Life, 1907-05-02 · page 47 of 48
Life — May 2, 1907 — page 47: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily a **full-page advertisement** for Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company's porcelain bathroom and kitchen fixtures, not political satire or editorial cartoon content. The imagery shows idealized domestic scenes—women using modern bathrooms, kitchens, and laundry facilities—to convey cleanliness and domestic modernity. The phrase "Pride of the Clean" appeals to early-20th-century values linking sanitation with moral virtue and social respectability. The advertisement emphasizes that Standard's products are affordable for "modest or luxurious" homes, positioning modern plumbing fixtures as accessible luxuries. The caution about counterfeit products and trade-marks reflects contemporary concerns about knock-offs. This represents **consumer advertising**, not satire—Life magazine sold advertising space to manufacturers. The content reflects period attitudes linking domestic cleanliness to family health and social status.
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THE PRIDE OF THE CLEAN is inspired by snow-white bath-room, kitchen and laundry fixtures. ‘Standard’ Porcelain Enameled Ware is an assurance of beauty, comfort, convenience, perfect sanitation and It is the most economical equipment to instal, 4 domestic health. whether in a modest or luxurious home. Our Book, * MODERN BATHROOMS," tells you how to plan, buy and arrange your bathroom and illustrates many beautiful and inexpensive as well as luxurious rooms, showing the cost of each fixture in detail, together with many hints on decoration, tiling, etc. It is the most com- plete and beautiful booklet ever issued on the subject, and contains 100 pages. FREE for six cents postage, and the name of your plumber and architect (if selected), CAUTION : Every piece of “Standard” Wore bears our “Stavdant” **GREEN ana GOLD"’ guarantee label and has our trade-mark "Stavdarf cast on the outside. Unless the label and trade-mark are on the fixture it is not Ware. Refuse substitutes—they are all inferior and will cost you more in the end. The word “$ is stamped on all our nickeled brass fittings ; specify them and see that you get the genuine trimmings with your bath and lavatory, etc. Dept. 34, Pittsburgh, U. S. A. Offices and Showrooms in New York: “Standard” Building, 35-37 West 31st Street London, England, 22 Holborn Viaduct, E, C. Louisville, 325-329 West Main St. Pittsburgh Showroom, 949 Penn Ave. New Orleans, Cor. Baronne and St. Joseph Streets Cleveland, 208-210 Huron St.