Life, 1908-11-05 · page 37 of 48
Life — November 5, 1908 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with one cartoon feature. The main cartoon, titled "If Too Poor to Marry," shows a couple sitting by water. The caption "HER ANSWER" suggests this illustrates a romantic or marital dilemma. The accompanying text offers to sell a photogravure print for $1.00, or a catalog of 160 reproductions for 25 cents. The other content includes advertisements for **Wright's Health Underwear** (emphasizing sanitary construction with "fluffy loops" to manage perspiration), **Malba residential real estate** on Long Island Sound near New York City, and a lower cartoon about rural figures ("Hiram," "Mandy," "Silas," "Henry") training for a Chicago trip—likely humorous Americana content typical of Life's satirical style. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture: health-conscious undergarment marketing, suburban development pitches, and sentimental romantic imagery sold as affordable art prints.
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allyl LIB This trade mark on every garment Modern Machinery and Methods— in fact the very best of everything enters into the construction of Wright’s Health Underwear to make it the most sanitary and healthful underwear that anybody can buy. Made of many tiny, fluffy loops. Joined together so no body-heat escapes; no outside culd comes in; no damp of perspiration stands on the skin. Costs no more than the ordinary kind, Wright’s i Ribbed Underwear A lighter weight underwear in beautiful fabrics and colors. Permanently elastic, it fits and holds its _ shape indefinitely. BOOK “DRESSING FOR HEALTH” SENT FREE. EXPLAINS THE FAMOUS LOOP WRIGHT’S HEALTH UNDERWEAR CO. 42 Franklin St., New York City ON THE WATER AHOMEON THESHOREFRONT in the most beautiful Residence Park on Long Island Sound Every City Convenience and Improvement Malba is situated on the high tip end of the Whitestone penin- sula, easily and quickly reached by train, automobile, steamer or private yacht. Now is the time to build while material is cheap—and before | the new Pennsylvania Tunnels bring crowds of investors. Houses and Villa Sites alts St 60 Liberty Street On Reasonable Terms y New York D SAKES, HIRAM, WHAT ON AIRTIL BE YOU UP T2 aANyHOw?"? N’T BE ALARMED, MANDY—JEST HAVING SILAS AND HENRY GIT ME STO TRAINING FOR THAT TRIP TO CHICAGO NEXT WEEK.’* If Too Poor to Marry Copy 106 by Life Pod Ca A Photogravure, 15 by 20 in. $1.00 You can, at least, pay twenty-five cents for art. On receipt of that sum we send you the richly illustrated catalogue of LIFE'S PRINTS, containing 160 reproductions of these famous pictures. LIFE PUBLISHING CO., 17 West 31st Street, New York