Life, 1908-10-01 · page 8 of 44
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains three major advertisements: 1. **El Principe de Gales Havana Cigars** - promoting Cuban cigars as a 65-year standard, priced 3-for-25¢ to 50¢ 2. **White Rock** - bottled water advertised as "The World's Best Table Water" 3. **Dawson's Scotch Whiskey** - promoted as an "All-around Favorite" The right side contains reader letters under headings "A MAN OF LETTERS" and "A WOMAN'S LETTERS," including commentary about someone named Cyrus Watterhouse and discussions of letter-writing etiquette. There is **no political cartoon** on this page. The content reflects early 20th-century consumer advertising and general interest magazine editorial matter typical of *Life* magazine during this era.
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1 rincipe 4e Gales Havana Cigars and For 65 Years the Standard They are today the best known and most popular of high-class Havana ‘Cigars, ‘and enjoy the largest sales of any brand of Havana cigars in the world. Made in all sizes and shapes. Price, from 3-for-25¢ to 50¢ each. Sold everywhere. Cigarettes Cork Tip Do Not Stain the Fingers Rice iy 10c per box of 10 Whe “Everywhere” In Cedar wood bores containing 50 for 50 cents, of 100 for $1.00. Also the large, new, “King Edward” size, price, 20 cents per box of 10. If not on sale at your dealer's we will supply you direct on receipt of price. HAVANA-AMERICAN COMPANY 111 Fifth Avenue, New York While Fock. ‘The World’s Best Table Water’’ For Your Country or Suburban Home An abundant supply delivered under strong Pressure ,{2 gil) Gxtures—to the bathroom, itehen, laundry, garden, barn—any- where." This service will be yours, day after day for a lifetime, if you install the Kewanee System of Water Supply Over exght thousand Kewanee Systems in suc. cesstal operation, supplying water for country and Sabarban residences, clubs, farms, echools, public and private institutions, villages, ete. ‘The Kewanee System is not an imitation—is not a substitute. It is the original water sor ply system involving the use of alr pressure instead of gravity pressure. Avoid cheap imita- tions. Get the genuine and you will take no chances—we guarantee that. Expert engineering service is frees Write for illustrated catalog NO. 13, The Kewanee, Water Seprly Company, Kewanee, 1D. Munem Ish tne rane Tehes ae, Sickerd te! Sentvon Gop: 110 Dewees as hag Posey. The Best Scotland All-around Favorite Bold Everywhere, The Waldorf-Astoria Importation Co. New York — Chicago Bole Agents, A MAN OF LETTERS When Mr, Cyrus Watterhouse grew wealthy from his slaughter-house, He gave to Sheliback College twenty thousand right away. So the Faculty rewarded him with honour, and ae corded him The pedagogic title, “Cyrus Watterhouse, M. At When he merged his corporation with the Pressed Beef Combination, He consigned a million extra to the College: a» you see Grand old Shellback’s Dons of Learning, tainted money never spurning, Stretched his name to “Cyrus Watterhouse, M.A and Ph. D.” Next, when Cyrus showed his nature and bought oat a Legislature For the Sausage Trust, the College got five millions, title free. And the Faculty’s requital was another whacking tit, This time, “ Watterhouse, B.S. M. D., Ph. D, LL. D. Well, ere Cyrus, took to liquor, every time t a dicker He endowed the College more and added on letters new. Till his checkbook looked pathetic when he that alphabetic “MOA, B.S, O.K, Ph. D, LL.D. P. D.Q But at last of honors tiring, when poor Cyrus lay expiring, On his will he wrote the following, and settled down to die: . “Gents, please don’t misunderstand me—take ny coin, but don't you hand me Any more o' that fool Alphabet! Yours very simply, —Eversbi HE HAD THE IDEA A Chinaman who had been robbed by a woman on the Bowery was trying to describe her at the police station. “Can't you remember how she was dressed?” asked the lieutenant at the desk. “ What sort of a hat did she wear?” For a moment Jobn seemed puzzled. Then his face brightened. He dead—she glad,” he confidently announced And now the police are looking for a woman with a Merry Widow hat—Everybody's Magazine. A WOMAN'S LETTERS We all know Marcel Prevost, the witty Frenchms who has studied women with an assiduity that, other wise directed, might have placed him in the frest rank of original scientific research. Mr. Preves, writing in Figaro, revives an old charge agaist women’s letters. A woman, he says, never intends by the letter what she seems to intend. There is always a veiled meaning, always a devious diplomacy. “Woman,” he adds, “makes use of a letter just a she employs a glance, a smile, dress, or language, it a manner that is very precise, very carefully thoogtt out, but is quite different from common usage Aad after all, does a woman's hat serve to cover her bead? Does a woman's parasol keep off the sun? Does woman's watch show what time it is? Are a woman's shoes good for walking? Why, then, should 2 wom an's letter serve to convey her real thoughts to the person addressed, just like the letter of some honest grocer, who writes ‘I send you five pounds of coffee,’ because he really does send you five pounds of cof fee?” That may be all very well in France, where letter writing is still one of the fine arts. But one never writes letters in America. We send messages by mail and they are usually as direct as that of the grotet quoted by M. Prevost. Letter writing, like all the other arts, has become one of the superfluities of lif as must be inevitable with every civilization that bas Jost its soul—Argonaut:”* r troub! tests matic: clin Sen constr prices The I