Life, 1909-02-04 · page 34 of 40
Life — February 4, 1909 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with minimal satirical content. The ads promote Maillard's cocoa and chocolate, Hampshire Bond paper, and Whitman's chocolate. The small satirical section, "Our Foolish Contemporaries," contains brief jokes: 1. **"Football vs. Prayer"**: A humor piece about a five-year-old boy (Willie) who, after attending his first football game, incorporates football cheers ("Boom! Rah! Rah!") into his bedtime prayers—mocking the era's enthusiasm for American football and the incongruity of mixing sports fervor with religious devotion. 2. **"Robbing the Cradle"**: Political satire on Senator Beveridge's campaign stop in Indiana, where schools closed for his speech. Democrats mock this as manipulative—"robbing the cradle" meaning exploiting children's attendance to inflate his audience. 3. **"Almost as Good"**: A brief joke about marriage being "almost as good as a failure" if one marries wealth—satirizing materialistic attitudes toward matrimony. The page reflects early 20th-century American humor and consumer culture.
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Matllerds Breakfast Cocoa Among the many Cocoas Maillard’s has held first place in the estimation of the public for over fifty years, by reason of its purity, delicate flavor, fragrance, ease of digestion and superiority of manufacture. No trouble to prepare. It satishes, strengthens, and the best “winter drink” known,—it keeps out the cold and braces the whole system. The famous house of Maillard is back of it. ADalhods Vanilla Chocolate Flavored with the real Vanilla bean only, gives distinction to any repast. Delicious at all times. Delightfully satisfying and nourishing—richest in aroma. At all leading grocers - The ladies restaurant is a opular resort— ‘Afternoon tea” Corner 35th St. Fifth Avenue OR THE WATER-MARK The office and the furniture make an impression. The clothes and the personal ap- pearance make an impression. Old Hampshire Bond con- Football vs. Prayer Willie, i five, was taken by his father to his first football ga The feature that caught his chief approval, however, did not become evi- dent till he said his prayers that night. To the horror of his parents Willie prayed, with true football snap: “God bless papa, God bless mamma, God bless Willie ; Boom! Rah! Rah! —K. A. D, in Success. N.C. The four-season resort of the veys the sort of impression which all these things, at their best, produce. It is as lasting as paper can be made, and as elegant as business paper ought to be made. it it pays always to use OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND for com- mercial stationery is the testimony of prudent business men. Prove this for yourself—let us give you the OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND Book of Specimens. It contains suggestive specimens of letter- heads and other business forms, printed, lithographed and engraved on the white and fourteen colors of OLD HAMPSHIRE BOND: Hampshire Paper Company The only paper makers in the world making bond paper exclusively South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts LITTLE BETTER THAN SEEMS. Manog, the English-like Inn of Asheville. Robbing the Cradle Senator Beveridge was speaking to an early- morning crowd in Huntington, Ind. School h not been called because of the Senator's visit, and the school-children were there with the grown-ups. Two or three disgusted Democrats walked by, scorning to stop and listen to the arguments “Huh!’? sniffed one. “Now, what do you think of that? They had to let out school to d."—Saturday Evening Post CESSARY. Almost as Good Little Ikey came up to his father with a very solemn face. “Is it true, father,"’ he asked, “ that marriage is a failure?” His father surveyed him thoughtfully for a moment. “Well, Ikey,’" he finally replied, “if you get a rich wife it's almost as good as a failure.’— Lippincott’s. “A YOUNG MAN has telegraphed me that he has just wedded my daughter.’’ “I hope he’s 4 good, practical man.” “I guess he is. e wired me collect."'"—Louisville Courier-Journal. An Instantaneous Affair A cup of Whitman's Instantaneous Chocolate. Note “Instantaneous."" It is the only Instantaneous chocolate. Its flavor is a revelation, __ For fifty years the best grocers have sold Whitman's Instantaneous Chocolate and the first families have used it, ‘This is the only chocolate that can be made cor- rectly, instantly, without any boiling. Mix it with boiling milk or boiling water—then serve. ‘leading drugaist in every community isagent for Whitman's Chocolates and Confections. If you co fot find a dealer near at hand, send $0 cents for a sample tin of Instantancous Chocolate. Send for book of recines—FREE—entitled “An Instanta neous Affair.” STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, Philadelphia, U.S. A. Makers of “Whitman's Fussy Package for Fastidious Folks." PRING WATER “I's purity has made it famous" comicbooks.com