Life, 1910-11-10 · page 34 of 44
Life — November 10, 1910 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** mixed with brief humorous anecdotes. The main satirical content appears in small, titled humor pieces rather than visual cartoons: **"Our Foolish Contemporaries"** mocks parental discipline through a child's misunderstanding. A mother threatens to "tend to" misbehaving children (meaning spank them). Her young son, sent to the grocer, repeatedly returns empty-handed, terrified because the grocer said he'd "tend to" him—interpreting this as a threat matching his mother's language. **"A Hurry Call"** satirizes political corruption: a Western city political boss frantically orders his son to "git down in the fourth ward quick," implying voter fraud or manipulation. **"Discouraged the Deer"** is a brief Scottish joke about overeager hunters. **"Chinese Politeness"** parodies excessively formal rejection letters through invented Chinese editor politeness. The page is otherwise filled with **product advertisements** (Wright's Silver Cream, Old Overholt Rye, White Rock Water, Cortez Cigars) typical of early 20th-century Life magazine's revenue model.
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el US| eid oe The Foe to Dull Silver Cortez G ARS an . “MADE AT KEY WEST.= Many a good housekeeper lets her silver lose the brilliancy it == = ~ had when new. She thinks hot water and soap enough, or she Discouraged the Deer polishes too seldom and with some poor polish. A visitor at a hotel in the Scoteh High It is a glad day when she first uses Wright’s Silver lands, says Punch, was asking a gillic as Cream, which makes the proper kceping of silverware a to the prospect of securing game. pleasant task rather than an irksome duty. When you “Are there ever any deer about sce a silver service that, after years of use looks smooth | here?" he inquired. sa and brilliant, you may be sure that Silver Cream is the Weel,” replied the gillie, thought- F z fully, “there was yin, but the gentlemen cause of its beauty and preservation. were aye shooting and shooting at it Wright’s Silver Cream is a soft-as-flour paste, and has the and I'm thinking it left the deestrict.”” property of removing dirt, dullness and tarnish from silver, gold and other metals without scratching their surfaces. It also cleans marble, glass, etc. It cleans so easily that watching the Chinese Politeness silver grow bright is a positive pleasure. A Chinese editor, in rejecting a MS. .- . = 7 thus wrote to the author, 50 we learn Ask Your Dealer, but insist that it must he the Genuine Wright’s Silver Cream from a Paris contempora read your MS. with infinite delight. By the sacred ashes of our ancestors, we eeee swear that we have never read such a splendid piece of writing, But if we our liberal sample. "-*" WRIGHTZ S . 5 E printed it, His Majesty, the Emperor, J. A. WRIGHT & COMPANY : our most high and most righty culer, 180 Court Street, Keene, N. H. would order us to take <his a3 a niodel bs and never print anything inferior, As o + 2 6 2 6 + TRADE MARK o 2 2 0 2 @ this would not be possible in less than a In a Pinch, use ALLEN’S FOOT. Send us a postal and we will mail onions. I'm in a hurry for them.’’ A second time Harry disappeared round the corner, and a second time returned without his purchase. “I'm afraid of the grocer man,’’ he explained, as before. 5 . * Well ak y i f Sounded Like a Warning | Well, what mal es you afraid ° i him demanded his mother, impa- Mrs. Joncs’s favorite warning to her tiently. ung progeny when they were in mis- “Why,” answered the little fellow, chief was that she would tend to them in “ bofe times when I goed in he looked at a minute. “Tending ’? was accomplished me, and said, ‘T'll tend to you in a by applying her open hand where it minute.’ '—Youth’s Companion would do the most good. When Harry was four years old he was sent for the Inorac Srettib—Ce? you spell it right? No household with s first time round the corner to the grocery. Oct. C. Blache & Con 78 Broad Sta New Yorks Gent Diss. ee, ‘ such peieeece In a few minutes he came trotting sober- ma sive OO ly back with the nickel still in his hand, A Hurry Call Pare ‘anther but no bag of onions. : ¥ be! ef th “What's the matter?" asked his The political boss of a small Western / pA tempting to the city drove hi kboard at top speed \ eye and taste. mother, ni 4 psrnnes . down the main street on the morning of | Well worth insisting upon. “Tm ‘fraid of the man,’ he said, down ithe's 1 7 be “ = 7 Distilled and bottled In bond by solemnly “Hey, Johnnic! " he yelled to his son, babe ‘won't “hurt you."” reassure “git down in the fourth ward quick! A. OVERHOLT & CO. Snes WE RNS wR There's eopte down there votin’ as they Pittsburgh, Pa. Its purity has made it famous blame please ! — Success. re) re) L I KY H Mrs. Jones. “Run along and bring the thousand years, we, with great rezre! return thy divine MS. and ask r) sand pardons."’—London Globe. One as Good as Another \ Proressor (returning home front | visit): Aha! Your absent-minded hus band didn't forget to bring home his un brella this time. Sce! His Wire: But, Henry, when you left home you didn’t take an umbrella American Water for ans caro Teanscit American People | _ INVESTORS READ P | The Wall Street Journal comicbooks.com