Life, 1910-06-02 · page 11 of 56
Life — June 2, 1910 — page 11: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire or political commentary. The main content features a large **Hotel La Salle advertisement** for Chicago, emphasizing its central location, 1048 guest rooms, elegant furnishings, and competitive pricing. The ad includes a poem excerpt continuing "An Interrupted Narrative" about a sailor. On the left side is a **Grinnell Auto Gloves advertisement** showing a wrist adjustment device, marketed to dealers. Below that is a **Venetian Awnings advertisement** for residential use. The page represents typical **Life magazine content from this era**—mixing literary serialization with commercial advertising. There is no political cartoon or satirical commentary to analyze here; it's a straightforward commercial page from an older periodical.
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An Interrupted Narrative (Continued from page 998) *No ship could live in such a gale,”” Resumed the sailor blithe and hale. “But ere I quite begin, Excuse the tone of my request If I'm so bold as to suggest A pint or so of gin— A flowing, glowing, joy-bestowing Pint or so of gin.” (The pint of gin to him I fed. “*No ship could live,’ I think you said.'*) “1 would of sure been drowned, ex- cept "— He sipped his gin, he paused, and wept— only ask, alack! Won't some one spare a dollar bill To help poor, stranded Jack until allant ship gets back— ered, tattered, tempest-shattered nt ship gits back?” I gave the cash, though somewhat vexed “I left you almost drowned. What next? "") “The storm raged on; I didn’t care Because, you sce, I wasn’t there. To tell the honest truth ForThe Rist-Fir’V A feature found only in GRINNELL Auto Gloves ziives aneat, smooth, secure wrist adjust . . te Best No other device is so satisfactory Sicomiortable. Ask your dealer for them. MORRISON-RICKER MFG. CO. Grinnell, la, bil bs |) Sal eal Hore) Le Salle Gi Chicago’s Finest Hotel George H. Gazley, Manager Le Salle at Madison Street, Chicato The chief charm of Hotel La Salle is its comfortable, genial and homelike atmosphere. Hotel La Salle is already one of the famous hotels of the world and excells all Chicago hotels in the elegance of its furnishings, the excellence of its cuisine and the thoroughness of its service. Hotel La Salle is the center of the business, financial, theatre and shopping districts, and there is no hotél in Chicago which is more easily orquickly reached from railway terminals. Hotel La Salle has 1048 guest rooms, single, en suite, with or without bath, all equipped with lavatory, telephone and individ- ual regulation of heat and ventilation. It costs no more to stop at the magnificent new Hotel La Salle than at other first-class Chicago Hotels. Special Taxi-cab Service I've never sailed the ocean-track. 1 am by trade a steeple-jack, A trade I learned in youth— A reckless, speckles, break-your-neck- less Trade I learned in youth."* (What has this yarn,” I then did beg, “To do, sir, with your wooden leg? '") “T tell it, sir, to illustrate How well I might have missed my fate If I had went to sea, 99 I lost my leg, which you inquire, By falling off St. James's spire "Way back in '83, Which same 1 shouldn't, wouldn't couldn’t If I had went to sea.” (I left that Jack whose leg was cork And took the trolley back to York.) —Wallace Irwin, in the Century. comicbooks.com-