Life, 1909-11-11 · page 29 of 36
Life — November 11, 1909 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. It contains three main commercial advertisements: 1. **Speakman Portable Shower Bath** (top left): A practical product ad for a brass shower fixture with a patented clip faucet. 2. **Pebeco Toothpaste** (center/right): The dominant ad features a hand holding three toothpaste tubes. It promotes the product's ability to counteract "Acid Mouth" and prevent tooth decay by increasing saliva alkalinity—reflecting early 20th-century scientific claims about oral health. 3. **Pond's Extract** (bottom): An aftershave product advertisement. The page also contains "The Literary Zoo," a continuing essay (from page 681) discussing poet Alfred Noyes and theories about why poets live longer when employed—presented as humorous social commentary rather than political satire. The advertisements reflect period concerns: indoor plumbing accessibility, emerging consumer science around dental health, and grooming products for gentlemen.
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Bathing onder a SPEAKMAN | PORTABLE SHOWER BATH Turns a Duty Into Pleasure. A fall size durable Shower, ATi metal partsare brass, heavily nickel plated Note the"CLIP" Faucet tachment (Patented), whic. tac faucet, The Shower subject to return If you are not pleased when you receive It Riverview Works, Min ode s The ieeay Zoo (Continued from page 681) A Literary Marvel E had long supposed that Mr. Benson, who, when he has noth- ing better to do, locks out casually from his college window and forthwith contrives an essay, was easily. first among the producers and salesmen of pure literature in the United Kingdom. we had reckoned without Mr. cd Noyes, uniquely distinguished he poet who makes a living. Pos- ed of a pretty talent in verse, his for getting it printed is over- ping. If Mr. Noyes had listened he counsels of tradition he would ve served an apprenticeship in bing or some other profitable cline. An extra occupation for nds has come to be regarded as 1 indispensable in the case of cts, Modern psychologists, who have made almost everything perfectly clear, tell us that the reason for this. The melancholy and despair which afilict so many poets are not engendered by poverty or hunger. It use the poet does not keep his nds occupied. Great is the manual or of the novelist, journalist— playwright even: greater, too, in pro: tion to his lack of success. But hie poet, who perhaps turns out some ch trifle as a sonnet or a ballade cach , as speedily quit of his wor lrivial is the toil of transcription lence if the sonnet or ballade is not Md, he has far too much time to orry about it, Statistics show (what do not statistics show?) that the writ- s of ballades are longer lived than ve makers of triolets, that the son neteer may—indeed, often does—live an ady age, while the man whose is the poem of ve quatrain generally dies young. To fully employed a poet Send for One of these Free Trial Tubes and a Package of Test Papars ‘OU can easily prove tog your own satisfaction, with the free Trial tube, how perfect- ly Pebeco cleans and whitens the teeth; and by a very interesting experiment with the Test Papers you can demonstrate to your own eyes how Pebeco counteracts ‘* Acid Mouth,” the condition which so strongly favors decay of the teeth. Thus, the daily use of Pebeco with your tooth brush whitens and polishes the teeth, and at the same time keeps the mouth in a healthy condition. It pre- vents decay by the natural method of increasing the flow of normal saliva, which is always alkaline, and the enemy of those forms of bacteria which cause decay, and which thrive only in acid surroundings. Pebeco not only renders the mouth alkaline, or anti-acid, as it should be, but keeps it so; and while performing this valuable service is unusually efficacious as a cleanser and whitener of the teeth. It saves the enamel, brightens gold fillings and protects both against injury. Ask your dentist about it. Pebeco originated in the hygienic laboratories of P. Beiersdorf & Company, Hamburg, Germany, and is sold at all toilet goods counters in large 50c¢ tubes. It is very economical, as only a small quantity is used at each brushing of the teeth If your dealer will not supply you, we will mail a ful.-sized tube upon receipt of 50c. LEHN & FINK, 108 William Street, New York Also Producers of Lena & Fink's Riveris Taicum Powder or go to work But Mr. Noyes. 3 unique. Mor ated land. Detibe F ne career eis of a poet, he ept everlastingly at q AFTER SHAVING USE it. Seven volumes of poems attest his industry ard svecess. His epic E Francis Drake,” was published in Blackwood's as a serial (!)—running through twenty numbers of that cele brated magazine. A feat, we fancy, Pte tat IRRITATION--PREVENTS INFLAMMATION--ASSURES COMFORT, POND'S EXTRACT COMPANY. New York, N.Y. (Continued om page 686) comicbooks.com