Life, 1907-08-01 · page 44 of 48
Life — August 1, 1907 — page 44: what you’re looking at
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This page mixes advertising with light social humor typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **Main Content:** "Her First Day at Sea" is a humorous monologue capturing upper-class women's shipboard etiquette anxieties. The joke centers on the speaker's awkward, contradictory complaints—she simultaneously critiques another woman's appearance while defending her own disheveled state, reveals physical discomfort she claims not to mind, and nitpicks cabin placement despite claiming indifference. The humor lies in exposing social pretense and the gap between what wealthy travelers *say* versus what they actually care about (appearance, comfort, status). **Advertisements:** The page also features a Budweiser beer ad, a Life magazine binder promotion, and a Lea & Perrins sauce advertisement—typical commercial content for the era. **"At Regular Rates":** A brief joke about a newspaper editor who treats his fiancée's romantic gestures as billable work, satirizing editorial penny-pinching. No political cartoons appear on this page; the humor is purely social satire.
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=n ra ae Budweiser The King of Bottled Beers is served in all the best hotels, clubs and cafes throughout the world. It is exquisite in flavor, perfect in purity and supreme in sales. Anheuser-Busch Brewing Ass’n St. Louis, U.S. A. NOT PRESERVE YOUR COPIES OF -LIFE- In Good Condition? If, when you have finished with the week's issue, it is placed on file in one of our binders, it is always convenient for reference and the volume becomes an unfailing source of pleasure and amusement. The Binder is an ingenious arrangement, substantially made, bound in either black or garnet cloth, with cover design in gilt. Sent to any address on receipt of one dollar by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York City Her First Day at Sea how do you do?—I didn’t recognize you at first—you had such a pretty suit on that first at luncheon. . . . Oh, please don’t mis. understand me—of course, no one would wear any thing decent on the steamer after you are out, and I do like that shapeless bunchy hat—everything flops down in this damp air, anyway. I can’t doa thing with my hair. In fact, to-day is the first day I have really had it fixed since I came aboard. . Oh, no, not at all. I never am. I simply had a bad cold, and I was so tired out I just thought I wouldn’t try to get up-stairs. Quite a little motion still, isn’t there? No, I don’t mind it at all. don't think I shall stay up long—there se such a draught. . . . “Do you know, I think I shall have my chair can’t you move my chair over to . .. This is thewhat? Lee side? Oh, is it? Well—oh, yes, I remember now, that’s the side with the red light at night. Well, it doesn't matter, really. I know the best people prefer the lee, and it was nice of you to think of putting my chair Fere, but I would much rather sit w th i ++ Ob-b-h, i Well, they didn’t have plained to me; besides, I have d so many times, there isn’t anything about a from the main pits do Il right, I suppose I had “Bouillon? Oh,no— please, please, take it away, quick. I'm not at all hungry—T ate such a heart} breakfast, I mean.”—From The Talking Woman. May Isabel Fisk. At Regular Rates ISS MATILDA OWENS hung on the arm of the editor of the Laneville Bugle, to whom she had been engaged for three years, and endeav- ored to turn his gaze toward the sky “Just notice the moon, William!" she said, in a melting voice. “At the usual rates, Matilda, I shall be happy to do so,” he replied.— Youth's Companion. Stews and Hashes are rendered much more tasty and appetizing by the use of Lea & Perrins’ Sauce THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE It is a rare relish for Fish, Meats, Game, Salads, Cheese, etc. Jobn Duncan‘s Sons, Agents, N.Y.