Life, 1907-11-14 · page 19 of 20
Life — November 14, 1907 — page 19: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and promotional material**, not political satire. The main content consists of: 1. **Park & Tilford candy advertisement** (left column) — a straightforward product pitch emphasizing purity and quality. 2. **"An Anti-Faddist" poem** — light satire mocking health-conscious faddists of the era who obsessively diet, take pills, use thermometers frequently, and constantly consult doctors. The joke's irony: the narrator criticizes these habits while admitting to similar behavior ("I'm off to my pet doctor now"). This reflects early 20th-century anxiety about the emerging "wellness" culture. 3. **Rent-Payer's Reasons** — humorous short piece explaining why someone prefers renting to homeownership (avoids commitment, maintenance responsibility). 4. **Large Theatre Magazine/Dress magazine subscription advertisement** — the page's dominant feature, offering both publications for $5 annually. The page contains no political cartoons or significant political commentary—it's a commercial publication page typical of Life's advertising-heavy format from this period.
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Park &Tilford Founded 1840 New York PURE CONFECTIONERY Park & Tilford Candies are temptingly delicious, pure and i Ai They are made in Park & Tilford’s own factories, which are justly considered models of cleanliness; and only pure ingredients of the highest procurable grade are used in their making. Better can- dies than those made and sold by Park & Tilford are not possible—they are the best made. Sold at all our stores and at all principal drug stores. Deliveries made out of town An Anti-Faddist Femeriy people thought too little about their health. ‘To-day them think of little else.—Dr. Robertson Wallace.) HERE. is no way of quieting The faddist’s fright—such fears are his, ‘or when he is not dieting Himself, he under treatment is. (Of course, for every mortal ill Thave—and take—my special pill.) Tteil him—verbum sap.—annoyed With foolish fussy folk I feel, Who take a bi-palatinoid Directly after every meal. (One after breakfast, one at tea Are always quite enough for me.) Some have a plan, nor from it err, using quite three times a day ‘The clinical thermometer— Such folly fills me with dimay. (1 find it satisfies me quite To use it every other night.) Fach day some make afresh a list Of their complaints—fie, faddist, fie!— Aci! call upon a specialist Three times a year—wild waste, say I! (And—'tis the strangest chance, 1 vow— T'm off to my pet doctor now.) —London Chronicle. The Rent-Payer’s Reasons MYJHY,” asked the real estate man, “do you pay rent instead of owning a home?” answered the mild-mannered man, So long as I’m only paying rent I with the idea that one of these to move into a fine, roomy abode. hen T buy I know I've got to stick. Besides, | would be no pleasure at all in talking about | Pes because you didn’t’ make repairs.”— Tekington Star, Eh? (ae NOR HUGHES insists that all the 7. buses in New York must be stamped out. “Sg 0 move Wall Strect ?—Omaha Bee. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER Ite perity has made it famous.” Of Course You Know THE THEATRE MAGAZINE and You Know DRESS BUT DO YOU KNOW THE TWO MAGA- ZINES SENT TO YOU FOR THE NEXT TWELVE MONTHS FOR $5.00 THE PRICE OF ONE? ach is the acknowledged authority in its respective field. Ea a subject of vital and delightful interest, the stage and jashion, ‘These magazines together give definite form to your magazine requirements, and are as delightful as they are necessary. THE THEATRE MAGAZINE, edited by Arthur Hornblow, puts before the public in an attractive form all that is going on in the sister worlds of the drama and music. It will inform you of what is to be scen upon the stage, when and where, and takes you behind the scenes into the fascinating life of the footlights. It is the most beautifully illustrated periodical of the stage. It brings each month right into your own home all the leading plays and their pleasurable association. Each issue contains over 100 fine portraits of favorite actors and actresses and scenes from all the new plays, in addition to a splendid cover in colors, giving the portrait of a prominent player. RESS will enable you to be always gowned in accordance with the latest dictates of the mode, and show you how this may be most easily accomplished. _ It is richly adorned with colored engravings and covers. Through their connection with the French Magazine ‘ Modes,” the publishers of DRESS are enabled to give photographic reproductions of models by P: Beer, Worth, Lafferricre, and all the greatest designers of Paris simultancously with their first appearance in Les Modes abroad. Just think of the rare opportunity which enables you to become a subscriber to the two handsomest magazines published in the United States, and only pay the price of one of them, Subscribe Now. $5.00 instead of $8.00. Send Us Your Order At Once SAMPLE COPY SENT FREE UPON REQUEST REMEMBER THE PLAYS YOU SEE AND GET A PLAY DIARY This handsome scrap book enables you to make up your own souvenir book. Size 10x14. Beautifully bound in silk cloth, gold lettering, title page and table of contents. Japanese Vellum is used throughout the entire volume. Printed headings on each page. Four pages are reserved for each play, thus insuring to the collector all the necessary space for program, pictures of the plays and players, and one page to write his own criticism of the play. Sent Postpaid on Receipt of $3.00 THE THEATRE MAGAZINE CO., 20 W. 33d St., N. Y. comicbooks.com