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Life — June 28, 1906 — page 22: Life, 1906-06-28

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This page is primarily **advertisements with one satirical piece**. The main content is a sentimental poem titled "Just an Old-Fashioned Woman" celebrating traditional domestic femininity—a woman who serves her family and community without seeking political rights ("doesn't speak in meeting, nor bother about having a vote"). This appears to be **anti-suffrage messaging**, common in this era, idealizing women confined to home and caregiving while implicitly dismissing women's political ambitions. The accompanying illustration shows a young woman with a tennis racket—possibly ironic contrast, depicting modern leisure versus the poem's praised self-sacrifice. At bottom, "A Use for the Boys" is a brief satirical joke mocking help-wanted ads seeking "respectable boys for beef sausages"—dark humor implying the boys themselves might become sausage ingredients. The rest of the page contains period alcohol and health product advertisements (ale, whiskey, soap, salt), typical of *Life* magazine's commercial content.

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Take it with you wherever you go Drink it wherever you are In the Mountains—At the Seaside—On the Train—On the Boat—Refresh- ing—Appetizing—Satisfying Delicious and Nourishing Evans’ Ale THE IDEAL BEVERAGE For Fishing—For Sailing—For Golfing— ForCamping—For Motoring—For Traveling—For Country Life Any Dealer or Hotel C. H. EVANS @ SONS, Hudson, New York @ “ The Salt of Kings Fike Sale og, Kings, The strength is cooked out of modern food but lows Uo restores it when used in the kitchen and at the table. Abroad Cerepos Satt is used exclusively at the Royal tables and in the best hotels and families of Europe. A sample tin will be sent ny one writing to so Ferry Street, New York. ‘Sold by all good 3 Of Course You Know that the essentials of a first-class Scotch Whiskey are purity and maturity. These qualities are rare. But D. & J. McCallum’s “Perfection” Scotch is guaranteed to be both pure and mature. Its rich, yet smooth and mellow, flavor— really like a liqueur—and its rare bouquet will appeal to lovers of the real thing. The gentleman's whiskey par excellence. ‘Sole Agents for United States: HOLLAND HOUSE NEW YORK Just an Old-Fashioned Woman HE'S just an old fashioned woman, who attends to her duties as they come, Without any noise or fuss about it; She is kind and neighborly and lends a hand in work or pl: She is the idol of her household and her dominion is home, Where she reigns by the divine power of love, And her heart never grows old. She's not overambitious; she doesn’t speak in meet- ing, nor bother about having a vote; She never attends a caucus, or yearns for a career; But she is the apple of the eye of all the little folks and the big folks who know her; And they think there’s nobody like her; And they run to her to share in their joys; and when sorrows come Or death's dark shadow looms across their path they crave her loving sympathy. At such an hour the old-fashioned woman went down one night To answer the urgent cry of a young woman Suddenly bereft of her mother by the pitiless hand of death; And the young woman, running to mect her, in her agony and despair, Fell on the old-fashioned woman's motherly bosom And lay there all night, clinging close to her heart, Prese! mother’s arms) forgetting her tears; And in the morning awoke, comforted and strength- ened. Was the old-fashioned woman tired, sitting up all night in the chair holding the young woman in her arms? Nobody knew; herself; She had merely helped a fellow creature who was in trouble, and that rested her. not even the old-fashioned woman Wherever the old-fashioned woman goes, she's like the sunshine dispelling the gloom. | Even the beggars and tramps, homeless and out- casts that they are, Find a friend in the old-fashioned woman, And they never go hungry or discouraged from her door; For she docs not reproach them for their short- comings, |Nor grudge them the glorious sunlight and the illimitable air; of the winds in the trees. And, maybe, the blessings of God these poor out- casts invoke upon her Are heard in the Courts Above and will stand to her credit there When the records are finished and Judgment is pro- nounced on the Great Day. —David M. Johnson, in New York Sun. A Use for the Boys HE ever-burning question, “What shall we do with our boy 2” seems to be satisfactorily answered in the following advertisement which appears in the window of a Farringdon Road butcher’s shop: “Wanted—A respectable boy for beef sausages.”—London Tribune. falling fast asleep (like a baby in its| Nor forbid them the songs of the birds and the music | copsetgne @ There's a lot of comfort for sunbumed face and arms in Pond’s Extract Soap G It is a pure soap plus Pond’s Ex- tract. It soothes and gently stimulates while jit cleanses. Skin so badly burned as to shrink at the touch of clothing takes kindly to this cleansing emollient—this soap and healing lotion both in one. @ Its use gives the skin an elastic firm- ness that comes from perfect health. @ For the complexion, its value is inestimable. 4 Ore om your dit. Acer nom tutes, Guard against so called “witch-hazel” soaps, son. aniecally colored green and often positively injurious, aire. your druggist does not c: fact Soap, send us his name and we wil ee yea cll ad cba teats Armour & Company Sole Licensee from Pond’s Extract Co. Chicago New York London Paris OLD CROW RYE STRAIGHT WHISKEY SOLE BOTTLERS, NEW YORK comicbooks.com