Life, 1909-05-06 · page 38 of 48
Life — May 6, 1909 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **a bank advertisement and corporate directory** for Astor Trust Company, with minimal cartoon content. The only substantive illustration is a small cartoon titled "These Convex Mirrors Make One Appear Divinely Ludicrous," showing a distorted reflection—a visual joke about funhouse mirrors. The page's main text includes two literary excerpts: one from a physician's medical ethics essay, and another from *Don Quixote* (the famous wine-tasters episode). These serve as intellectual padding for what is essentially a financial institution's listing of its prominent board members—names like Astor, Vanderbilt, and Rockefeller indicating New York's wealthiest families circa early 1900s. The surrounding advertisements (Rowe's Bed Hammock, etc.) are typical period marketing. This page represents Life magazine's dual function: satirical commentary mixed with high-end advertising targeting wealthy readers.
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IISRAER to the popular medical opinions of the day. jt of which latter you cannot gainsay; and the js. | sue, which is of personal and vital interest to you, becomes one of drugs and routine. If physician can practice medicine successfully anf not juggle policy and principle, he has atcen. plished a feat seldom attainable. In fact | Fo he doubt if it is ever done, continuously. —Dr, 4b Mitchell, from “(A Physician's Farewell to His Patients.” 4 ou must know that I have had in my family, by the father’s side, two of the rarest tasters 7 that were ever known in La Mancha: and I will A give you proof of their skill. A certain was given to each of them to tas: th FIFTH AVE. & 36™ST., NEW YORK opinion asked as to the condition. quality, po CAPITAL & SURPLUS $1,400,000 ness, or badness, of the wine. One tried it wih the tip of his.tongue; the other only put it to bis nose. The first said the wine save Interest Paid on Daily Balances the second said it had rather a tw leather. The owner protested that DIRECTORS clean, and the wine neat, so tha taste either of iron or leather. Notwithstandi BENJAMIN ALTMAN, HARRISON E. GAWT! DANIEL G. REL this, the two famous tasters stood positively to B, Altman & Co, Consotidat , Istand Syste what they had said. Time went on; the wine JOHN JACOB ASTOR, ROBERT WALTON GOELET, 3LAS KOBINSON, was sold off, and, on cleaning the cask, a small BEO. F. BAKED THOMAS W. LAMONT, Real Estate. key, hanging to a leather thong, was found at STEPHEN BAKER, baa leslilg dat epeae ARCHIBALD D. RUSSELL, the bottom."’—" Don Quixote,” Cer Pres't Rank of the Manhattan Co, EDGAR L, MARSTON, ‘ ‘ STEVENS (This is the grandparent of the modern stery GEO. B. CASE, Blair & Co., Bankers. erie s ESS of the Kentucky Colonels’ skill, wherein a tack White & Case, Attorneys, GATES W. McGARi Serene: . with a leather washer justifies each.) THOMAS COCHRAN, Jr. Pres't Mechanics Ni ‘ JOUN PF. THOMPSON, _ —_ sider CHARLES A. PEABOD’ ¥ t Bankers Trust Co. E. C. CONVERSE, Pres't Mut . CHARLES L. TIFFANY, President. 3 Vice-Pres't Tittany & Co. H. P. DAVISO! f n & Co., Bankers, Anis WIdeIS J.P, Morgan & Co., Bankers WILLIAM H. PORTER, ALB [/ WIGGIN, : Moe Cherie Natl Baht Vice-Pres't Chase Natl Bank. SEWARD PROSSER, Vice-Pres't OFFICERS >. President, SEWARD PROSSER, Vice-Pre GEO. W. PANCOAST, Cashler. WML STEVENS, Vice Pres. THOMAS COCHRAN, dr. VicePres HOWARD BOOCOCK, Asst Sec. through his whole life; and in a measure, his observation of all things and conditions is Xo through the eyes of his own particular calling. eC Hurry and ambition stimulate the commercial vA features of his relation to you; and if he has the **55 gS CO NVERAIRTORAMAKE OF ISA expected professional spirit, he will act according Tyne iupiemGe” We Must Not Look a Gift Horse inthe Mouth = = = : There are favors short of the pecuniary F thing not fit to be hinted at among gentlemen— which confer as much grace upon the acceptor ROW E’S as the offerer. The kind, we confess, which is eR most to our palate, is of those little conciliatory GLOUCESTE missives, which for their vehicle generally K For Porches, Verandas, Lawns, choose a hamper—little odd presents of game, BED HAMMOC Tents and Indoor Use fruit, perhaps wine—though it is essential to the delicacy of the latter that it be homemade. We . love to have our friend in the country sitting Sra = pia Combines instar thus at our table by proxy; to apprehend his FS 4 p earls presence (though a hundred miles may be be- ‘ Hi k. C ch four. tween us) by a turkey, whose goodly aspect re- WR pee jammoc: y ou Sala flects to us his “plump corpusculum '"; to taste id S S tt 40 by him in grouse or woodcock ; to feel him gliding and, owin ettee kings down in the toast peculiar to the latter; to con- . i : This corporate him in a slice of Canterbury brown. oy A third of a century's experi- This is indeed to have him within ourselves, to y ence shows that Rowe's He know him intimately; such participation is me- ; thinks unitive, as the old theologians phrase it— mocks can be depended on to charies Lam, “Last Essays of Elio,” Popular give 10 years of continuous out-of-door service. From the model and of Physicians i eight canvas (white or khaki), as made by us for years for U. S. Nay. The physician is, primarily, the product of a Strong wood frame, thick mattress. Holds six persons. Ideal for outdoor demand. He stands for that part of the human sleeping. Complete, with lines and hooks ready for hanging, delivery charge economy that feels the need of a prop. You en- rae a & ‘ courage him to overreach himself, often, by ex- prepaid in United States, carefully packed, pecting to separate cause from effect, and relieve ills in an hour that took a lifetime or longer in WRITE FOR DESCRIPTIVE BOOKLET the making. Left to his own judgment the about this most comfortable and durable piece of outdoor furniture, and doctor would not drug you; but you have forced ; se Nee i him to educate himself in those subtle devices prices ‘of; different’ styles and sizes. that eventually mislead you, and often himself as well, by appearances that stimulate natural proc- E. L. ROWE & SON, Inc., 303 Wharf Street, Gloucester, Mas&_ esses. He dwells upon drugs, sickness and death comicbooks.com