Life, 1907-01-17 · page 57 of 60
Life — January 17, 1907 — page 57: what you’re looking at
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This page combines advertisements with satirical humor pieces typical of early-20th-century Life magazine. **Main Content:** The large illustration is a P.B. Ale advertisement featuring a rotund, jolly figure in period dress (colonial-style coat and hat). The "Oh be Jolly" branding uses this cheerful character to market ale as an "American Success." **Humor Pieces:** Three brief satirical stories appear on the left: 1. **"Still with the Firm"**: A traveling salesman asks for expense money, then requests *more* while claiming loyalty—poking fun at salesmen's dubious honesty. 2. **"Not Sentiment"**: A woman addresses a man formally; he objects, revealing his name is actually "Dupont" (not the formal "Mr. Durand" she used)—wordplay on mistaken identity. 3. **"Items of Needed Legislation"**: Humorous mock-legislation satirizing social annoyances (baby-talk to infants, theater spoilers, clergy saying "fudge" while golfing, women's endless servant complaints). This gently mocks contemporary manners and gender stereotypes. The page is primarily commercial, with satire serving as filler content alongside product promotions for coffee and ale.
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Park &Tilford FOUNDED 1 NEW YORK Invite your Comparison Prices of their Coffees Java and Mocha 29c. per lb. Entirely, absolutely pure, Old Government Java, Selected Arabian Mocha P. & T. Blend 24c. per lb. Full bodied, a popular priced, rich Blen Maracaibo Coffee| 8c. perlb. Of great strength and good aroma—a most economical coffee. Write for complete list of all Table Supplies at lowest prices Stull with the Firm BIG New York wholesale house not long ago started a certain drummer on the road, giving him two hundred dollars for traveling ex- penses. Two weeks passed and nothing was heard from him. ally, the house, becoming impatient, telegraphed the delinquent as follows. “No advices from you since you left. Are you | still with us?” In a little while the answer came: | “Referring yours of fifteenth. Have drawn j on you for two hundred and fifty dollars addi- tional. Am still with you.”—Lippincott’s. Not Sentiment H Oh, please, Mille. Jeanne, do not call me Mr. Durand. Sue (coyly): Oh, but our acquaintance is so short. Why should I not call you that? Well, chiefly because my name is Dupont.”— Nos Loisirs. Items of Needed Legislation ‘OR instance, there ought to be a law prohibit- ing the crushing of mint in the compilation of a julep. There ought to be a law forbidding the use of the doggerel known as “ baby” talk, or “goo-goo”” talk, to infants, on the ground that it retards the progress of young Americans in the mastery of real English. Tt ought to be declared a felony for any one at the theatre to tell his companion “what's coming next.’” A law should declare it perfectly proper for a clergyman to say something besides “Fudge” when he hits at a golf ball and ploughs up a ton of earth, It should be illegal for a preacher to reiterate his text more than fifty times in the course of one sermon, or to go higher than the “thirtiethly” in his enumeration of points to be made. It should be against the law for any group of women to discuss the servant problem more than one hour at a time without a change of sut unless they first obtain a written permission of the President of the United States.—Louisville Courier-Journal, Consumers supplied by Park & Tillord, New York, S.S. Pierce Co., Boston all firt-class grocers. Drink P, B. Ale If you are an ale drinker and know that good, pure ale gives strength as well as satisfaction to the man who drinks it, then drink P.B. Only pure malt and hops go into the brew. Eighty-five years’ experience goes into the brewing. It's an American Success recognized and patronized by every lover of good ale. IN BOTTLES OR ON DRAUGHT Brewed at BUNKER HILL BREWERIES, Boston, Mass. comicbooks.com