Life, 1907-06-20 · page 4 of 32
Life — June 20, 1907 — page 4: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This LIFE magazine page is primarily **advertising and philosophical commentary** rather than political satire. The ads promote steamship travel on the Great Lakes, Lake George resort accommodations, Sanderson's "Mountain Dew" liquor, and a "Club Cocktail" recipe. The right column features **Nietzsche epigrams** and moral essays—likely satirizing early 20th-century American attitudes toward pacifism, marriage, and materialism. One piece mocks a Boston woman's peace activism, another discusses hospitality and friendship philosophically. The "Club Cocktail" illustration shows a well-dressed man mixing drinks, **likely satirizing** Prohibition-era attempts to make homemade cocktails, presented as scientific sophistication. Overall, this reflects Life magazine's role as a venue for social commentary mixed with commercial advertising, targeting educated, affluent readers.
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Epigrams by the Philosopher Nietzsche HE most important result cf human effort in the past is this: that we need no more live in NORTHERN STEAMSHIP COMPANY endless dread of wild beasts, barbarians, gods and our own dreams. SS. NORTH WEST SS. NORTH LAND Dante was a hyena poctizing among tombs. Leaves Buffalo Saturdays Leaves Buffalo Wednesdays Carlyle represents the pessimism of an undigested and Duluth Tuesdays and Chicago Saturdays dinner. What shall it profit a man if he gain his own soul and lose the whole world? To all lake resorts, including Mackinac Island, Sault Ste. [Ml Vou" Gcsites surpass your reason, and your van . . ily surpasses even your desires. Marie, Marquette, Houghton, Duluth, Harbor Springs, “There is a constant change going on in morals— American or European Plan Milwaukee & Chicago. the result of successful crimes, ey We keep on drawing conclusions from opinions Season from June 22d to which we consider wrong and from doctrines in first week in September which we have lost faith. Aristotle declares that among the children of mas- ter minds insanity is rife; and that among those of OPTIONAL the virtuous, eapldity prevails, In Rye this, did RAIL OR STEAMSHIP he mean to urge exceptional persons to marry ? Write for particulars and To cast ourselves into the midst of our cnemics painted matier to may be the greatest sign of cowardice. Men tell lies continually, but they do not take the trouble to think about it, and as a rule would not be- lieve it. We should absolutely abstain from being clever if we are really wise. If we cannot satisfy the hopes of a friend, we should prefer to have him for an enemy. The origin of hospitality is to appease hostility in a stranger. As soon as we cease to look upon a stran- ger as an enemy, our hospitality diminishes. THE SAGAMORE J]|wccii’scccme'to me in the'cndt. On the other . . hand, if she did not love me, how much greater a One of the finest resorts in America. |! nuisance she would become to me in the end! It Appointments for automobile parties. i i i ii i TICKETS is a question of two different kind of nuisances. Therefore, let us marry.—Scrap Book. T. EDMUND KRUMBHOLZ, SAGAMORE, N.Y. Winter The Kirkwood, Camden, S. C. = ‘T WAS only afew weeks ago that a Boston woman, noted for her zeal in the peace movement, urged A: Club Cocktail the mothers of America not to give toy soldiers to 1S ABOTTLED DELicHr their little boys, her contention being that such articles were calculated to imbue the youngsters with the spirit of war, Animated, no doubt, by her plea, a worthy Hebrew rabbi of Pittsburg is about to visit Germany to urge the toy makers to stop manu- facturing toy soldiers, swords, guns and other things suggestive of the vocation of arms. To be con- sistent the rabbi should ask the manufacturers to stop making toy fire engines, on the ground that such articles tend to excite the spirit of incendiarism among little boys. He might also protest ag the further manufacture of toy lions and tigers, on the ground that they are calculated to arouse the spirit of animal savagery among those who play with them. We would also suggest that, while this gentleman is engaged in his philanthropic work, he should endeavor to persuade the makers of medical and surgical appliances to stop producing them lest DRINK "THOUSANDS have discarded the idea of making they ancite surgical students ba te pecdes their own cocktails, —all will after giving the BP AMY ONE EN avy SANDERSON’S CLUB COCKTAILS a fair trial, Scientifically | Jurnal. blended from the choicest old liquors and mellowed . ~ with age make them the perfect cocktails that they are. A PRETTY bird story is told by Mrs. Porter. A Seven kinds, most popular of which are Martini (Gin spool of scarlet sewing silk thrown by her on base), Manhattan (Whiskey base). the lawn was seized by a goldfinch, which carried it ‘The following label appears on every bottle : away and lined its nest with it. A little later she found six goldfinches rummaging her work-basket find that the life and force Guaranteed under the National Pure ake veranda for silk for nest linings.—Democratic Food and Drugs Act. Approved June EET OM: 30th, 1906. Serial No. 1707. M “Mountain Dew” in moderation and you will contained in it will be im- ANY a man is willing to turn his children over to the care of one whom he would not think of G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props | trusting with his automobile or his favorite horse.— Hae | NEWIVEAC ‘Lesasé New York Evening Sun. parted to you. Don't take our word. Try for yourself. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER — 8 purity has made It famoas.” comicbooks.com