he says himself. “Are you a Jeputation 2” he asked o, sir,” was the reply, as leaving High- monocl “we are the waits.” The what? “The waits. We've been playing here, sir, every night for the past three weeks, Here the and now we've ¢ er spokesman paused Ww said the great man in seeming im- patience we've come: understand.” said act is, sir, dh, I cheerfully Mr. Chamberlain “you've come to apologize.” Need- gave the jest a golden lining. —The Tatler Racial Discrimination. SMALL French-Ialian coasting-steamer was proceeding on its way. The pas- sengers were of various nationalities; English, American, French, Italians, and one large Ger- man, Most of the male passengers were ered in the smoking-room, when the appeared at the and with a nounced: “Dinner, it is serve!” The English and American contingent 3 and started toward the di steward secing that his been understood by stews door, bow an- ose aloon. The nnouncement had not all, continued: “Messieurs, * and as a portion of the passengers ated: “Il pranzo é servito! The French and Italians followed the lish and Americans, in solitary state. “Gott in Himmel!” he muttered, hungrily. “Is it dot no German mans gets somethings to —Harper’s We ng- leaving the large German eat on dis boat, hein ROF. BARRE WENDELL, of Har- vard, describing at a banquet the Jabsent-minded men he had met. “We had once at Cambridge,” he said, “a very absent-minded Latin instructor. This gentleman would walk the streets with an open book before his face, Jand every one had to get out of his way, as though he had been blind. It is said of him that one spring day, as he was walking in the outskirts of Cambridge with his usual open book, he stumbled against a cow, and before he had time to collect his thoughts, mechanically took off his and murmured, ‘Madam, I beg your pardon.’ Then he perceived his mistake and continued on his way reading as before. Half a mile further on he collided with a young lad y, whereupon, in an angry tone of voice he id; ‘Is that you again, you brute?’ "—Boston Heratd. Tene is no danger of dyspepsia for those who drink | YOUNGER’S SCOTCH ALE.—Ade. comicbooks.com