Life, 1910-12-15 · page 33 of 44
Life — December 15, 1910 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements** interspersed with satirical commentary. The main content is a Waterman's fountain pen ad (center-right), but the left side contains two pieces of social satire: **"Those Who Have Seen Worse Days"** mocks the pretensions of fallen aristocracy—specifically women from wealthy families reduced to poverty, who cling to remnants of former status (a mother-of-pearl cigarette holder). The satire targets their impracticality and inability to adapt. **The longer untitled piece** satirizes the "nouveau riche"—working-class men (laborers with picks and wagons) who suddenly became millionaires through copper mining booms. The author mocks their discomfort in formal settings (dining at the Waldorf-Astoria in dress suits) and their fundamental ignorance, suggesting their rapid wealth creates psychological torment since they lack the education to enjoy or understand their newfound status. Both pieces reflect early 20th-century class anxiety and snobbery: old money viewing new money as vulgar, uncultured outsiders.
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908 Genuine German High Art Prints on Approval, $1.50 Massive volume, containing over 3400 reproduc- tions of the best representatives of the German School of High Art, magnificently bound—an inval- uble book for artists. connoisseurs and all who appreciate the best in art. Arare gift book—and a continual and attractive dition to any library—sent on appro charges id, on rece ot $1.50. Money back, without ighted. 4. Rroch & Company, Book and Art Dealers Department 93, Twenzy-six Monroe Street, Chicago, Til. Sern Those Who Have Seen Worse Days No man with’a stain of piety can contemplate without anguish the lot of the perfect lady reduced over night to dire beggary. It must be unpleas- ant, after one’s silken stockings have been put on and taken off for one regularly by a French maid, to emerge at the end of life so poverty stricken as to have only occasional use for the mother-of-pearl cigarette holder con- Devons . “ stituting all that remains of a once Christmas presents this is the kind that would be purchased. vast fortune. The cruelty of such a As a gift to anyone, or for yourself, there is not another article transformation in destiny is that it { that shows better purchasing i ‘aterman’s Ideal § renders a perfect lady quite prepos- 4 Fountain Pen—it is a compliment to your taste. os, terous, This pen'is made in a very wide range of sizes and styles The ordeals of those who have seen in order that the pen technique of every writer may be . better days are as nothing, however, individually: suited. Your selection may be nged -until satisfactory. Whether you buy a plain Waterman’ Ideal or one studded with diamonds, the quality is of that. same successful standard which the careful workmanship: ; and Waterman patents have brought to continued perfection. Plain Style This is the’ gift for people who are hard to suit. No 12...$2.50 Avoid Substitutes Gift Booklet on Request From the Best Dealers oy No. 416. 9.50 Made in Regular, Safety and Self-Filling Types Saver Cozso-Cag me - roe | L.E. Waterman Co, 173 Broadw @ SCHOOL ST.BOSTON. 189 CLARK ST.,CHICAGO. 734 Me ANR FRANCISCO LE WATERMAN. COMPANY. LIMITED, HONTREAL IKINGSWAY.LONOON.. 6. RUE de HANOVRE., PARIS. AN N34 Wi¥LNPOS to the tortures of those who have seen worse days. What ecstasies of pain are reserved for the muscular lout Sterling Silver made a millionaire in twenty hours by Filigree some miraculous rise in copper! I No, 412. $5.00 Larger Sizes: No. 414. $700 No. 415. 8.50 A Happy Marriage \ Depends largely ona knowl- edge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health. This knowledge does not come intelligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary every-day sources. Y SEXOLOGY have often wondered what there can forces him to violate some rule of (Uustrated) imparts in a clear, it Have. to His Son, id Have, ledge n Young Waman Should Have. Hedge a Young Wife shenid Haves te i Have. JA Import to Her Daughter, I Nd Have, volume. IMlustrated. $2. postpaid. her People’s Opinions" and Table of Contents. Poian Pub. Co., 711 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. be about copper to render a rise in it productive of these transformations, Each time I behold a fat ignoramus dining in a dress suit at the Waldorf- Astoria, I learn about him that he drove a wagon or plied a pick for his bread until a rise in copper made him richer than Croesus. Imagine the agonies a man of that stamp is called upon to endure nightly, though dwell- ing in Lucullan luxury. Ignorance 1121 grammar or of good breeding every hour. This he knows. Yet must he retain what dignity be possible amid the company gathered in his two mil- lion-dollar mansion. The sorrows of the shabby genteel sound no such depths of woe. It is misery to realize that one’s trousers are frayed at the edges, but how much greater misery to realize. while conveying fried po- (Continued on page 1123)