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Life — November 15, 1906 — page 35: Life, 1906-11-15

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This is primarily an **advertising page** from an early 20th-century issue of Life magazine, containing no political cartoons or satirical content. The page features four advertisements: 1. **Teco Pottery** - promoting art pottery as Christmas gifts, emphasizing artistic value and refinement for "cultivated persons" 2. **McCutcheon's Separate Skirts** - advertising women's fashionable skirts in various fabrics (Chiffon Panama, Broadcloth) priced $7.50-$30, with an illustration of period-appropriate women's fashion 3. **The Garden Magazine** - promoting a subscription emphasizing home beautification with house plants and window gardens 4. **Cowper's John Gilpin's Ride** - advertising a reissued classic poem illustrated with woodcuts The page reflects **early 1900s consumer culture**: emphasis on refined taste, home decoration, and fashionable women's clothing. No satire or political commentary is present—it's straightforward commercial advertising aimed at middle/upper-class readers.

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-LIFE- Separate Skirts AT McCUTCHEON’S For Christmas: TECO POTTERY The Ideal Gift Because Of the ease of choice where all is beauty : Of the certainty of its enthusiastic reception by cultivated persons : Of the implied compliment to the artistic taste of the recipient : Of the lesser likelihood of a duplicated token: Of the delight to be conferred at moderate cost : Of the satisfaction in avoidance of the commonplacet Of the permanence of the symbol—whether of love or esteem + Of the inner gratification of having made an excellent and intelligent selection, which never can be con- strued as a hasty or perfunctory one : Because a piece of TECO is prized for its pure art value —prized far beyond its money value. Tue Prices: $1 to $1400. Tee New TECO PORTFOLIO, de luxe, a booklet fer the drawing-room, will £6 forward upon requst. The GATES POTTERIES: 645 Chamber of Commerce, Chicago Made in walking length with 7 side and box pleat effects such as will be worn this season. The materials used are Broadcloth, Chiffon Panama, Cheviot and Voile. We display a: very at- tractive line at prices ranging from $7.50 to $30.00 each. ‘The model illustrated herewith, No. 532, is made up in Black Chiffon Panama, ’ It has a number of emall box pleats, stitched down about 1 inches from waistband and filling loosely to the feet, according to the present mode, Price $16.50. The waist shown on this figure, No. 756, is made of all-over Oriental net with a deep round yoke of Point Gaze combined with Val. lace insertion, Priced at $22.50. Flannel, Silk, Lin- ‘Revered Trade Mork gerie and Wash & Waists in wide F variety, at prices ranging from $5.00 each and upwards. Mail orders have our prompt attention. Estab. half a century JAMES McCUTCHEON & CO., 14 West 23d Street, N. Y. WHAT IS LIFE WITHOUT A HOME ? ————— What is home without a few flowers, or at least a plant or two? Not what it might be; you'll know that when you see the Christmas Nomber of The Garden Magazine. Its photographs of house plants and window gardens are the most beautiful and suggestive ever pub- lished. It will tell you more about decorative berried plants than you ever thought of before. «*Record-breaking achievements’? you will read with absorbed interest, and the colored cover, though icity itself, is a crackerjack. G od sir, may we not send you a copy? We will include it; and uso a copy of the October Planting Number, free, with a year’s subscription for $1.00. Beautify your home. A dollar spent for ‘The Garden Magazine will five you more ideas in that direction than any other dollar you ever avested, Its information is invaluable. Its enthusiasm is irre- sstible, Look at the Christmas Number and we will immediately refund your money, if you so desire. Fill in the attached coupon and mail to us with a dollar bill. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. 133-137 East 16th Street, New York City enim accept your special Christmas of:1 of The Garden Magazine for this year's double Pall Planting Number sal the Christmas Number, and ith one dollar, Please send the Magazine to Avvertisement An unusually quaint little Houiway Book A New Eprrion of Cowper’s famous poem of Fobn Silpin’s Liive, printed and bound in the fash- ion of the old primers and illustrated on each page with an original and curious woodcut, the work of ROBERT SEAVER ‘The humorous flavor of this classic jingle is reflected in the appear- ance of the volume, and those who are fortunate enough to possess copies of the old juveniles will be reminded of the days of Goody Two Shoes, of Goldsmith and of Newbury, and the little old book shops under the shadow of the Dome of St. Paul's. The present edition is a square 18mo, bound in boards with leather back, and is FoR SALE AT ALL Bookstores, the price being 75 cents, posTPaip, Printed and for sale by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Bostos axp New York comicbooks.com