Life, 1912-06-20 · page 40 of 44
Life — June 20, 1912 — page 40: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and humor**, not political cartooning. The main content is a satirical letter "To the President-Elect" — appearing to address the incoming administration (likely 1909, given the reference to transferring Indian Bureau matters). The letter humorously presents a pretend "handover" from the outgoing president, mixing trivial domestic details (cucumber pickles in the cellar, a key in the haymow) with actual policy concerns (the navy's condition, Indian affairs). The satire mocks both bureaucratic formality and the outgoing administration's attempt at gracious transition by treating serious matters with absurd casualness. The page otherwise features period advertisements for Chiclets gum, Evans' Ale, Rad-Bridge playing cards, and a S&M Tycos barometer — typical of *Life* magazine's revenue model. No specific political figures are identified in visible text.
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hic DELIGHTFUL Che Dainty Mint Covered Candy Coated Chewing Gum The singer’s tones are more dulcet, the speaker’s voice more clear, when Chiclets are used to ease and refresh the mouth and throat. The refine- ment of chewing gum for people of refine- ment. It’s the pepper- mint—the true mint. Look for the Bird Cards in the pack- ages. You can secure a beautiful Bird Album free. For Sale at all the Better Sort of Stores Se, the Ounce and In Sc., 10c. and 25c. Packets SEN-SEN CHICLET COMPANY Metropolitan Tower jew York To the President-Elect Dear Sir: The painful duty of turning over to you the administration of these United States and the key to the front door of the White House has been as- signed to me. You will find the key hanging inside the storm-door, and the cistern-pole upstairs in the haymow of the barn. I have made a great many suggestions to the outgoing administra- tion relative to the transfer of the Indian Bureau from the Department of the In- 2n Yachting, Camping, Motoring, Fishing, Golfing, Picnicing, terior to of the sweet by-and-by. The Indian, I may say, has been a great source of annoyance to me, several of their number having jumped one of my most valuable mining claims on White River. Still, I do not complain of that. This mine, however, I am convinced would be a good paying property if properly worked, and should you at any time wish to take the regular army and such other help as you may need and recapture it from our red brothers, I would be glad to give you a controlling interest in it, You will find all papers in their ap- propriate pigeon-holes, and a small jar of cucumber pickles down cellar which were left over and to which you will be perfectly welcome. The asperities and heart burnings that were the immediate result of a hot and unusually bitter cam- paign are now all buried. Take these pickles and use them as though they were your own, They are none too good for you. You deserve them. We may differ politically, but that need not interfere with our warm personal friendship. You will observe on taking possession of the administration that the navy is a little bit weatherbeaten and wormy. I would suggest that it be newly painted in the spring, If it had been my good fortune to reccive a majority of the suf- frages of the people for the office which you now hold, I should have painted the navy red. Still, that need not influence you in the course which you may see fit to adopt. There are many affairs of great mo- ment which I have not cnumerated in this brief letter, because I felt some lit- Ue delicacy and timidity about appear- ing to be at all dictatorial or officious about a matter wherein the public might charge me with interference. Tramping, Touring. ere 1s no Outing that isnot made better by Vans ~~ €. f\ Keeps you primed for the thrills of all « Insures a good time for everybody. hour won't hurt its goodness. All Dealers. A Watch Pocket WeatherBureau BE: ORS S.& M Tyee: Watch Size Barometer No, 2003 (actual size) $19.25 Forecasts weather 12 to 24 hours ahead and shows the height of hills and moun- tains crossed. Givesa new fascination to motoring—adds interest and safety to travel. S&M ‘Tycos" Barometers are the highest type of weather instruments, Made in many forms and for all'purposa~ Sport, engineering, mountain-climbis itt homes, ete. Send today for ne coununy The BAROMETER BOOK—Free Tells {n simple, language all about “weather’—what it is, how to forecast. ete. S& M Trees: Barometers bear the name on the dial and are made only by SHORT & MASON, Ld., LONDON Makers of Scientific Instru- ments to the U. S., British, Japanese and other Govern: ments, Division of Xaylor Instrument Companies 4.83 Ames Street Rochester, N. Y- Where Trees: Thermometers Come From” 4o miles an C. I, EVANS & SONS, Hudson, N. Y, at CLUB LINEN AND VELO! Hemstitch and “rag” backs pat tue. brown, green. 25 where or seat pom of Bridge Accessories. Dept. L.. RADCLIFFE & CO.. 144 Peart St. New York Se per pack eee paid on receipt of price, Send for Catalog I hope you will receive the foregoing in a friendly spirit, and whatever your convictions may be upon great question of national interest, cithcr foreign or domestic, that you will not undertake to blow out the gas on retiring, and that you will in other ways realize the fond ations which are now cherished in your behalf by a mighty people whose aggregated cye is now on to you Bu. Nve S.—You will be a little surprised, no doubt, to find no soap in the laundry or bathrooms, It probably got into the campaign in some way and was absorbed. BLN. —From “ Remarks by Bill Nye.” C right, 1886, by Edgar W. %) printed by permission of the } Hazen Company. cause little jokes This A Spec Ranps , ear, in Address : — comicbooks.com