Life, 1910-03-03 · page 74 of 80
Life — March 3, 1910 — page 74: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** rather than editorial cartoon content. It contains: 1. **Tobey Furniture advertisement** - promoting handmade furniture emphasizing elegance, rare woods, and craftsmanship, with locations in New York and Chicago. 2. **"Sparks From Old Anvils"** - a brief humorous anecdote about a gossipy woman warning someone about domestic dangers (children near water, a suspicious man at the gate, disease outbreaks in the village). The humor derives from her catastrophizing and meddlesome nature—a satirical jab at pearl-clutching Victorian anxieties and busybodies. 3. **Other advertisements** - for Calox tooth powder, Old James Pepper Whisky, and The Pacific Monthly (promoting Western settlement). There are no identifiable political figures or specific satirical cartoons on this page. The "Sparks" piece is gentle social satire about gossip culture and paranoid domesticity rather than political commentary.
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Elegance is the first characteristic of Tobey Handmade Furniture It is an elegance not only of line, propor- tion and finish, but also of the beauty of richly grained rare woods and of the nicety of exquisite hand workmanship. Tobey Handmade Furniture is sold only at our two stores. We invite you to see it. Correspondence concerning the furnishing and decoration of the home invited. THE TOBEY FURNITURE COMPANY 11 West Thirty-Second Street, NEW YORK (Near Fifth Avenue) Wabash Avenue and Washington Street, CHICAGO Sparks From Old Anvils don’t look so. You thought Bridget was watchin’ them? No; I saw her talking to a man at the gate. He looks can’t go jest as if you were down to me like a burglar. There was a stairs; and I wondered whether you family at Knob Hill last week all knew your little Billy was sailing about killed for fifty dollars. Yes, indeed. in a tub on the mill-pond, and that Now, don’t fidget so; it will be bad your little Sammy was letting your for the baby. little Jimmy a-down from the veranda Poor little dear! How singular it roof in a clothes basket. is, to be sure, that you can't tell Goodness! what’s the matter? I whether a child is blind, or deaf and guess Providence ’Il take care of ’em; dumb, or a cripple, at that age. It (Continued from page 417) If You Want to Know More About the West, resources, opportunities, life, literature, etc., don’t delay but send the coupon at once. The West of to-day will astonish you. There is something doing in the empire beyond the Rocky Mountains that will interest you. Get in touch with a live land, where fortunes await the willing. ‘The Pacific Monthly Company, Portland, Oregon. Enclosed find 25 cents. Please send three recent numbers containing information about the West. Name. Lire Address It’s the Oxygen in Calox (Peroxide asa cleanser of the Dentists advise it 7 All Drogen! Sample anit Booklet free on reves McKESSON = ROBBINS might be all and you'd never know it Most of them that have their senss make bad use of them, though; ought to be your comfort, if it turn out to have anything dreadful t matter with it. Dear! dear! now to think wht dreadful things hang over us all th time! Oh dear! Scarlet fever bas broken out in the village, Cornea Little Isaac Porter has it, and I saw your Jimmy playing with him last Sz urday. Well, I must be going now. I've gx another sick friend, and I shan’t thick my duty done unless I cheer her upa little before I sleep. Good-bye. How pale you lock, Cornelia. 1 don't te licve you have a good doctor. Do send him aw: nd get somebody de You don't look as well as you did whe I came in. If anything happens for me at once. If I can’t do anythitg else, I can cheer you up a little. Necessary | adjunct to every medicine Cabine Used since 178 OLD JAMES Seven Years Old A Quarts fr * FOR SALE BY ALL DEALERS & DRUGEST JAMES E.PEPPER DIST.CO. cexikére comicbooks.com