Life, 1910-10-06 · page 55 of 60
Life — October 6, 1910 — page 55: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains mostly **period advertisements and literary content**, not political cartoons. The main image shows a woman outdoors with a child, promoting **Anheuser-Busch's Malt-Nutrine**—a malt beverage marketed as health tonic for "poorly nourished and anaemic women." The ad emphasizes that the product was "Declared by U.S. Revenue Department A Pure Malt Product" and "NOT an alcoholic beverage," suggesting contemporaries questioned whether it truly wasn't alcohol. The text includes two sections: "Sparks from Old Anvils" (a continuing story about a widow and neighbors discussing propriety), and "Model of a Letter of Recommendation"—a humorous essay by Benjamin Franklin about recommending someone one knows nothing about, satirizing the hollowness of social recommendation letters. The page reflects **early 20th-century concerns**: gender health, patent medicines, and social etiquette. The Malt-Nutrine ad is particularly notable as vintage advertising that markets a malt product to women as medicine—a common practice before modern drug regulation.
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ORLD. TOURSF Without Spain, De x bee a, Without 2 Sp rinunrs Tours to all parts pEPOT POTTER T TOURS (Baa) 32 Broadway Sparks from Old Anvils (Continued from page $90) sure was quite new. Did you see Catone! Haywood and his daughters, Yes, indeed!” said they all again, and the lady who lived across the way observed : “The Colonel was very sociable and inquired most kindly about you and the sickness of your husband.” The widow smiled faintly. She was gratified by the interest shown by the Colonel The friends now rose to go, cach bidding her good-bye, and expressing the hope that she would be calm. Her sister bowed them out. When she returned she said: “You can see, my love, what the neighbors think of it? I wouldn't tave had anything unfortunate to hap- pen for a good deal. But nothing did. The arrangements couldn't have been better.” “I think some of the people in the neighborhood must have been sur- prised to sce so many of the uptown people here,” suggested the atilicted woman, trying to look hopeful “You may be quite sure of that,” asserted the sister. “I could see that plain enough by their looks.” ( “Well, Tam glad there is no oc- casion for talk,” said the widow, smoothing the skirt of her dress. e ead And after that the boys took the chairs home and the house was put in ‘me EL of the Outdoor Woman Model of a Letter of Recommendation . of a PersonYou Are Unac- is proverbial. With health comes strength—and both go far to quainted With make a successful life. Thousands of American women know that Sir: The bearer of this, who is going NHEUSER Busey, to America, presses me to give him a letter of recommendation, though 1 know nothing of him, not even his _ name. This may scem extraordinary, but I assure you it is not uncommon here. Sometimes, indeed, one un- has brought them the priceless boon of health. To poorly nour- known person brings another, equally unknown, to recommend him; and ished and anaemic women it is of inestimable value. sometimes they recommend one an- other! As to this gentleman I must Declared by U. S. Revenue Department A Pure Malt Product and NOT an alcoholic beverage. Sold by druggists and grocers. <a Anheuser-Busch St. Louis, Mo. BRIGHTEN UP Jaxstenia.te Ux OFFICE. — = — using TAPER F PATENT. 7 1 PAPER FASTENERS, PeIGBIpOWRO UNINMSEC TOR Wig ehaaeier” and asked him what he should do to ) 15, 000, 000 and merits, with which he is certainly cacape. rains. lave as 1. do, soy lord, better acquainted with than I can pos- SIF Ja no. st Wy De time for aibly be. 1 teconimend hini,..hov at when Tam ruined,” answered the to those civilities which every stran; rc of whom one knows no harm, has a ——— right to; and I request you will do him all the favor that, on further acquaint- For BILIOUSNESS Try nce, you shall find him to deser i ie © the honor to be, ete—Ben jamin Hi J. ‘OMPACT STRONG No Franklin. u anos Al ncn pees peels cn ee Villiers, Duke_of Buckingham, was NATURAL APERIENT WATER, © 0. K. Mig. Co. Syracuse, N. Y., U.S. A. wip complaining to Sir John Cutler, a rich Avoid Substitutes miser, of the disorder of his affairs, sm duke—English Conversational Wit,