Life, 1910-05-19 · page 30 of 40
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This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main cartoon labeled "Phew!" illustrates a public health concern: unventilated telephone booths as disease vectors. A man emerges from a booth looking distressed, highlighting the "dead air, often fetid, warm and moist" that the ad claims "forms an incubator which nurtures and multiplies disease germs." This reflects **early 20th-century anxieties about germ theory and public hygiene**—telephone booths were novel, shared public spaces generating legitimate health concerns. The Sturtevant Company capitalizes on this fear by advertising ventilation systems for booths. The page also includes a poem reviewing Winston Churchill's novel, ads for W.L. Douglas shoes and Premier automobiles, and a proposal for expanded parcel-post delivery. All content emphasizes consumer products and services rather than political commentary.
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rte A telephone booth that is not regu- larly ventilated is a public danger. Its dead air, often fetid, warm and moist, forms an incubator which nurtures and multiplies disease germs. The instal- lation of a ventiiziin’ Set in every booth (as shown in the picture be- low) is as much a necessity of public hygiene as the ventilation of theatres or school-room: fant Set docs not disturb t users of the telephone at all: our patented device prevents the escape of sound into the room or into neighboring booths. The ven lator forces the air into one or more booth completely changing the air every few min: utes, thus keeping the booths coo/ and doing away with the conditions most favoring germ- Itruns from any electric fixture at a very low cost for operation. The Sturt. is a perfect device ventilating and cool- ing offices, tories, toilet-rooms, In the bedroom, it gives all the advan’ tage of outofdoor B, 1S; C, $55; delivered in U.S. ut ventilation and further “etaite unite Sor booklet £53, Trade prices to Electrical Contractors, Hardware jealers and Power Companies, F. STURTEVANT COMPANY, mea at Pak, Mass, Why Not Have a Parcels-Post ? A child could reason that if eggs in Missouri are twenty cents a’ dozen and sixty cents in New York, the small store- keeper can ignore the trusts and get into connection with the Missouri farmer by means of a cent-a-pound postal parcels delivery. KEEP THI ADDRES: 185, IF GOING ABROAD Cones The most EXCLUSIVE MODELS in London. Rhymed Reviews A Modern Chronicle (By Winston Churchill. The Macmil- lan Company) Suppose a maid whose witching spell Would captivate a moody shellfish, And there's Honora Leffingwell, Divinely sweet, sublimely selfish, Misled to make her aims in life -njoyment, Wealth and Fame, she wages A social war and inner strife Through more than half a thousand pages. From boarding-school, she weds in haste A highly ordinary broker, Whose business methods, morals, taste And friends are uniformly ochre. She snubs a lot of naughty men, Yet, having made her world respect her, Most rashly falls in love—but then Her husband really did neglect her. Another marriage caps divorce; The tolerance on which she reck- oned Her world denies; a restive horse Abruptly massacres her Second. What next? Has made sweeter 5 She takes a noble mate at last— Her schoolboy lover, name o' Peter. A troubled, errant past her purer, stronger, \ conscientious book, indeed, It well repays a little spending W. L. DOUGLAS | $5, $4, $3.50, $3 & $2.50 "$00 Shoes SHOES & $0$2.808'82 $2.00 Shoes W. L. Douglas shoes are worn by more men than any other make, BECAUSE: W. 1. Douglas 85.00 and $4.00 shoes equal, in style, fit and wear, other ‘makes costing $6.00 to 88.00, W. L. Douglas 83.50, 83,82.50and $2 shoesare the lowest price, quality considered, in the world. aati Color Eyelets. ae have W, L. Douglas name and price our denter for W. L. Dou, shoes, If they aan Gea i Set llth : Ordered direct from fart charges prepaid. W. LL POUOLAS.t LAS, ‘Brockton, Mase 4 1S st Regent Street FANCY TANLOR MADES. RECEPTION and EVENING FROCKS. MILUINERY, FURS What Does It Mean To You? ‘What does it mean to you that more th 84% of the people who have purchased PRA MIER cars during the past three years are ¢f driving PREMIER cars ? What does it mean to you that PREMI carsare conspicuous by their absence from “Secex hand for Sale” lists? Tt does mean that PREMIER records gaing in reliability contests are supported by equally cq sistent and satisfactory service in the hands of users. It does mean that PREMIER owners do try to dispose of their cars—they last for years The PREMIER Car of to-day is a development; Not a \ Chance isnaliee ee pela when best features were sought. Those vas ure up were eliminated. Compe: Sect of the PREMIER © wit feature oF Read “How to Buy a Motor Car.” We have secured @ num! copies of this, one of which we will send you free for the asking. Write for it. Address Dept. A. PREMIER MOTOR MFG. CO., todianspelis Licensed under the Selden Patent Of midnight oil therein to read Despite the predetermined ending Which makes a Novel turn Romance. Though dressed in cloth instead of spangles, Honora never gets a chance To solve, unhelped, her moral tao gles. Romancers, after knitting plots. With trenchant falchions cv through them; But Novel Writers find Life’s knots And let their characters und» them right Arthur Guite an. comicbooks.com