Life, 1907-02-07 · page 8 of 52
Life — February 7, 1907 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and articles** rather than political cartoons. The main content includes: 1. **Wayne Automobile Co. advertisement** (left): Promotes the Model 30 and Model 20 Wayne cars, emphasizing durability and low maintenance costs—selling points for early automotive buyers skeptical of reliability. 2. **"What a Chauffeur Thinks About Automobile Prices"** (center): A humorous article where a chauffeur discusses pricing and value of automobiles, likely satirizing both inflated car prices and working-class perspectives on luxury goods. 3. **Mitchell, Park & Tilford, and Calder's advertisements** (bottom): Standard product ads for automobiles, coffee, and nail polish. The page reflects **early 1900s consumer culture** and automobile industry growth, with gentle satire about emerging automotive anxieties rather than sharp political commentary.
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eo ae IHE QUESTION OF MAINTENANCE is one that interests both experienced autoist and prospec- tive purchaser. In this respect, as in others, the 1907 Wayne leads all competitors. The use of none but the best materials, simplifed construction, reinforcement of each part and careful attention to every detail, however minute, give ab- solute assurance of immunity from trouble and correspondingly slight expenditure for up-keep. Then there is speed—5 to 50 miles an hour, as desired, through perfect throttle control; ample horse-pow- er, and more in reserve; a distinct- ive style that compels admiration —in brief, the most of the best ever offered for the money. Pea j Model N, 30-35 h.p., 5 passenger, $2,500 A marvel of simplicity and @rength Model R, 50h.p., 7 passenger, 3,500 No more luxurious car made Model K, 35h.p., 5 passenger, 2,500 No grade too great, no road too rough Catalog descriptive of entire line, upon which we are guaranteeing d WAYNE AUTOMOBILE CO. Dept. E, DETROIT, MICH. 25t NAIL-POLISH TABLET PLAYERS especially thould use CALDER’S NAIL-POLISH TABLET Neglecte Nails are most unsightly—C. N. P. T. gives a brilliant, lasting polish AT SHOPS. MPLE BY MAIL 10 CENTS ALBERT L. CALDER CO. Providence, R. | find how much improve heart had changed in so many thousand years—the women of the great Indian epics and lyrics are not less lovable than the ideal beauties of modern ro- mance. It is even so;_we are ephemera’, secking only the pleasure of a golden moment before passing out of the glow into the gloom. None, except one of those genii who appear at intervals as broad as those clapsing in Indian myth between the apparition of the Buddhas, can sit down before the age of thirty-five or forty and create any- thing really great. Worlds are but dreams of God, and evanesceni the galaxies of suns burn out, the heavens withe even time and space are ¢ and the civili- zation of a planet but an incident of its growth. To those who feel these things religious avestons are valueless and void of meaning When it comes to writing a durable thing book or a brochure—every line ought to be writ- ten at least twice, if possible three times. Three | times, at all events, to commence with. First— | roughly, in pencil, after which correct and reshape | as much as you deem necessary. Then rewrite clean | in pencil. Read again, and you will be surprised to | nt is possible. Then copy | nd in the very act of copying new id sot grace, force and harmony will make the maniiest. Without this, [will venture 0 say, fe literary execution is im possible. in ink, The book that compels perusal of every line and word is the book of power. Create a story of which no reader can skip a single paragraph and one has the secret of force—if not of durability. It is impossible to sce the psychical undercurrents of human existence without that self-separation from the purely physical part of being which severe sick- ness gives—like a revelation. One in good health, who has never been obliged to separate his imma- terial self from his material self, always will imagine that he understands much which, even recorded in words, cannot be understood at all without sharp experience. Weare all living two lives—but the reve- lation of the first seems only to come by accident. How diamond-hard the character of the American woman becomes under the idolatry of which she is the subject. In the eternal order of things, which is the highest being—the childish, con- fiding, sweet Japanese girl, or the superb, calculat- ing, penetrating Occidental Circe of our more arti- ficial society, with her enormous power for evil and her limited capacity for good ? wi We keep the senses perpetually stimu- lated with a million ideas of the eternal feminine, and our very language reflects the strain. ‘The Western civilization is using all its arts, its sciences, its phi- losophy in stimulating and exaggerating and exacer- bating the thought of sex. An Oriental would almost faint with astonishment and shame to see a Western ballet. | As Spencer holds, absolute morality can only begin where the struggle for existence has ceased. This is not new. The appalling prospect is this— how infinitely worse the world must become before it begins to improve at all! If ever you become a father, I think the strangest and strongest sensation of your life will be hearing for the first time the thin cry of your own child. For a moment you have the strange feeling of being | double ; but there is something more, quite impossible to analyze—perhaps the echo in a man’s heart of all the sensations felt by all the fathers and mothers of Manvracturves Catpre’s Dentin his race at a similar instant in the past. It is a very tender, but also a very ghostly feeling. What a chauffeur thinks about automobile a Mitcheit Mosel 1 car to his professional you fellows thak you can“ BSve got The Mitebelt skinned. c moe and let's wee if you ca: Country that shut their eyes tight on $200 cars merely, y Bike x grantel thar a fyeo, car ought tole bell” Any agest will tak isterestea In getin a caf That sshow Mime what it showed my bomt—and save him about $20. "eg pardon, sire Why, y ites Company. ryt Ste fore Catalogue Well, any oF yp fellows coma” cat) ve ct ten dollars {omy pocket that says The siltehell hat free behlod anybody's car” Member American Motor Car Manufacturers Association eet, Racine, Wis..and send toc. Park & Tilford FOUNDED 184 NEW YORK Coffees of pronouncedly fine flavor and appetizing aroma increase the zest and satisfaction of every perfect breakfast @ Select from these for your table 18c. Ib. Finest Maracaibo—economical, un- matched value 24c. Ib. The P. & T. Blend—exceptionally rich, heavy body 29¢. Ib. Java and Mocha—in proportion § and 4—the highest standard of an absolutely pure Blend 45c. Ib. 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