Life, 1909-02-18 · page 26 of 32
Life — February 18, 1909 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and filler content**, not satirical cartoons. The main elements are: 1. **Crane's Stationery ads** (top): Promoting high-quality wedding papers and writing supplies—positioning them as markers of social correctness and good taste. 2. **Small cartoon** (center-right): Shows two men ("Bones" telling a story to "Jones"). The joke is a pun: when asked what the evening wore, Bones replies it was "the close of a summer day"—a play on "close" (clothing/dress) versus the time of day. This is mild vaudeville-style humor. 3. **"Our Peculiarities"** section: Satirizes a rigid, austere school's discipline policies—no vacations, no pastimes, corporal punishment justified theologically. The satire targets overly strict educational institutions. 4. **Advertisements**: White Rock water, Burpee Seeds, and European tours round out the page. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns with social propriety, merchandise marketing, and gentle institutional critique rather than sharp political satire.
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CRANE SCorrect Soctal Stationery Granes edding QDS intimation of a wedding. No paper can be too good for this purpose, just as nothing is so correct as the very s best engraving. . Crane’s Wedding Papers have been the stand- ard for years, and no other stock takes the impres- sion from the engraved plate so well. Crane’s Wedding Papers can be identified by the water-mark in the envelopes. Sold at all stores where good stationery is sold. CRANE'S LINEN LAWN is made on the theory that no writing paper can be made too good for a letter, because a letter is one of the most personal forms of expression there is. It has for years conformed tothe highest stan- dard of quality, and has been the most successful in attaining the so-called fabric finish. Hold a sheet to the light—if it is water- marked Crane's,” it is Crane's. HIGHLAND LINEN Women of taste who desire to pay only a mode- rate price for their writing paper find that High- land Linen mects every demand of fashion and convenience. Highland Linen is a fabric finished paper made in seven attractive shades in all the correct of sheets and envelopes, and has a surface delight ful to write upon. Samples of any of these papers will be sent on request. EATON, CRA’ & PIKE CO., PITTSFIELD, MASS. A_NEW WRINKLE: ftan more WRINKLES! beter vdign THE KEEPSHAPE ADJUSTABLE GARMENT HANGER resing bls a Dal. Garmcrs han py concer pert ging sh cing and stretching collars. No tneck. The rliid, cht b ned. Boolet free, Dealer or sent direct on receipt of pr aling the ent Se foraLines.n Rediera. Mex caly corsets j¢ the uabrok. Bones (telling a story): WELL, THE EVENING wore ox— Jones: it pip, EM? WHAT DID IT wrar? Bones: Writ, 1F YOU MUST KNOW, 1 BELIEVE IT WAS THE CLOSE OF A SUMMER DAY. Our Peculiarities 1. We have no vacations. Vacations may in some instances be useful for the sake of teachers, where they come from a distance, in order that they may renew family acquaintanceship. With our system this is unnecessa the instructors mostly belong to the President’s family. For pupils vacations are only mischievous, Besides, it is written in Holy Scripture that for every idle word we speak, they shall give account at the last Great Day. What then of idle days and weeks and months spent in vacations? 2. We have no pastimes; but we take our recreation with plane and axe and bathe in the lake every Wednesday from 414 to 10 cents a week, which is put in the poor box on going to church. 4 Our discipline is coercive, we not being among those who think themselves wiser than Solomon. Our youthful transgressors are taught White Rock. “‘The World’s Best Table Water’’ Now ready, (909 edition of the famous “Richard's Foor Almanack,” the hit of 198, Beautifully bound and ilustrated humorous book, Sent for we. Address White Rock, Flatiron Bldg., New York City. retained 20 exces: that punishment is inflicted not in passion but on principle. Chastisement is usually accompanied by a short instruction and is generally closed with er. In this way we find it has the most salutary effect upon the disposition of our young charges—From an old School Catalogue in Ver- mont, 1832. truth about the EUROPE tute} Parties to Do ryoniventiareoey sales Mar. June, Joly. Everyibiag Flint i Chass” * O14) "Werld’ Tourist Gulde = Free, | DE POTTER TOURS, 32 Broadway, N. ¥. (30th Year) URPEE’S Seeds Grow! &: Burpee Business Grows! «0. = * send Twe Stuewr SaLeswan of the World's Largest Mail-order Seed Trade,—if you ask the, statement, that you value Quatrry nr Sexps. An elegant Book of 174” pages, It tel rit, with the’ plain BURPEE, Philadelphia comicbooks.com