Life, 1911-01-05 · page 84 of 104
Life — January 5, 1911 — page 84: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content comprises three tire and automobile product advertisements from the early 1910s: 1. **Fisk Removable Rim** (top left): A tire rim manufacturer emphasizes their product's durability and ease of use—it won't stick due to rust or mud, requires no special tools, and won't lose rings. 2. **Mythtib Rubber Tire Preserver** (bottom): A paint-like coating applied to tire casings claiming to add 50% to tire mileage by making rubber impervious to oil, water, and air. A brief literary essay titled "Getting Nowhere" appears on the right, discussing romantic courtship with middle-aged women—unrelated to the advertisements. The page reflects early automotive-era concerns: tire durability, maintenance, and longevity were major consumer issues before modern tire technology.
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All Demountable Rims Are Successes In Print All Demountable Rims Are Reasonably Quick. Sometimes THE FISK REMOVABLE RIM In Actual Service Is Always Quick—Always Safe It cannot stick because of rust or mud. No short staybolts—No ex- cessive weight—No special tools required. Mack this: A tize cannot blow off this cim, and theve ate no loose zings to fly off. . The FISK Rim was the pioneer Demountable. With details perfected, it is the same rim exhibited three years ago. An immediate success, it is and always has been the only altogether Pprac- tical rim on the market Investigate and Compare Before You Order Tire Equipment The FISK RUBBER COMPANY Department S Chicopee Falls, Mass. Twenty Direct Factory Branch Houses The Literary Zoo (Concluded from page 82) shall not read of Governor Harmon in 1912 that he yields to the lure of the antique sufficiently to eat from colonial platters or to sleep on a Sheraton sofa. Hi be shown to us in the act of haying or plowing. The photographs of his parlor will reveal no English armchairs of the seventeenth century, but a huge family Bible on a little table between the front windows, en- larged crayon portraits of his parents on the walls and an upholstered suite from Grand Rapids in horsehair black. Getting Nowhere Were I a bachelor, I should make love to a middle-aged woman. It would be necessary to let her suppose that I thought her twenty-five. She would be sure to insist that she was much older, whereupon my counte- nance would express the innocent wonder appropriate to the mental con- dition of a person taken completely by surprise. The middle-aged woman would not take my surprise seriously, but she would seem to. Women are such perfect actors—especially middle- aged women, That is because women, being women, must conceal their dis- positions, whereas a man can always show his. The charm of courting a middle-aged woman, to get back to the point, is that she would not marry me to reform me. She would be dis- illusioned enough to ask me to reform her, being old enough to perceive the thing impossible. I would cunningly reply that much as she might need re- form, I loved her for what she was. Matters would run on thus until she thought of suing me for breach of promise but refrained because I am too old a bird to write foolish letters to any woman. She would have no evidence to go into court with, So we'd get nowhere—just. like Edith Wharton in Tales of Men and Ghosts. . Alexander Harvey. ved BY USING MYHTIB RUBBER TIRE PRESERVER Applied like paint by anyone to outside of Tire Casings. Only one treatment required during tifeot Urea. “Makes Rubber impervious to oll, water or alr. Reduces friction and heat, adds to resilieaY, insures safety tn riding. ADD 50% TO YOUR TIRE MILEAGE Sold under the following ¢uareates : “Money refunded to Motorita buying “Myhuib’ of us. plying as directed to an tandard castng, who are not convinced of added mileage and satistactios.” Saves 50 per cent. roo aes Dy leading Motorist for two years. | Report of State Chemist and testimonials op ihe s jer of your dealer. If be cannot supply you, we will deliver. prepald in the United States, on Tire Expense a complete outht with brush, suMicieat for four large tires or stx small ones. Half Cases, $5.00. OF with less than 2483.00 to regula price of any now standard easing, send to us and we wil purchase and treat, sh Ding to you by prepaid express to prove our claims. 5 per cent. ‘AIL Fires ehvuid'be treated when laylog Up Cat for the winter, a8 “Myhtib" prevents decay of rubber, added outlay ORDER TO-DAY. AGENTS WANTED. MYHTIB RUBBER TIRE PRESERVER CO. Ine., : 341 Asylom Street, Hartford, Coos “WITH A WELL DEFINED END IN view” comicbooks.com