Life, 1907-12-19 · page 24 of 28
Life — December 19, 1907 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a subscription campaign for *The Metropolitan Magazine*, offering prizes (manicure sets, fountain pens, mirrors, kodaks, watches) to solicitors who secure 20+ subscriptions. The small **John Jameson Whiskey advertisement** at top is standard commercial promotion—no satire present. The right column contains book reviews and a humorous anecdote titled "The Amateur Chauffeur" by William H. Hotchkiss about a car owner who disassembles his automobile and reassembles it with leftover parts, illustrating ignorance about proper vehicle maintenance. This is gentle humor about the then-novel automobile industry, not political commentary. The page reflects **early 1900s commercial culture**: aggressive subscription sales campaigns with material incentives, emerging automobile ownership, and leisurely magazine content mixing literary reviews with light comedic pieces.
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This $8.00 Manicure Set and $6.00 is yours if you For will secure 20 subscriptions to THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE THE METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE is launching the greatest subscription campaign ever inaugurated in the history of the publish- ing business. We are offer- ing a wonderjul series of valuable prizes and liberal commissions this season to representatives who secure subscriptions to the Metro- politan Magazine. Not only. is this one of the greatest subscription campaigns, but it also offers the richest harvest for solicitors of sub- scriptions, for the value of the prizes and the amount of the commis- sions are to be in keep- ing with the campaign. 5 Subscriptions, a $2.00 Seal Bill Book and $1.50 Cash 15 20 50 60 7s 6.00 Fountain Pen = 4.50 “ an 8.00 Mirror a 20.00 Kodak “© 24.00 Watch ** 30.00 Boat bid 6.00 * 15.00 “18.00 “ 22.50 The above are only a few of the liberal prizes to representatives. Each subscription taken earns a prize and a cash commission. Your cash commission and the value of your prize is in proportion to the number of subscriptions taken. Absolutely No Competitive Prizes Offered Write at once for our Illustrated Circular entitled “A Prize Package Which May Be Worth Many Dollars to You.” THE METROPOLITAN Dept. L1. 3 West Twenty-ninth St., N. Y. City, N. Y. MAGAZINE Latest Books My Bunkie and Other Ballads, by E. C. Garrett (Lippincott and Company, Philadelphia. $1.23) The Daughter of Jorio, by Gabriele D’Annunsio (Little, Brown and Company. $1.50.) The Emily Emmins Papers, by Carvivn Wel (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) More About the Roosevelt Bears, vy Seymour Eaton, (Edward Stern and Compan: The Sonnets of H. W. Longijellow. Mifflin and Company, Boston. $0.75.) Greece and the Aegean Islands, by Philip S. Mar. den. (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston, $3.00.) Memoirs of Monsieur Claude, translated by Kath- erine P. Wormeley. (Houghton, Mifflin and Co pany, Boston. $4.00.) he Halo, by Bettina von Hutten. (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.50.) Bohemia in London, by Arthur Ransome. (Dodd, Mead and Company. $1.50.) J. Archibald McKackney: Collector of Whiskers (The Outing Publishing Company. $1.25.) A Vers de Société Anthology, by Carolyn Well. | (Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.25.) Henrik Ibsen’s Collected Plays: Little Eyolf; Joke Gabriel Borkman; When We Dead Awaken. (Chat! Scribner’s Sons. Vol. The Broken Road, by . Mason. (Charks Scribner’s Sons.) Hymns oj the Marshes, by Sidney Lanier. (Charles Scribner's Sons. $2.00.) The First Nantucket Tea Party. Illustrated by Walter Tittle. (Doubleday, Page and Compa 2.00.) The Child in Art, by Margaret B. Carpenter. (Ginn and Company, Boston. $2.00.) Memorials of Thomas Davids iam Knight. (Ginn and Company, Boston The Amateur Chauffeur ILLIAM H. HOTCHKISS, one of the direc- tors of the American Automobile Ass said the other day in Buffalo: “I believe that aman, to love automobiling thor- oughly, must know all about his car— how to clean it, how to repair it, how to take it ap “A friend of mine owns a small car. He has no chauffeur, and every time he gocs out a breakdown occurs. No wonder. “He said to me the other day: “Ltook my runabout all apart yesterday.’ “<Did you? said T; and, knowing his impract- cability, I added, seriously : ‘ Well, when you do that, you must always be careful not to lose any of the parts.’ “*Not to lose any of them?’ said ‘No fear. Why, when I put that machine together again yer terday, I had nearly two dozen pieces left over.””"— Washington Star. The Far Limit HE lawyer said sadly to his wife on his return home one night: “People seem very suspicio: of me. You know old Jones? Well, I did some work for him last month, and when he asked me for the bill this morning, I told him out of friendship that] wouldn’t charge him anything. He thanked me cor dially, but said he'd like a_ rece Nationa! Farmer. He Had ERVOUS LADY PASSENGER (to deck hand) Have you ever seen any worse weather that this, Mister Sailor? Deck Hanp: Take a word from an ole salt, mum? the weather's never very bad while there females on a-making hinguirics abovt London Tit-Bit = comicbooks.com