Life, 1910-12-01 · page 80 of 108
Life — December 1, 1910 — page 80: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements** interspersed with one humorous feature. The ads promote period luxury goods: Copley Prints (family portrait reproductions as gifts), Underberg Bitters (a digestive tonic marketed as a health stimulant), and Gauzrib underwear for women. The only satirical content is **"Life's Infallible Fortune Teller,"** a humor column predicting the romantic futures of people born in December. It mocks marital life through exaggerated scenarios: a wife who throws dishes (dodging plates as a "skill"), smoking wives, European travel obsessions, and mismatched domestic luxuries (rare china versus crockery plates). The jokes work by inverting romantic expectations—presenting marital annoyances as inevitable "fortunes"—and targeting upper-class concerns (collecting fine china, European travel) with working-class realities. This reflects Life's satirical approach to American social pretensions.
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A New™ Hind of Gift has come into vogue for Christmas, birthdays, weddings, and other occasions—in the private reproduction of Family Portraits in the COPLEY PRINTS. Everyone has a daguerreotype, miniature, or old photo- graph, or a present-day portrait, of which other members of the family would lik to have copies, For the intimacy of family gifts nothing could have greater dis- tinction. Highest quality of reproduction guaranteed. Correspondence invited. Ke Copley Prints are also unsurpassed as gifts between friends. Being unobtainable in any other form their value is greatly enhanced, both as gifts and framing for one’s home. Gold medal from the French Government. Over 1 bjects to choose in American Art. Illustrated Catalogue, 320 cuts (practically a handbook of American Art), sent for 25 cents; stamps accepted. This cost deducted from purchase of prints themselves. $1.00 to $50.00. At art stores, or sent on approval. Aboce Psyche copyright 1910 by Sergeant Kendall, 1910, by Curtis @ Cameron 57 Perce Building Boston THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY BENEFICIAL STIMULANT giving permanently good results; the easiest step to health and new vitality. Gives an appetite for every meal, with healthy digestion a certainty. That's Underberg Bm Bitters A promise and a fulfillment. Takes up the wear and tear, the “fag" and worry, feeds the system with a fresh supply of energy. Gives snap and zest to the moment, and makes to- morrow welcome. Sce that you get the gen- uine—substitutes” ‘are worthless and inef- fectual. — Over 7,000.00 bottles have been imported to the United States. Enloyable as a Cocktall and Better for You At all Leading Hotels, Clubs and Restau- rants, or by the bottle at Wine Merchants and “Grocers. Ask Jor UNDERBERG, and be sure it's ‘the genuine. Booklet Free, Bottled y by H, Underberg Albrecht Khe! 1846 The Daintiest, Most Exclusive “Spring Needle” Underwear for We lomen Ever Made. “Gauzrib" is soft, sheer and elastic— seria, glove-fitting and durable. Launders fectly. The “Gauzrib" Vest here illustrated is finished with three and one-half inches of genuine hand-crocheted lace. We guarantee fabric, finish and work: iD. Send $2.00 for sample auzrib™ Vest in a pretty: Christmas box. » If you are not de- lighted with it—if you don’t feel and know there is nothing to compare with it, return it and get your money back. it you will want to keep it, and buy half, a dozen more for your friends. “Gauzrib” isan. ideal Christmas gift—something every dainty woman appreciates—something which will not be duplicated. Order to-day. This same vest, identical in fabric and works manship but with less elaborate trimming, one ple of fabric and {llustrated booklet on request. COOPER MFG. Co. 35 Main St., Bennington, Vr. Sole) manufacturers of Gaus” and makers of the famous looper’s Sj Needle Underwear for men. “Pf LIFE’S INFALLIBLE FORTUNE TELLER If you were born on December WS Your future wile will be gushingly af. fectionate, and yo will enjoy her ca- resses with the hero- ism of a martyr. “ES Your future wife will throw straight and you will be- come skillful in dodging plates. “GR Your future wile will smoke ciga- rettes. You won't object, as it will make her more tol- crant of some of your own enjoy- ments. “EB Your future wile will have a mania for going to Europe and you will be- come what the newspapers call a well-known man about town. ‘Your future hushand 2 will devote himself to gathering rare china, but you will eat from crockery plates. ‘Your future busband #2 will be a musiciay with a sensitive na- ture and a passion for beefsteak and fried onions. You won't be popular with your neigh- bors. ‘Your future husband #@~ will be a fine hand at shaking down a furnace, but won't amount to much as azither player. Be thankful Your future husband 3 will be a devotee of Bacchus, You will 7 = find him exceeding- ly difficult to live with in his sober moments.