Life, 1911-11-02 · page 52 of 56
Life — November 2, 1911 — page 52: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not political satire. The main content consists of three dictionary advertisements from Funk & Wagnalls (occupying roughly half the page) promoting their various Standard Dictionary editions at different price points and sizes. The smaller editorial sections include: 1. **"A Hearty Appetite"** — An advertisement for Londonderry Mineral Water, promoting its digestive benefits 2. **"The Chinese Compositor"** — A brief humorous piece about Chinese printing, noting that Chinese typesetters must walk between type cases because the vast number of characters cannot fit in one location (unlike English). The joke plays on the practical challenges of Chinese typography versus Western printing. 3. **"Around the World"** — A travel advertisement for Thomas Cook & Son offering tours to Egypt and the Nile. There is a small illustration at the top depicting what appears to be a domestic scene with a woman and man, accompanying a brief anecdote about Professor Agassiz and a snake, but this is minor content relative to the dictionary advertising dominating the page.
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SE AROUND ||: Fret Le Det — Tur. wife of the late Professor Agas- THE from New York Nov. 4,28, siz was one morning putting on her 6. Small private parties. stockings and boots. A little scream at- W 0 R LD arrangements. tracted the professor's attention. Not sram D. having risen, he leaned forward on his Program for Exypt and the Nile ready. Fall Tow clbow and asked what was the matter, to the Orient, Egypt and Holy Land leaves Nov, 3, “Why, a Tittle snake has just crawled THOS. COOK & SON, at of my boot,” cried she. “ Only one, 245 Broadway, 264 Sth Ave., New York. y dear?” interrogated the professe calmly, “ There should have been three te cotta ‘adress DR. G: : ABRIDGMENTS v ; A¥earty Appetite | _chne's™ FUNK & WAGNALLS —and no after effects. “A sizo for every purpose That is what everyone | A price for every purse” wants. And it is assured when you drink the | water of good health— | DICTIONAR Une When you ask for the BEST dictionary in the Mineral Water Y store the dealer KNOWS you want the Funk & ee Wagnalls Standard. Don't take any other! There’s a quality that gives relish to every meal, in London- STUDENTS’ or OFFICE STANDARD derry. Its purity and lightness . The ideal abridged English diction- make it the finest of solvents— ary, combining accuracy and r ability “There is no academic dic- with simplicity and compactness. It a water that takes up || z tionary published that op- far superior to any abridged dict jonary and carries off the waste proaches it.""— RICHARD of its of the body. With - ‘Al. JONES Penn 61,000 words and phrases, 1,200 pictorial illustrations, ined Charter Scheel, Phila. i ruined ¢ elements that the body : Per Seely Fad Cloth, leather back. $2.80 : in- needs—and none that Eaition, with thumbsindes® §.00. ‘Carriage fece. the tir rex GRICES:, have b dexed, $100. Special Limp Leather Bible can harm. : COMPREHENSIVE STANDARD And a delightful blender. i Eon ceteont Soc coavenientam, in the office, home, and school, by bus; Effervescent, in three table people of all’ classes who desire'a ay. sizes. Plain, in half-gallon data “seene ove tons reliable, quick-reference dictionary. bottles. —_ iy etiees CEN. 38,000 words and phrases. JAMES GRANT WIL- Over 800 pictorial illustrations, If you have difficulty in ob- | SON, PRICES: —Cloth, $1.00; indexed, $1.25. taining Londonderry locally, Carriage Tree write us and we will see that i you are supplied at once. : CONCISE STANDARD x Combining the qualities of acct LONDONDERRY LITHIA SPRING WATER CO. : clearness, ainpllcity and thoroughnem, $9 Nashua, N. B. : “In the sehoolroom far as is possible, with the idea of present- household or near at han ing great usefulness in small scope. the student, itis especially com- 28,000 words and phrases. mendable for its get-at-able- Over 500 pictorial ilustrations The Chinese Compositor nes." —BOSTON TIMES. ol EES Cloth, on centa Indexed, 6 snoroceo, $125; hndexed, $130, Cartage tree, “61 deem it superior to any similar volume ever brought The Chinese compositor cannot sit at his case as our printers do, but must 7 walk from one case to another constant: VEST-POCKET STANDARD athe ceded cove! The biggest little dictionary. ly, as the characters needed cover such “As valuable and indis~ — Twaddition to its compact vocabulary a large number that they cannot be put Beinn it contains much cyclopedic informa- into anything like the space used in the peitable: ia Ui place cot, 4 foeckigeds tion, latest 1910 cenisus, maps, «1 English newspaper office. In setting up an Seeks: ore ae. 26,000 words and phrases. ordinary piece of manuscript, the C ing, heeo winch lt centeten. ” Weighs only four ounces. JOURNAL OF EDU- = nese printer will waltz up and down the : . pei ee gp PRICES :—Cioth, 25 conte; Indexed, room for a few moments, and then go = . . dexed, $5 cents. Carriage free. down stairs for a line of lower case. Then he takes the elevator and goes up into the third story after some caps, and FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, Publishers, NEW YORK then goes out into the wood: for x Be sure you get a FUNK & WAGNALLS Standard Dictionary handful of astonishers. The successful Chinese compositor doesn’t need to be so very intelligent, but he must be a goo? : AT ALL BOOKSTORE. car asker to Show You the pedestrian.—Bill Nye. THE WILLIAMS PRINTING comicbooks.com