Life, 1908-01-02 · page 39 of 44
Life — January 2, 1908 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** for luxury goods (wine, champagne, bitters) and travel services, interspersed with brief humor pieces and jokes. The cartoon content includes: 1. **"Worse and Worse"**: A joke about a German prison guard trying to break a convict's spirit by giving him a cookery book—implying reading about food while imprisoned is torture. 2. **"Innocent"**: A child's excuse for eating cherries, claiming he swallowed the stones so there's no evidence. 3. **"The Most Suspicious Ever"**: Banker Henry Clews tells an anecdote about a paranoid financier resembling a Staffordshire farmer who inspected sheep for hidden cotton—satirizing excessive suspicion in business. 4. **"La Panique Roosevelt"**: A French jab at President Theodore Roosevelt, mocking that he shot four bears and simultaneously wiped out $200 million in capital in fifteen days—likely referencing market panic or economic concerns during his presidency. The page reflects early 20th-century American satirical humor and transatlantic commentary on political figures.
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pm- nto of ery yew ore- rink and was the £068 and nd a with Going Away This inter? We include pretty nearly every place of attraction in one or more of our select parties—California, Mexico, Florida, West Indies, Europe, Orient, etc. Travel with party or not, as you please. We shall be glad to send booklets. Tickets Everywhere Raymond @ Whitcomb Co. Sew Yorks 23 Calon Square Philadelphia: 1003 Chestast St. Dantes: 306 Wasblogton St. Pittsburg: S22 Smith@eld St. (oieege: 153 Fe darkson Boulevard, and Other Large Giles BORDEAUX FRANCE b HAUT-SAUTERNES A. DE LUZE & FILS BORDEAUX CLA RETS SAUTERNES = (222 SOLD BY PARK & TILFORD JOHN WAGNER 4 SONS Sper NEW YORA PHILADELPHIA S. C. HERBST IMPORTING CO., MILWAUKEE GOLDBERG, BOWEN 4 CO., SAN FRANCISCO S. S. PIERCE CO., BOSTON GENERAL AGENTS FOR THE UNITED STATES Worse and Worse CONVICT in a German prison had been y. One means and another had been tried, but nothing could break his spirit. One morning the governor said to the warder: a cookery book to read. We must break his spirit somehow.”—Illustrated Bits. Innocent OTHER: You and Willy have been at my cherries again. I found the stones in the Jouxsy: It wasn't me, mother, ’cause I swallowed he stoncs of mine.—Frankjort Witshlatt, The Most Supicious Ever ENRY CLEWS, the banker and author, was talking at the Union Club in New York about a certain financicr. “No wonder the man is so successful,” said Mr. Clews. “He is the most careful, the most suspicious fellow I ever heard of. In fact, he reminds me of a Staffordshire farmer my father used to tell of. “Tt was said of this farmer that, whenever he bought a herd of sheep, he examined each sheep closely to make sure that it had no cotton in it.”"— Washington Star. “La Panique Roosevelt” RAISING ELECTRIC LIGHT PLANTS N LESS than fifteen days President Roosevelt shot SETTING OUT THE BULBS four bears and wiped out £200,000,000 of capital. —Le Matin. CHAMPAGNE, Itir not only the bert American champagne. but the bert champagne” Often imitated but never equalled—the leading Bitters since 1846. Now the favorite and most universally used in all parts of the world. Alone asa tonic and bracer it is unrivalled and at all times especially re- freshing. Gives relish for food, even to the dyspeptic. Enjoyable as a Cocktail and Better for You Over 7,000,000 bottles imported to the United States At all Hotels, Clubs and Restaurants, or by the bottle at Wine Merchants and Grocers Bottled only by Il. Underberg Albrecht, Rhvinberg, Germany LUYTIES BROTHERS, 204 William St., Now York, Sole Agents