Life, 1910-02-17 · page 7 of 44
Life — February 17, 1910 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and book promotion** rather than political satire. The main content includes: 1. **Welch's Grape Juice ad** (top right): A health-focused advertisement claiming grape juice is "something more than a drink" and "a food," referencing the "famous grape cure" for health and vitality. This reflects early 20th-century marketing of patent medicines and health tonics. 2. **"The Biography of a Boy" book promotion** (lower left): Advertising a humorous book by Josephine Daskam Bacon featuring a character named "Binks," published by Harper & Brothers. 3. **Reader letters** (left column): Routine correspondence responding to previous magazine content. The page reflects 1910s consumer culture and book publishing rather than containing political commentary or satirical cartoons.
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“LIFE: From Our Readers (Continued from page 270) That Spinster Number Two Opinions Deax Lire: I think your last number was’ not up to par in funniness and humorosity. Is that the reason you call it “ Spinster's Number’’? I have heard that women bad no sense of humor, but I never heard it was limited to spinsters. And so many pictures of women look- ig under the bed. Don’t you realize that woman does not look for a man under the bed nowadays? She looks under an automobile. Spinster, E, B. McCarrrey. Provipence, R. 1, Jan. 21, 1910. Dear Lire: Welch's Grape Juice} is something more than a drink. It is a food. It contains elements which make it a most valuable article of diet. Ask your doctor. You have heard of the famous grape cure— how people of weakened vitality are fed on nothing but grapes. Therefore, it is a good daily beverage for an ordinary man and woman, because it gives life and strength, as well as being a delicious and refreshing beverage. Be sure you get Welch’s. If your dealer doesn't keep Welch's, send $3.00 for trial dozen pints, express prepaid east of Omaha. Sample $ oz. bottle by mail, 10 cents. Booklet of forty delicious ways of using Welch's Grape Juice, free. THE WELCH GRAPE JUICE COMPANY, WESTFIELD, N. Y. Accept my heartiest congratulations on the Spinster’s Number. It is rather the best for a year past. The funny parts are funnier—the others more con- vineing than for, some time. The “ Re- ward of Virtue ’” is better than reams of sermons and will do more good. I am for you strong, Lire, and you, indeed, do help to make life in Arkansas livable. Sincerely yours, H.C. Parmeter. Fort Sait, Ark. Jan. 19, 1910. His Appreciation To tne Epitor or Lire: Your fearless discussions of the Fer- rer case have aroused my admiration. Presumably your recent mails have been filled with a torrent of more or less un- intelligent abuse by those who blindly THE Church."’ You have proven your ability to make clear the units of the case and rally to the slogan of “Loyalty to the I have nothing to contribute thereto. Possibly, however, it may in a measure be gratifying to you to receive assurance that your efforts are not unappreciated by those of your readers who cherish the BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS ® merican freedom of education and wel- come any influence which tends to in- By JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON sure its continuance. Yours truly, Here's “Binks” again—that droll young person whose Provivence, R. ie Sneewoces capers caused so much laughter in‘‘The Memoirs of a Baby.”” He'sa little bit older now and funnier—very much funnier— in this new story. The fun is for all grown-ups, married or not. Rose O'Neill has made fifty pictures for the book— some reproduced in sienna—thekind you'll see framed before long in half the homes you visit. Post 8vo. Cloth, $1.50. JUST OUT : Harper & Brothers —— comicbooks.com