Life, 1907-01-10 · page 3 of 24
Life — January 10, 1907 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book reviews** rather than political satire. The main content includes: **Advertisements:** - Ayala Magnet Champagne (left) - Franco-American Soups (top right) - Dardos Choice Flowers (bottom left) - Graygood Hydraulic Automobile Shock Absorber (bottom right) **Articles:** Three short pieces: "The Sun's Reviews" (book criticism), "Only a Window-Pane" (a story review about a working woman's difficult life situation), "The Anatomy of Jocosity" (humor analysis), and "Feminine Cynicism" (commentary on female activists and health movements). The page reflects early 20th-century Life magazine's mixture of consumer products, literary criticism, and light social commentary rather than hard-hitting political cartoons.
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oN a yy | Ayala is Supreme. Outrivals all other wines AYALA MAGNET Soups 21 Kinds, sold by Grocers everywhere in Quart, Pint, and Half-Pint Tins Franco=American |" hey Our daily endeavor is to see how good, pure, nutritious and delicious we can make our soups. yg Our kitchen is always open to the inspec- tion of visitors, thousands of whom we : cordially welcome every year. loll SS Champagne If you live too far away to visit us, we Society’s favorite 3 q will gladly send you on request our book here and abroad. illustrating each step in the preparation of At Hotels, : Franco-American Soups. Clubs, Wine THE FRANCO-AMERICAN FOOD CO, Merchants, Grocers Jersey City Heights, N. J.’ rt | TRADE MARK REGISTEREO clerics sire w f] ——__ ————— + |__ = a - = Why he should consider the end of the world a mis- Only a Window-Pane Pruc gave a little shudder; recovered herself, re- ne I have never been able to find out, for if his - . . Thtpatno, flected; seemed to hear as from some pit of doom 1 be a true one the principal use of this world is PATHETIC figure in Richard Whiteing’s the cry for the “a-pence’”; shuddered again. j ily hell with fuel. new purpose novel, which deals with Lon- “The young person that took my berth is leaving * " don’s working women, is that of a young girl Saturday to get married. She saw him for the first i The Sun’s Reviews 3 ‘ A 78 who, asked to name her vocation, says that she time through the plate glass, and felt it was her n - " " . J Y 8! PI 8 “THE book review column of the New York is only “a window-pane!” Which curious fate.” a mm is notorious for a certain flippancy. Cockneyism translated into English means that Then Prue stole out stealthily to the fancy shop, asa {| There are many authors, indeed, who claim that she earns her living by exhibiting herself and in- got the place, and, with a lighter heart, hurried to the shorthand school, and did her tale of work for the day. ressing |/2 “roast” in the Sun is certain indication of cidentally some new hair-restorer or quack medi- merit. _Inwardly, however, they no doubt cherish cine in the center of a show-window. + too | rancor. Possibly the author of the following “T'ye known what it is to be a window-pane before The Anatomy of Jocosity ph in the Publisher and Retailer has been :, It's a very genteel line, I 2 ; a GM A nthe ublither and ead hase now. It’s a very sentce line, 1 assure you, Sue it SAY, D’Orsay, have you ever heard that joke fi if Ss ec Bre Sega’ led torch... Quer « window pane. 5lways about the guide in Rome who showed some which he catches one of the Sun’s reviewers a window-pane till you are turned thirty, and then travelers two skulls of St. Paul, one as a boy and | napping is delightful : you'redone. . . . “Yes; I've gone through that « pot? ff The charmingly discerning critic of the Sun has —figuratively, of course,” she added with a certain the other as a_ man?” oy ", [actually discovered that “The knack of telling a meditative stress on the polysyllables that hardly Aw, deah boy—no—aw, let me heah it.”— | sory does not desert Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett bespoke a mind at ease. “You mightn't think it, but Boston. Transcript. shen she addresses herself to children.” The Sun I've been in the window with the other goods cight discovered all that when reading the delightful. hours a day, at the fancy shop nearly opposite your Feminine Cynicism da ait newly published fairy tale called “ Queen street becnleeeereeies HE strenuous army of faddists, agitators and Iver Bell.” There were those who made the same e other still looked puzzle es ji i y eithe ry when the lady gave to the warkd “Little “'Voustediere, sexland work somonew invention apostles of all things extraordinary are either 's Fauntleroy” and “Sarah Crewe,” both of —Palace of Truth, or the Lady in the Glass House; ‘esting on their laurels or preparing for a great te ont [hich had a sale beyond the hundred-thousand that’s the idea. But there's no hiding anything, Winter coup. ‘It is now more than nine days since ~~ (Jmark—but perhaps the critic was not even a child from top to toe—fine points and patent leather, and anything was pronounced deleterious to our ve del fLbER those two dear books were new. do your hair three times a day.” health.—Lady's Pictorial. ea sith — ——— = = = sm COR GRrAYGOOD HYDRAULIC (Double-Acting) AUTOMOBILE axle all autos Choice Flowers Rare Plants Steamer Baskets a Specialty MEd, under Patents of JE. Smith Does not stiffen springs nor require readjusting. Sold by all garages and dealers on a 3o-days-trial- money-back guarantee, Write for free booklet to-day, " te off-chamber jenot"E.” GRAHAM & GOODMAN, Sole Mfrs. fston rod. York Forty-Fourth St. & Madison Ave., N.Y. 50 W. 93d Street, New comicbooks.com