Life, 1909-02-25 · page 2 of 28
Life — February 25, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book listings**, not political satire. The dominant content includes: 1. **Maillard's Cocoa advertisement** - emphasizing quality and 50 years of experience, positioned as an ideal winter breakfast drink 2. **Craftsman House Plans** - offering architectural designs for home builders 3. **Perrier water advertisement** - promoting the French sparkling water as globally available 4. **Book reviews** - listing contemporary publications The three brief **fiction excerpts** ("Wanted: A Clock," "A Considerate Captain," "Theology in the Highlands") are lighthearted stories with no apparent political content—they're entertainment pieces for readers. This appears to be a standard early 1900s magazine issue mixing commercial advertising with literary content, rather than a page focused on satirical commentary or political cartooning.
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Published every Thurstay._ Annual Subscription, Five Dollars. “Single Copies. Ten Ceats Copyright ia Eagland aod the British Possessions. Wanted: A Clock I've a clock of silver, a marble clock, ‘And a clock with a cuckoo gay ; But the moments vanish, Sock by’ flock Masses of work my labors mock, “ The Best Cocoa For, alas! I never have found a clock That goes the other way of Them All” | Never any kind of a clock That ticks toward yesterday. —Emma C. Dowd in Good House Cocoas differ. Not only are wep. A Considerate Captain ‘ os pen At Portsmouth, N. H., where they wer 7 there grades of quality, but the veil a statue to the memory of T. l. Aldmek processes of manufacture differ during ue authors tgument on international : : % copyright, Thomas Nelson Page broke and play an important part. ther acrimonious discussion by deftly ‘ates ing a story fter all,"” he sai here is not muck real help in that idea, It is such an idea as emanated from the mind of a hard, cruel sea captain “In mid-ocean the cook approached tive captain timidly “*Captain,’ he said, ‘the men are growlia’ about the beef. They say they can't chaw it nohow. They it's only fit to mend their sea boots with." “* How much beef are you giving "em, cooki the captain asked Breakfast Cocoa A pound apiece a day, sir,” said the cook. ‘Well,’ said the captain, gently, ‘give then is the result of 50 years of practical expe- half a pound apiece from now on. I should be rience. The purity of the cocoa is assured sorry to force ‘em to eat what isn’t to their —its richness and delicate flavor is unap- i taste.” ""—Rochester Herald. proached. It can be readily digested and m Theology in the Highlands is the best of all Winter drinks—it keeps | The mi later’ elas at the ek ot "Tobehaery out the cold. Served at our famous s had been reading the story of Joseph and bis luncheon restaurant brethren and it came to the turn of the sinister Fifth Avenue, cor. 35th St. . to examine the boys. he replies to all his questions had been quick, New York ; intelligent and correct. Such as “And on sale at leading 7 “What great crim> did these sons of Jacob grocers. Fj ie commit?" “They sold their brother Joseph.”” Quite correct. And for how much?” Twenty pieces of silver.”’ ——— “And what added to the cruelty and wicked- ness of these bad brothers CRAFTSMAN HOUSE PLANS Apause ceping, Latest Books by Marion F. Lansing. ‘ “| ; “What made their treachery even more detest: Interiors and Exteriors. Ask how to get FREE Archi- bie and helaous? jes of Old (Ginn: Companys: New Vor) tect’s plans (worth 5¢ of building cost) for . . Tono-Bungay, t G. Wells. (Duffield & Com: Gealtsman Bouse. “Deslgos 6 oreet: Expert Then a bright little Highlander stretched oat pany. $1.50.) advice on Woods, Fabrics, Metals, Fur- an eager band. Wor Children, by John T. Wheelwright. (Dodd, niture, Color Schemes, all appointments of Well, my man FE a Craftsman Home. Address Desk No. 105, Please, sir, they sell’t him ower cheap. Mead & Co., $1.50.) r The Glosgow Gallery. (Published by I. M. Cald PAlistly The Craftsman, 41 West Uth St., New York Tit-Bits. well Co., New York.) Bachelor Belles, by Marrison Fisher. (Dodd, Mead By Win Chae The Traveler Wilkinson, (Funk & Wagnalls Co. $1.50.) Dreaming River, by Barr Moses. (Frederick A. Stokes Co.) sj—40 cr Fight, by Emerson Hough. (Bobs, Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. $1.50.) Th n Stanley Portal Hyatt. Sparkling from its spring » Jr Doubleday, Page midst the vineyards of south- Control of the Body and Mind, by Frances G ern France, Perrier has travel- Jewett. (Ginn & Co.) Merrie England, by Grace Greenwood. (Ginn & ed into every corner. Ask oo a Red Mouse, by William Iamilion Osborne for it anywhere in the world (rie Pula of Life, by Sire Melloc Lowndes. (Dodd —America, Europe, Asia or Mead & Co. $ Africa—and you will find it. A Holiday To hy Charles Battell Loomis. (Henry Holt c $ ss Dory Jc ‘arns and Other Salted Songs, by French Thomas Ybarra. (Henry Holt & Co.) i Maturat The Eternal Boy, by Owen J (odd, Mead | 7 y & Co. $1.50.) The Banking and Currency Problem in the United States, by Vi Morawetz. orth A. ican Re: view Publ. Co., Franklin Sq., N.Y. C. $1.00.) Christ Legends, by Selma Lagerlof. (Henry Holt & Co.) Day Dreams of Greece, by Charles Wharton Stork. (J. B. Lippincott Co., Phila.) (lenry comicbooks.com