Life, 1909-09-16 · page 29 of 32
Life — September 16, 1909 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page from Life magazine contains satirical pieces and advertisements typical of early 20th-century American humor journalism. **Main Cartoon:** The bottom illustration depicts a rooster and hen with the caption about a "great housekeeper" who "can't even lay a table." This is a crude sexual double-entendre joke playing on the dual meaning of "lay"—the domestic task versus animal reproduction—to mock a wife's housekeeping incompetence. **"Fables of Phaedrus" Section:** A classical fable about a middle-aged man loved by both an older and younger woman, each plucking out his hair (white and black respectively) until he goes bald. The satire critiques how women manipulate men through vanity and deception. **"Concerning the Editor":** A humorous definition mocking newspaper editors as overworked, underpaid, constantly criticized figures who labor thanklessly for meager compensation and brief obituaries. The page reflects period attitudes toward gender relations, marital dynamics, and professional frustrations through satire and classical literary references.
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REALLY DELIGHTFUL THAT DAINTY MINT COVERED CANDY COATED CHEWING GUM AN OUACE FOR A NICKEL ayo NSA solO PACKETS FRANK H. FLEER & CONC mnitaDininia ana TORONTO. Books Received Men of the Mountain, by S. R. Crockett. & Br 0.) by Hall Caine. (D, Appleton , by Bessie R. (Har- Hoover. rt, by David Graham Phillips. (D, $1.50.) by William W. $1.50.) by Ashton Hilliers. (G. P. Pate Canfield, (R. jer-Couch. (Charles A. Neil Lyons. (John Lane s in Sicily, by Elizabeth and ne Co. $1.50.) Hawkons, by Robert & Co. $1.50.) by Vernon Lee Anne Hoyt Alexander Wason. Uobn Lane Co. Trade, by Cicely Hamilton. (Mofiat, 25.) As Told by Wilt Hastings Web- nts.) A Happy Marriage Depends largely on a know!- edge of the whole truth about self and sex and thelr relation to life and health. This knowledge does not come intelligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary every-day sources, SEXOLOGY (ttustrated) J iKalling, 4X1. A1.D., imparts in a clear, ne volume ng Man Should Have. Husband Should Have. Knowledge a Father Should Lmprrt to Tis on Neileal Knowledge a Husband Showa Haves” “Indgo a Young Woman Should Have. Khouicdge a Mother Should fmpari to Her Daughter, Medical’ Rnowledge a Wife Should Have. Rich Cloth Bisdies, Fall Gold Stamp, Whustrated, $2.00. ‘ie for “Other People's Opisions* and Table of Ceateats Puritan Pub. Co., 711-Perry Bldg. Phila, Pa. pwledge a F Y AN The Two Women of Different Ages Beloved by the Middle-Aged Man That the men, under all circumstances, are preyed upon by the women, whether they love or are beloved, this truly we learm from examples. A Woman, not devoid of grace, held enthralled a certain Man of middle age, concealing her years by the arts of the toilet: A lovely Young Creature, too, had captivated the heart of th same person. Both, as they were desirous to ap- pear of the sanie age with him, began, each in her turn, to pluck out the hair of the Man, While he imagined that he was made trim by the care of the women, he suddenly found himself bald; for the Young Woman had entirely pulled out the white hairs, the Old Woman the black ones.—" The Fables of Phaedrus.’” Concerning the Editor An editor iz a male being whose buzziness it iz 10 navigate a nuzcpaper. He writes editorials, grinds out poetry, inserts deths and weddings, and sorts out maneskrips, keeps a wa blows the devil, steals matter, fites’ other peo- ple’s battles and sells hiz paper for a dollar and fifty cents a year, takes white beans and aple saas for pay when he can get it, raises a large family, and works nineteen hours out of every twenty-four, knows no Sunday, gets dammed by everyboddy, and once in a while whipped by some- boddy, lives poor, dies middle-aged and often broken-hearted, leaves no money, iz rewarded for a life uf toil with a very short free obituary puff in the nuze “Josh Billings ’" (He mry W. Shaw), in“ E Boddy's Friend.” e-basket, ‘Twas a good fancy of an old Platonic. The gods, which are above man, had something whereof men did partake, an intellect, know!- edge, and the gods kept on their course quietly. The beasts, whi-. are below man, had some- thing whereof man did partake. sense growth, and the beasts lived quietly way. But man had something in him whereof neither gods nor beasts did partake, which gave him all the trouble, and made all the confusion in the world, and that is—opinion.—Selden's Table Talk, “GREAT HOUSEKEEPER! LAY A TABLE! '? GEE, SME CAN’T EVEN 393 WEDTING CAKE IN HANDSOME, RIBBONED GIFT BOXES. oa yt 4 book= Marriage Marria true, contract I have 1654 ge is nothing but a civil contract. ‘Tis ‘tis ordained of Go so is every other God commands me to keep it when made it—From Selden’s “Table-Talk, (Continued on page 304) Tried—Acquitted—Commendod —Immortalized! When Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary"’ appeared, France was in an uproar. Praise alternated with blame. The State sued him, charging his work n offense against Public Morals.” Flaubert was tried, acquitted, and to- day Is recognized the world over as France's foremost master of fiction. pook wit satisfied, for w come as near al of the literary 1 gaze: the cess, the it desire artist Is the fer pt for vanit . ary virtues of the g there Flaubert's gi ; with this prodigious care in detall, this implacable search, for truth and beauty, this geal and tenacity, itis plain why in thi “ars of this exhausting work, h so few volumes, and these of such virile co sovereign mastery of style, that all other modern. work ‘cowardly, and incomplete beside them, The writings of Gustave Flaubert are so original, daring, truthful yet tmaginative, that they cannot be welghed or judged by other stan original, be has served asa model for many’ Aubert re- ividual and Inimitable, the peer jelicions revelry, @ feast ietion, and 80 ‘aids an 1e health of truth — and back and”back and b life which, n buried tn oblivion, Actual Size 8 x 54’, nd Pages, ich Etat ‘on pure an- tque paper: the margin and the work Is beautifully 11 PHOTOGRAVURES, spect ed, Will be sent to you,all Charges upon recelpt by ua of the al properly Mlled out, and Iafac WERNER COMPANY Akron, Ohio print ta" Ret Vellem factory. if factory, 1 will adviae yoo withia 10 daye comicbooks.com