Life, 1911-06-01 · page 44 of 52
Life — June 1, 1911 — page 44: what you’re looking at
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This page consists primarily of **advertisements** rather than satirical cartoons, though it contains some brief humorous anecdotes. The main content includes ads for **No. 4711 White Rose Glycerine Soap** and **Woodbury's Facial Soap**, typical of early 20th-century product marketing that promised skin beautification. The small text pieces ("For the Future," "Dog's Luck," "Theorists") are brief joke columns—a standard Life magazine feature. They employ gentle, domestic humor: a minister's wife needing protection, a police dog tracking a villain by scent, and a child's observation about courage. The "Ingenious Etymology" section recounts an anecdote about Professor Richard Porson (a real classical scholar) who supposedly derived "Jeremiah King" from "cucumber"—wordplay humor that would appeal to educated readers familiar with linguistic games. The page reflects **early 1900s periodical style**: advertising-heavy, mixing short humorous pieces with product promotion, targeting a middle-to-upper-class readership amused by puns, domestic situations, and scholarly references.
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Ingenious Etymology In a recent article in the Nincteent! Century, the Rev. A. H. T. Clarke ered its Prof. Richard Porson with a philolog ical jeu d’esprit, Porson was a great English scholar, who, among other as tounding feats of memory, could repeat all of Gibbon's footnotes by rote: A farmer, once meeting him in a pub lic house, challenged him to derive his own name, which was Jeremiah King, from cucumber. The farmer thought he had “stumped” the scholar, but Porson immediately accepted and won the chal- Your Mirror Shows You that in using ‘No, 4711’? White Rose Glycerine Soap you are keeping your skin fresh and Beautiful. ly )A real Glycerine Soap—not one in name np “I(fonly. Highly beneficial in effect and of / exquisite perfume. \ ‘ i I o Sold Everywhere. '~ Ferd. Miilhens, No. 4711 Glockengasse, Cologne, o/R, Ger. U. S. Branch—Milhens & Kropff, New York. kin,” Porson triumphantly House Founded in 1792. | “which is a cucumber.” —Youth's Companion lenge. “Jeremiah King,” he began, “ Jeremy King, Jerry King, Jerrykin, Jerkin, Gher- concluded, Theorists Tomaty: Pop, what is a theorist? Tomuy's Por: A theorist, my son, is a man who thinks he is learning to swim by sitting on the bank and watching a frog.—San Francisco Chronicle. For the Future There's a certain minister whose du- ties sometimes call him out of the city. He has always arranged for some one of his parishioners to keep company with his wife and little daughter during these absences. Recently, however, he was called away so suddenly that he had no opportunity of providing a guardian. The wife was very brave during the early evening, but after dark had fallen her courage began to fail. She stayed up with her little girl till there was no excuse for staying any longer and then little mountain girl—depend on 1er ee pane atest soft water and mountain air to “Don't be afraid. God will protect . J preserve the color and texture Foes of your skin. “Yes, mother,” answered the little But when you live in the dirt girl, “that'll be all right to-night, but and grime of a city, you must the next time let's make better arrange- have something to cleanse your ments."—Human Life. skin, to re-supply what the grime, smoke and fatigue of the Dog’s Luck it city exhausts. This is just what this mountain girl would *, . Pottce Orricer: In order that the be priceless in the city. Woodbury’s Facial Soap does. villain who caught and kissed you in the Woodbury’s Facial Soap cleanses the pores, stimulates inactive skins, brings dark may be tracked, we must set our to your complexion a clearness, a radiance, that is immediately noticeable, police dog after him. So, to trace the Use it regularly and not spasmodically and see what a splendid substitute it is for moun- scent, you must gi kiss. tain air, “It brings out all the beauty of your skin. And it is a pleasure to use it, 1 Y give Nero a kiss. The fecling it gives the first time you use it, as you will —Fliegende Blatter. see when using the sample, is a promise of what its constant use will do for your skin. Woodbury’s Facial Soap is the best substitute for mountain air. If you lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains, you might do as this mountain air have given “I rHink women would like baseball if they could enjoy it as they do a book.” “How is that?" “The last inning first.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer. He: I wish you would give me that ring on your finger, for it resembles the duration of my love for you, it has no end, Sue: Excuse me, but I prefer to keep it, for it is emblematical of mine ,for you, it has no beginning—M. 4. P. For sale by dealers everywhere Write Today for Samples For 4c. we will send a sample cake. For 10c. samples of Woodbury's Facial Soap, Woodbury's Facial Cream and iWoodbury's Faciat Poder. For soc. copy of ine Wesdbury Bock’ on he care of the skin and scalp and samples of the Woodbury prepara- tions. The Andrew JergensCo.,Cin- cinnali, Ohio. f Ss ae: ae * comicbooks.com