Life, 1912-01-25 · page 38 of 44
Life — January 25, 1912 — page 38: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily contains **advertising and serialized fiction**, not political satire. The main content is "When a Woman Packs"—a humorous domestic story by John James Mitchell depicting the chaos of a woman preparing for a trip. The humor relies on period gender stereotypes: a woman who claims packing is effortless but creates massive disorder, then enlists a friend to help fold clothes while chattering away. The joke assumes readers will find it amusing that women are disorganized despite their confident claims. The cartoons are minor: "Taking His Own Medicine" shows a small boy administering bitter medicine to a doll—depicting childish revenge fantasies, likely resonating with readers' memories of unpleasant childhood medical experiences. The bulk of the page features advertisements for the Sturtevant ventilation system, Panhard Oil, and Mitchell's book "Pandora's Box." This was typical *Life* magazine content—mixing light humor with commercial messages for affluent, urban readers interested in consumer goods and literature.
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lsd yl eae PURE AIR IN THE SMOKING ROOM The Sturtevant keeps the air in the club smokingroom as fresh andswect and pure as the best ventilated room in your house. No more stale smoke and hot, dead air to make your head throb and your eyes grow heavy. No more blasts from open windows ina vain attempt to cool off, 1 oi Wie evi Portable Ventilating Sct draws out the musty airand smoke in a few minutes, and fills the room with pure outside air. No draught, no chill. It ventilates perfectly and quickly the places that are hardest to ventilate, such as: Laboratories, Telephone Booths, Bank and Safe Deposit Vaults, Toilet Rooms, Kitchens and Restaurants, Small ‘Theatres, Lodges and Andience Halls, Stores, Base- ments, Small Manufacturing Rooms, etc. ‘Can be run from any electric light socket. Price, unit complete, including fan, motor, and electric cord and plug allready to run, $33 up, according to size. For full particulars send for Booklet LI B. F. STURTEVANT CO. Hyoe Pann, Mass. NewYork, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cincinnati, Pittsburg, . Be apolis,Cleveland, Rochester, ford. San Francisco, New Orleans, COMPANY Manufacturers of the $000 p00" Bell” Telephones New York St. Louis Butlalo, Kansas City Philadelphia Denver Boston Pitsburg Atlanta Oktahorma City Chicago San Francisco Indianapolis Oal:.and Cincinnati Los Angeles Minneapolis ttle . St. Pau Sa't LakeCity Richmond Toronto Milwaukee Portland Montreal Winnipeg Vancouver TAKING HIS OWN MEDICINE THE SMALL BOY'S DREAM OF REVENGE When a Woman Packs “Margie, won't you come up and sce me to-morrow morning? I'm going to Philadelphia on the noon train, to stay for a week, and I want to have a nice talk with you before I go. . . . Oh, no, you won't be in the way. I'm go- ing to do my packing this evening, and I won't have a thing to do to-morrow morning. ‘There's no trouble, any’ about packing for such a short, litte visit as that. I'm not going to take much, because you know Polly's i mourning, so we won't be going out.” (The next morning, the friend enter- ing at ten o'clock, finds the bedroom a scene of confusion. An empty trunk stands before the fireplace, the tray on the floor beside it. An open suitcase— also empty—is on a chair. The bed is piled high with things waiting to be packed.) “Oh, hello, Margie dear! You sce I'm not packed yet! . . . Oh, the expressman isn’t coming till eleven. I have an hour—that's plenty of time. Oh, that’s awfully sweet of you, but I really don’t need any help. Why don’t you just sit in that chair—(oh, throw those things anywhere !)—and talk to me? . . . Well, all right, if you really want to—I would love it if you'd fold that low-necked black dress for me. It’s the only decent rag I've got. . . . Why, but I might need it, . . . I know, but even’ people in mourning sometimes have one or two people in to dinner. . . Oh, no, Readers who remember “Amos Judd" and “The Pines of Lory” will by no means be disappointed in Mr. Mitchell’s new book. —Philadel phia Press, PANDORA’S A refreshingly original story, told with great skill, is “ Pandora's Box.” —Brooklyn Eagle. By JOHN AMES MITCHELL Worth the Risk? 35) You cannot save, at the outside, over five dol- lars_a year by economizing ten cents a gallon on oil. The harm to mechanism is incalculable. Panhard Oil is honest. 35 years’ experience has taught us how to make it right. Don't merely ask for good oil, say Oy He Ove booklet Motor Labeteathoa te teat fa retara for your dealer's eamne GEORGE A. HAWS, 69 Pine St., New York City Author of “Amos Judd,” “The Pines of Lory,"te. Editor of Life. Four illustrations by the author. $1.30 net; prepaid $1.42 FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY New York that old gray thing wouldn't do at all. Why do I take it, then? Well, it might come in handy some time. “Oh, dear, I meant to put my shoes in the bottom of the trunk. Don’t you hate packing shoes? I wish I had time just to stop a minute and think I'l really need there. Oh, they may as well all go in! “As for hats—I wanted to wear my little fur hat on the train, but I suppose I'd better wear the big black one that I hate so and pack the little fur hat— it’s so easy to get into the trunk. And that doesn’t settle what to do with my green hat. What! leave it be- hind? My lovely new hat that I've not