Life, 1912-08-29 · page 34 of 42
Life — August 29, 1912 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three distinct pieces of content: **Von Galmade Hats Advertisement** (top): A straightforward commercial ad featuring illustrated male faces modeling fall hat styles, emphasizing quality and fit. **"A Vivid Picture" Article** (right): Satirizes women's mechanical incomprehension. It mocks a young woman who visited a locomotive factory but understood nothing—she reduces complex industrial processes to absurd observations about "sand in boxes" and "stove lids," completely missing the engineering involved. The satire reflects early 20th-century gender stereotypes about women lacking aptitude for technical matters. **"Little and Big Religion" Cartoon** (bottom left): A humorous Australian anecdote contrasting children's religious education. A boy explains he learns "little religion" (Adam and Eve) while his older brother learns "big religion" (evolutionary descent from monkeys). The joke plays on contemporary debates over Darwinism versus religious orthodoxy—treating evolution as the "advanced" or "bigger" religion, satirizing both religious education and scientific theory. The advertisements (Old Overholt Rye whiskey, etc.) are period-standard magazine filler.
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Broken Hearts When other things are broken, they are nothing worth, Unless it be to some old Jew or some repairer; But hearts, the more they're bruised and og broken here on carth, “CORRECT STYLES sas In heaven are so much the costlier and FOR MEN.” “ the fairer. —From “ Poetry of the Orient,” by W R. Alger. Copyright by Roberts Bros., Boston, Mass. A Vivid Picture The man who wears one of the new Of all “aptitudes,” the mechanical is von Gal made Hats for Fall, whether least likely to manifest itself in a femi- : Je ; nine brain. The young woman whose it be soft hat or derby, can aol rest visit to a locomotive works is described assured that he cannot be better hatted. in Young's Magazine was doubtless inter- . ’ ‘ sted in what she saw, but her acco In style, quality, workmanship, finish and fit, these hats are Si uhe qieeeaes Ghee Ieee the highest embodiment of hat design and skill in manufac- reader to doubt her entire understand: ture. Ask your dealer to show you a von Gal made Hat. ing of ‘them, “You pour.” she told a friend, “a lot You are sure to find a style that suits your of sand into a lot of boxes, and you face and figure. He will guarantee you throw old stove lids and things into a satisfaction in fit, material and style, and ’ furnace, and then you turn the red-hot stream into a hole in the sand, and every: we stand behind his guarantee. : a hody yells and ‘sHouts ‘The new Fall styles include the smartest and latest “Then you pour it out, let it cool and rough, scratch and bright finish effects. pound it, and then you put in it a thing that bores holes in it. Then you screw Prices, $3, $4 and $5. At your dealer's, i. it together, and paint it, and put steam eee we piee ere lena eee : ‘ in it, and it goes splendidly, and they direct from factoryif you indica’ rl " take it to a drafting-room and make a “But one thing I forgot—they have to make a boiler. One man gets inside and one gets outside, and they pound ee : frightfully, and then they tie it to the Seleer other thing, and you ought to see it go 1178 Brosdway a sag New York —Youth's Companion. Little and Big Religion This story comes from Australia, where all conversation turns eve: to matters education parent is painfully anxious that his sons shall pass the standard which will free them from certain years of military service. A visitor was conversing with his host's small son and opened, as a matter of course, with the words, “ Do you go to school now?” “Yes.” “And what do you learn? Reading, writing, sums?" “Oh, yes; and I learn religion, too.” “ Religion?” “Same for 100 “Yes; [learn the little religion, which years’? teaches that we all come from Adam. . But my elder brother is in a higher Aged in charred class; he learns the big religion, and wood, bottled in bond. that teaches that we all came from mon- | Rare flavor, exquis- keys.”"—Manchester Guardian. ite bouquet. The aristo- crat of whiskies. j A. Overholt & Co. “Wet, Major, I notice that you're Pittsburgh, Pa. Iris the by runnin’ for office again?” “No, sir; it’s the same old run. I got started years ago and I can’t stop my- self."—Atlanta Constitution. “WHY IN BLAZES DIDN'T 1 MARRY A DWARF 1692 comicbookees