Life, 1910-05-05 · page 62 of 72
Life — May 5, 1910 — page 62: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and editorial content**, not political satire. The main items are: 1. **Cruiser boat advertisement** (left): Promoting a 36-foot motorboat for $2,300—positioned as affordable luxury. Claims only 50 can be built that season, emphasizing exclusivity and modern convenience (engine, galley, toilet room). 2. **"The Stage Heroine"** (right): A satirical piece mocking theatrical melodrama conventions—specifically the trope of heroines venturing into snowstorms without proper protection to appear romantic or dramatic, despite owning bonnets they deliberately leave behind. 3. **"The Two Classes"** (center): A lengthy excerpt (credited to Joseph Andrews, Book II) discussing the division between "people of fashion" and "people of no fashion"—not about wealth or birth, but about who follows current trends versus those indifferent to fashion. 4. **Advertisements**: For Hunyadi Janos water, investment securities, and Bromo-Seltzer. The page reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and light social commentary on class pretension and theatrical absurdity, rather than political cartooning.
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4 this CRUISER Only 50 of the: Boats can be Built this Season . tests is the boat yoo have altnd alprice you can eford to’ part 'S6.R. valued deck’ Mactne Uraleer, Just step aboard this sea-going beauty end look her over—36 feet over all she measures,—her {t.6in. She will go anywhere t! inetie ofr water and yo on {nls boat with creising accom Tor eight: toilet room, owner’ room. and cockpit holding ten: Iho galley » ter crufsing, ice plus storage ai jent of all tbe hotels on And the price-other builders with limited cay fashioned methods would have to ask $3.00 to flags and boat hook, stove, removable rice 1s 82,200 for the whole outht. tings inupit the regular Rac in patna of lahor or material spared just to make the price Nerything that. goes with boat is included--ding Vighta, screens, sanding top. cushions, # Attings, power whistle, fog bell. lite preservers. ‘te. “Powerful motor of the You Can Own A Boat 1% e20 sford to 0%n this bost and ran it yourself You CHICAGO DETROIT ~NEW YORK Fequire po crew. I's a “one man” boat in the seme aba go anywhere Racive femily Ls Muskegon, Mich. BOSTON PHILADELPHIA SEATTLE For BILIOUSNESS Try Hunyadi Janos INATURAL APERIENT WATER. Avoid Substitutes The Stage Heroine The stage heroine’s only pleasure in life is to go out in a snowstorm with- out an umbrella and with no bonnet on. She has a bonnet, we know (rather a tasteful little thing); we have seen it hanging up behind the door of her room; but when she comes out for a night stroll, during a heavy snowstorm (accompanied by thunder), she is most careful to leave it at home. Maybe she fears the snow will spoil it, and she is a careful girl. She alw brings her child out with The Twix Classes “Be it known that the human spe- cies are divided into two sorts of peo- ple—to wit, high and low people. As to high people, I would not be under- stood to mean persons literally born higher in their dimensions than the rest of the species, nor metaphorically those of exalted characters or abili- ties; so by low people I cannot be constrained to intend the reverse. High people signify no other than peo- ple of fashion, and low people those of no fashion. Now, this world of fashion hath by long use lost its orig- inal meaning, from which at present it gives us a very different idea; for I am deceived if by persons of fash- ion we do not generally include a con- ception of birth and accomplishments superior to the herd of mankind; whereas, in reality nothing more was originally meant by a person of fash- ion than a person who drest himself in the fashion of the times; and the word really and truly signifies no more at this day. Now the world being thus divided into people of fashion and people of no fashion, a fierce con- tention arose between them; nor would those of the one party, to avoid suspicion, be seen publicly to speak to those of the other. In this contention it is difficult to say which party succeeded; for, whilst the peo- ple of fashion seized several places to their own use, such as courts, assem- blies, operas, balls, ete. the people of no fashion have been in constant pos- session of all hops, fairs, revels, etc. Two places have been agreed to be divided between them, namely, the church and the playhouse; for, as the people of fashion exalt themselves at church over the heads of the people of no fashion, so in the playhouse y abase themselves in the same de- under their feet."—Joseph An- Book II. HEADACHES 10c., 25c., 50c., and $1.00 Bottles. INVESTMENT SECURITIES ©) wew B yon Bank and Trust || and High-Class Co. Stocks Industrials q Complete facilities gq We specialize stocks for purchase and of approved business sale of Stocks in Banks | enterprises of a broad and Trust Companies || and substantial char- located anywhere in || acter. Our customers United States, Our || may invest in moderate current Lists present || amounts and pay in unusual opportunities || convenient installments. for investment in new || The largest investment rowing towns || business of thischaracter established || inthe world—over forty dividend-paying banks. || five thousand discrimi- We quote lowest prices. || nating customers. Write for our free, “No. 110" setting forth the f cnuiine Bact Sco Dandent” Wel slo ma cn oar current het. STERLING DEBENTURE CORPORATION BRUNSWICK BUILDING MADISON SQUARE oe NEW YORK her on these excursions. She seems to think that it will freshen it up. The child does not appreciate the snow as much as she does. He says it’s cold. One thing that must irritate the stage heroine very much on these oc- casions is the way in which the snow seems to lic in wait for her’ and follow her about. It is quite 2 fine night be- fore she comes on the scene; the mo- ment she appears it begins to snow. It snows heavily all the while she re- mains about and the instant she goes (Continued on page 851) comicbooks.com Il