Life, 1909-08-19 · page 22 of 28
Life — August 19, 1909 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with small humorous filler content typical of early 20th-century magazines. The main advertisement promotes **Crane's Linen Lawn stationery**, emphasizing its pure white color and quality as a mark of social respectability—reflecting the era's concern with "correct social stationery" for formal correspondence. The cartoon section, "Our Foolish Contemporaries," collects brief jokes from other publications, mostly playing on contemporary anxieties: **appendicitis** (then fashionable as a diagnosis), **photography** (new technology causing vanity concerns), and **whiskey quality**. One anecdote references Senator Hoar, a recognizable Massachusetts politician of that time. Additional ads include **Pond's Extract** (a popular patent remedy), **Miss Cue billiards product** (capitalizing on women's emerging public activities), and **Sexology** (a self-help book addressing marital concerns). The humor is gentle, class-conscious satire targeting urban middle-class pretensions and modern anxieties rather than sharp political commentary.
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CRANE’S CORRECT SOCIAL STATIONERY Grane s tnenXKawn HE wonderfully clear white color of Crane’s Linen Lawn is partly due to the perfectly pure artesian water which is used in making it. A white paper should be white. Crane’s Linen Lawn is. The thing to remember in buying fine writing paper is not merely the words ‘‘ Linen Lawn,’ but the name ‘‘Crane’s.’’ It is Crane’s way of making writing papers that has made Crane’s Linen Lawn the best writing paper. Crane’s Linen Lawn can be had wherever good stationery is sold. EATON, CRANE & PIKE COMPANY, PITTSFIELD, MASS. ? “I rejoice that the difficulty lay in the table “Gon foolish 5 of “contents rather than in the appendix.’’— QuTEHFORARIES Worth age cee to Jail for Junce (at the close of a trial): Prisoner, you may have the last word Prisoner (turning to his wife the audi- ence): Do you hear that, old lady?—Meggen- dorfer Blactter. “Wty is Maude so angry with the photogra- he found a label on the back of her ying: ‘The original of this photograph is carefully preserved.’ ""—Boston Transcript. Lone before the days of Directoire gowns, when appendicitis was still the most fashionable thing one could have, a friend of the late Sena- tor Hoar was stricken down. For a time an operation was thought necessary, but it finally turned out that the trouble was not append at all—merely acute indigestion. Whereupon the venerable Massachusetts statesman sent this message of congratulation: THE LAUGH THAT BREAKS THE CAMERA AFTER SHAVING USE PONDS EXTRACT ELI IRRITATIO! ‘. Write for Boditet Nonaving Resortision” 8 NEAMONT: CORLISS & GO.s Bole Agents, How Yorks N-¥. MISS CUE @ is the Sensation of the Hour Send Thirty Cents in stamps, for 11x14 photogravure or make it Fifty Cents and we will include an assortment of Spinks Billiard Chalk and Self Sticker Cue Tips postpai “Quickstick” for cue tips sticks anything—bot gluc—in tubes—twenty-five cents. ‘Ask for Booklet—shows Miss Cue at Billiards—NO CHARGE. William A. Spinks & Company 362 Erie Street Chicago \tarers Spioks Rilllard Chalk and “The only manotactaters of eas tips tu America.” In Doubt “Did you ever have appendicitis?” said the insurance man. “Well,” answered the skeptic. “I was op- erated on. But Ir r felt sure whether it was a case of appendicitis or a case of professional curiosity.”"—IWashington Star. Asurvitts, N. C.: The four-season resort of the South, Tne Manor, the English-like Inn of Asheville “ Have you got any of this new kind of whiskey that won't make a man drunk?"’ “Yes, sir.” “Well, give me a quart of the other kind.” Boston Traveler. “In a Pinch, use ALLENS FOOT-EA in who wants to vote is is she not? Ecuret: Well, yes, that’s what she’s called if there are ladies present—Yonkers Stotcs man, Fat Max: What! Are you going to let this boy shave me? Baruer: Let the boy have his. fun for once It is his birthday, sir—Fliegende Blatter. “So you don’t care for bathing?’ “Too much of a crush, don’t you know.’’ “ Well it would be nice if we could have individual oceans."’—Louisville Courier-Journal. Happy Marriage Depends largely on a know!- edge of the, whole truth about self and sex and their Felatlon to life and health ‘This knowledge does p: come intelligent of itse!t nor correctly from ordinary every-day sources. SEXOLOGY (Utustrated) by William H. Walling, A.M, M-D., tmparts in a clear, Wholesome way, i one ¥ Knowlndgo a Young Man Should Have. Knowledge a ¥ Hus 1d Have. Knowledge a Father Should Knowledge a Father Should Medical Knowledge a Hus! Knowledge a Young Woman Should Have. Knowledge a Young Wife Should Have. Knowledge a Mother Should Ta Knowledge hershontd Impare {oHer Daughter. Medical Knowledge a Wife Should F Rich Cloth Bindieg, Full Gold Write for "" Other Peopie’s Opinion: Puritan Pub. Co., 711 Perry Bldg. Ar a baseball game in Chicago the gatckeeper hurried to Comiskey, leader of the White Sox, and said: “Umpire Hurst is here with two friends. Shall I pass ’em in?’ “An umpire with two friends!’’ gasped Comiskey. “ Sure!"’ —Argonaut. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER, 50 cents per case of 6 gms atoppered bottles Lea Drug; comicbooks.com