Life, 1912-04-11 · page 34 of 46
Life — April 11, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and light humor columns**, not political satire. The content includes: **Main Features:** - A luxury Swiss hotel ad (Grand Hotel St. Moritz) - A comic section titled "Our Foolish Contemporaries" featuring two brief humorous anecdotes: one comparing a father's lawn-mowing to his daughter's failed attempt, and another where a civics student answers "the undertaker" when asked who would succeed if the President and Cabinet died **Context:** The civics joke relies on early-20th-century American knowledge of presidential succession. The humor is gentle—poking fun at a student's absurd but logical answer rather than making a political point. **Advertising:** The remaining page space is filled with advertisements for spring fashion, corn plasters, books on sexology, and theatrical magazines—typical of *Life* magazine's mixed content model during this era. This is **not satirical commentary** but rather light entertainment and commercial content typical of American magazines circa 1910s-1920s.
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SWITZERLAWN Vist ST, MORITZ $2.0": abov With its World-Renowned Mineral Springs The Highest and Most Fascinating Resort in Switzerland The exhilarating Alpine air and sunshine of ST. MORITZ promote RENEWED HEALTH and VIGOR. GRAND HOTEL ST. MORITZ The Hotel de Luxe of the Alps Opened in 1905. Every. Modern Improv rooms. Thorough quict secured by double passages. ciety Lounge, with most beautiful vie Mountains, “Most modern Sanitary and Ventila rangements. Vacuum Cleaner. Li Daily Concerts by the Milan Orchest ent. Mastratea Tertg from Toien and Country” Travel Nurcay. 389) FUN Ave. fom GOULD & PORTMAN. The Finishing Touch to Your Spring Attire The Purrow. ‘The most die dark gray, light gear, tan and | widccat you Bde We mike 82 Of fine felt, Stowy. Dove of Huis and Cape FR FRENCH P. H. OO PHIPADEEUHT ACPA, R_ TOO Lis a NTEMPO ARIES ou co 204 A Comparison When Daddy mows the The way the barber cuts im All smooth and even all With no long ridges But when I tried to mow it once, It looked as ragged as could be For all the world just like the That Daddy cut my hair for —Woman's Home Companion lawn, it looks hair, round, ywhere. A BLANK crop report was sent out by a Cleveland paper for the farmers to fill out, and the other day one of them came back with the following written 300 Private Suites, with Bath and Dressing Rooms. Grand So- nthe Lake and ing ar- ifts to all Floors. La, For Health and Pleasure a the Take, ot belieharel Ticursions ne, Express Tea (Rha paieese sorits | Nz Y.1 from the Hotel Manager; or (in Bngland), (is Oxford Stree, London. ‘Tennls, Golt. © ‘Trout tishlng. Gt The Succession A teacher was hearing the class civics and asked this question “If the Vice-President and all the the Cabinet who would officiate?” he class tho: ing in vain to recall who cami succession, James at last had a happy inspiration, Presiden members of died, 1 for some time, try- next in and he answered “The undertaker.” —Herper’s: Magazine. GRUAT BEAN SPRING WAT cnse of G class stoppered Two of Them His companions bent over him w, pitiful earnestness, and stared beseech ingly into his Wwaxen features, came the flutter of the cyel time his will mastered aching death. His lips weakly struggled to execute his last commands, and th. friends bent closer to the falter whisper. “I am Yesmer —I know. Go to Mill oaabet —I died with—her name or —iy tips that I—er—have loved—her—her alan. —er—always. And Bessic tell Bessie the same thing —lLondon Weekly Again 1s, but this ear teller A Happy Marri nds 1 SEXOLOGY by William M1, Walling, A.M. M.D. wholesoine way in one volume? Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bidg., Phila, Handsome macarine, 12 STAGE PICTORIAL B2e22°": thes, matinee heroes. 10c. copy. $1.00 a year 3 mos STAGE PICTORIAL, - 1493 Broadway, NY Say Farewell to Every Corn Don't pare off the top layer and let the real corn go. ‘That's sim- ply folly. It is dangerous, too. A slip of the blade often means an infection, Some- timesit means blood poison. ‘That form of home sur- gery doesn’t belong to these intelligent times. ‘The treatment used by millions is this: Apply a Blue-jay plas- ter. Itis done in a jiffy. The pain ends instantly—the corn is forgotten. Then the B & B wax gently loosens the corn, In 48 hours the whole corn comes out, root and all. No soreness, no discomfort. Fifty million corns have been ended in this way since this famous wax was invented. Let it remove one for you. That will show you the end of corn troubles forever. A in the picture Is the soft B & B wax. It loosens the corn. B protects the corn, stopping the pain at once. C wraps around the toe. It is narrowed to be comfortable. D is rubber adhesive to fasten the plaster on, Blue-jay Corn Plasters Sold by Druggists—15c and 25c per package Sample Mailed Free. Also Blue-jay Bunion Plasters (155) Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York, Makers of B & B Handy Package Absorbent Cotton, et on the blank side in pencil: “ All we've got in this neighborhood is three wid- two school-ma’ams, a patch of wheat, the hog cholera, too much rain, about fifty acres of ‘taters, fool who marricd a cross-cyed gal be- cause she owns eighty sheep and a mule, which the same is me, and no more at "Argonaut. ders, nd a durn present.” Haye stood the test of timo First in Satisfy yourself —we kno 78 Broad St., New York, Gen'l Distrs. Caront Bitters, the field. still leading. Ot. C, Blache & Co.,