Life, 1909-06-10 · page 24 of 32
Life — June 10, 1909 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page contains primarily **advertisements and serialized fiction**, not political satire. The main content is "Little Maude at the Fire," a morality tale satirizing excessive politeness. The story mocks a child so committed to not interrupting her mother's reading that she fails to alert her to an expanding fire. A maid similarly stays silent rather than disturb the reader. The satire targets rigid adherence to social etiquette (not interrupting) over practical necessity—a common theme in early 20th-century humor about Victorian manners. The page also advertises: the Rocky Mountain Limited train, Milo Egyptian cigarettes, "The Diary of a District Messenger" (a serialized novel), and Solareclipse motor lamps. These are standard commercial ads typical of *Life* magazine's revenue model during this era.
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The only service to both Denver and Colorado Springs direct. to-night for the new book + Under the Turquotse Sk: or folder Thro" Sci kon-Pacific Expositiot all about © Colorado and Yellowstone Park to the ‘They will show you Just how easily one may Ket the best out of Summer—free on request, JOHN SERASTIA Pamenger Traffic Manager, 6 La Salle Street Station, Chicago, 11, Little Maude at the Fire Little Maude sat by her dear mamma while the devoted lady read to her daughter out of a book. Now Little Maude knew that it is the height of rudeness to interrupt those who read to us for our delight, so when she saw a little flame curling in the next room, she let it curl, hoping that the chapter would not be a long one, and that the flame might get weary of curling and go out. But it was a long and interesting chapter, and while Maude’s mamma read, Little Maude saw other flames come to curl beside the one that had begun the business of curling. Now, after the flames had curled awhile they began to lick the furniture. And when flames get to licking they are apt to destroy anything that is of an inflammable nature, and Little Maude wished that there were no rules for po- liteness. But her dear mamma was so interested in the reading, it was so kind of her to give her time to her daughter, that Little Maude forcbore to speak. Tt was not long before a maid saw the fire, ~ \ \} OF QUALITY The very baddest boy that ever was. By the Author of “Another Three Weeks” MESSENGER For Sale by All Booksellers and Newsdealers, ‘Sent Postpaid to any address, Price 25 Cents, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31st Street New York City and judging that it would be well to bring it to the attention of some one, she came to the door of the room to tell her mistress, but Little Maude laid her finger on her lips to signify that her mamma was reading, and would not care to be interrupted, so the maid went away—to pack her trunk. And the fire went on burning and spread to other parts of the house. Then a fireman who happened to be going by in the strect on his way home to luncheon saw the flames, and said to himself very promptly, “My luncheon can wait but this fire will wait for no man. Unless 1 go at once to my brave comrades, and tell them to hasten to this scene, the fire may ulti- mately resist our utmost efforts.”” 828 run at all, and hz said to his companions, who were playing at draughts, “Come, let us go and put out the fi in the house of Little Maude. I have not yet had luncheon, but what of that?” Not a fireman answered his question. Per- haps they did not know what to say, but all leaped to their tasks, and the horses leaped to their shafts, and in a much longer time than it takes to tell it they had reached the home of Little Maude. And it was almost no more. The flames had destroyed the right wing, but the part where Maude and her mamma sat had as yet been spared. While some of the firemen rang the front door- bell, in order that they might be admitted to the house to carry a line of hose, others directed copious streams from without into rooms not yet afire, that they might flood them and harder for the flames to injure the wall-paper, the hangings, and the furniture. And some who were not as busy as the others went to a department store hard by and bought a life net. At last a stream of water smote the window of the room in which Little Maude’s was reading to the child, and broke it, and a splash on the book. Then Little Maude’s mamma saw what hod happened, and, putting her finger in the book to keep the place, she took her daughter's hand, and together they went to see the fire from a more advantageous point. “What a pity it is not night time. The flames show so well against the black sky. Maude’s mamma. She went to the window, and calling to the firemen she asked, “ Where is the life net?” (Continued on page 829) SOLARCLIPSE MOTOR LAMPS solve the lighting problem. These lamps illuminate the road with f1v9 distinct fields of light ; one long and one short distance ray ‘The Automatic Self-eclipsing Mechan- ism, operating from thedash, makesit poss ble to cut out the long distance ray at wil The long distance ray penetrates the dark ness for 1000 feet. The short distance ray is thrown directly in front of the car. Complete description of the Solarclipse Lamp in our 1909 catalog. Sent free upon request THE BADGER BRASS MFG. COMPANY Kenosha, Wis. 437 Eleventh Avenue, New York Before for sich the atacked arden. “How Jor “Ob, 1 hare beg comicbooks.com