Life, 1912-05-30 · page 40 of 44
Life — May 30, 1912 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page consists primarily of **advertisements and humorous anecdotes**, not political cartoons. **The content includes:** 1. **Club Cocktail advertisement** - promoting pre-mixed, aged cocktails as superior to homemade versions 2. **Three brief humorous stories** mocking British and Scottish drinking culture: - A General and Scottish officer trading insults about alcohol-fueled rudeness - An Englishman attempting to drink all Washington's Scotch whiskey, then told by a doctor to eat apples instead—he complains of eating "forty apples a day" - These appear in *Saturday Evening Post* style, playing on period stereotypes of heavy British drinking 3. **Dickens Library promotional offer** - advertising a new centenary edition with 500 new illustrations, available on seven-day approval with a free bookcase and bust The page reflects early 20th-century American attitudes toward British/Scottish excess and drinking customs, presented as lighthearted ethnic humor typical of the era.
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-LIFE: " TEST FOR YOURSELF Mix the best cocktail you know how —test it side by side with a Club Cocktail No matter how good a Cocktail you make you will notice a smooth- ness and mellowness in the Club Cocktail that your own lacks. Club Cocktails after accurate blending of choice liquors obt their delicious flavor and delicate aroma by ageing in wood before bottling. A new cocktail can never have the flavor of an aged cocktai Manhattan, standard blends, bottled, ready to serve through cracked ice, Refuse Substitutes AT ALL DEALERS G.F. HEUBLEIN & BRO., Sole Props. Hartford New York London Two Minds with But a Single Thought A certain American general, who shall be nameless, was in company where there were some few Scotch. After supper, when the wine was served up, the general rose and addressed the company in the following words: “ Gentlemen, I must in- form you that when I have taken too much I have an absurd custom of rail- ing against the Scotch. I hope no gen tleman in company will mind.” With this, he sat down. Up starts Mr. a Scotch officer, and, without seemin the least displeased, said: “ Gentlemen, I—when Iam in the same condition and hear any person railing against th Scotch—have an absurd custom of kick ing him out of the company. I hope no gentleman will mind.” Too Hearty a Diet A young Englishman came to Wash- ington and devoted his days and nights to an earnest endeavor to drink all the Scotch whiskey there was. He couldn't do it, and presently he went to a doctor, complaining of a disordered stomach. “Quit drinking!" ordered the doctor. “But, my dear sir, IT cawn't. I get $0 thirsty.” “Well,” said the doctor, “ whenever you are thirsty cat an apple instead of taking a drink.” The glishman paid his fee and left. He met a friend to whom he told his ex- perience. “Bally rot!” he protested. “ Fawncy eating forty apples a day!” —Saturday Evening Post. This Week’s Colored Cartoon ‘This week's double-page cartoon, mounted on board, ready to frame, will be sent carriage pre- paid to any address on receipt of fifty cents. The print will carry no type other than the title and will be free from the crease caused by folding. Remit to LIFE Pub- LISHING COMPANY, 17 West Thirty-first St., New York City. Special Introductory Offer on the New Imported Cen- tenary Edition of Charles Dickens Containing Five Hundred New Illustrations by Harry Furniss (to be found in no other edition of Dickens) and Six Hundred of the Famous Old Cruikshank and Other Illustrations. ON APPROVAL AND WITHOUT EXTRA CHARGE Our introductory offer includes, with every order for THE DICKENS LIBRARY, @ handsome bookcase, 203 inches high, by 2434 inches wide, and a bust of Dickens. The Books, the Bookcase and the Bust on Seven Days’ Approval Cut out the attached coupon and | lection of great, and probably increas: mail it to us TO-DAY. We will send ing value. ua most interesting booklet, fully | “dt contains a unique feature in, the illustrated, ig the story of the won- form of a volume entitled “The i new Dickens Library, printed | Dickens. Companion,” giving an im: shed in England, a8 a fitting | mense amount of information about expression, in bis Centenary year, of | Dickens himself—his childhood, early the ever-increasing appreciation ‘and | struggles, social life, domestic troubles, delight of the whole English-speaking | litcrary success, experiences asa, lee: world in Dickens. turer, in. America. and elsewhere. We have secured the EXCLUSIVE | ‘This’ volume is included in the Lic AMERICAN RIGHTS in this edition, | brary without extra charge. which bids fair to become THE The cightcen volumes are printed on STANDARD LIBRARY DICKENS, | Gine “white paper, from new. plates, BECAUS! well, bound; (gold ‘titles and gold. tops: It is the ONLY edition of Dickens | "We are quoting a price and terms for which an absolutely new set-of | which will bring this’ Library within Mustrations has been, made. They | the reach of alle ‘It has NEW FEAe are the work of the famous English | TURES which make it desirable, and artist MARRY. FURNISS, and num | almost essential, irrespective of copies ber FIVE HUNDRED. ‘In this set | of Dickens you' may already possess. of books you are obtaining an art col- | SEND NOW FOR THE FREE BOOKLET CURRENT LITERATURE PUB. CO., Dept L, 134 West 2oth St., ) Please send me the booklet and descriptive matter of the CHARL DICKENS LIBRARY, containing reproductions of the HARRY FURN iNustrations, and full ‘particulars of your special offer including the FREE bookcase and bust. This enquiry places me under, no obligation to purchase; but, in the event of my doing so, this coupon entitles me to the introductory price, terms, and free bookcase and bust. Name sersvsssssssescecesceerseeeees Address sees comicbooks.com