Life, 1911-04-20 · page 49 of 52
Life — April 20, 1911 — page 49: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The dominant content is a large advertisement for Richmond Vacuum Cleaning Systems, promoting their use in 216 leading American hotels. The smaller humor pieces ("Sparks From Old Anvils") are traditional jokes rather than cartoons—specifically old folk tales about contrary wives, used to fill space between ads. These reflect period attitudes about difficult marriages treated as comedy material. The page also advertises cocktail mixers (G.F. Heublein & Bro.), auto parts, and engraved cards. For modern readers, the most notable element is how casually the Richmond ad promotes labor-saving technology to the wealthy, emphasizing how vacuum cleaners eliminate the need for expensive domestic workers—reflecting early 20th-century class assumptions about mechanization replacing human servants. The jokes are merely filler content typical of magazines from this era.
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All you need to permanently repair ‘st puncture or blowout Atlas Auto Supply Co. : Sparks From Old Anvils (Concluded from page 812) The Contrary Wife A tambourinist had so contrary a wife he could never get her to do any- thing he asked. One day, on their way to a wedding at which he was to play, she was riding an ass and carrying his tambourine, and he cried out, as the: were fording a river: “ Woman, don’t play the tambourine, for you'll frighten the ass.” No sooner said than she be- gan thrumming; the ass, shying, lost its footing, and threw our dame into the river; while the husband, however much he wished to help her, could do no good. Seeing she was’ drowned, he went upstream in search of her body. “My good fellow,” said a looker- on, “what are you seeking?” wife,” replied he, “who is d.” Ask for the brand that has made Cocktail drinking popular, Accept no substitute. Simply stzain through cracked ice, and serve. Martint (gin base) and Mant: whit i “And hes are looking for her up- stream, friend?” “Oh, yes, sir, she was always con- trary.”"—From the Spanish, A GENTLEMAN, who did not live very happily with his wife, on the maid telling him that she was about to give her mistress warning, as she kept scolding her from morning till night: 5 ENGRAVED CARDS OF YOUR RAME $1.25 LATE, Im CORRECT SCRIPT ance; “a man who is away from his wish | “Happy girl!” said the master. “I could give warning, too.” “Catt that a kind man?” said an actor, speaking of an absent acquaint- ing! Ca “Yes, family and never sends th rold replied. na farth- Il that kindness!” unremitting kindness,” Jer- ‘RICHMOND” Vacuum Cleaning: coupon, These Hotels Use} ment is at all times at the service of architects, engineers and ot! are confronted with new or difficult or unusual vacuum cleaning problems, ‘The McCrum-Howell Co. is licensed to make stationai under the basic Kenney patent, and it owns or controls $4 other vital vacuum cleaning patents. For full information regarding either stationary vacuum cleaning plants or 1¢-pound portable suction cleaners, send the Use "RICHMOND Vacuum Clea ever installed, it atways pays for itself. Tt pays for itself, first, because it with the annual tear-up called Aouse-claning (and ers who vacuum plants 813 216 of the Leading Hotels in America ning 3% HE beauty of vacuum cleaning is that wher- Tf you are Interested in a ten pound electrical Fortab eer Name. Address Mail to Pash Ave. and 41st St,,N. ¥. City, Rash and Micbigao Sts, Chicago does away house-cleaning costs more than you think unless you have figured it out). | Tt pays for itself, second, because it doubles and trebles the life of carpets, hangings, furniture, wall- i paper, decorations; and keeps everything always bright and new. i In hotels, where house-cleaning is a business, brooms and i dusters have long been discarded as too expensive. ii In hotels, where every operation is figured down to the i last penny of cost, Vacuum Cleaning has been | almost universally adopted because it pays. ‘St Leas In residences, apartments, hotels, schools, office buildings, libra- [MM St prat'st Peal i) ries, churches, theatres, factories, stores, garages, and public buildings, Peal, St. Fa I ‘Vacuum Cleaning will easily earn’ its own way, to say Ryas, St. Pal i nothing of the cleanliness and convenience it brings. Jefferson, Richmond }) It can readily be installed in old buildings as well as in new. Oliver, Sooth Bend i) The initial expense is small; the annual saving is great. Write [IMJ Shoreham, Washington iy i Tue M¢Crum- Howe. Co. gored New Ore i Park Ave. and 41st St., New York City Rash and Michigan Sts., Chicago St. Francis, San Francisco if MANUPACTURERS OF ranciac t ‘Ricmmomry Vacuum Cleaning Systems; “RICHMONIY and Monet. He: ie FS 3 RICHMOND Bath Tubs, L itary Plumbing Dev! i ocmmos” ransom Lif Suction Cleane! i : lapiaiicn era Ge edncagcssd cxeony: Ee Both Stationary and Portable Cleaners SEND sisi these Vaca Cisse be if ‘The McCrum-Howell Co. isthe largest in the vacuum cleani the tedings checked below + } rintbs MeCram Howell Go: isthe Jase concern thevaceun caning WC teden oeebdie CT range from portable electric cleaners to mammoth installations supplying Cia 6 0 =O Facey Yactum to twenty operators or more at one time. Its engineering depart om Dene [as table Cleaner, check here The McCrum-Hewell Co. comicbooks.com