Life, 1911-07-27 · page 32 of 40
Life — July 27, 1911 — page 32: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and humor page** from Life magazine's early 1900s era. The dominant content is a **Hamburg-American cruise line advertisement** promoting around-the-world voyages on the S.S. Cleveland for $650—positioned as an aspirational luxury experience. The page includes several brief **satirical humor pieces** typical of Life's format: - "The Modern Way" mocks a lecturer's evasive answer about "the greatest common divisor," with the punchline being he advertises for it—satirizing both pseudo-intellectual speakers and reliance on advertising. - Short jokes about marital discord, dental costs, and Irish domestic servants reflect period class attitudes. - A poem, "I Remember, I Remember," ironically contrasts modest rural poverty (outhouses, pig-sties, corn-cob pipes) with newfound middle-class prosperity and social climbing, suggesting discomfort with rapid social mobility. The **Hunter Whiskey advertisement** features a horse-jumping illustration. Overall, the page reflects turn-of-the-century American consumer culture and genteel satirical humor targeting the aspiring middle class.
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UTE E” - Hamburg-American AROUND THE WORLD CRUISES THE CHANCE OF A LIFE TIME ON THE S.S. CLEVELAND (17,000 tons) There are new scenes, new faces in the Old World to interest | you. Minimum cost, $6.00 per day. Itinerary includes Madeira, Spain, Italy, Egypt, India, Ceylon, Straits Settlements, | Java, Philippines, China, Japan, Sandwich islands, and Overland American Tour, f° Inland Excursions, and side trips. Optional tours of 17 days in India, 14 days in Japan. Each of 110 days duration. From New York, October 21, 1911. From San Francisco, February 6, 1912. Now is the time to engage accommodations. The finest, most comprehensive pleasure trip ever offered. Cost, including all necessary and expenses aboard and ashore 5050 up, ANNUAL EVENT “Around the World Cruises in October, 1912 and February, 1913, by the large Cruis- it Steamship VICTORIA LUISE. Send for illustrated booklet HAMBURG.-AMERICAN LINE 41-48 BROADWAY Consoling Sweerertnc Passrxcce (on railroad ): This window sticks so I can't get it up. : Coxpuctox: Yes. Wood is swollen a litle by the rain. It'll be all right in a few days—The Pathfinder. The Modern Way “Will you allow me to ask you a tion?” interrupted a man in the audi- ence. Certainly, sir,” said the lecturer. “ StkANGE case that of Miggsley and his wife. A . Would you believe it—they 1 have given us a lot of figures ne in love with each other at first sight!” “That's nothing new, you know.” “But, you see, they both had their automobile rigs on at the time.” —Housekeeper. about immigration, increase of wealth, the growth of trusts, and all that,” said the man. “‘Let’s see what you know about figures yourself, How do you find the greatest common divisor? Slowly and deliberately the orator took a glass of water Then he pointed his finger straight at the questioner hining flashed from his eyes, and he replied, in a voice that made the gas jets quiver: * Advertise for it, you ignoramus! The audience cheered and yelled and stamped, and the wretched man who had asked the question crawled out of the hall a total wreck.—Tit-Bits. A HIGH BALL made of Agonizing “He told me my operation would be absolutely painless.” “And wasn't it?” Naw, it cost me $100!" WHISKE f Houston Post. - Is a Delightful, Cool Refreshment Misteess (after the quarrel): Norah, id . you must stay until I get another girl. Unique in Flavor Noran: I intend to, It's only roight some wan should tell her the kind of a woman ye are.—Boston Transcript. GREAT NEAR SPRING WATER “Its purity has made It famous” Sold at all first-class cafes and by Jobers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. NEW YORK I Remember, 1 Remember I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The sight of that lop-sided shack To-day would make me mourn; The crooked little brick-paved walk, The henhouse in the rear, With cabbage growing the side, And pig-sty rather near. I remember, [ remember, The corn-cob father had; (A five-cent piece of Navy Plug In those days made him glad.) The old stove in the kitchen, And father’s stockinged feet— All that was ere prosperity Swept us on Easy Strect. I remember, I remember, The pump in our backyard, Where father watered all the stock And found it rather hard But now he has another way And needs no trough or pump; He waters stock down on the street And makes the lambkins jump. I remember, I remember— But oh! The changes wrought Are queerer than the little duke That sister Helen bought! Since father goes to twenty clubs And mother has her set, We have no use for mem'ry’s art— We're trying to forget! —New York Times In a Pinch, use ALLENS FOOT-EASE, “Lamb” Defined by a Bear : James R. Keene, at a celebration in Cedarhurst,” said a New York broker. “once gave, in a dozen words, the Wall Street definition of a lamb. “*A lamb,’ said Mr. Keene, ‘is one who invests first and investigates after- ward." "—Cincinnati: Enquirer Caron Bitters— Best Tonic and Appetizer. No ho! plete withoutit. Sample on receipt of 25 cent Oct. C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St. Gen'l Distr, Cah whole comicbooke a