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This page is primarily **advertising with interspersed humor columns**—typical of early 20th-century Life magazine format. The small cartoons and jokes address everyday concerns: financial hardship (coal and ice bills draining summer joy), prison conditions (women inmates described as having "no other home"), and racial dialect humor (a common, though offensive, feature of period publications depicting African American speech patterns). One anecdote satirizes a "simple" village boy who repeatedly chooses a penny over a threepenny bit—not from stupidity but strategy: taking the larger coin would end the game. It's a gentle joke about cunning disguised as foolishness. The page otherwise advertises steamship travel to Virginia, cocktail mixers, beer brewing processes, pianos, and foot powder—reflecting consumer culture of the era. The content reflects both the magazine's satirical voice and its dependence on commercial advertising.

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LIFE LUB COCKTAILS can’t help being good. They’re made by measure—not guesswork. The liquors are always the finest —always uniform—always aged af- ter mixing—a perfect result. They aremadeto bring more busi- ness—what cares the bartender about his mixture? Order a CLUB. Just strain through cracked ice and serve. Seven varieties; each one delicious—of all ‘good gro- cers and dealers. G. F. HEUBLEIN @ BRO., Sole Props. 77 Hartford New York London FOR Pleasure and Rest TAKE Old Dominion Line TO N OR FOL K OLD POINT COMFORT RICHMOND, VA. AND WASHINGTON, D. C. + Steamers sail daily, except Sunday, at 3 P. M. from Pier 26, North River, foot of Beach Street, New York. For full information apply to OLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP CO. PIER 26, NORTH RIVER, NEW YORK H. B. WALKER, V. P.& TM. J.J. BROWN, G. P. A. Unhappy Outlook ‘OU may prate of “filthy lucre,” But when all is said and done, If you haven’t any moncy You can’t have a lot of fun. Is it strange, then, that this summer Life should seem of joy bereft, When the coal man first despoils us And the ice man takes what's left? —Somerville Journal. Identifying Them OME lady visitors going through a peniten- tiary under the escort of the superintendent came to a room in which three women were sewing. “Dear me!” whispered one of the visitors, “what vicious looking creatures! Pray, what are they here for?” “Because they have no other home. This is our sitting-room, and they a and two daughters,” blandly replied the superintendent. —Harper’s Weekly. Discernment HE way colored folk have of picking up phrases which they hear used by white people about them is amusingly illustrated by a conversation which was overheard recently on the streets of a Southem city. “Howdy, Mis’ Mandy! How is you?” called one dusky aunty to another. “Oh, ’ tollable, Mis’ Johnson. feelin’ ?” was the response. “Why, I'se a-feelin’ mighty peart, 1 is,” con- fided Mrs. Johnson, “I suttenly does feel fine.” “Wellum, yo’ sho’ is lookin’ well,” agreed her friend. “Yo° colors so good.” —Lippincott’s Magazine. How you’ His Reason [8A litte village there once tived a boy who was supposed to be dull-witted. ‘The men of the village used to find great amusement in offer- ing him the choice between a threepenny bit and a penny, of which he invariably chose the penny. A stranger one day saw him choose the penny rather than the threepenny bit, and asked him the the reason. “Is it because the penny is larger?” the stranger asked. “Naw,” was the response, “not ’cause it is the biggest. But if I took the threepenny bit they'd soon stop offering it."—The Tatler. How Trout Take a Fly O E or two trout anglers have taken excep- ceptions to the assertion in these columns that trout invariably strike the bait with their tail before devouring it. Mr. McIntosh, a lifelong observer of the habits of trout, declares this is not the case. He says they do a somersault act just Lefore striking the bait; that they sometimes come up from below and devour the bait. Trout are very quick of action, and it is not strange that opinions should differ, as it is almost impossible to follow their movements under the most favor- able circumstances.—St. Paul Dispatch. | process of m Intending purchasers of a strictly first- class Piano should not fail to exam- | ine the merits of THE WORLD RENOWNED sel It is the special favorite of the refined and cultured musical public on account of its unsurpassed tone-¢ hitity, ele; logue mailed on appl Tue SOHMER-CECILIAN INSIDE PLAYER PASSES ALL OT: Favorable Terms to Despepnibls| Parties SOHMER & COMPANY Warerooms Cor. Sth Ave. 22d St. NEW YORK Millions Spent to Make Clean Beer Cleanest Manufacturing Process Known Is That of the Leading Ameri- can Brewery. We regard beer as a food and the business of brew- ing beer one of our most important industries. \V we tell our readers that without exception therc other brewery in the world so absolutely clea facture as Pabst, we speak { exact knowledge of conditions. The monster I Brewery at Milwaukee represents an outlay of mil- lions of dollars, and many of those millions have been expended to make the Pabst exclusive process abso- lutely clean. Pabst Beer stands alone to-day, the only food product that from the beginning to the end of its manufacture is absolutely beyond reach of even the contaminating germs of the air. Doctors boil their instruments in water to sterilize them, Pabst boils his brew in closed kettles and thus sterilizes it. From there it passes through s pipes to sterilized hermetically sealed tank nen through more steriliz it goes to sterilized hermeticall: and when bottled it is pasteurized. TI entire process it never is touched 1 and comes in contact only with sterilized air. No other food product known can show such a record of positive cleanliness. This process of manufacture is the exclusive Pabst method. It is one reason for the “always the same, always the best” re} The cleanest bee has no equal as a mild, refreshing, healthful beve age. O not drop your subscription to LIFE during the Summer. Have it sent to any address in this country or Canada for three months for $1.25, or abroad for $1.51. Address changed as often as desired if notice reaches us two weeks in advance. ‘ALLEN’ Ss F00 T EASE Pipe We have over 30,000 testimonials. = For FREE Trial Package, also Froo - e A Certain Cure for Tired, Hot, Aching Feet. Qe SBOE sere of FOOT@EASE Sanitary CORN=PAD, a new Invention, ad- DO NOT ACCEPT A SUBSTITUTE. dress, Alien S, Olmsted, Le Roy, N.Y. on every box. .