Life, 1911-10-12 · page 5 of 48
Life — October 12, 1911 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising rather than satirical content**. The dominant feature is a large Victor-Victrola phonograph advertisement ($15), emphasizing the machine's quality and the Victor Company's established reputation ("His Master's Voice" trademark visible). The left column contains two unrelated items: a book advertisement for "Sexology" by William H. Walling, and a brief humorous anecdote titled "The Timidity of Col. Green" mocking a wealthy man's timidity about eating corned beef in fancy New York hotels—social satire about class anxieties rather than political commentary. A "White Rock" water advertisement appears at bottom left. This is a typical Life magazine page mixing advertising with light social humor, not political cartooning.
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A Happy Marriage Depends largely on a knowl- edge of the ‘whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health, This knowledge does not come intelligently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary every-day sources. SEXOLOGY Knowledge a Younz Man K go 8 Patt k Me Save ; e e nontedce 9 Ff : nomledee foo Bother sh se, Know cies & Mother Shontd Tmpori to Her Daughter. = Medical Knowledge a Wife Should Have. All In one volume, Ilustrated. $2, postpaid. ‘Write lor "Other People’s Opisions” and Table of Contents. Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. Victor-Victrola IV, $15 Other styles of the Victor*Victrola $50, $75, $100. ——— —— Equipped with all the latest yisiey puproxements. including $150, $200, $250 Exhibition sound box, tapering . arm, “gooseneck”, ten-inch Victors $10 to $100 The Timidity of Col. Green Saplisiactaceeee es mee I live at the Waldorf-Astoria and lobster salad, planked steaks and if rich foods. I 1 to eat corned beef and cab who live in New Yor! ways afraid somebod. Colonet Green of Texas. Have more brass, Colonel Green, and live more in New York, The more you live in New York, even at hotcls, the less you will care what anyone sces you cat, provided it meets the requirements tem, Corned beef and cab- respected dish in New York nd probably at hotels too. Pork peans are well prepared and freely consumed at the best restaurants. No- The fact that this instrument bears the famous Victor trade- mark and is a genuine Victor-Victrola guarantees to you the same |high quality and standard of excellence so well established and recognized in all products of the Victor,Company. There is no reason on earth why you should hesitate another moment in placing this greatest of all musical instruments in your | home. | All we ask is that you go to any music store and hear this new Victor-Victrola. Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J., U.S.A. Berliner Gramophone Co., Montreal, Canadian Distributors, New Victor Records are on sale at all dealers on the 28th of each month body fails to get what he wants to cat in New York except from lack of 1 It At Fire luck of knowledge, inattention or ti An Irishman named Michael Docherty ity. The food is here. So are the cooks. having been discovered after solemniz- A little of New York makes for con- ing nuptials with four wives, was brought formity with what other people do. A up before the Dublin Assizes charged good deal of New York makes for indi- with bigamy. The judge, in passing viduality and independence. You soon sentence, expressed his wonder that the find out that the other people don’t care prisoner should be such a hardened what you eat or what you do so long as villain as to delude so many women, you are orderly and pay your bills. TI whereupon Mike said apologetically: In NEW Sterilized Bottles Only waiters may care what you eat, but it “Sure, your Honor, I was only try docs not pay to eat to suit the waiters. to get a good onc—' an’ it’s not aisy comicbooks.com