Life, 1909-12-02 · page 66 of 80
Life — December 2, 1909 — page 66: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with one cartoon. The cartoon at bottom right depicts a waiter's exaggerated body language—hunched, ingratiating posture—toward customers. The caption explains he adopts this deferential attitude when expecting a fifty-cent tip, with a sardonic note that his posture changes if he expects less. The joke satirizes the **service industry's tip-dependent economy**: workers adjust their behavior and dignity based on anticipated gratuities, implying both the awkwardness of tipping culture and workers' financial desperation. The page otherwise features period advertisements for hair goods (Mme. Thompson's), stationery (Hampshire Paper), and Florida Water cologne. These ads use typical early-20th-century appeals to beauty and refinement. The Hampshire Paper ad makes a metacommentary on stationery quality as reflecting the writer's credibility—an argument about professionalism through material goods.
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THE STANDARD PAPER FOR BUSINESS STATIONERY —"L.OOK FOR THE WATER-MaRIE™ “WHY do you write your busi- ness letters on such fine bond Paper?” ‘“‘Because, the Thompson’s ) a Hair Goods Fluffy Ruffers, Knobby BY Knots, Transformations, Cluster Puffs, Payche Curls Coronet Braids, &c. letter is one argument; the sta- tionery is another.” Exquisite White and Gray Hair to Match Every Shade. FLUFFY RUFFERS will bring comfort and beauty to the plainest face or one who may have the thinnest hair. $5 10 $15. Write for illustrated catalogue. Hair Dressing, Shampooing, Coloring, Scalp Treatments, Beauty Massage, Manicuring, and a Line of Toilet Goods Too Numerous to Mention WONDERFUL HAIR DYE For Ladies and Gentlemen This is the only dye that can not, hands. It is g! and nataral in col customers w i is no artin t rub or wear off, g—only have the hairy PP 8 Cry well; itis then finished, $2.00 per bottle; three bottles, $5.00. Mme. Thompson 28 W. 22d St., New York not stain the scalp, nor soil the OPPOSITE STERN BROS. A ings is an argument, added to the argument you write upon it. present Hampshire Paper Company ‘The only paper makers in the world making bond paper exclusively South Hadley Falls, Massachusetts MADE “A LITTLE BETTER THAN SEEMS NECESSARY '—"LOOK FOR 111; WATBR-MAKK FLORIDA WATER Unrivaled Unequaled Unique “THE UNIVERSAL PERFUME” For the Bath, Handkerchief and Dress Table © Delightful in ses ct, (tee PJ exposure: alter shaving, and for general toilet use Whenever and however used Murray 2 Lanman’s Florida Water this most popular of all Toilet Perfumes has — delighted and refreshed Mankind in every land, Beware ot Imitations and Substitutes / ATTITUDE OP A WAITER WHO THINKS HE'LL GET A FIFTY-CENTTIP, (ALSO ATTITUDES IF HE EXPECTS LESS.) comicbooks.com 6