Life, 1911-06-08 · page 34 of 44
Life — June 8, 1911 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with brief satirical pieces inserted between ads. The main content includes: **"Two Horns In One"** (top): A car horn advertisement touting a dual-function device operable by thumb from the steering wheel—practical innovation marketed as simple and elegant. **"Our Foolish Contemporaries"** (middle left): A brief satire about linguistic affectation. A visitor praises a café using French pronunciation; companions mock him for pretension. The joke: English speakers affecting French words while speaking English appears absurd. **"The Real Curiosity"** (center): A humorous anecdote about a poor countryman with fifteen children seeking cheap admission to a traveling animal exhibition. The "barker" (carnival announcer) offers to display the family *as* curiosities instead—the joke being that large, poor families were considered oddities worthy of exhibition. Other pieces mock anonymous letter-writing and awkward social encounters. **The page contains no political cartoons**—it's a typical early-20th-century Life magazine mixture of advertising and light comedy sketches.
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Two Horns In One Two Positive Signals, Loud or Mild, with One Push-Button and One Operation It does away with all the cumbrous contraptions, and is operated so simply—with the thumb of the free hand—from the button on the steering wheel. So Simple You Can Quickly Install It Yourself ‘Adds beauty to the car—always effective and never offensive— instant in operation at all times—practically no cost of operation —starts and stops instantly—changes from mild to loud on same pressure — all parts enclosed in handsome brass tubing. For Automobiles or Motor Boats Ask your dealer or write us direct for our free booklets on ** Motoring ” or ** Boating.” | The Dean Electric Company 805 TAYLOR ST. ELYRIA OHIO The Egyptian Cigarette of Quality AROMATIC DELICACY MILDNESS PURITY * At your club or dealer's THE SURBRUG CO, Makers, New York All the Same in English One afternoon I chanced to stray Into a popular café. While sitting there I heard a wai Remark: “This is a dandy cafe. Which made a smart young woman laugh And say: “Hear what he calls a cafe.” When her companion, bright and chaffy, Remarked: “He should have called it café.” And to myself I groaned: “ Wh It still be called a restaurant? —Truth, can’t EAT BEAR SPRING WATER Its purity has made it famous” The Real Curiosity ir in a Western St: one of the attractions of which was an exhibition of curious animals, there ap- peared a countryman attended by a large assortment of boys and girls and a wife with a huge sunbonnet. The countryman took the “ barker” for exhibition into his confidence. “T'd like to go in and sce them ani- said he, “ but it would be kinder nto go in without my family; and I can't afford to pay for my wife and fifteen children,” The cit, ed“ barker" the man in amazement. “Are all those your children?" he ash “Every one of the fifteen,’ man. “ Just wait a minute and I'll fix it up for you,” said the obliging “ barker.” “TH bring out them ani js and let “em have a look at you and your family.” —Harper'’s Magazine. the stared at said the “Te denounc cowardly and : nant citizen. “Did you s to it?” asked the st No—I signed it ‘One who knows.’ I didn’t want the editor to know who wrote it,” he replied.—Detroit Free Press. just written a scathing letter that Caroni Bitters—One (1) Pony Glass before meals, ‘onic and Appetizer, No home without Oct. Gen'l Distrs. Sal this ner Th a ¢ for Cusieoh be) ARMS AND THE way Not Intimate Bocker: don't spe they mect, —Harper’s Ba: fon young ladies or condu | M.A.G., East Side P. T will make you respo! Best . C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St., N. every thrill of the joyful outing sea: you in touch al holiday happiness. Just the thing for picnics, aw faking, golfing, sailing or lo Apply to nearest dealer or 6 C.M. EVANS & SONS - Brass and Iron Produced in Both Round and Squi Tubing. Extremely Artistic and Exclusive. Ideal for Slanting Roof Cole Bungalows, and Specially adapted Combination Sitting and Bedrooms, Stu Small Apartments, and for the Porch Se Write for Set of Pholographs No. 5. Ales full Hine of Brass and oreda THE WHITCOMB META BEDSTEAD CO. Cor. Madison Ave. and 34th St., New Works at Shelton, Conn.