Life, 1911-06-29 · page 37 of 45
Life — June 29, 1911 — page 37: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines satirical commentary with early 1900s advertising. **Top Left Cartoon:** Two Irish laborers ("Laborer" and "Pat") joke about American skyscrapers being so tall they must lie flat to let the moon pass overhead. This satirizes the rapid, competitive growth of tall buildings in American cities—presenting the construction boom as absurdly excessive. **Josh Billings Essay:** A humorous, phonetically-written description of Long Branch (a New Jersey resort) by the popular 19th-century humorist. It mocks upper-class leisure culture, exaggerating the pool's size to 3,000 miles and poking fun at wealthy vacationers, young widows, and newly available gambling establishments. The dialect humor was typical of period comedy. **Advertisements:** The page includes ads for a Borland Electric Brougham automobile ($2,200), whiskey, patents, and a weight-reduction product ("Fatoff"). These reflect consumer goods marketed to the magazine's affluent readers—automobiles being a luxury novelty at this time.
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Leborer: AND MAV THEY TALL BUILD. INGS IN AMERICA, PAT? Pat: TALL BUILDINGS HAV THEY— FAITH, MIKE, THE LAST ONE 1 WORKED ON WE MAD TO LAY ON OUR STOMACHS TO LET THE MOON Pass, Breezy Description of Long Branch (By Josh Billings) Long Branch iz a work ov natur, and iz a good job. It iz a summer spot for men, wimmin and children, espe- cially the latter. Children are az plenty here, and az sweet az flowers in an outdoor gardin, I put up at the Oshun Hotel the last time i_was thare, and I put up more than I ought to. Mi wife puts up a good deal with me at the same hotel; it iz an old-fashioned way we have ov doing things. She always goes with me, to fashionable resorts, Whare young widows are enny ways plenty, to put me on mi guard, of a Cas! Brig another mos . oof of the sue = Coeade Whisk, Original bottling hes old gold label. GEO. A, DICKEL & CO. eve value in electric vehicles. It not only has all the fine per- "Tet Borland Electric Brougham at $2200 establishes a new fections, the details of luxury and refinement, found in any other car. But it has more. It offers special and individual points of merit that entitle it to a place apart in your consideration. It has a longer wheel base, is the largest, roomiest, four passenger Electric on the market. And it’s the easiest running, The exceptionally low hung body of iePorland Electric Brougham is another feature. The step is wide and low, It will pay you to investigate the Borland—to go carefully into these special features—to make comparisons —to let us explain to you our unusual guarantee, _ Its price—$2200—the most remarkable ever made on a high grade electric brougham—is possible simply because we have not set a premium upon its quality features. Exide or “‘Tronclad* Battery, Motz Cushion Tires, Westinghouse Motor. Call at our show room for demonstration or write to our factory for descriptive literature. | THE IDEAL ELECTRIC VEHICLE COMPANY Factbry: 313 E. Huron St., Chicago. Chicago Show Rooms: 1330 Michigan Ave. Phone Calumet 3292 a ATENTS "Sie htirtiven Send sketeh for free search of ee. VICTOR J. EVANS & CO., Washington, D. C. tent Office Records, How to aad prints & Patent and What to! with list of Inventions wanted Writes ofered for inventions ten! Patents advertised free. for i am one of the easyest creatures en rekord to be impozed upon, espe- shily bi young widders. I would like to see a young widder, or even an old one, git the start ov me, when mi wife iz around. * ¢ « The biggest thing they hav got at Long Branch, for the present, iz the pool ov water in front ov the hotels. This pool iz sed bi good judges to be 3,000 miles in length, and in sum places 5 miles thick. Into this pool, every day at ten o’klock, the folks all reti males, females and widders, promis- kuss.’ The scenery here iz grand, and the air iz az bracing az a milk punch. Drinks are reasonable here, especially out ov the pool, and the last touch ov civilizashun haz reached here also, sum enterprizing mishionary haz just opened a klub house, whare all kind ov gambling iz taught. 1269 Remould Your Form To the Present Mode Stout people can reduce thelr weight at will. ‘They can reduce the hips, the arms or the waist to the desired lines. "They can reduce double chin or the roll of fat at the back of the neck. They can acquire the slim, trim figure of youth. They can remould the form as desired by the use of “Fatoff” a healthful external application which causes fat to fade away from the parts of the body on which itis wed. There is no dieting, no exercising, no sweating, no medicine—noth- Jng to burt the health or injure the digestion, FATOFF for DOUBLE CHIN (A chia reduciog wonder.) Special 81208150, Pato! $2.50 ‘Obtainabte at Riker's, Hegeman's and leading druggists throughout the country or from M. S. Borden & Co. 69 Warren 8t., N. ¥. For years at $2 East Sach $2.) Send for booklet L gtving complete and interesting information concerning Produced. W. comicbooks.com