Life, 1906-05-17 · page 21 of 28
Life — May 17, 1906 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **no political cartoons or satire**—it is primarily **advertising and promotional content** from what appears to be an early 1900s issue of Life magazine. The ads promote luxury goods: Meriden silverware, a Stearns automobile ("One Model 45 Horse Power"), and "Indoors and Out," a magazine devoted to architecture and beautifying America. The Stearns car ad boasts American workmanship finishing foreign materials—appealing to patriotic consumers. The "Vacation Hints" section recommends books and The Tabard Inn Library's exchangeable book service, suggesting leisured travel among the magazine's wealthy readership. **What's notable for modern readers**: This reflects the early 1900s leisure class culture—where vacation meant traveling with novels, exchanging books at library stations, and purchasing imported luxury goods. The ads target an affluent, cultured audience concerned with refined taste and gentlemanly standards.
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sterling silver in design, finish and workmanship. We are offering a rich assortment of silver- plated salvers, in antique patterns, made in round, oval and oblong forms; in sizes ranging from 6 to 30 inches. Butlers trays in modem patterns in various designs and sizes, round and oval, with mahogany bottoms and pierced silver borders. Meriden Siver from summer bomes—combining beauty and durability. THE MERIDEN COMPANY SILVERSMITHS-INTERNATIONAL SILVER CO., SUCCESSOR 218 FIFTH AVE., Cor. 26th St. MADISON SQUARE Also entrance on 26th Street, a few steps from the Broadway cats Mies SILVER plate is the equal of the best & Car of Superlatives. We cannot challenge for an international race, for we use foreign materiale wherever we find them better, But expert American workmen finish these parts—over 2000 hours they spend finishing only on each car—with a care unequalled and a skill unquestioned, working on a design that shows no after thoughts, a triumph of engineering skill. By what process could any maker, anywhere, produce a better car? Ulhere is another so made? So, we challenge comparison with any car in the world, for Perfection of material, design, workmanship and service, the elements that distinguish a gentleman’s car. seated to hind thal the dots bd Cstesre Coutttions oat ote ca t cur charge $4. ‘he cost of any foreiga car . cenmuaication with thoie who will apprectate this car. For such ea service greater than any other mechasinn We world has produced. Sead our bouk of details? STEARNS CO., 2990 Bvclal Avenues , ‘Cleveland, O. New York Re Gordon Cares, on 120 Wem Se. Reed-Usderhill Co. 222-4 Columbus Ave. Chica ithens Bros. Co. 1328-30 Michigan Ave, INDOORS AND OUT Is a Monthly Magazine de Luxe Presenting the Finest Architecture and devoted to the Beautifying of America by means of Attractive Homes, Charming Gardens, Well- Furnished Rooms, Improved Cities, Villages and Industrial Towns, Churches, Clubhouses, Theatres and Hotels of Rich Design. Original Articles | Make-up Unsurpassed Decorated Pages Mechanically Perfect ________— Profusely Illustrated $3.00 A YEAR SINGLE COPIES, 30 CENTS For Sale at Bookshops and Newsstands Rogers & Wise Co., Publishers BOSTON, MASS. W J HRAEIES you may go, take with you a copy of Mrs, Humphry Ward’s latest novel, Fenwick’s Career, or Winston Churchill's Coniston. The House of a Thousand Candles is also very popular. You might as well buy exchangeable books while you are about it. The Tabard Inn Library, of Philadelphia, will supply such, well bound and handsomely printed and illus- trated. For two dollars and ten cents ($2.10) you can obtain cither of the above books and a year’s subscription to The Metropolitan Magazine. You can exchange the books for other exchangeable books of equal merit and value at any of the Tabard Inn Ex- change Stations all over the country. The Metropolitan Magazine is sold for fifteen cents a copy or $1.80 per year. Write to-day to The Tabard Inn Library Dept. L. 1611 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. comicbooks.com