Life, 1911-02-23 · page 39 of 44
Life — February 23, 1911 — page 39: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, not satirical content. The page contains three unrelated advertisements: 1. **Johnston's Chocolate Almonds** (top): A straightforward product ad emphasizing "Swiss Style" quality and offering a sample box for stamps. 2. **Liqueur Pères Chartreux** (bottom left): A liquor advertisement promoting French chartreuse as "the grand finale to the world's best dinners." 3. **Corleez Cigars** (bottom right): A cigar advertisement claiming to be "for men of brains," made in Key West. The page also includes two short **humorous anecdotes**: one about an Englishman's observations of American faces on Broadway, and another joke about a child's economical sandwich-making technique. There is **no political satire or caricature** on this page—it's typical early 20th-century magazine content mixing advertisements with brief comedic sketches.
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Who likes ocol ate Almo Everyone! Who makes the “different” kind, the finest flavored chocolate almonds ever made—the Swiss Style? Johnston! It’s in the recipe—the smooth richness of the milk chocolate and the special flavor of the brittle nut, that give these Swiss Style Milk Chocolate Almonds their distinctive “Johnston” taste. You will welcome them as a happy change from other chocolate almonds. Good dealers everywhere sell Johnston’s Chocolates in many styles. Can Maillard’s Cocoa Free on Request! Sample Box a — | For five 2-cent stamps to cover packin: and postage we will send a sample box of Swiss Style Milk Chocolate Almonds. An Englishman in America (Concluded from page 414) 0 time to die. An Englishman begins to wane at forty, an American at twenty, /Stedy the faces of the people you see Broadway. The play used to be the “hing, but now the thing is the face. The real American face is like nothing else “in the civilized world of faces. You “ean, if you have taken your degree in the Ant of physiognomy, distinguish the American faces on Broadway from the reign faces to be seen on incomparable pavé.—Juvenal, in The Mas, Bacon: And why did your cook Chocolates for Every Taste a Chocolates Extraofdinary PMs. Ecurer: She wanted us to raise Swiss Style Milk Chocolate Almonds ee, Swiss Style Milk Chocolate Creams Ne T-R-I-A-D Chocolates And what were you paying her?” Innovation Sweets “Why, fiftcer, lars ” Original Dutch Bitter Sweets pWNby, fifteen dollars a month. White Cherries in Maraschino—Chocolate Dipped And couldn't you raise that much?” —Yonkers Statesman, e Real Economy or en u I 1es : A New England mother bad come upon —SS————————————— her cight-year-old son enjoying a feast Known as Chartreuse { whereof the components were jam, but- ter and bread. id the mother, “don't you Liqueur Peres gy; Spee ca at ma’am,” was the response. “ It's | pita economical; the same piece of bread a reuxXx y s does for hoth."—Lippincott’s. —OREEN AND YELLOW— THEGRAND FINALE TO THE WORLD'S BEST DINNERS _ fg 8 yOR'g MEN OF BRAINS At first-class Wine Merchants, Grocers, Hotels, Cafés, = IGARS Vatjer & Co., 45 Broadway, New York, N. Y., Sole Agents for United States, “MADE AT KEY WEST— comicbooks.com