Life, 1906-10-25 · page 20 of 24
Life — October 25, 1906 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine contains satirical short pieces and advertisements, primarily from the early 1900s. **"Our Foolish Contemporary" (top left)**: A politician takes his son to the Senate gallery. When told the chaplain prays for the Senate, the boy asks if he prays *for* them. The father replies the chaplain "gets up and takes a look at the Senate, and then prays for the country"—satirizing the Senate as so dysfunctional it requires divine intervention for the nation's welfare. **Other humor pieces**: Brief anecdotes mocking marriage for money, banking practices, and social pretension, typical of *Life*'s satirical format. **Cartoons**: Include a small illustration labeled "Monarch of All He Surveys" (appears to show someone surveying their domain) and various advertisements for whiskey and stout beer. The page is primarily **advertising-heavy**, with prominent ads for Trimble Whiskey and Meux's Stout dominating the right side. The satirical content serves mainly as filler between paid promotions.
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“OUR FOOLISH iC IRONICAL. 1 American politician recently took his little son to ton, where they paid a visit to the Senate gallery, says . the Philadelphia Ledger. Dr. Edward Everett Hale specially interested the boy, and his father explained that Dr. Hale was the Chaplain of the Senate. “Oh! he peayy for the Senate, doesn’t he?" asked the lad aid the politician, “he gets up and takes a look at the Senate, and then prays for the country.” First Toverst: What are you writing down? Srconp Toveist: I'm making a note of a few things that | have made an indelible impression upon my memory, so I shan’t .—Ally Sloper. Hotel Vendome, Boston ‘The idzal hotel of America for permanent and transient guests. | | Ar a dinner in Newport Rear Admiral Evans spoke with scorn of a young man who had married an old woman for her money. “That chap calls himself a man, T suppose,” said the great sea-fighter, “but there are various definitions of the word man. J the definition that would Gt our friend best is the Peebles ot of Peebles said to his friend MacAndrew: ¢ fallen in love wi? bonny Kate McAl ’ Mac replied, ‘I was near—verra near— lassie had nae siller, so I said to myself, 1" —Rochester Herald. “ Necessity mother of in(ter)vention " is now the watch- word of the annexationists of Cuba.—Tammany Times. For the Nunsery—For the Table Whether as an ideal food for infants or for general household Borden's Eagle Brand Condensed Milk has no equal ; of no et food product can this be truthfully said. “I 18 one hundred years since the failure of a bank in China.” said a bank examiner. More than nine hundred years ago, in of Hi Hung. a bank failed. Hi Hung had the failure is indignation found it had been due to and the Js of its presides rectors were to be | — This edict, which has never been revoked, has made China's banking institutions the safest in the world.""—Rochester Post- Express Tne Sovru ror Hosprratiry: The Manor, Asheville, North | Carolina, is the best inn South.— Booklet. DEUS SUB MACHINA wuto car of the well-known actor had broken down and ur was underneath it, trying to discover the trouble. is the man under the machine?" asked a bystander “He's my understudy,” replied the actor, running his hand his hair. Yonkers Statesman. received an invitation from Lord Granville > the effect 1 short notice, for asure of the company at dinner of “the most engaged man in London.” To which Mr. Lowell wittily replied, according to Lord E pd Fitzmaurice’s Lije ef Lord Gram “The most engaged man in London accepts with the greatest pleasure the kind invitation of the most engaging Iv a pinch, use Allen's Foot REMAINED TO BE SEEN Ixqumanc Faixp: Was your uncle ia his right mind when | he died? Poor Retatiox: We can't tell about that. of course, unt!l we hear his will read.—Chicago Tribune. “My sox, I wish you would grow up to be an honest man "* “Well, it's up to you to make it possible, dad." “Leave me lots of money when you die."—Honston Post. “Best of all, Amongst the rarest of good ones.” —Shakespeare. Wire seevtz LC Green Label. ESTABLISHED Phila. and New ¥ + AT ALL FIRST-CLASS DEALERS 1793 MONAKCIL OF ALL I SURVEYS | weeencaceecasea eee casesreespexessapesexanerseceniacannsdDssbereies aise) Now Introduced Here For the First Time EUX’S STOUT is ideal foran American beverage. It is lighter in body, less alco- holicthan any other of the first- class makes, and better suited to our climate—creamy, smooth, deliciously palatable. At luncheons, and after theater suppers it is especially agreeable and appreciated. Far more beneficial than any of the Malt Extracts in toning up the system, especially after a long and exhausting sickness, If you want the BEST Stout, in- sist on Meux's, with above label Uf mot yet om sate at your dealers, please motif ut an t we will see that you are supplied LUYTIES BROTHERS, : NEW YORK Sole Importers and Agents for U. S. fal) comicbooks.com