Life, 1911-06-22 · page 37 of 44
Life — June 22, 1911 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains primarily **advertisements** rather than political satire. The main content is a large **Pabst Extract ad** featuring a domestic scene where a doctor congratulates a man ("John") on his wife's healthy pregnancy and recovery, crediting Pabst Extract as the restorative tonic. **The social context**: This reflects early 20th-century attitudes toward motherhood and women's health. The ad promises that Pabst Extract—a malt beverage extract—will "build up mother's strength" and prepare women for childbirth. This was common marketing before modern medicine; such tonics were widely advertised as cure-alls. **Notable detail**: The fine print explicitly states the product is "medicine—not an alcoholic beverage," suggesting regulatory scrutiny of alcohol-based tonics. The page also includes minor ads for U-All-No mints, English automobile tours, and Lake George resorts. The only editorial content is "The Human Interest of Wall Street," describing the street's social mixing of wealthy brokers and office workers—not satirical commentary.
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——U-ALde-NO—— *AFTER DINNER MINT* isa delicious confection at any time— pure, fresh, | dainty—no mint candy is so grateful to the palate. Sold only_intin boxes Never_in bulk We also manufacture U-ALL-NO Mint Chewing Gum Wanutacturing Co. of America SL, Philadelphia, 0.8.4. The Human Interest of Wall Street "To the man who looks from without upon Wall Street it seems a place of deep and dangerous mystery, a region of dens and caves and labycinths full of perils which threaten loss and per- haps ruin to him who entzrs there And such, in too many instances, it has proved to be. But, nevertheless, there is a decided human side to Wall Street. it is, perhaps, the most “two-faced” street in the world. Here men who oc- cupy the highest pinnacle of financial success, and who are powerful kings, in fact, daily brush elbows with office boys and bank messengers, “ get-rich-quick ” highwaymen, silly and pretty girl sten- ographers, Curb brokers and Curb mer- chants, and. sharp-tongued and ready- witted “newsies"—with all the motley tide that flows into “the Street” each morning and ebbs back again at night. Wall Street may be said to be the most democratic street in the world, for all its vast wealth. There is no street where a crowd will gather more quickly than there, even upon the smallest pre- text. It may be a street fakir selling some newfangled toy or a man gilding the ball on a flagpole five hundred feet up in the air, A Suffragette making a speech would transfer practically the entire population from a dozen sky- scrapers to standing-room—" oni in her immediate vicinity. But, un- less one hurries, he will not get a good view of the fair creature, for soon she is lost from view in tangles of ticker- ENGLISH TOURS By AUTOMOBILE PRIVATE CARS. GO WHERE YOU PLEASE. Mlustrated Booklet Free By Post. MOTOR TOURING COMPANY, 43 Pembroke Place, - Liverpool, Englend. Cahlee—" Travelling.” N LAKE GEORGE The Sagamore Hotel June-October The Resort Beautiful T. E. Krumbholz, Sagamore, N.Y. JUST OUT--SUMMER HOMES 450 Fagettustrated Book. With fulll nformation fa recard to jae ‘esorts a Vermont and shores Lake Champlain farm and village home accommodations. Prices $7 John, you certainly have a happy healthy Sam- ily. Son may well easier Pd Rontimate dl never knew any woman to go through the ordeal so well as your wife did the last time. l think Phat Pabst Extract was Just what her system needed. Approaching motherhood—the period of woman's life when every moment is filled with joyful anticipations and much anxiety, demands the utmost of the expectant mother’s health and strength. At no other time is proper nourishment so essential. In normal times, normal diet supplies sufficient nutriment, but when called upon to bear the double burden she needs additional nerve and tissue-building food. Build up mother's strength, quiet her nerves, prepare the way for happy, healthy motherhood by using "7 t ° The Best Tonic It supplies the very elements needed to nourish the growing child and build up the mother's vitality. It enriches the blood, calms the nerves, brings sweet, refreshing sleep and insures health, strength and vigor to both mother and child. Pabst Extract is The “Best” Tonic to build up the overworked, strengthen the weak, overcome insomnia, relieve dyspepsia—to help the anaemic, the convales- Warning The United States Government specifically classifies Pabst Extract icle of medicine—not an alcobolic beverage. Cheap fentsations are rem as an arti: ‘ INSIST UPON IT BEING “PABST” Extractis called for, Be sure Library Slip, good for books and magazines, with each bottle. yeu get the genuine Pabst Extract. sub Free booklet, “Health Darts," tells ALL vses and benefits of Pabst Extract. Write for it—a postal will do. cent and the nervous wreck—to prepare for happy, heathy motherhood and give vigor to the aged. Your physician will recommend it. pari $1000 Reward for evidence convicting at ‘enewhe,when Pabst Extract Ws called for, deliberately and without the bnewledge ef his customer, ether than Pabst Extract ness of making financial history. Such is the everyday “outside” of little crooked street, “with the river at one end and a cemetery at the other,” which has sent scores upon scores to one or the other—the street with a destiny. —The Strand. tape tossed in reels from the nearby office windows, a favorite sport among the brokerage-house clerks. This sort of thing usually takes place during the noon hour, and at that time all work is suspended at the first sound of a band in the distance. Everybody flies to the Curb—business can wait in this busiest of streets for most anything before two o'clock, when the chimes of Trinity sound the afternoon session and “the “How queer Agnes looks of late!” “Yes. I can't make out whether it’s dress reform or hard luck.” ‘and up. Rend fe stamps for mailing. Address, Sum- Ber Homes, No. 9. 385 Broadway, New York Street” settles down to its serious busi- —Harper's Bazar. 1225 comicbooks.com