Life — April 4, 1907 — page 39: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This page combines a **dental humor cartoon** with **whiskey advertising** and art prints for sale. ## The Cartoon (Top Left) The joke depicts a dentist-patient exchange: The patient complains the dentist extracted teeth "without pain," yet still has pain afterward. The dentist's response—"Well! You still have the pain, haven't you?"—is a crude pun suggesting the extraction itself was painless, but post-operative pain is expected and inevitable. It's satirizing either dental incompetence or the gap between promises and reality in dental work. ## The Advertisement The Garrick Club Whiskey ad ("The Best in the House") occupies the upper right, marketing liquor as a social good. ## The Prints Section Below are five art prints available for purchase ($1.00 each), including romantic/sentimental scenes by various illustrators—typical merchandise Life magazine sold to readers. The page reflects early 1900s magazine content mixing satire, commerce, and reproduced artwork.