Life, 1909-12-09 · page 26 of 32
Life — December 9, 1909 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, circa early 1900s. The content consists almost entirely of commercial advertisements with minimal editorial material. The only substantive editorial text is "The Literary Zoo" (continued from page 865), which satirizes contemporary intellectual trends. The Easy Chair column mocks the "explosion of romantic novelists" and facetiously suggests that newspapers could solve the mystery of life after death through coordinated investigative effort—a jab at both sensationalist journalism and the Society for Psychical Research's earnest spiritualist investigations. The advertisements reflect period concerns: furnace ventilation systems, tooth powder (antiseptic cleaning was novel), Pullman train travel, and natural laxatives. These ads offer historical insight into early 20th-century consumer anxieties about hygiene, comfort, and digestive health. The page contains no political cartoons or caricatures—it is fundamentally a commercial publication.
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Make Your Furnace Heat and Ventilate Your Entire House PERFECTLY “Well begun is half done.” You add considerably to the value of your tooth cleaning by using CALVERT’S Carbolic Tooth Powder, The popular English dentifrice—which gives such a thorough antiseptic cleansi i surface of the teeth that polish, too, for those that show. 1S centeat your druggists. Sample and Rookie free from Park & Tiford, F.C. Calvert &Co., Calvert bepit, ‘roadway, Manchester,” Doreherver St Naw You ———— Eset eae 4 Com Mosrnese. only units and take their proper places in the chorus.) Another thing we had not thought about in just this way is what the Easy Chair calls the recent “explosion of romantic novelists,” a kind of gatling- gun effect produced by “inventive criticism in many widely separated sources uniting _ simultaneously.” Here we follow lamely, but mend our Luxurious PRIVATE PULLMAN TRAINS with DINING and OBSERVATION can operated on exclusive time schedules (DAYLIGHT _ TRAVEL EVERYWHERE) reflect and emphasize the comfortableness of modern travel. No other way quite so satisfying—no other country quite so interesting—a wealth of delightful experi- ences under perfect travel conditions. Trains leave the East FEBRUARY 3d and 24th. Write for Booklet Ventilating Set will, if connected with the fresh-air intake, force quantities of pure, heated air through the flues, warming and ventilating every room in the house. Or, it will, if connected with the damper of the furnace (see cut below), blow up a roaring fire in hve minutes, Or, put it in front of the register of that cold room” in your house and it will quickly draw up into the room as much hot air 28 you wish. Write for Illustrated Booklet F, mental gait when it is suggested that the wonders of applied electricity, the remarkable discoveries in medicine and sanitation, are the outcome of “in- numerable intents and wills acting as one force.” Communicate with the planet Mars? Why not? Employ the same “ creative pressure” that brought about acrostation and the thing is done. RAYMOND & WHITCOMB CO. RAD-BRIDGE Registered PLAYING CARDS Design of ack, Remstitched linen, pat ra. 2S cents per pack destribing these uses. B. F. STURTEVANT COMPANY Hyde Park, Massachusetts There is still the unpenctrated mys- tery of the life beyond the grave. The veil has not lifted for the Society for Psychical Research, “ yet there remains a feeling that if there were a universal concentration of the inquiring forces” the secret might be forced. But how? The Easy Chair suggests a smyposium of newspapers—“an army of disci- plined reporters atttacking it from all sides,” and a corps of editors collating, comparing, commenting. That the question of man’s survival after death could resist such an investigation, re- marks the Easy Chair, “is hardly im- aginable"—not even, we suppose, to the wanton imagination of the explo- sive romantic novelist. (Continued on page 867) 66 IT” When good fellows get together The Literary Zoo (Continued from page 865) HAPPY TIMES AND EVANS: ALE GO TOGETHER IN THE MORNING ON ARISING TAKE ¥% GLASS OF HunyadigJanos THE BEST NATURAL LAXATIVE WATER A bottle of HUNYADI JANOS should be in every bathroom, Teady for use when needed. It is the most perfect Natural Laxative known—biliousness, torpid liver, sick headache and similar disorders are strangers to those who use it. haps in every field of inquiry.” Uni- versal peace, votes for women: what is compelling them but “the sheer virtue of concentrated volition”? (4. Roose- velt, A. Carnegie—even Mrs. Belmont —will please remember that they are Why Wash out the Stomach N-ACEA, the MAN-GA ta purgative water), — diasoly Natural Spring r dilutes and the Mucus throagh the natural channels ai atablishes Good Digestion, nded and sold by Park & Tilford: Charles & Co.: Acker, Merrall & Condit; Hegeman: Iiiker: Mithau: Bigelow: Grocers and Druggist4 generally. ‘Send for Booklet, MAN-A-CEA WATER CO., 13 Stone St., New York. comicbooks.com