Life, 1909-09-30 · page 24 of 32
Life — September 30, 1909 — page 24: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** interspersed with short humorous anecdotes typical of Life magazine's satirical style. The advertisements promote alcoholic beverages (Perrier water, Blatz Beer, Hunter Rye whiskey) as health tonics—a common marketing practice of the era before Prohibition and FDA regulations. The claims about "health and contentment" reflect early 20th-century attitudes toward alcohol. The brief comic pieces ("Our Foolish Contemporaries," "An Instance," "All Right for Tabby," etc.) are gentle social humor featuring domestic situations and character types: a vain woman ("Belinda"), marriage dynamics, a child's logic. These satirize middle-class behavior and manners. "A Crazy Clock" references an asylum patient—reflecting period attitudes where mental illness was treated as comedic material. The anecdotes reference publications like *Harper's Bazaar* and *Lippincott's*, indicating this was a magazine for educated, affluent readers. The humor is mild and observational rather than pointed political satire—reflecting Life's role as sophisticated, mainstream entertainment for urban professionals.
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smiling. ‘Sometimes I make a mistake and take a little piece off a customer's ear.’—Judge Li. brary. The Lady from Indiana “Was she artistic?” asked an inquir son of Kin Hubbard, the Indianapolis maker, who was describing an Indiana Artistic?” said Hubbard.“ Was sh I should say she was. that one day, when one of her peekaboo shirt waists she had made herself fell into the pianola, they played two Beethoven rhapsodies before they discovered their mistake.’ Standard in all day Evening Post. Asurvitts, N. C.: TI four-season resort of the nations of the v é South. Tite Maxox, the English-like Inn of Ass : A: : A Crazy Clock world. Spark- = F Visiting an old mate, who had the misfort . Fi : ee y to be confined in a Yorkshire asylum, a col ling, delicate, in- = ~ noticed that the large clock in the reception ball was ten minutes slow. vigorating,health- 4 Preereretines + “That clock is not right," he exclaimed forte “No, lad!’’ was the lunatic’s reply. ful. Obtainable wee : j why it's here.’—London Daily wherever waters are sold. recaion cu The Voice of Reason inches, full colo 3 h ° e ey alee tale Ero Ea Sth “Drink it for 4 Health and Contentment” An Instance up the 1 : Time brings strange changes Bocker: Yes; the boy whose mother can’t make him wash his neck grows up to be a rich man who gocs abroad for baths—Harper’s ‘| : Bazar. eas tz a eee All Right for Tabby Pelinda ie abe: Village’ Belle, Mrs. X (away from home): John, did you i ‘ i leave out anything for the cat before you started? First In Mn. X (iho dislikes the beast): Yes; I left Her charming manner is perfection it an periections a can of condensed milk on the table, with the li Tiarke ee cene athe Bee ia. wis. can-opener beside it—Human Lif Qua ity and I wonder would she think me rash “1a 2 Pinch ase ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE.” If after her I made a —, i . Character Vigilant Fido And with a manner suave and bland In the barber shop the scissors clicked merrily mber Th > AA | abel I frankly asked her for her £4; away, and the barber's dog lay on the floor close beside the chair, looking up intently all the time Then if I murmur i at the occupant who was having his hair cut. Would she say, < yt. Nice dog, said the customer, “He is, sir,"’ said the barber. And yet—Belinda’s tongue’s so brisk, “He seems very fond of watching you cut | BEER 9 I fear I'd be an * hair.” n Wells, in Harper's Weekly. “Tt ain't that, sir’? explained the barber, Order a case sent home FOR A PURE Ask for Ht at $ p Olub, Cato TONICAL STIMULANT, FOR CHEER OR COMFORT, STRENGTH AND HEALTH, Insist on “‘Blatz."” FOR RECUPERATION AND RESTORATION MILWAUKEE. aI H U N TER i ie, the son of a Germantown woriaa, was playing one day with the girl next door, when the latter exclaimed: BALTIMORE “Don't you hear your mother calling you? That's three times she’s done so. Aren't | going in?” 4 ; “Not yet,’ responded Willie, imperturbably. Won't she whip you?" demanded the littl girl, awed. 13 ABSOLUTE PERFECTION Naw!"? exclaimed Willie, in disgust. “ Sbe GUARANTEED UNDER THE NATIONAL PURE | ain’t goin’ to whip nobody! She's got company: FOOD LAW So, when I go in, she'll just say: ‘The poor little man has been so deaf since he’s had th Sold at all Srat-class cates ané pers, vo . Wat LANATAN & S08, Baht, Ma measles!’ "'—Lippincott’s. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER 50 cents per case of 6 class stoppered bottles comicbooks.com