Life, 1911-07-20 · page 33 of 40
Life — July 20, 1911 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with minimal satirical content. The main feature is a Gillette Safety Razor advertisement (center-right), which dominates the layout with product photography and promotional copy emphasizing the razor's adjustable mechanism for different beard types. The small **cartoon element** (top-left) depicts upper-class women on a hotel veranda gossiping about wealthy acquaintances—their multiple homes, servants, and social status. The satire is gentle and targets the **leisure class's superficial preoccupations**: women discussing whether someone should dye gray hair, bragging about motor cars in Paris, and obsessing over wealth and social rank. The humor relies on readers recognizing the familiar trope of vapid high-society chatter. There's no complex political message—it's straightforward social observation about the idle rich. The page also includes advertisements for Linden Hall Seminary (a girls' school) and Old Overholt Rye whiskey, plus a "Books Received" section listing recent publications, making this a typical early-1911 Life magazine page mixing advertising, light social satire, and literary notices.
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Linden Hall Seminary FOR GIRLS LITITZ, LANCASTER CO., PA. Organized 1746. Reorganized 1794. The Tenderest Skin Receives a Perfect Shave | With a Aims to develop home loving and home making young women. For particulars write Rev. CHAS. D. KREIDER On the Summer Hotel Veranda “Ile has six motor-cars they in Paris an “Oh, Keeps three my! Isn't that tunic just—" I really think she ought to dye.” —so gray Note the curve that gives the automatic adjustment Gilleties* The STANDARD of SAFETY. EASE and COMFORT THE GILLETTE isthe only adjustable | razor. <A simple turn of the screw || | handle adapts it to a light or a heavy beard. The tenderest | face can then be given a clean, safe and comfortable shave. The curve of the razor, combining with the natural slant of the hand in holding, gives the GILLETTE ANGLE STROKE essential to a perfect shave. GILLETTE BLADES are made from the finest steel by special processes. | Flexible, with mirror-like finish. Rust-proof and antiseptic. Packet of 6 blades (12 shaving edges), 50c; 12 blades (24 shaving edges) in nickel-plated case, $1.00. Fhe keenest and hardest edge ever produced. Send postal for our free 1911 Baseball or Golf Booklet —The GILLETTE Lasts a Lifetime—| NO STROPPING ~ NO HONING “The biggest catch of all, my dear! He has one lung and thirty millions! yes, Jack Hall is here; nd to lead cotillions ! They do sa He's simply “She has four homes and—" “ Gracious Did you hear that about Titus? It can't be possible that she— “Yes, [ kave had appendicitis.” “The best bridgs-player in the place, “He is a widower, my dear, The richest man in this hoe “T think it’s rather poky here “You wear an overskirt so well!” For Old Time's and your health’s sake Gittette Saves Company, Soo Seres: New York, Times, Builfina: Chicano, Sock Exchange Buildine: Conadian Gfice, 63 St. Alexander Street, Montreal : Gillette Safety Racor Lud. London? Eesctn Ofee, Shanghals China, Factors: Boston, Montreal, Leicester , Berlin, Paris. A dealer to sho: Standard Set, $5.00 423i. iee Combination and Travelers’ Sets, $6.00 to $50.00. “Uf it’s a Gilletle—it's The Safety Razor"’ } Old Overholt Rye A Whiskey that’s never ques- tioned as to its richness, age and purity Books Received “1 saw them on the boardwalk!" “ No, I never touch a bit of sweet Ke Ho, . ip . The signified , preference of the é she°Feally owe? weeks Gos d OM Dos a . Gale | fect! evidence at all the t pay! This is my cn . iter places © Power of Conscience, by See EROS eee” Barnham Davis. (Stuyvesant Press. Pittsburgh, Pa. And so it goes from morn till night, $1.00.) . The old talk the same old The Mountain Thet Was God, by | ALA he acy io eee — i John H. Williams. (G. P. Putnam's | ATENTS ‘Fee Nertinen And yet, dear reader, if T might, Sons, 78 cents) Send ihtich lor (ree. Scorch’ ot Paisat Mice mecerés. ‘Baw t0| I'd ask what better things you say? ‘assion Lyrics, by Maurine Hath- | seen ain a Patent and What olnvent wih listo eventions wasted | —Carolyn Wells away. (Geo, W. Parker Art Co. Min- | 1CTOR 3, EVANS & COs Wasbioagcone eee | in Harper's: Magazine. nearo!'s, | | comicbooks.com