Life, 1906-09-20 · page 22 of 28
Life — September 20, 1906 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains **brief satirical humor pieces** typical of Life's early 20th-century format, plus advertisements. The cartoons mock contemporary social anxieties: - **"Progress"**: The Jiggins (a recurring family in Life) worry about social etiquette—showing anxieties about rising middle-class status and social climbing. - **"Demoralizing"**: A congressman returns home and corrupts the town by introducing modern vices (bridge, poker, cocktails) instead of wholesome activities (checkers, beer). This reflects **rural anxiety about urban corruption and modernization**. - **"Honeymoon"**: A husband can't define "honeymoon" until his wife stops cooking—implying wives' household failures end marital romance. - **"Styles in Dogs"**: A woman wants an "automobile dog" (one that chases gasoline fumes)—satirizing the nouveau riche adopting whatever is fashionable. The humor assumes readers' shared concerns about social propriety, modernization's dangers, and class anxiety—all **distinctly early 1900s preoccupations**. The advertisements for whiskey and clean food reflect period consumer culture.
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“OUR FOOLISHy ‘GNTENPORARIE PROGRESS * How are the J getting on socially?” “They are making progress. “ answered Miss Cayenne, * The girls have quit worrying about what they are going to wear when they get an invitation, and are beginning to ask super: ciliows questions about who is going to be there."—Washington Star IN THE SWISS MOUNTAINS “Ethel, that awfully handsome guide kissed me a moment ago. Do you think T ought to deduct something from his pay, or add to it?”"—Translated Jor Tales jrom Fliegende Blactter “Otp Satea PuNcu. Delicious—Try it SS Pierce Co., Boston, Mass. DEMORALIZING The old man on the post-office steps was chewing his straw aod frowning in high dudgeon “You seem in a bad humor, unck?” ventured the starch drummer “Yaas, and, by heck. 1 ought to be.” growled the old man, * This here town is going to the bow-wows."* “What is the cause of that?” “Why. Bill Binks. our Congressman. We sent him to Con- gress to make the town better and it was better while he was away. But as soon as be came home with all the things he learned in Washington the sewing socials turned to bridge whist parties, the checker clubs turned to poker clubs and, be gosh, the spruce beer drinkers turned to cocktail drinkers. He's put the town to the bad. and the next time he goes away we are going to pay him extra to spend his loafing months away from Bacon Ridge."—Chicago News ‘Tur Sout rox Hosetratity: The Manor, Asheville, North Carolina, is the best inn South —Beoklet. “TWAS EVER THUS 1 suppose you have found,” said the plain citizen, “that ‘every maa has his price."* ~ Yes," replied the lobbyist, “except the man who is worth buying." —Philadelphia Press Eurtover: The increase in the cost of meat makes a lot of difference in my living expenses! Don’t you find it so? Ctrex: No, sir; my salary is so small that I've bought no meat for several years! You're fortunate! You won't mind it, then, if on account of the high price of meat I reduce your salary a little.” —Sim placissimus “T'w orr to have a shampoo,” said the young man with the receding chia “Why not try the vacuum cleaner?" was his friend's sym: pathetic reply —Tatler Heatru ano Rest, New Waverty Hore. ano Batu House, Hor Sreincs, Aekansas. Intusteatep Booxtrr. END OF THE HONEYMOON Finished your honeymoon yet?" “1 don't know. I have never been able to determine the exact meaning of the word honeymoon.” © Well. then, has your wife comm ed to do the cooking yet?” Houston Post STYLES IN DOGS Mas Utrea-De Swett: Coach dogs are out of style. I want an automobile dog Deatee: Well, madam. bere is just the one you want “Now, you are sure he is an automobile dog ?”” “T should say so. Why, he will follow the scent of gasoline for miles."—Philadel phia Bulletin Hotel Vendome, Boston ‘The ideal hotel of America for permanent and transient vests. ARTISTIC SENSITIVENESS “Why are you so resentful toward that writer?” "Because," answered Mr Stormington Barnes, “he once said there were moments when my work did not realize the highest possible standard of excellence." “Well?” ” My deag sir, 1 welcome criticism, but I cannot endure such ignorant abuse."—Washington Star. BALTIMORE RYE THE WHISKEY OF REFINED TASTE Sold at all festctass cafes and by jotbers WM. LANAHAN & SON, Haltimere, MI 42? RECORD RYE WHISKEY Demand for Clean Food One American Product Everybody Knows Is Pure and Clean Clean food to cat and drink is as desirable as pure food. Unclean food can never be healthiul— neither enjoyable. Nothing can so quickly steal away one’s appetite or destroy the enjoyment of a pleasure—be it cating or drinking—as the m thought, perhaps it is not clean. In these days of much agitation as to clean and unclean food we are often at a loss what to cat and drink. There is 2 sense of distrust of what is set before us. “Ts it clean?” That is the question we ask ourselves and the very asking turns us away. It is the method of “handling” in the manufac ture of a food product that makes it clean or not clean. Pabst beer is not “handled.’? It is manu- factured from the purest materials by the scrupulously clean machinery by the exclusive Pabst method of brewing, which is most exacting in its cleanliness. Pabst beer is a clean, wholesome food and the Pabst brewery is a model of cleanliness. No other food factory in the world can show such a record of cleanness in the process of manufacture as the mam- moth Pabst brewery, where the famous Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer is made and bottled. From brew to bottle or keg Pabst beer is never touched by human hands; it never enters tube, pipe or storage tank that has not been perfectly sterilized beforchand, and, in fact, in its entire process of manufacture it never c in contact with anything but sterilized utensils and pure filtered air. When you pour out a glass of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer you know you have a food that is clean and pure and wholesome. You will not distrust it. You will not ask “Is it clean?” AR at Charles Howseti 4 young that Mr. Thad n saned t autracted Iwas er Fourteen