Life, 1906-03-15 · page 33 of 38
Life — March 15, 1906 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. It contains product advertisements (Sohmer pianos, Arrow collars, Goodyear tires, Copley prints) interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes and Theatre Magazine promotions. The two notable text items are: 1. **"Nothing Doing"**: A short joke about a Midwestern cabin-dweller who owned a cookbook but found it useless because the first instruction—"First take a clean dish"—proved impossible in his disorder-filled home. The humor relies on rural/frontier stereotypes about slovenliness. 2. **"Interest Aroused"**: A brief romantic dialogue where a woman's enthusiastic declaration of love is undercut by the man's insurance policy mention, subverting romantic sentiment with practicality. Both anecdotes are mild, character-driven humor typical of early 20th-century magazines—no political satire or caricature is present. The page mainly serves to fill space between advertisements.
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Intending purchasers ofa strictly first- class Piano should not fail THE WORLD RENOWNED SOHMER t isthe special favorite of the refined and cultured musical public on account of its unsurpassed tone-quality, unequaled dura- bility, elegance of design and finish, Catalogue mailed on application THE SOHMER-CECILIAN INSIDE PLAYER SURPASSES ALL OTHERS Favorable Terms to Hesponsible Parties SOHMER & COMPANY Warerooms Cor. 5th Ave, 224 St. NEW YORK Long recognized as the| best of pictures: choice as gifts to friends and for the adornment they are“alltbatan ar- tist could ask tn the re- Production of his work.” fty ceots to $0.00. At! art stores, oF § Clupeco shrunk means long Ife, perfect tinish und non- sbrinkabihty. The only truo QUARTER SIZES Over 100 styles: Ise encbs 2 for 5c. Send for book: let and dealer's name, alone sent upon receipt of six ceats io stampa) ‘This famous picture of HOPE by tho late Sir Edward Burne-Jones, copyright, 1908, by CURTIS & CAMERON] 13 PIERCE BLOG Ore. Pus Laaaey BOSTON Nothing Doing. A’ author who makes a specialty of stories of “our great middle West,” with a heart-throb in each, tells of an odd character met in that region, ‘This old chap, afterwards served the author as the © of a book that was largely successful, Woman's acre being, who main alone in a cabin. course, unknown, the cabin presented the The Goodyear Detachable AUTO TIRE on Universal Rims Is the Tire y longing fot and waiting for It is the Tire that wipes out that bug-a-bear of Motoring— Ting Trovntes. Itis the most duradietire you c, also the tiveuigsr creer, RDt CUT of THE Rim when de-~ h ridden for miles icle of air in it, to Puncture id KASIEST TO REPAIR in the second. You can remove this tire or put it back in 30 seconds, with no tools but the fingers. Perhaps this sounds too good itistroe and we Come to any Branch Store—or to the Factory wrrre Us and we will con riace you fully that there is a sure relief from tire troubles and that THIS Time Gives Ir, Don't put it off—call or write Topay. THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER CO. Wayne St., Akron, O. Beaxcurs—Boston, New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, San Francisco, Buffalo, Deaver and Detroit, spectacie of the triumphant reign of dirt and disorder. Somchow the two chanced to talk of cook: ing and cooking utensils, “I had one of them cook-books wunst,” observed the old fellow, “What was the trouble?” asked the author. 95,990," “Why, everything in the book _ be, with, ‘ First take a clean dish.’ ""—//arper’s Weekly. Interest Aroused. COULD die for “You don't say,” you cried, retorted the girl, in- differently. “Tam yours!” she cried, “till death.”"—Phil- adelphia Press THE THEATRE IN ORDER TO INTRODUCE THE THEATRE MAGAZINE to those unfamiliar with it, we offer under the title of OUR PLAYERS’ GALLERY three of the current numbers of THE THEATRE MAGAZINE, comprising nearly 100 pages of text, 220 pletares, 3 portralte In colors — Davin Wakrinto as ‘The Music Master,”” Maria Doro as ‘Clarice,” Josnpnt JavrExson a “Rip Van Winkle" (as per illusteations)—and many other portraits (sizes 10 x 13! of Maude Adams, Ethel Barrymore, Edwin Arden, Arnold Daly, K M alich and others. Scenes the follow waw Man,” "Peter Pan,” Assurance, ¢ School for Wusbands,* * London If you wish to secure a copy of OUR PLAYERS’ GALLERY send at once 2g CENTS IN STAMPS OR SILVER and it will be forwarded to you We feel confident that as soon as you have examined these numbers, thus getting an exact idea of what THE THEATRE MAGAZINE is, you will want it each month. SEND YOUR ORDER at once to THE THEATRE MAGAZINE CO., - 22 West 33d Street, New York comicbooks.com