Life, 1907-07-25 · page 20 of 22
Life — July 25, 1907 — page 20: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not satirical content. The dominant feature is a large Kahn System reinforced concrete advertisement showcasing building construction methods, with photographs of completed structures (a hotel, gymnasium, and office building). The small text pieces labeled "Such Is Life," "The Net Profit," and "Tragedy Writ Large" are brief humorous anecdotes—typical filler content for the era. They employ gentle, domestic humor: a student's poor drawing, a farmer's penny-pinching over marriage costs, and an absent-minded professor who confuses his wife's hat with a roast beef while carrying items in his arms. The page also includes period advertisements for mineral water, talcum powder, and other products. There is **no political satire or caricature** on this page. It represents the standard advertising-heavy format of early 20th-century American magazines, where commercial announcements subsidized editorial content.
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Such Is Life "HE student painted badly, past a doubt; For quite awhile his gentle teacher bore it. At last he lost his patience and cried out: “You draw /rom life, Daubigny, and not for it!" —Herverd Lampoon. . RENNES. Natural, addulous, alkaline water Bohemia, for stomach affections, uric acid, diabetes. Free booklet. Laytles ttrethers, Agents, 8. Ys The Net Profit ZW ENGLAND man tells of a prosperous ‘onnecticut farmer, painfully exact in moncy matters, who married a widow of Greenwich possessing in her own right the sum of ten thousand | dollar: Shortly after the wedding a friend met the farmer, to whom he offered congratulations, at the same time observing: “It's a good thing for you, Malachi—a marriage that means ten thousand dollars to you.” “Not quite that, Bill,” said the farmer, “not quite that.” “Why exclaimed the friend, “I understood there was every cent of ten thousand dollars in it for you! 9 “T had to pay two dollars for a marriage license,” said Malachi, with a sigh—Harper’s Monthly. ¥ Amontha aron Springs, among best sanatoriums and sum: e mer resorts in the world, will save doctor's bills. Send s cents postage for "A Summer Paradise” guide to Sharon and other cool northern resorts to A. A. Heard,G. P. A., Albany, N.Y. Tragedy Writ Large 'HE people didn’t merely look at Professor Brancfog—they stared. He knew he was absent-minded at times, and he wondered whethe he had rubbed his face with boot polish instead of cold cream after he had shaved, or whether he had forgotten to change his dressing-gown for his frock But a kindly policeman put things right. § . : maosiam “Are you aware, sir, that you are carrying a joint . a 0 of beef in your arms?” he asked. EFION PLANT. CHICAGO Every Building built by Novel Academy “Goodness me!" said the Professor. “I knew Annepolis something was wrong. My wife told me to put her the Kahn System is Sunday hat on the bed, to place this roast in the Hi oF , oven and to take the baby and the dog for a walk.” fireproof, enduring, and “You've not put the baby in the oven, surely?” ; said the law's guardian. accumulates strength fi “T put something in it,” said Branefog, “but I with age. S SMM | don't know whether it was the baby or the do, With bated breath they hurried to the Professor's house. Here, on the bed, lay the baby and the dog, but it was just as bad for Branefog. It was his wife’s Sunday hat that was in the oven!—Tit-Bits. The Kaha System is a method of building based on organized engineering skill, experience and facilities for meeting every requirement of reinforced concrete construction in the most efficient and economical way. By the Kaha System construction work of any magnitude is handled complete from start to finish within the shortest possible time li It brings brains, engineering skill and experience, inventive genius, capital and - “GW, manufacturing facilities to bear In the solution of your construction problems. EAT REAR SPRING WATER The KANN SYS relieves owners of all care and trouble and co-operates fully with architects a perkty has mendes 1e famase” and contractors in the execution of work. iva ‘We insure quality and prompt delivery by manufacturing our own reinforcing material, including the patented JBURBAN HOST (to unexpected supper guest): Kahn Trussed Bar, Kahn Rib Metal, Cup-Bar, and Kaba Metal Lath, “Now, then, Miss Hobson, will you havea little If request is made on your this rabbit pie or—er—or (looking round and discow- letter hi 1 The ; 3 : flaps Hotel Traymore Nesey etd, 4 sony of | The Ti Bo f : : ering there is no other dish)—or not?"—The Tatler. nt free. Weis tor coor of “Mills and Facto Bulletin No, 5, * Wh: Re intorced Coserete Is." M E N N E N Ss] Trussed Concrete BORATED TALCUM Steel Company 86 Congress Street DETROIT for After Shaving. LONDON TORONTO ference prt eyi roe pionss ry Antone ‘te Sif prea Soy of te 2 elon Prickly Heats rerelief or J IT STANDS sd Sasbern, and , APoaaraaran Kesteven a | I I See St penbintion, Get Meanearecihe origisal “Sold I D KAHN SY 4M TO. REASON ee cere es acs eeetet Dotple Pree GERHARD MENNEN CO., Newark, N. 3. comicbooks.com