Life, 1906-12-20 · page 38 of 46
Life — December 20, 1906 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page combines advertisements with humorous satirical pieces typical of *Life* magazine's editorial voice. **Ads**: The Prudential Insurance and Egyptian Deities Cigarettes advertisements occupy significant space. These are standard period marketing—the cigarette ad emphasizes "quality" and taste, while the insurance ad appeals to family security and financial planning. **Satirical Content**: The right-hand column features short comedic pieces. "Why He Quit the Game" satirizes wives' financial double-bind logic: if a husband wins at cards, she demands the winnings; if he loses, she lectures him and runs up household bills—making gambling futile. "Listen!" mocks fortune-tellers' opportunism. The extended poem "Poetry of the Future" is biting satire: it lists impossible utopian conditions (honest politicians, fair insurance, trusts eliminated, free ice delivery, children loving school) before poetry could be written "without thought" or "metre." The final item suggests reform to women's expectations in marriage is equally unrealistic. The page reflects era-specific anxieties about male vice, women's domestic authority, and reform optimism, while targeting credulous consumers and unfulfilled promises.
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0 Should Insure Your Life. Life Insurance lightens your burdens and brightens your prospects. Only twa out of every hundred succeed in life. The Insurance Policy ‘is frequently the only asset left at death. The way to carry out your intention to insure is—To insure. YOU Should Insure in The RUD SINITENE You want the best there is in Life Insurance. The Prudential issues it. The Prudential Policy provides for the welfare of the family, leaves money in trust for educa- tion of children, creates immediate capital, and saves for old age. THE RUDENTIAL ( (nas me STRENGTH OF /? GIBRALTAR THE PRUDENTIAL HAS MORE LIFE INSUR. ANCE IN FORCE THAN ANY OTHER LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY CONFINING ITS BUSI- NESS EXCLUSIVELY TO THE UNITED STATES. Write at once stating age and amount you desire to invest ‘every year. Dept. 0. The Prudential INSURANCE CO. OF AMERICA. Home Oflice: Newark, NJ. JOHN F. DRYDEN, President Still highest in quality; still most renowned, now, as for years, the choice everywhere of connoisseurs. EGYPTIAN DEITIES CIGARETTES have so long and so exclusively repre= sented the highest quality obtainable that to smoke them is usually considered the best evidence of good taste. No. 1 Size 10 for 35¢. No. 3 Size 10 for 25¢. S. ANARGYROS, Manufacturer 111 Fifth Avenue, New York Egyptian Scenes—Avenue of Ram-headed Sphinzes at Luxor Why He Quit the Game 'AKE a hand?” queried Smith, as Jones stood watching the poke game at the club. “No. Quit.” “‘What’s the matter—cold feet?” “No. I always come out loser.” “T never saw you lose in my life. . “L know you never saw me, but I lose. If I happen to win a little here my wife smilingly insists on my dividing my winnings when I go home. If lose, I get a lecture on the evils of gambling, and the next day, in orde to get even, my wife runs bills down-town to the amount I lost. If I tell he I came out just even, she half the money to prevent my losing all J have, so I am bound to lose.””—Baltimore Telegram. ISTEN!” said the man of middle ag He was bending over the palmist, whispering excitedly in her ear, “Listen!” he said again. ‘My wife is coming to you this afternoon t have her fortune toldand if you want tomake some money on the side” He laid a bank-note on the stuffed owl’s head. “Tell her on no account to buy a motor car, because you read in her paln| that she is doomed to be killed in an automobile accident.” —Argonaut, Poetry of the Future HEN Peary has found the North Pole. And the Panama Canal is finished. And the negro question is satisfactorily answered. And English spelling is reformed. And we have universal peace. And politicians are all honest. And there really are no trusts. And coal costs only 50 cents a ton. And life insurance is absolutely square. And ice is delivered free. And the city pays tales to the citizen. And all men promptly pay all their debts. And the steam trains and electric cars will wait for you. And the Cape Cod canal project is forgotten. And men get home before 10 o'clock at night, invariably sober. And school children really love their teachers. And the churches are regularly crowded. Then life will be so sweetly poctic That all poetry can be written Like this: Right off the bat. Without thought. Without metre. Without rhyme! —Somerville Journal. You Can't Beat ‘Em HEY said that we would never be happy,” moaned the young bride. “But you are happy.” “But now they say it won't last.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. They Needed a Nurse EALTH COMMISSIONER DARLINGTON, of New York, said te} other day to a reporter: “Tam truly thankful that Thanksgiving Day ends the football seas A comely young woman applied, at one of our hospitals last week. S¥ wanted to learn nursing. “Do you think you would like nursing?” the head nurse asked. “Qh, yes,’ the young woman answered. “*Have you had any experience at all?’ “Rather! Two of my brothers play football and father has an at mobile.’”—Washington Star. Sore Puzzled ‘Te. TS a little confusing,” said the Czar. “What's the trouble?” asked the court official. “When T have been away I never can tell on my return home whette!! am getting into a fireworks exhibition in my honor or a terrorist demons* tion.” —Washington Star. .