Life, 1907-12-05 · page 64 of 68
Life — December 5, 1907 — page 64: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** rather than editorial content. The main satirical element appears in a small illustration accompanying a Viyella Flannel ad, showing a woman offering food/gifts to a sick person in bed with the caption: "What's the use of wasting all those good things on a sick person?" **The Joke:** This reflects turn-of-the-century attitudes toward illness and economy—a darkly humorous suggestion that providing luxuries to the infirm is wasteful. It plays on penny-pinching sentiments of the era. The page is otherwise dominated by: - **Viyella Flannel advertisements** (fall 1907 fashions) - **Henry Hutt Calendar** promotional copy (featuring "dainty femininity") - **Book advertisements** from Houghton Mifflin & Co., listing holiday gift recommendations including works on Greek travel, landscape gardening, and sculpture The content reflects 1907 consumer culture and gender ideals (emphasizing feminine delicacy in Hutt's work), with no significant political satire beyond the small sick-person joke.
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MEARE AES “WIYELLA FLANNEL New Fall Designs for 1907 IN Plaids! Stripes! Solid Colours! FOR Shirt Waists, Shirt Waist Suits, Dressing Sacks and Children’s Garments, Men’s Golfing Shirts, Pajamas, Etc. “VIYELLA” can.be obtained at the leading Dry Goods Stores and Men’s Furnishers DOES NOT SHRINK arya “WHAT’s THE USE OF WASTING ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS ON A SICK PERSON ?”? The HENRY HUTT Calendar 1908 HE delicate depictions of dainty femininity from Mr. Hutt’s brush have an individuality which puts him in a position of distinction peculiarly his own. Each of the twelve Ieaves of this handsome calendar bears a reproduction in color of a special Hutt drawing, printed on heavy boards 1234215 % inches in size, tied with green silk cord and tastefully boxed. Price $2.00 Each Postpaid LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 West 31st Street, New York Good Books Make the Best Christmas Gifts A PARTIAL LIST FROM THE HOLIDAY ANNOUNCEMENTS OF HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. MRS. WIGGIN'S THE OLD PEABODY PEW “Cheeriest of the stories by this gifted author."”—Philadelphia Telegraph. “Mrs. Wiggin is the most popular woman writer in this country to-day."—Chicago Journal. Charmingly illustrated in color by Alice Barber Stephens. $1.50. PHILIP S. MARDEN'S GREECE AND THE AEGEAN ISLANDS A delightful book of travel, suitable to take with one on a Grecian voyage, but, abore all. 10 be read with pleasure on returning therefrom. Fully illustrated. $3.00 nc. Postage, 19 cents. LONGFELLOW’S SONNETS Edited by FERRIS GREENSLET Lovers of true poetry will find this first separate edition of Longfellow's sonnets a «elightful little book and an appropriate gift for their bookish friends. 75 cents. MEMOIRS OF MONSIEUR CLAUDE Translated by KATHARINE P. WORMELEY . Court memoirs of the Chief of Police under the Second Empire, containing historical, social and secret information of great interest. Illustrated. $4.00 net. Postage, 23 cents. FRANK W. CHANDLER'S THE LITERATURE OF ROGUERY “Few, ifany, recent works contain at once so much that is fresh and suggestive to the student of books and so much that is entertaining to the student of human nature, It is of importance at once to the historian, the sociologist, and the general reader."—Transcript, Helyote, Moss In two volumes. $3.00 net. Postage, 20 cents. HUMPHRY REPTON'S THE ART OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING A saluable record of the experiences of the founder of landscape gardening. | ‘The book is of practical valve to landscape architects and those interested ia the lying out ‘of great estates. 00 net. Postage, 20 cents. ROYAL CORTISSOZ’ AUGUSTUS SAINT-GAUDENS An authoritative study of Saint-Gauden's complete work, being at once an admit criticism and a vivid and intimate portrayal of the sculptor’s personality. | 24 fully fravure illustrations practically represent Saint-Gaudens's entire work in sculpture, 1 autifully bound, with design in gold. $7.50 net. Postage, 30 cents. Send for our Portrait Cataloswe HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK Send for our Holiday Bulletin = I Deny Sthey comicbooks.com