Life, 1909-09-09 · page 24 of 32
Life — September 9, 1909 — page 24: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page primarily features **advertisements** for luxury goods (Egyptian Deities cigarettes, Pérès Chartreux liqueur) alongside three brief humorous pieces. **The cartoons/jokes:** 1. **"A Sort of Cousin"** — A witness testifies about her relation to a defendant by describing an absurdly convoluted family connection (step-relations, cousins-in-law, etc.). The joke satirizes how people stretch definitions of kinship through remarriage and distant connections. 2. **"Our Public Schools"** — A teacher asks a student to use "indisposition" in a sentence; the student (drawn in crude dialect) interprets it as a fighting stance. This mocks either poor education or working-class speech patterns. 3. **"The Beauty Laugh"** — A caricatured face labeled as "a Democrat trying to understand the political situation." This is partisan satire suggesting Democrats were confused about current politics (likely early 20th century, but specific context is unclear). The page is primarily **commercial**, with advertisements occupying roughly half the space.
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Turkey’s Precious Soil At the foot of certain mountains in Turkey is a limited collar of earth. It is fertilized by mountain washings, On those little strips grow the exquisite tobaccos— commanding as high as $2.50 per pound—which are blended in Egyptian Deities. Egyptian Deities ‘The Premier Cigarettes of the World” Not more than six per cent of Turkish | bales— from a dozen localities — from tobacco is fit for this delectable brand. two or three crops. We cover Turkey on horseback—visit It is thus that we get our ambrosial every locality—to gather the choicest | blend, and thus that we maintain it. leaves. No other cigarette in all the world is Then we pick the leaves over four | even half so good as these. times—one by one; and o4 percent are | And even we, with all our facilities, discarded. | could not make a better cigarette if you A man rarely picks out more than two | paid us $1. each for them. pounds a day fit for Egyptian Deities. The man who smokes Egyptian De Then we mix the leaves from sixty | enjoys the utmost in cigarettes. 10 for 25 cents. Cork Tips or Plain Every box of “EGYPTIAN DEITIES" bears the fac-simile signature of S. ANARGYROS Factory and Depot: New York City (A Corporation.) LIQUEUR MR. AND MRS. STONE AND A LOAD OF GRAVEL. A “Sort of Cousin” The lawyer eyed the woman in the witness box in patient despair. 17 y of a writer in the Detroit ) visibly : “You say, madam,’ he began, “that the de fendant is a ‘sort of relation’ of yours. Will you please explain what you mean by th how you are related to the defendant? “Well, it’s like this,” replied the witr beaming upon the court. “ His first wife's co and my second cousin's first wife's aunt brothers nz mother’s side were second cousins, and his step mother married my husband's stepfather after his father and my mother died, and his brother Joe and my husband's brother Harry married twin sisters. I ain't ever figgered out just how close related we are, but I've always looked o him as a sort of cousin.”” “Quite right, nted the lawyer, feebly Youth's Compan Our Public Schools Scnoo Tracer: Who can make a sentence using the word “ indisposition? Toven Purt. (assuming a pugilistic pose) When youse wants to fight youse stands in dis position—Toren Topics. Peres Chartreux -GREEN AND YELLOW— The original and genuine Chartreuse has always been and ; ks ( ux), stil is made by the Batjer & Co. 4 Broadway, New Tork, Sole Agents for United States, At rat clans Wine Merchante,Grocers. Hotel © ‘THE BEAUTY LAUGH RECENT PORTRAIT OF A DEMOCRAT WHO IS TRY- ING TO UNDERSTAND THE POLITICAL SITUATION, comicbooks.com