Life, 1907-01-03 · page 39 of 44
Life — January 3, 1907 — page 39: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with minimal editorial content**. The left side features quotes about human nature and character (typical of Life's satirical editorial voice), followed by an advertisement for Grand Marnier liqueur. The main content is a **skincare advertisement for Pompeian Massage Cream** (right side), which uses an extended metaphor comparing skin to a sponge. The ad explains that pore cleansing requires mechanical action ("squeezing") rather than surface washing—a claim presented as scientific skincare advice. By modern standards, this represents typical early 20th-century cosmetics marketing: pseudo-scientific language justifying a product's necessity for health and appearance. The page concludes with subscription information for binding Life magazine volumes. There are **no political cartoons or satirical commentary** visible on this page—it functions as a commercial publication page mixed with Life's characteristic philosophical quotations.
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LIFE Iwish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body. —Boucicault, Man is Creation’s masterpiece. Man !—Gaverni. ery time a man laifs he tak in ov life, and thus lengthen: y is dull, naturally dull ; But who says so? E a kink out ov the .—Josh Billings. but it must have taken him cat deal of pains to become what we now see him. Such an excess of stupidity, sir, is not D in nature.—Johnson. We succeed by shrewdness—the other man by —Lisle de Vaux Matthewman. . fellow who likes a corned beef and cabbage dict often marries a pate de foie gras girl her, didst Thou make wake the unconscious dust > —Porteus.* pity is not that man has descended from the y, but that he keeps on descendin, Lisle de j Vaux Matthewman. { An idle man is like stagnant water ; he corrupts | himself.— | the difference is only in the price. —Franktin. nile; he that is | He who is successful can afford to { not cannot afford to do otherwise.—. As men’s prayers are a disease of ¢ their creeds a disease of the intellect The only man we ever heard of wh ' by being ‘ionized was a Jew, named Daniel.— George D. Prentice. Every age has i but man is tmeats, at asure, at forty by ambition, at fifty by avarice. —J. J. Rousseau, Here’s to man; he is like a kerosene lamp—he is different inclinatio: Atten he is led br Continued on page 4° Great Hlarnin LIQUEUR A distinative specialty of the leadin; Cafes in every City in the world and held by connoisseurs to be the finest of all liqueurs. Made in France since 1827 Sold Everywhere LUYTIES BROTHERS, NEW YORK General Agents Cleansing the Skin Should be ~~ : The skin is porous, tho full of tiny the cells, like a ., sponge. Skin You cleanse a sponge, not by were a Sponge washing the sur- face, but by squeezing out the cells, The kneading, gentle pinching, squeezing treatment applied to the skin with Pompeian Massage Cream, brings the dead soap and other foreign matter out of the skin-cells or pores. Surface washing cannot remove any but mere surface dirt. Surface dirt is merely un- sightly. Pore dirt is fatal to skin health and clearness of complexion, Pompeian Massage Cream opens and cleans out the pores, restoring free excretion and skin breathing, taking out blackheads, sallowness and muddiness, ani- mating the blood circulation and flexing the muscles. Book and Free Sample to Test Simply fill in and mail us the coupon, and we will send youa liberal sample, together with our illustrated book on Facial Massage, an invaluable guide for the proper care of the skin. © Men showld try Pompeian Bassa Cream after shaving: by cleansing the Mtg. Co, “pores ef soap it ahays irritation and docs ateay with sores 9 WBerospecth Bean Ait | ie barders twill massage with Pompeian & — Gieralané, Ohio Bhassage Cream accept mo sustitutese Gentlomen:— Please send, wit! out eowt to me, on copy of your book E00F oF Four oy We prefer sou to boy of your dealer whenorer posatblo, y bot do not accept a substitute for Pompeian under any circumstances. If your dealer doce hot keep it, ee rl 8 Giseat or $1.00 jar of tho cream, postba S snooty of ‘Pom: fecal pt of price. pelan Massage Cream. POMPEIAN MFG. COMPANY & 25 Prospect Street, Cleveland, Ohio @ Nano. Pompeian Massage Soap is appreciated by all who aro particular in regard to the qual- the soap they use, For salo by all dealere—Ze. a cake; We. box of $cakeos, O library should be without a complete set of LIFE. Bound Volumes of LIFE, Four Dollars each for the later volumes bound in red and gold, green and gold and full black. Prices of the earlier volymes and complete sets made known on application. The issues of LIFE for six months constitute a volume. To those who send unbound copies in good condition the price of the bound volume will be Two Dollars. LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 19 West Thirty-first Street New York City | comicbooks.com