Life, 1910-08-18 · page 12 of 36
Life — August 18, 1910 — page 12: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page features satirical book advertisements disguised as editorial content—a common Life magazine format. The main cartoon, captioned "GOT A WORM ON YOU, LADY?," depicts fishermen at a dock with rural buildings, likely satirizing naive urban women being duped by con artists or crude rural men. The "Helpful Hows" section mocks self-help books through exaggerated titles like "How to Be a Perfect Lady" (teaching women to throw bricks at politicians) and "How to Keep a Cook" (promising domestic perfection). The bottom cartoon showing someone "THROWING THE PAINTER" satirizes another self-help topic. This reflects early 20th-century satire of the booming self-help publishing industry and period gender anxieties about women's propriety and domestic competence.
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dy A WOKM ON YoU, The Long and Short of It HE short of it is courting, The long of it is living; The short of it, divorce The long of it, forgiving “Helpful Hows” Our Ready Reference Series OW to Keep Out of Jail: A com- pendium of useful information for busy magnates, giving the nature of Subpenas, Congressional Probes, Im- munity Baths (hot and cold) and Bold Fronts; not only contains directions for taking a (Trust) Bust Measure, but tells lucky numbers, forecasts the “fine'’ days of the year and points out the criminal consequences of misappropriat- Lavy ? ing (only) a few paltry plunks. Appendix includes the addresses of the highest- priced lawyers and the quickest routes to Europe and Canada How to Break Into the Best. Society An abridged (whist) edition for Climbers; tells you how to be introduced properly to Big Money; how to conduct your- self when It is talking; how to enter when It is present; how to detect the odor of Burning Money, and how to “call’* on Easy Money. Tells the name of the one you will divorce. Profuscly illustrate with 23,456 designs of Family Crests; can be made to your and fitted right at a room measure home. How to Be a Perfect Lady: A con densed guide to Ballistics for Ladies full explanations how to hold a brickbat how to poise it gracefully, and how by hurling it to disarrange the stolid British stare of a Cabinet Minister. Polite hints on smashing windows. How to have your “fling '? with (stepping) stones (to prison). What not to wear in jail Simple lessons in discouraging the un welcome attentions of policemen. Our method insures perfect results. How to Keep a Cook: The book yo will eventually buy; contains the Green Book of the Registered Lady Cooks of America. A brief synopsis of the By Laws of Organized Cookery. Formu lates the latest demand of a living wag? for Angels in the Kitchen (life size), including the use of the family automo bile, old-age pensions for Cook and Me. pendent kinsfolk, daily shopping tours, the opera box on Salome nights, and th privilege of attending suffragette lec tures at Marble House. Tells under what circumstances Cooks may be al lowed to give monkey dinners to their friends without infringing on the essen tials of good society. A manual of au thorized conversation with the Angel (approved by the Union). Our contains 50,000 fancy designs of im ported dor actual colors, shades to suit, faces cut Princess with gradu ated flounces. How to Take a Flyer: The up-to-date book on aerial etiquette. What High Flyer should know. (with diagrams) the dangers of taking a “drop too much"? when the airship gets “tipsy.” What to do when you strik a hard cloud. to avoid air-sick ness, How to keep your machin tuned up’? to the music of the spheres Complete instructions for making a bit when the ship collapses, Outlines th best method of buying a $30,000 diri ble at five cents a week. Glossary of latest list of Flighty Fads. An Air Di rectory for Airish People. ics, every Explains How THROWING THE PAINTER Comicbooks.com