Life, 1909-11-04 · page 7 of 52
Life — November 4, 1909 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** rather than political content. The dominant feature is a large advertisement for the Peerless Motor Car Company (Cleveland, Ohio), showing an elegant automobile in an urban street scene with classical architecture—typical luxury car marketing of the early 20th century. The page also contains: - **"The Literary Zoo"** column (left), a satirical piece critiquing literary characters and husbands' behavior in fiction - **"Hunyadi János"** advertisement (bottom left), promoting a natural laxative water with messaging about women's complexions - **"Silence" and "Comfort"** as page headers The content reflects early 1900s concerns: literary criticism, consumer products, and class-conscious advertising targeting affluent readers.
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The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 610) respectable. I say this neither lly nor in a critical spirit. ‘They not remarkably respectable—just tarily so, And it is not our fault kindly guidance of the stork dus among a people who arc ent in spirit on Sundays; not sloth- during the week, circumspect in uct, lax in judgment, lazy in poli- snd depraved in the fiction of their return to the opening catastrophe, re sat my friend with the unread me in her hand. Why was she it to read it? Because the husband cin had ceased to love his wife, and oble, ly fashion told her so. uy friend's father had put that in- sting bit of infor: ion in’ his e's Christmas stocking: . “No!” d my friend, firmly, “that would be igether different!” ! granted that it would be surpris- The middle-aged husbands of our aintance, if lacking in’ romantic t least reached a sta stable equilibrium in matters domes: But if the concrete instance would undesirable (“Shocking!"), why d of it so gladly? | offered other realistic illustrations v which my friend was visibly dis- d. She would scorn to fall in ve with her sister's husband? She scorned it promptly, and in heated ac nts! Tf her next neighbor, who is the father of four, should develop a arning to clope with the lady over © way, she would consider it much ore than unneighborly? ‘The ham- ok with righteous indig cad—if the here si s soul alive, if the heroine dies while is still worth burying and moum- ¢ over—we close the bool: with sighs of relief! My friend protests that the books he most dearly loves are only,“ on the \ . \ verg Nobody really commits the . , > 2 ven deadly sins. They long to com- All That TheName Implies nit them, for some five hundeed pages, | Catalogue Q will be sent on request oti ees. ee | THE PEERLESS MOTOR. CAR.CO | ‘ MEMBER hook is pure—legally speakyig. You cannot inet the characters __ | 1449 EAST 932 ST, CLEVELAND,O. ALAM. this is not convincing. Many of our ve since de- several years ago and h: ONVARISING TAKE % GLASS OF voted themselves so exclusively to mer tal states that we are often left to in- fer that the heroine has a nose and some hair. The characters like the Mudjokeewis . mittens, so “ inside-out- side” that if they sin in the spirit it THE BEST NATURAL LAXATIVE WATER more than it did Perfect affects them—and us when an old style human villain hissed, A beautiful woman must have a clear complexion. digestion and active liver are essential. The greatest aid is HUNYADI JANOS, the Natural Aperient Water. Gentle “T have done the deed!” pleasant and effective. Tones up the whole system. Try it. (Continued on page 613) comicbooks.com