Life, 1908-08-06 · page 17 of 54
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This page contains three distinct sections: **News Items**: Brief satirical anecdotes about everyday life—a dog suffering heat prostration at Coney Island, and "Betty," a wealthy young woman who returns from a European Grand Tour exhausted but impressed with Paris fashion and charming ship doctors. The humor satirizes upper-class tourism and shallow cultural appreciation. **Advertisement**: Hunter Whiskey promotes "high balls" as smooth and refreshing beverages, using period language to market alcohol as both pleasant and "strengthening." **Travel Advertisement**: The Pennsylvania Railroad advertises a guided tour to Yellowstone Park and Canadian Rockies departing August 24, targeting educated travelers seeking nature and "majestic moods." This represents early-20th-century leisure travel marketing to affluent Americans. The page reflects Life's role as a humor magazine interspersed with advertisements for luxury goods and experiences targeting the wealthy readership.
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= L, PE. —R CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA AVERTED ) Hannon of the Coney Island Station Jog scare in the bud yesterday, and by on of a little common sense saved not coowd on the beach off Seaside Park, but telf from anything worse than an uncom: cen minutes, The dog was a brindle bull to Mrs. Garrett Smith of 474 Quincy street, nd when it began to act queerly on the are scemed imminent, saw the dog and got to it just about the animal collapsed. He picked it up in started on the run for the Coney Ist | ard Station Heat jrostration when Mrs. Smith begged to be told the trouble ion Hannon carried the dog into Capt . and Licut. Nedwell turned on the cold captain's bathtub, When the tub was pyed the dog into it, In a few minutes its senses, and in fifteen minutes it was ght again—New York Tin WHAT BETTY LEARNED ABROAD k from Europe, Such a gorgeous trip! ighly educational—even on the ship, What did Betty learn? Ob, my? rth nt to know—and have you seen the gown got from Worth? Everything 07 ris? Just delightful! Betty “did it well. hat she saw! Well, lots of things, Betty wouldn't tell Tke Louvre, of course, the Eiffel, and MH of that— Bois and ob, the sweetest vision of a pink and purple | hat! can't describe it—with the true Parisian fare Ard feathers a la—something—falling sidewise on the hair. ly charming! So historic, don't you pwer and the palaces, the churches and the Row.” saw them all, she thinks—they come to her I mean—wore funny waxed mustaches Asd high silk hats; but oh, my dear, they're clever as | can be, y the most delightful things across a cup of tea, Tee voyage? Really perfect! A little rough per haps; Bat when the ship was rolling on our chaperon tock so many things to learn—of masts and > and plugs, h delightful men to tuck you in your steam: er rugs: if you felt the wabble of the boat a little, too, ren't ship doctors charming in those uniforms of blue? Betty's back from Europe! Frazzled to a thread! Ghd wet once more into a comfortable bed. Her bills? Atas, what father said! But why his vain vexation? abroad—and such an education! —The Sun. Peny's had her trig THE UMIT set at an Fastern university, who ‘ ight into day, used to appear at & chapel with remarkable regularity, and were tas an example by the authoritics. An n was made in the time, chapel not beginning minutes later, and the dean was astound: that none of these m He sent for them and asked the re it's like this: when chapel | past seven we could just manage it, but Fe can't keep awake till eight o'clock.""—Harper's Weekly, . 0 regular before. ‘othing worse,” was his diag: | TWIRL THE ICE Do you know that a HIGH BALL made of HUNTER WHISKE is as smooth to the taste as the finest ice cream, and just as cool and refreshing, while at the same time strengthening. i Lanatt BALTIMORE Sold at all first-class cafes and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD Bulletin. TOUR TO YELLOWSTONE PARK AND THE CANADIAN ROCKIES. In the heart of the Rocky Mountains, lies one of nature’s richest treasures— the Yellowstone National Park. It is America’s greatest show ground. ‘To visit this Park is to see nature in a variety of rare and majestic moods. Mammoth hot springs, with multicolored terraces, cliffs of glass, beautiful lakes, mighty falls, glorious canyons, and geysers of all descriptions, are seen in this wonder- ful region. On August 24 a personally-conducted tour through the Yellowstone Park to Portland and Seattle, returning through the magnificent Canadian Rocky Mountains, will leave the East by special train over the Pennsylvania Railroad. Five and one-half days will be spent in the Park, one day in Portland, one day in Vancouver, one day at Field, B. C., one day at Laggan, Alba., one day at Banff, and stops will be made at many other points of interest. The tour will cover a period of twenty-two days. As an educational trip for both teacher and scholar, this tour is especially attractive, as it covers a section of America steeped in latter-day history, rich in scenery, and replete with the marvelous manifestations of nature. The rates, which will cover all necessary expenses, will be $246 from New York, $243.20 from Philadelphia, $230.80 from Pittsburgh, and proportionate from other points. 241.20 from Washington and Baltimore, Preliminary leaflets may be obtained of Agents, and detailed itineraries will be ready shortly. Persons desiring to utilize this exceptional opportunity to visit the Park of the Nation should apply for Pullman space early, as the party will be limited. Apply to local Ticket Agent or address Geo. W. Boyd, General Passenger Agent, Broad Street Station, Philadelphia. comicbooks.com