Life, 1908-11-05 · page 44 of 48
Life — November 5, 1908 — page 44: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising with brief satirical content**. The main elements include: **Advertisements:** - Manning-Bowman coffee percolators (left) - Club Cocktails by Heublein & Bro (center-left) - Knapp-Felt hats (right) - Overstick rubber and safety document files (right) **Satirical Content:** The center features "A Calculating Man"—a poem mocking excessive consumer culture. It satirizes the wealthy who pursue status symbols (large houses, automobiles, travel) only to lose peace of mind, contrasting this with a modest man who lives contentedly within his means. The humor targets Gilded Age materialism and the anxiety it produces. **Comic Sections:** Multiple short humor pieces ("Not Hopeful," "Why He Was Serious") appear to be reprinted jokes from other publications, featuring Scottish dialect humor about golf and courtship—typical early-20th-century magazine filler. The page reflects pre-1920s attitudes toward consumption, class, and domestic life, with advertising placed ironically alongside critique of consumerism.
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“CTF E: Coffee can be madeaclear, delicious, healthful beverage if prepared in the anning- owman “METEOR” Coffee Percolator It's bolling the grounds that spotla Coffee. ‘The Manntug-Bowman method filters the water through the Coflce, extracting the flavor and leaving the tannic acid and bitter grounds lebind. Saves One Third because It ex- tracts alt the good of the Coilee. At leading dealers, inthe Urn Style with alcohol burner or Coffee Hot Style for use on gas stove or range, Over 100 etyles and sizes. Write for descriptive booklet "K-20" MANNING-BOWMAN&CO., Meriden, Cona. Maders of Maoolog howman FOR Kelp Bread Miser. IsA Bottled Delight A cherry or an olive isn’t the sign of a good cocktail. Most mixed-at-the-bar concoctions lack the one clement that makes the drink enjoyable—absolute unifor- mity of proportion. CLUB COCKTAILS are the only perfect cocktails because they’re mized to measure, always uniform, alwaysright. Alirtini (ein fase’, Manhattan (whiskey hase), are universal favorites, G. F. HEUBLEIN & BRO, Sole Props. New York A CALCULATING MAN He couldn't afford to have most of the fun That people go after. When business was done He simply went home; and the knowing ones say That he surely misse He had no big house to be kept in repair, And no automobile to cause doubt and despair, He figured that when he had run one and stored it, He couldn't ford it. He couldn't afford to go traveling far. He felt not the terrors of steamship and car. He couldn't afford to be “sporty and find That along with his cash he had lost his peace of mind. Te sometimes would y hat would startle his fri speed, But he said, when they told him the ¢ board it, He couldn't afford it. ful, industrious style, and with mood for a sn So he lived in a pe With time for a s And noted how many ‘mid struggles for wealth As in fortune they gained became bankrupt in health. With modest abundance existence seemed fair; Superfluous treasure meant discord and care, Since he couldn't expend it with comfort nor hoard it, He couldn't afford it. —Washington 5 “Tuar brotherinlaw of yours seems to have a pretty good opinion of himself.” *“T would hardly put it He is thoroughly Bernard Herald. da form as that. —Chicago Record: Excuist’ Currayaan: And when you arrive in my dear lady, don't fail to see St. Paul's rattle those off, sure: eT was kh to a grasshopper is the Church of England Punch. NOT HOPEFUL Oto Gotr Prorussionat: No, ye'll no mak’ a gowffer—ye've begun ower late and ye've ower muckle but it's juist possible if ye preractise harrd, harrd, for twa-three years, ye micht— Jones (expectantly): Yes? Prorrsstonat: Ye micht begin to hae a glimmer that ye'll never ken the r-rudiments 0 the game.— Sketch. WHY HE WAS SERIOUS They sat each at an extreme end of the horsehair sofa. They had been coortin® for something like two years, but the wide gap between had always been respectfully preserved. A penny for your thochts, Maggie. after a silence of an hour “Weel, boldness, indy," murmured da half. replied Sandy, slowly, with surprising tae tell ye the truth, I was jist thinkin’ pw fire it wad be if ye were tac gie me a wee bit kissie.”” I've nae objection, over, and kissed him plumply on the tip of his left car. ‘Then she slithered back. Sandy relapsed into a brown study once more, and the clock ticked twenty-sgven minutes. “"An’ what are ye thinkin’ about noo—anithe simpered Maggie, slithering ch Nae, nae, lassie; it’s mair serious the noo, “Is it, laddie? " asked Maggie, softly. Her heart was going pit-a-pat with expectation. ‘An’ what micht it be I was jist thinkin’ “that it as aboot time ye were paying me that penny! "— wer. answered San We rassep, in the course of an hour, two dead cows and more than fifty dead chickens. A strong smell of gasoline pervaded the atmosphere, and there were wheel tracks in the dust. Sherlock Holmes became greatly interested. “Watson,” exclaimed he, after deep thought, “there has been an automobile along here! "—Lowis- ville Courier-Journal. ss The first Derby made in America was KNAPP-FELT De Luxe hats are Six Dollars—Knapp-Felts are Four Dollars, everywhere, Write for “The Hatman.’” THE CROFUT & KNAPP CO. BROADWAY, AT THIRTEENTH ST., NEW YORK. what bs the greatest and thee] will sty THE PYER RUBRER M coldsand pneumonia rather the thick, clumsy rubber of the oli type. This oced for the appearance of the seuallest shoe fact tarred by THE EVER: STICK INVISIBLE KURMEK, |The only rutoer recommenied ff by physictans, ‘ THE ADAMS & FORD COMPANY, Cleveland, 0. The Safety Document File you ‘can find your papers. ‘A five thing foe any man of wom sho has Imagertant | tapers to preserve, $2.50 Express paid A.C, BARLER MPG. Co