Life, 1911-11-16 · page 41 of 44
Life — November 16, 1911 — page 41: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, circa early 20th century, featuring multiple commercial advertisements with one satirical piece embedded. The main advertisements promote **Club Cocktails** (pre-aged cocktail mixers), **Philip Morris cigarettes** (emphasizing Turkish tobacco and size variety), and **Remoh Gems** (synthetic diamonds). The satirical content is "**The Ostrich and the Hen**"—a brief moral fable mocking female suffrage. An ostrich complains about a hen's noise; the hen explains she's laid an egg. The ostrich dismissively replies she makes noise because she's a hen and "doesn't know any better"—implying women are intellectually inferior. The moral suggests women shouldn't have voting rights, using animal behavior as crude analogy. Also included is "**The Agnostic Creed**," presenting evolutionary theory and secular philosophy as a religious catechism—likely satirizing both religious fundamentalists' fears of atheism and agnostic philosophy itself.
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The aging of a cocktail is as necessary to perfect flavor as the aging of wine or whisky. The delicious flavor and aroma of Club Cocktails is due not alone to the precise blending of the choicest liquors obtainable, but to the fact that they are softened to mellowness by aging before bottling. Manhattan, Martini and other standard blends, bottled, ready to serve through cracked ice. Refuse Substitutes. AT ALL DEALERS. G.F, HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props. Hartford New York Philip Morris cesses Cigarettes LONDON F you've tried and failed to enjoy a PHILIP MORRIS. the answer is simple. You've never smoked the size Vm08 | Keaud that suits your taste. Different size in cigarettes produce a different taste. If you want Turkish tobacco, and nothing else, perfectly blended in a sunlit, sani- tary, Government inspected factory, get the size PHILIP MORRIS that suits your taste and stick to it. The Ostrich and the Hen An Ostrich and a Hen chanced to occupy adjacent apartments, and the former complained loudly that ber rest was disturbed by the cackling of her humble neighbor. “Why is it,” he finally asked the Hen, “that you make such an intolera- ble noise?” The Hen replied: “Because I have laid an egg.” “Oh, no,” said the Ostrich, with a superior smile, “it is because you are a Hen and don’t know any better.” Moral—The moral of the foregoing is but it contains some ref- itation for Female Suf- If your dealer does not stock your par- ticular size, send us his name and ad- dress and remittance for desired samples. “The Little Brown Box’’ q PHILIP MORRIS & COMPANY, Ltd. | 4 417 West Broadway New York Pore, 487 St. Catherine St. E., Montreal Not Imitations The greatest triumph of the |- electric furnace—a marvelously reconstructed gem. Looks like a diamond —wexrs like a diamond—brilliancy guaranteed forever—stands filing, fire and acid like adiamond. Hasno paste. foil, or artificial backing. Set only in 14 Karat Solid gold mountings. r.3oth. the cost of diamonds. Guaran- teed to contain no glass—will cut glass. Sent on approval. Money cheerfully refund- ed if not. perfectly satisfactory. Write today for our De-Luxe Jewel Book—it's free for the asking. Address— Remoh Jewelry Co. S18 N. Brosdway, St. Louis, Mo. The Agnostic Creed I believe in the chaotic nebula, self- existent evolver of heaven and earth, and in the differentiation of its original homogenous mass, its first begotten product which was self formed into separate worlds, divided into land and water, self organized into plants and animals, reproduced in like species further developed into higher orders, and finally refined, rationalized and per- fected in man. He descended from the aro monkey, ascended to the philosopher, and sitteth down in the rights and cus- toms of civilization under the laws of a developing society. From thence he shall come again, by the disintegration of the culminated homogenorsness of chaos. I believe in the wholly imper- sonal absolute, the wholly uncatholic church, the disunion of the saints, the survival of the fittest, the persistence of force, the dispersion of the body and in death everlasting —Anonymous. comicbooks.com