Life, 1909-08-05 · page 3 of 44
Life — August 5, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The dominant content features a large Locomobile automobile advertisement (1910 models) highlighting various car types and the manufacturer's headquarters in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The left side contains smaller ads: Dentacura tooth paste and a Sparkman Supply & Pipe Co. advertisement. There's also a brief humorous piece titled "Sparks from Old Anvils" about Sidney Smith's witty observations—apparently anecdotes meant for light entertainment rather than political satire. The "Porcupines and Human Beings" section discusses porpoise behavior, likely a nature curiosity piece typical of Life magazine's miscellaneous content. Overall, this is a commercial magazine page mixing advertisements with light humor and nature observations, not political cartooning.
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Great personal advantage follows the daily use of Dentacura Tooth Paste. _ Its cleansing properties are faultless; its action in preserv- ing the teeth from decay unique. Nothing else just as good. Endorsed by thousands of dentists. For sale everywhere. 25c. a tube. Sample and testimonials free DENTACURA COMPANY, 273 Alliog Street, NEWARK, HJ. SPARKS B.-sy FROM OLD ANVILS Of Sidney Smith I do not believe that anybody ever took amiss his quizzical descriptions of his friends. I am sure I never did; and when I now recall his fun ‘of that sort, it seems to me too innocent to raise an uneasy feeling. There were none, I believe, Locomobile 19 41 0 Bi csomopile cars for 41910 combine the superior reliability and durability for which our product is famous, with exceptional silence whom he did not quiz; but I never heard of any hurt feelings. . . . His praise of Macauley is well known: “Macauley is i auley improves! I have observed in him of late —flashes of silence!’ His account of Whewell is something more than wit: “Science is his forte: omniscience is his foible.”” As for his friend Hallam, he knew he might make free with his characteristics, of oppugnancy and_ haste among others, without offence. In telling us what a blunder he himself made in going late to a dinner-party, and describing how far the nner had proceeded, and how everybody was aged, he said, “and there was Hallam, with mouth full of cabbage and contradiction!" Nothing could be droller than the description of lo his friends in influenza, in the winter of 1832-3; and of these, Hallam was the drollest of all that I remember: “And poor Hallam was tossing and tumbling in his bed when the watch- man came by and called, ‘ Twelve o'clock, and a starlight night.’ Here was an opportunity for controversy when it scemed most out of the question! Up jumped Hallam, with ‘I question that—I question that! Starlight! I see a star, I admit; but I doubt whether that constitutes starlight.’ Hours more of tossing and tumbling, and then comes the watchman again: ‘ Past two o'clock, and a cloudy morning.” ‘I question that—I question that.’ says Hallam. And he rushes to the window, and throws up the sash— influenza notwithstanding. ‘Watchman, do you mean to call this a cloudy morning? I see a star. And I question it being past two o’clock— stion it—I question it!’ '’—Harriet Martin- Autobiography.” in operation and notable easy riding qualities ‘30 Locomobile Shaft Drive 40'Locomobile Chain Drive Touring Cars, Roadsters, Limousines ,.Landaulets. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO PHILADELPHIA SAN FRANCISCO MEMBER ASSOCIATION OF LICENSED AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS Send for booklet iving advance information regarding 1910 models Porcupines and Human Beings A number of porcupines huddled together for warmth on a cold day in winter, but Good health meansa clear eye, good judgment, began to prick one another with their quills they more endurance. The morning bath does it. The were obliged to disperse. However, the cold Speakman Portable Shower Bath drove them together again, when just the same (Seo the Clip) - f thing happened. At last, after many turns of TURNS A DUTY INTO PLEASUR! huddling and dispersing, they discovered that , they would be best off by remaining at a little Nord the “Ciip “atiachmcate wack. wine any” double’ bath distance from one another. In the same way the faucet, can be attached and detached instantly. need of society drives human porcupines to- Do’ not be misled by cheap showers offered, with inferior gether, only to be mutually repelled by the many connections for the faucet. ly aod disagrecab 4 \ The shower can be returned if you are not pleased whea raresreo prickly and disagreeable qualities of their nature. you receive It. The moderate distance which they at last dis- SPEAKMAN SUPPLY @ PIPE CO. cover to be the only tolerable condition of in- Resaries Worem’ tercourse is the code of politeness and fine man= eqzzin bold bce books Wilmington, Delaware. ners, and those who transgress it are roughly told “to keep their distance.” By this arrange- ing rubber tubing and Chp Manufacturers of the Largest Line of Showers Made. z Anachment. Complete $12 $0 New York City Office, 156 Fifth Ave. peeataihe sa jaect oi prarmtb is (Sly. very, comicbooks.com