Life, 1909-05-20 · page 29 of 36
Life — May 20, 1909 — page 29: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine (circa 1909), with some reader letters mixed in. The main content includes ads for **Chiclets gum** (emphasizing digestive benefits), **Gillette Safety Razors** (promoting a new pocket-sized model), and **Briarcliff Lodge** hotel. The "Everybody's Column" section contains **letters to the editor debating women's suffrage**. One Colorado resident argues sarcastically that despite voting rights, women lack real political power and influence—their suffrage is "a farce." Another writer defends women's Christian temperance activism against army opposition to temperance. The **"Sexology" book advertisement** (bottom left) promises sex education for married couples, reflecting early 20th-century anxieties about marital knowledge. The page captures 1909 concerns: **emerging consumer products marketed as modern conveniences, contentious women's rights debates, and shifting attitudes toward discussing sexuality openly**—all positioned alongside commercial appeals.
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Tass Mame Ree US Poe Orr hicleis int Govered Candy Coated Chewing Gum Particularly Desirable after Dinner YOUR DOCTOR KNOWS that the six drops of real peppermint in every Chiclet are good for the stomach. Sold in S¢10¢and 25¢ packets frank 6. Fleer & Company Inc. Philadelphia USA and GorontaCan, Everybody's Column (Continued from page 708) in politics. They will not vote. Their tastes, inclinations, spheres of happiness and usefulness elsewhere. Everybody in Colorado knows to he true. Everybody says so, except the politicians, who are afraid to tell the truth, and | a few women of the abnormal type which enjoy | publicity and notoriety. If you print this there will bea feeble spasm of protest on the part of one or two Denver dailies, far more feeble, how- ever, than it would have been ten ye: ago. Colorado's age of consent law is cited as an achievement of woman suffrage. To the thought- ful observer its practical working often affords a curious study. A weck ago a boy of 21 and a girl of 17 cloped for the purpose of being mar- fied. They were arrested by the police, thrown into jail and treated as criminals, What is your opinion, Lire, of a civilization under which such an occurrence is dealt with asa crime? I write, not as a casual observer, but as a resident of the State for twenty years, an inter- ested student of its political history, a former champion of the suffrage movement. A Happy Marriage Depends largely on a know!- edge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health. ‘This knowledge does pot come intelligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary every-day sources. SEXOLOGY (Htustrated) Iie a Husband Should Have. inde a Young Woman Should Have, ‘ dge a Young Wife Should Have. GREAT welcome has been given our New Pocket Edi- tion—men everywhere are talking about it— thousands of them are buying it. Live dealers evet ing it. The man who does not use the Gittette probably has no conception of its tremendous vogue or the en- thusiasm of its users. If you were to put down the names of the fifty leading Americans public and private life the majority of them would be Gittette users. It is the policy of the Gittette Company never to use ‘testimonials, nor to print the names of its custom: ers. Yet they could arrange a list of Gittette patrons that would read where are show- Naw York, Tires Ble. Chicage, Suck Exchante Bldg, Linden Oc 17 Holberm Viaduct, F. In theory, woman suffrage may be admirable. In practice, it is a farce. Yours, -vith esteem, Curtis J."Warxer. Desver, Coro, April 5, 1909. The Blame To tue Epitor oF Lirr: Sir:—I am aware that it would be just as in- telligent to hurl oneself against Pikes Peak as to collide with the Established Opinion fulmi. nated in your issue of April 1. Nevertheless, the Woman's Christian Temper- GILLETTE SALES CO. 983 Kimball Building, Boston Or c. Factories; Boston, Montreal, London, Berlin, Paris BRIARCLIFF AGillette Safety Razor That Fits in Your Waistcoat Pocket like “Who's Who in America”— beside world-famous names and a few crowned heads in other countric: We mention these facts merely to show that it is not economy alone, but convenience, that counts with the men who use the GittetTE They respect it as a remarkable in- vention. It meets a world-old neces- i and better way. The pocket-case is made in gold, silver or gun metal. Plain polished or richly engraved. Handle and blade box each triple silver-plated or 14 K. gold-plated—the blades are fine Prices, $5 to $7.50, on sale every where some most You should know Git ing Brush—a new brush of Gu.tette: quality—bristles gripped in hard rub- ber: and Gittette Shaving Stick— a shaving soap worthy of the Git- Lette Safety Razor. Canadian OS r Alexander St, ‘Montreal man and the head of the arn He strongly opposed the canteen, as did several other promi- nent army officers. Prohibitionists, thus enforced, sent a strong delegation of lobbyists to Washington—for one of the Woman's Christian (Continued on page 710) . LODGE A Resort Hotel of High Quality Brtarciurr Maxon, Open from May 1st to December Ist with superior accommoda- tons for three hundred guests, Apartments decorated and furnished under exclusive orders for lease engagement. DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager Represented at 51 East 46th St., New York. ‘Phone S278i8th, ance Union did not suppress the army canteen There is in this country an organization called the Prohibition Party. and men are voters. Binding, Full Gold Stax ther People’s Opirions"* and Table of Costerts. PURITAN PUB. CO., Dept.187, PHILA.,PA. | It is composed of men, | General Miles is also a 709