Life, 1906-10-25 · page 2 of 24
Life — October 25, 1906 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content consists of three product advertisements: 1. **EUX-E-SIS** (top): A shaving product promising convenience without soap, brush, or cup—marketed to travelers and men seeking efficiency. 2. **Butcher's Boston Polish** (bottom left): A floor and furniture polish advertisement. 3. **Allen's Foot-Ease** (bottom center): A powder for foot comfort, positioned as relief from corns and bunions. 4. **The House Beautiful Colonial Rocker** (bottom right): Offering a free rocking chair to magazine subscribers. The right column contains what appears to be serialized fiction ("Nancy's Ante-Nuptial Commandments")—a domestic comedy about marital expectations. This represents typical early 20th-century *Life* magazine content: advertising-heavy, with lifestyle and domestic humor targeting middle-class readers.
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No Soap ~ No BRUSH~No You will find shaving a luxury Ifyou use EUX-E-SIS Half the trouble of shaving and all the mussiness come from soapy lather rubbed in the beard to be washed off the face. EUX-E-SIS is an English preparation, for a quarter of a century used by men of refinement and nice habit, It is a delicate, demulcent cream which quickly softens the hardest beard so that you can shave in half the time with twice the comfort. @. It leaves the skin smooth, soft and entirely free from irritation. It is a treasure to travelers, No brush, no soap; just Eux-e-sis and a razor make a complete shaving set. Ideal for use with a safety razor. None genuine without the signa- ture of Aimee Lloyd in red ink on tube. Sold by best druggists, 40c. a tube—Extra large, 75c. Send for explanatory brsblet to Park & Tilford,917 Broadway, New York IMPORT AGENTS FOR U.S. Manufactured by Aimee Lloyd & Co., London, England BUTCHER’S||{ALLENS FOOT-EASE BOSTON POLISH . Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot=Ease, a powder for the Is the best finish made for FLOORS, feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting, Interior Woodwork and Furniture are feet, oe aay takes the sting wi et oat of cornsand bunions. It'sthe great- Troe be tates will nes her scratch mor Gotios: bier.) ext comfort discovery of the age. . ‘pertechy. tran: Allen's Foot=Ease makes tight-fitting oF pirat, Preterring tie natnrat cotor and beanty of the wood. PNET, Rew shoes feel easy. It isa certain care for WOUL doubt the most economical and satisfactory Puta nails, Known for Itakowooo.F toons. 4 For sale by Dealers ia Paints, 5 Una aching fee We have over 80,008 ware and House Furnishings, A, testimoniala” TRY IT TO-DAY. Sold Bend for our ¥ree Nooklet, tellleg of the many PAS” by all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 2c. Do Advantages of BUTCHEH'S BOSTON POLISIL, not accept any substitute.” Sent by THE BUTCHER POLISH COMPANY mal ier Ss OSD nn 36 Atlantic Avenue, + BOSTON, MASS. “In + FRE cae RAceaE OURNo. 3 REVIVER ts vaperior Anish for bitchen and plasza foore ALLEN 8. OLMSTED, Le Roy, N.Y, This Rare Old Colonial Rocker Costs You Nothing E ARE making you this special offer of "ye olde tyme” furniture for a single reason—to secure your subscrip- tion to The House Beautiful, Wehave had anumber of the old New Engiand chairs, settles andtables of our great-grand fathers’ time copied, detail for de- tail, from the few original antiques in existence, and are offerini them for subscriptions because we feel sure that once you read ‘The House Beautiful you will keep on taking it year after year. Itis a magazine any tasteful woman will thoroughly enjoy— noless will she enjoy the possession ofthis rareand beautifulold furniture. Nothing could more surely exemplify the House Beau- tiful atmosphere than these artistic, exclusive colonial models. In The House Beautiful Magazine she'll find excellent illustrations of artistic rooms, dainty boudoirs, hangings, drap- eries and attractive interior decorations of every sort. It reproduces architects’ plans in detail, treats of old china, shows effective arrangement of furniture, rugs. etc. In short, The House Beautiful is a magazine that will help ou combine economy with perfect taste and get most grati- ying results in your house, grounds or garden. So mail us $2—the price ‘of the magazine alone—and we will Send you the coming twelve issues and this chair—tree of charge—freight prepaid. Or, in case the lines of this chair here illustrated do not please, send stamp fora catalogue which pictures other types— either Colonial or Afission models. Let us tell you how to get three or four pleces without cost. Now, both magazine and the chair you select must please Jou, for if you decide that either falls short of your expecta. tions, simply return the chair—we'll return your remittance and stop the subscription, In this way you are certain to be en- tirely satisfied. Write us today. Address Subscription Dept. P THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL CO. Republic Building, Chicago Nancy's Ante-Nuptial Commandments “WHEN we're married,” began Nani y, “I shall expect the same freedom as I hare now. For instance, you mustn’t expect me to drop all my men friends. Why should marriage make me a chattel?” * Thadn’t the faintest idea. “A woman is a man’s equal,” she continued “Rather!” I agreed, heartily. “Iv’s absurd to regard man as a superix being,” she said, disdainfully. “Itis,” L assented. “If anything,” I suggested, pleasantly, “he's the inferior se “Well, he is really,” agreed Nancy. “It’s so obvious,” said I. “And you mustn’t expect me to always talk to you,” she resumed, kindly. “T shouldn’t,” I cried, indignantly. “I'm no: quite so bad as all that.”” “Besides,” I said, ‘a man wants a change.” “If that’s your opinion, I wonder you ge married at all,” she said, scornfully. “Well, you suggested it,” I protested; “er— our behavior to each other, I mean, of course.” “T shall go to theatres with other men,” continued. “And I shall go to theatres with other—I beg your pardon. Of course. we're talking abou you.” “Occasionally I shall spend a quiet evening a home.” “Tull be dull,” I warned her. “No, it will be a change,” she corrected. “ I'll get your slippers for you and light your pipe.” She smiled at the picture. I was inclinedwo smile somewhat foolishly, too, but I remembered in time my duty asa man. “It’s very probable,” said I, carelessly, “I shan’t be home.” “Not home!” she gasped, horrified. “T shall have my own engagements,” I re minded her. “Oh, but’—— she began, and then pause? and choked. “There'll be the club, you see,” said I, “an bachelor parties, and”—I yawned slightly “and heaps of things. A man can’t drop out of the world just because he’s married.” “I suppose not,” agreed Nancy, very mildly There was a pause, and I watched the comers of her mouth droop. “You—you won't always be out, will you she asked, timidly. “No,” I said, reflectively, “I dare say I sh: be able to spare you an evening now and then. Nancy hummed a little tune to herself, jus show she didn’t care. I smoked my cigarette doe gedly, however, and after awhile she again the silence. “Will you let me help you with your work? she asked. “I could blot your writing for yo and find the words in the dictionary . “T don’t use a dictionary,” I remarked, sti Nancy accepted this statement as mere Pe verseness, Everybody uses a dictionary. j “Oh, very well,” she said, coldly, with her head well up. There was a depressing silence. . “You're--you're very unkind,” Nancy 4 mured, after a lengthy pause. “Why, I've agreed “1!” said \ in amazement. off can tab blo tre comicbooks.com