Life, 1911-12-21 · page 38 of 44
Life — December 21, 1911 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines editorial content about public health with period advertisements. **The Billiards Cartoon ("Win or Lose?"):** A simple instructional illustration showing a billiards player taking a difficult shot. The accompanying text explains that crucial game moments require steady hands and careful technique—a straightforward sports diagram rather than satirical commentary. **Public Health Editorial:** The main text discusses concerns about shared drinking cups on trains and in public spaces, reflecting early 20th-century anxieties about disease transmission. It notes that some states were banning public cups, creating the absurd situation where trains had to remove glasses when crossing into states with such laws. The piece questions whether health reformers were being overzealous, while acknowledging that public health improvements were genuinely advancing. **Magazine Advertisement:** The bulk of the page promotes a subscription offer for *Country Life in America*—six issues for $1.00, marketed as a practical magazine for rural living covering gardening, automobiles, and farming. The page primarily serves as advertising rather than satirical content, with the public health discussion representing contemporary civic concern about hygiene standards.
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WI N or safer to drink out of. But anybody of public health is enormously important, ordinary sense using ordinary care can and is better provided for nowadays 9 drink out of a public cup with very little than ever before. The more reason for a public cup which will hold water and THIS SHOT DECIDES j no cup at all, almost everyone prefers A: Rare! Combiiation 5) the public cup. . Often, at the most crit- | aS In a sleeping car wash room there are _A Boston man publishes three maga- ical point of the game, W77N running water and clean towels, and zines, The Journal of Inebriety, Poet an awkward situation / glasses may be washed before using. It Lore, and The Journal of Abnormal Psy. can be solved only looks absurd to see the drinking glasses chology. They should pull together well by the utmost deli- removed from such places. Care of the —New York World, cacy of touch, ac- 3 curacy of hand an y New Year’s Offer of the : s| Handsomest Magazine BURROWES Billiard and Pool Table . . library or dlniceursen table mera ok oe Six Big Issues own legs or compactly folding stand, or set aside when not in us es range up to 1 00 414x9 fect (standard), each size exactly cor- ora ° rect in proportions and adapted to the most ert play. Some of the leading profes: {| Bill c 1913 suse the Burrowes Table for home practice, +1 DOWN Prices $6, $15, $25, $35. $45, $55,875, ¢tc.; $1 or more down (depending on size and style) anda small amount cach month. Full playing FREE TRIAL. On receipt of first installment we will ship Table. Play one week... If unsatisfactory return it, and on its vill relund sour depoalt, Send to-day for In order to make new friends for the E.T. BURROWES CO., 1212 Center St., Portland, Me. most beautiful and most useful magazine in America,we are making a special short-term trial a fer of New Laws About Drinking 2 oF Case Country Life In some States public drinking cups are now unlawful, In long journeys in s NK can s Pullman cars the glasses are removed in. ‘oN 09 erica from the water tanks while the train | —= passes through States where the glasses are unlawful, and put back when the | Six Issues for $100 n rolls into adjoining es where lation is not yet so much advanced. THIS INCLUDES: Traveling west from Boston in a sleep: car one looks in vain for a glass to THE MOTOR NUMBER, . - - - - January Ist out of while the train continues in chusetts, but in the morning the THE GARDEN MANUAL, - - - February 15th train is in New York State and the (Double Number; Retail Price, $0c) lasses reappear, . THE SPRING BUILDING NUMBER, March 15th Are not the health enthusiasts some- what overzealous in this detail? Surely and the regular issues of Jan. 15th, Feb. Ist, and March Ist where the public cups are removed some z ‘ , A available substitute for them should be 'HIS is an exceptional opportunity to try the great outdoor magazine that for ten years has stood for all that is best and most desirable in country living. Superb photographs. Special departments devoted to house ilding, gardening outdoors and in, real estate, farming., = aa photography, the automobile, power boating, nature See EUROPE in an AUTO! study. horses. dogs, cattle, poultry, travel, provided. Individual cups are preferred by fastidious people, and are doubtless ‘ etc, SEND 1.00 nit :| Doubleday, $1.06 Iuaerveg Se, ce7,,,tmeath Meee aoe | Page The INTERNATIONAL AUTOTRAVEL SOCIETY as 30, Morning Post Buildings, Strand, London, England, | | Company comicbooks Meee