Life, 1909-12-30 · page 22 of 29
Life — December 30, 1909 — page 22: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, circa early 1900s, featuring product advertisements and brief humorous anecdotes typical of the publication's format. The page includes advertisements for **Hunter Baltimore Rye whiskey**, **Club Cocktails**, **Moore's Tire Saving Jacks**, and **Abbott's Bitters**—all standard consumer products of the era. There's also a travel advertisement for **Raymond & Whitcomb Co.** offering luxury winter trips to California and exotic destinations. The humor sections ("Our Foolish Contemporaries," brief jokes about gentlemen, photographs, arithmetic) are mild social commentary—not political satire. They mock pretension, particularly around cocktail-mixing expertise and social affectation. The "All Was Over" serial story excerpt depicts a melodramatic romantic rejection based on class differences (wealthy magnate rejected by chorus girl). **No significant political or historical references** are present. This page reflects early-20th-century consumer culture and gentle magazine humor rather than satire or social commentary.
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MULTIPLY THE BEST MATERIAL MONEY CAN BUY BY TIME, PATIENCE, CARE AND EXPERIENCE, ADD PURITY, MATURITY, QUALITY AND FLAVOR—THE RESULT IS HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE THE AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S WHISKEY ll fretclass cafes and by fobters, » a F-O;O LISH NTEMPORARIES we —_ SA 2 ee Finally The definition of a gentleman Who shows his truly verit: worth, Is, just as near as I can fathom it, ‘A man who has no business on this earth.”” —Sun. Agrevinte, N. Cr The four-season resort of the. Sout "Btz Manon’ the Raglabiite Ina of "Asheville. The Natural Question Fottower or Evexts: A Harvard pro- fessor favors a revision of the Ten Com- mandments. Uxtimate Consumer: Gee whiz! Up- ward or downward ?—St, Louis Star. ¢ to make a reputation as an expert cocktail mixer, buy the ‘Club’? brand, follow direc: van . tions, and your friends will wonder Lifelike Attitude where you gained the art. Many acock- tail you have drunk and complimented your host for art of mixing—the truth is you had a ‘Club Cocktail.”” Photograph me with my nose again i Gitktene Got Gee bandy? FOR SALE BY ALL GOOD DEALERS. Louisville Couricr-Journal. G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO. Sole Proprietors 29 BROADWAY, NEW York, N.Y. HARTPoRD. CONN. Loxpow “Some of our prominent men,"’ sug- gested the photographer, “like to have their photos taken in a characteristic attitude.”” Stops Your Tire Expense top: ‘the life of your tires. Don't have them bear the great welght of your automobile when not in use. Tires will not, Tr Necta’eenrty an uch anif car were reaning. For the Winter months don't fail to get oF as , Moore’s Tire Saving Jacks They save yoar tires and cost only $6.0 for a set of four. They | prevent grease on garage floor from softening and rotting the Fisher ceuting. Oui two operations to tulso heatleet car from . Slip padded loop over hab and prsh 4 canéo It 1a & fow ssconds,, Doos away wit blocking up car when not in use for a week or two. Please write as tod: ‘Wo'll send you name of dealer in your tora who buadies Mosro's ‘ire Bering Jacks. Aleo car litele booklet “When it's Bedtime for your Auto.” Write now, @ 3c. MOORE &CO., 1600 Forrest St., RACINE, WIS. Makes the best cocktail. Aids digestion. Al easing aromatic for ail wine. spirit. and soda| Gershen A. Seliehtiol tonic’ and. iavicor, Seer Ai wine merchants’ and drugests" Important to see that it is Abbott's. =Winter Travel SIX PRIVATE PULLMa) TRAINS TO CALIFORN| Early Departures January 13th and 25th lqTwo Private Pullman Trains tc v, Mexico. Daylight travel everywhen GA series of Nine Delightf IT 4 Florida, Nassau and ‘Guba eb @Three parties to Orient: i Egypt, the Nile, Palestine, aie! aa GA delightful journey through J; China and Korea early Fras | @Two charming trips to Porto Automobiles across the Island. os Which booklet may we send you? Raymond & Whitcomb (Co, 225 Filth Avenge, New York 800 Washington Su O06 Chestout Street, Pbiledelphia G22 Seubficie Sei Sister: Well, Harry, how getting along with arithmetic? Harey: Oh, pretty well. We dismal fractions now.—Illustrated Bits, GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER Its purity has made it famous” All Was Over CANNOT marry you!’ ‘The brilliant’ young chorus girl, her face naturally flushed with he determination, gazed fondly but deter- minedly into the eyes of the young mag- nate whose wealth was numbered by mil- Jions. “Cannot marry me?" he repeated, “Surely there is some mistake. 1 offer you equality, and all the financial priv- ileges I command. You will own y own home, and be able to sip from the fountain of eternal gasoline. Why do you refuse me?” She smiled loftily if sadly as she re- plied: “TI do it for my art. Surrounded by the temptations of great wealth I fear that I would lapse into an idle creature. No! Not Archibald, it cannot be. My art must not suffer. I thank you / your kind offer. Believe me I shall ways be your true friend. But ask ine nothing more. Art, always, and for time! Besides, I am going to marry your father. And putting her pink silk tights into her card envelope system she passed out into the night. SOUTH CAROLINA'S Famous Resort THE KIRKWOOD Long Leaf Pine Belt T. EDMUND KRUMBHOLZ Camden, S.C. comicbooks.com