Life, 1909-04-15 · page 29 of 36
Life — April 15, 1909 — page 29: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content includes: 1. **Keen Kutter Safety Razor ad** (center): Emphasizes the blade quality and holder design as superior to competitors. The ad targets men concerned with shaving comfort and efficiency. 2. **Olmybus Electric (automobile ad)**: Markets an electric car as easy to operate—specifically appealing to women by emphasizing it requires "no strength" and "the control is easy, simple." This reflects early 1900s gender assumptions about women drivers preferring gentler vehicles. 3. **Cortes Cigars ad**: Simple branded messaging. 4. **Columbus Buggy Company ad** (lower section): Advertises horse-drawn buggies. 5. **"Sparks from Old Anvils"** (left column): A humorous anecdote about a man caught in wind while riding, rescued by friends. The page reflects **early 1900s consumer culture and gender norms**—particularly how manufacturers marketed technology differently to women versus men. No significant political satire is evident.
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grows y. mop es and th day ariosity e dark re with er kind -LIFE: 7 he al d date. M a) aa 1 frolicked with on the above-named date. My M E leother and | were riding along in the grand old c es gt forest, and 1 had just been singing a few bars ai emt ¢ opera of “ Whoop ‘em up, Lizzie Jane,” ee azor a 1 noticed that the wind was beginning to 4 : through the trees. Soon after that I J that I was soughing through the trees “Sparks from Old Anvils | eRe P cena from toe $80 "The Bh oe The blade is the Razor. That is the first important reason why the Keen Kutter Safety Razor is so far superior to all others. The name Keen Kutter is known throughout the country as signifying the best quality, greatest am really no slouch of a sougher durability, finest and most lasting edges, whether it be an axe et started. The horse was hang- or a pocket knife, a saw orarazor. The from the brow of a large : for some one to come and . y brother at first, but <u he disengaged himself from a rail ne where I was hanging, wrong with my personal effects spilling out of ey pockets. I told him that as soon as the wind €a Ss fi R hind of softened down I wished he would go and are aZzor the horse. He did so, and at midnight a nds carried me into town on a is furnished with 12 blades of the highest quality Norwegian s quite an ovation. To think of steel, tempered, ground and honed by experts. hlizht procession coming way out there into ibe woods a ight, and. carrying me into The adjustment of the blade ii) ts. x-1~suvar pleted tn gansine Bleek neir shoulders in triumph! And yet I the holder is an improvement over s poor boy! It shows wh ec ant all others. The angle of the blade with the handleis just right toshave 4 natural phenomenon enjoy- close and smooth without scraping. most robust health. It may be a pleasure 5 If you shave yourself you needa and an iron re ally into. the Keen Kutter for greater comfort. If tas far as I am con you do a Ge need one for I could worry along some emergencies, 0 practice or skill vt have a phen in the required to shave properly and one year’s end to cr. As I ere, with my leg in a silicate of soda corset, easily. watch the merry throng promenading down If not at your dealer’s, write us. agling in the giddy torehl I cannot repress a feeling toward a SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY (Inc.) amounts almost to disgust.—Biil | St, Louis and New York, U.S.A. Mrs. Partington 1 0 be disrespectful, but the at- | FOR g MEN OF BRAINS f the Lords to stop the progress of re- orn of Sidmouth, and of the conduct of the ¢ asion Inthe | =MADE AT KEY WEST.— akesnostrength. The control is easy, simple. A delicate woman can practically live in her car et never tire. =, Make the women of your family inde= LAW ndent of chauffeur, The Coltmbus SI The town car you ls has one lever, no foot pedals, Se will eventually buy Kept for emergency brake. The seat is nit the rear ures 34 inch larger than other electrics. These, its absolute freedom from vibration Pd the ex:ra long wheel-base of the 1909 Columbus models are what make it the easiest, smoothest Inning car a woman can drive. Standard Exide Batteries are our regular equipment. 4 Sifts today for catalogue showing our 1909 models of four and two-passenger Coupes, Stanhopes other styles, Let us refer you to users, Many Columbus owners pay lessthan $a month for upkeep! . THE COLUMBUS BUGGY CO. tablished 1870 382-450 Dublin Ave. COLUMBUS, 0. winter of 1824, there set in a great flood upon that town—the tide rose to an incredible ht—the waves rushed in upon the houses— and everything was threatened with destruction. In the midst of this sublime storm, Dame Part- ington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trund- ling her mop, and squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The # ie was are Mrs. Partington’s spirit up: but T need tell you that the contest was unequal. The Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington. She was excellent at a slop or a puddle, but she should not have meddled with a tempest—Sidney Smith, from a speech at Taunton in 1831. Guilt and Shame “Guilt and Shame, says the allegory, were at first companions, and in the beginning of their journeys, kept together. But their union was soon found to be disagreeable and in- convenient to both. Guilt gave Shame frequent uneasiness, and Shame often betrayed the secret conspiracies of Guilt, After long disagreement, therefore, they at length conser ever. boldly walked forward alone, to . that went before in the shape of ecutioner; but Shame, being naturally norous, returned back to keep company with tue, which in the beginning of their journey they had left behind. Thus, my children, after men have traveled through a few stages in vic Shame forsakes them, and returns back to w upon the few virtues have still rem —"Vicar of Wakefield.” The Theory The single eyeglass is worn by the dude, The theory is that he can see more with one eye than he can comprehend.—United Presbyterian.