Life, 1908-10-22 · page 23 of 24
Life — October 22, 1908 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and filler content** rather than political cartoons. The main elements are: **"A Club Cocktail Is A Bottled Delight"** — A liquor advertisement for Heublein & Bro. cocktails, emphasizing pre-measured precision over mixed guesswork. **Three humorous anecdotes** with mild social satire: 1. "What System!" mocks a German canvasser's persistence—he's literally kicked down stairs repeatedly but praises the "system" of the establishment that rejected him, satirizing blind devotion to efficiency. 2. "A Steady Wife" features Scottish dialect humor about a reluctant spinster witness who contradicts herself about her age, poking fun at female evasiveness. 3. "Miss or Mr.?" depicts Admiral Evans asking a effeminate young man about hairpin size, implying mockery of masculine appearance. The page also advertises picture puzzles, Gibson puzzles, hair restoration products, and cigarettes. These are **period advertisements and light humor pieces**—not political commentary. The satire is social/personal rather than political.
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— 4 LIFE Is ABottled Delight A mixed-by-guesswork cocktail can never be as good as you expect. A CrLuB COCKTAIL is always a good cocktail because it is measure mixed, an exquisite blend of rare old liquors, aged in wood. CLUB COCKTAILS are the only perfect cocktails. Martini (gin base), Manhattan base), are untversal favor G. F, HEUBLEIN & BRO. Sole Pr Hartiord New York Do Not Buy Badly Made Picture Puzzles LIFE’S Picture Puzzles Are Carefully Made LIFE'S PIGTURE PUZZLES Two Dollars Each, Twenty Dollars a Dozen. All Different Subjects LIFE'S GIBSON PUZZLES Three Dollars Each, Thirty Dollars a Dozen, All Different Subjects UUFE'S Puzzles are sold in Sealed Boxes, peeduding any danger of mising blocks Sent, carriage. prepaid, to. any in the Unned States on receipt of price by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West Thirty-first St. | New York City to its natural eslee in a few day: ‘TRIAL BOTTLEY| ioe A SMILING PARADOX I've squandered smiles to-day, And, strange to say, Although my frowns with care I've stowed away, To-night I'm poorer far in frowns than at the start; But in my heart, Wherein my treasures best I store, I find my smiles increased by several score! Success, WHAT SYSTEM! -\ German canvasser took the fifty-story elevator of a Western wholesale house in New York and walked into the office, where one of the proprietors s busy at his desk. The canvasser was told that . but he per- making himself the cause of much distress, y the enraged i tor kicked him down the first flight of stairs employee, observing the mode of descent, repeated the dose with lik dit was dittoed till the unfortunate Gi fon the curb-stoned highway. K looked back over the course of events and ejaculated, “Vell, dot ish a xreat establishment. I don't know deir particular line of peesne Vat system, vat system!” Tit-Bits. the house needed nothing in his i sisted in opening his 2 A STEADY WIFE “Rufus, you old loafer! Do you think it's right to leave y wuz dar.""—Judge. At a recent trial in Scotland an elderly spinster witness box to be examined. madam?" inquired the counsel. arrit answer that ques: The judge interposed and told her she should an- “Oh, weel, then,” she said, reluctantly, “1 am fifty.” Not more than fifty?" questioned the counsel, sternly “Weel, dinna fash yersel’,” she replied, “I am sixty. The quisitive lawyer still further asked if she had any hopes of getting married, to which Miss e replied: “Weel, sir, I winna tell a lee: 1 hinna lost hope yet; scornfully “but I widna marry y for I am sick and tired 0” your palaver already Argon MISS OR MR.? Fighting Tob" Evans, during his last stay in Washington, was one evening a guest at a house where he met a number of the younger set of the Capital As the admiral was leaving, he chanced to pick up m the floor a very dainty handkerchief, edged with He was gravely inspecting this “trifle light air," when a rather effeminate-looking young man astened forward to claim it. ‘our sister's, no doubt,” said the admiral as be said the young man; “it's mine.” Evans scrutinized the young man closely. Would you mind telling me what size hairpins you use?” he asked, after a pause.—Lippincott’s Tuat Lord Brougham was fully capable of a quick retort is shown by the following: You, my lord," said Wellingto y with him, “will be remembered, not for hay lawyer nor for having written profound pl ays, but for having giv uF name to a peculiar style of carriage.” Andy grace.” a gham, “will be ned the hattles of ng given your name to a Oh” n, “damn the boots, T forgot THE WHEREFORE “Why doesn't wealth bring more happiness “Recause true pleasure lies in doing things we can't afford.""—Lou.sville Courier-Journal. ae THE WILLIAMS PRINTING COMPANY THE CONSPICUOUS MERITS OF HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE ARE PURITY, QUALITY AND UNIFORM EXCELLENCE GUARANTEED UNDER THE NATIONAL PURE FOOD LAW AN ABSOLUTELY PURE RYE WHISKEY Colles A fraternities, Class Pipes wi ms or letters, jege Jewelry, ive offer to College Bou 6. WM. REISNER, 212 N. Prince Streets Lancaster, Pa. Goodspeed’s BookeShop 5a Park Street, Boston, Mass., is known throughout the world. Book-lovers & collectors far and near draw from its treasures of BOOKS, PRINTS, AU- TOGRAPHS and EX-LIBRIS. “ Anything that’s a book.”” Monthly catalogues issued. VISITORS WELCOME. § When in Boston Browse in Goodspeed’s NESTOR SNESTOR'* ‘IMPORTED’? ‘*ROYAL NESTOR” Green Label 40 ets, Blue Label 1S cts. Bets The Original Brand of Over 30 Years’ Reputation comicbooks.com