Life, 1906-12-20 · page 35 of 46
Life — December 20, 1906 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political satire or cartooning. The left column contains three brief **humorous anecdotes**: 1. "The Great Old World" — a poem about Earth's resilience despite hardships 2. "The Frugal Japs" — celebrates Japanese economic efficiency, noting a professor lives on $233/year 3. "The Prince Knew How to Work" — praises Swedish work ethic, including Prince Eugen doing artistic labor 4. "For Justice's Sake" — a joke about an impatient judge The **dominant feature** is a large advertisement for **Nestor Cigarettes**, emphasizing their Egyptian origin and quality. Additional ads promote hair tonic and a steamship line. The content reflects early 20th-century attitudes: admiration for non-Western peoples' frugality and work ethic, and normalization of tobacco advertising. The anecdotes are gentle, nostalgic humor rather than biting satire.
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The Great Old World ynics mock her, red storms rock her, The carthquakes shock her, But on she rolls! Downcast, clated— For ruin slated, She still gocs freighted With human souls! ‘The great seas thunder And rend asunder— ‘The white stars wonder, As time grows gray; But—reaping, sowing, Her way she's going To mect—unknowing— A Judgment Day. y go with her! p his tether When stormy weather Makes grief and moan! Tragedy—jest world— sunto-rest world, —still the best world We ever have known. —Atlanta Constitution. The Frugal Japs COLI professor, who had spent four years at Yale and two in Berlin acquiring his foreign education, lives with his wife at Kyoto, a city, in a rented house, having a little garden, at a total cost of 465 yen a year, or about $233. This is divided as follows: Rent, $120; house tax, $5; servant’s wages, $15; fuel, $13; light, $5; clothes, $25, and food, $50. His salary is $400, and he is applying $100 a year to the debt he incurred to obtain his education. A people who can conquer domestic problems as do the Japanese find no terrors in the economic burden of a war debt.—Boston Globe. The Prince Knew How to Work WEDEN’S freedom from many of the dis- tressing social conditions which disturb other countries may be accounted for in large measure by the simplicity of life, which has no false stand- ards, and by the dignity of labor which comes from arts and crafts well done. Nor is the attitude toward work confined to the working people; it extends to the higher classes aswell. A charming Swedish gentleman in show- ing a visitor one of the frescoes in a high school in Stockholm, said: ‘This is very fine, as you see, and was done by Prince Egene, the king’s young- est son, who is an artist by trade.”—Crajtsman. For Justice's Sake CHICAGO lawyer tells of a justice of the peace in a town in southern Indiana whose ideas touching the administration of justice were so hat bizarre. On one occasion, after all the evidence was in and the plaintiff's attorney had | © an claborate argument, the defendant’s For years real Egyptian Cigarettes have been made in Egypt by Greeks from Turkish tobacco. The best of them, the “NESTOR” has been sold all over the world. In the United States the imported “Nestor” costs 40 cents a box, 15 cents of which is duty. “Nestor” Cigarettes are now made in Boston of imported tobacco from the “Nestor” warehouse in Cavalla. They retail for 25 cents a box of ten, every- where. The “Nestor,” either imported or American-made, is the best cigarette in the world. Twenty-five Cents NESTOR GIANACLIS Co. BOSTON Lendoa To revitalize lifeless hair To destroy the dandruff germ To bring to the hair new lustre and beauty The one effective method is the use of | Porio Féco)| PINUS HAIR TONIC j Deaut Then around AL a minute!” exclaimed the Court. “I]? the lnteesting places, Mavaiseeat (Eau de Quinine) see no use in your proceeding, Mr. Brown. ALA» \ accommodations for the entire trip. All Besie to-day and use it faithfully. ve got a very clear idea now of the guilt of the ye ate cers Conc rece For 10c. to pay postage and packing we will send a ner at the bar, and anything more from you saillngs, Booklets free upon request sample bottle containing 3,applications uld have a tendency to confuse the Court. I > THE NEW YORK AND PORTO RICO PAREUMERIC ED PINAL know he’s guilty and I don’t want to take no s7 STEAMSHIP CO., 12 Broadway, W. Y., Dept. 87 Ed. Pinaud Building, New York chan -Harper's Weekly. am, 00 RATIOOND 6 WHETEONS CO.—"25 CUNO SURIAE ALE, triey rose to begin his plea. comicbooks.com