Life, 1909-12-02 · page 62 of 80
Life — December 2, 1909 — page 62: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and literary content** rather than political satire or comics. The main elements include: **"Our Streets Are Full of Jangled Nerves"**: An advertisement for Sanatogen, a "food tonic" marketed to address modern urban stress and nervous exhaustion. The ad reflects early 20th-century medical attitudes blaming "nerve tissue" depletion for fatigue and depression—conditions we'd now recognize as stress or depression. **"The Literary Zoo"**: A humorous essay discussing writers' mental fatigue, referencing Sir Lauder Brunton's medical theory that poor circulation causes writer's block. The joke suggests absurd remedies like lying flat or kneeling on furniture to improve blood flow to the brain. **Product advertisements**: For Autocrat Linen stationery and Ainslet Cocoa and Chocolates, emphasizing quality and health benefits. The page reflects period concerns about "modern life" causing nervous strain—a common theme in early 1900s advertising—and the era's somewhat questionable understanding of circulation and mental performance.
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RE Copyright Uoterword 8 Ueterweed. OUR STREETS ARE FULL OF JANGLED NERVES The rush and hurry of modern life is a con- tinual drain on nerve tissue. But the break- down never comes without its warnings. When “‘vim’ seems to have deserted you— you get the “blues” and ordinary duties bring increasing weariness, then is the time to forestall a more serious condition. Your doctor will prescribe a tonic—ask him about Sanatogen THE FOODSTONIGC Sanatogen is just the right combination of two prop- erties most needed by your system when in this state. One is pure concentrated albumen, the best part of | Nature’s only true food—milk, and the other, Sodium Glycero-Phosphate, a substance that acts as a tonicand upbuilder for the brain and nervous system. Sanatogen combines extraordinary efficiency with absolute harmlessness and has beet prescribed and used with most remarkable results for many years by the medical profession the world over. We want tee ‘efi faut in the coupon for a copy of Dr. C. W. Saleeby’s Statements about yo your nervous © it controls your success: etable.’ yr. Saleeby's reputation asa writer and deep thi esate you of a profitable and pleasant half hour. Get Sanatogen f druggist—if not etOm obtainable from him write THE BAUER CHEMICAL COMPANY 45 EAST 17th ST. TLEMEN:—Please send meafree copy of Dr. C. wv. Salcebyy book “The Walt To Dos” va Name... Address Druggist Address | “THE GIRL I LEFT BEMIND ME ’” The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 820) But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.” But medical science—ever alert, ever tireless in its patient collection of facts, ever bold in its daring deductions therefrom—has given us a new work- ing hypothesis. The application of Sir Lauder Brun- ton’s theory of mental fatigue, and the remedy for it, must not, however, be weakened in the consideration of its bearing on esoteric poetry. In his pa- per in the Practitioner the distin- guished physician makes it clear that his researches are of vital importance to all writers who suffer from brain fag. Are there times when your thoughts trickle rather than flow— when you are confronted with the ap- palling necessity of saying something without something to say? Do not be discouraged. It isn’t lack of ideas. Did Sir Lauder Brunton despair in stich an emergency? By no means. He diagnosed his case: “It is feeble circulation that prevents my brain from acting.” Then he placed his head flat on the table, looked sideways at the paper and began to write easily. Lying with our left cheek on the table, and manipulating furiously the keys with our right hand, we won- why we never thought of it be- It is so absurdly simple. Yet is not entirely original with Sir Lauder. The late Mr. Lecky, his- ian, whose neck was not unlike a e's, wrote all his works, it ap- pears, while kneeling on a sofa which, like Mr. Lecky himself, “had a large, Phe blood thus traveled to his brain in a horizontal lin NEW YORK Regarding Cocoa Beans Cocoa Beans are classed among the mast EF Nihiy searching Products ofthe Plat Kingdom, Cocos Beans contain all that is needed for the perfect development of the human body. ‘The dally wwe of the Cocoa Bean ia some form le therefore ‘highly recommended to Old and Young. WAY NOT CET THE BEST? ,, Cocoa and 7 Chocolates otal ceaaly ey POR EATING, DRINKING AND COOKING. ‘waver ass ror PURITY AND DELICIOUSNESS OF FLAVOR. SOLD ST SROPKERTERS EVERYWHERE First Impressions are Important Your letter should create a worthy impression of its writer at first sight. 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