Life, 1912-09-26 · page 36 of 48
Life — September 26, 1912 — page 36: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** for nursery products, self-help books, and whiskey, with brief humorous anecdotes rather than political cartoons. The main satirical content appears in two short stories: "Business for Father" jokes about a doctor's daughter's mercenary thinking—she wants her mother to visit a neighbor specifically because their malnourished children and sickly mother represent potential medical business. The second anecdote mocks a dog chasing a gazelle; when the dog asks why it can't catch the prey, the gazelle quips it must be "for thy master"—a cynical observation about servants pursuing goals for their employers rather than themselves. The illustrated cartoon shows a figure at a table labeled "TYPOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING" with classical references, though its specific meaning is unclear without more context. The bulk of the page promotes fruit trees, berries, and a book on sexual health ("Sexology"), reflecting early 1900s American commercial interests in agricultural profit and Victorian-era anxieties about sex education.
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Grow Chestnuts Like This For Profit Coreen a ow. place, The trees are hardy, rapid, sym- netrical growth; luxuriant, foliage; xupreading boughs; clean trunk; state- ness, These qualitics combined and devel- oped by science to a degree that closely borders perfection, in the new: SOBER PARAGON Mammoth, Sweet Chestnut Crop, Fall of 1911, brought $48,000, orchard only J0 years old. Tne only large sweet chestnut in the world, Bears the first year. The nuts aver- 34 Actual Size St. Regis Everbearing TheRaspberryforthe Millionand the | Millionaire. ‘There’ s Millions In It. You can now have wonderful rasp- berries from June to October by setting out the plants this Fall. St. Regis produces continuously from Jane to Octover—heavy crops of large, insclous, sugary berries of bright crimson, Ita summer and autumn crops do not consist of a few scattered berries but g20d toheavypicking sallthetime. One party who had a small patch, say }4 an acre, picked and shipped from it two or three pickings each week for four monthe and his profits were enormous. Grows successfully in any soil—endures| without injury heat, drought and sever- est cold, Catalogue free. GLEN BROTHERS, Glenwood Nursery eslimony from ro growers, commission merchants, Foresty Experts, etc., given in our free catalogue. ‘We own exclusive] control of the Sober Paragon. This copyrighted metal seal is attached to every’ genuine tree. Hardy Acclimated Pecan Here are Pecan Tre thrive in Northern St prolifcally and as prefitably as any Southern Pecans. Pecan Orchards pay far bigger profits per acre than wheat or corn. ed shade-tree of wondrous beauty, long “Ave control five varieties of hardy trees best suited for Northern planting. These have withstood temperature far below zero.—never been known to ‘| Successful in almost any soil. bearing in 3 to 5 years. Catalogue tree. Est’d 1866), 2019 Main St., Rochester, N. Y. ¥ Actual Sise Mantura Pecans Large Nute—Paper Shell Trees for Planting in Northern States which will s—producing pride of the South, may now adorn Northern landsca inter-kill Business for Father The small daughter of a practising physician, who evidently has an eye to business, told her mother, in no uncer- tain terms, that she must call at once on their new neighbor. “And why must I call on her?" asked the mother, amused at the child’s posi- tiveness. “Well, in the first place,” explained the little lady, “they've got three of the serawniest kids, and the mother herself doesn’t look very strong.” nsas City Star. ledge a But Knowledge n ¥. Knowledze a § Witte a certain dog was pursuing a gazelle, the gazelle said unto him, “ Thou art not able to catch me,” and the dog said, “ Why not?” The gazelle said to A Happy Marriage SEXOLOGY by William 11. Walling, A.M. wholesome way in one volume: jedivnt Knowledge a W Allin one volume. Depends largely on a know! edge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and health, This knowledge idoes not come intellizently of {txelf, nor correctly from ordinary, every-day sources. (ilustrated) imparts In 9 clear, er Si Medical Ruowledge 1 nowledze a Young W rt to Her Daughter. ht Mave. ‘of Contents. Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bidg., Phila., Pa. Theater Tickets Dealing with the cowardice of the American in the way he endures petty impositions, Mr. Julian Street has this to say about the theater ticket aspect of the matter in a recent issue of Collier's Weekly: Fortunately, however, the spec- ulators spoiled their own game. If they did not actually kill that great- est of all golden-egg-laying geese, the theater-going New Yorker, they buttonholed him, jostled him, and robbed him, until even the cynical Mr. James Metcalfe, dramatic critic of Live, started a ‘crusade against them, which ended in their down- fall." Not so, however, with the shrewd persons who “ accommodate the public” by operating the hotel news-stand hey get the best seats in the theaters and sell them to you at a little increase of 25 per cent., dividing the graft with the theater managers. Who minds a graft of 25 per cent? No one but a “tight. skate,” a “dead epithets, those, in our town, designating, as they do, a man with little money, or, worse still, a saving disposition. The man who pays the graft is, of course, primarily responsible. In. the matter of theater tickets the managers are also to blame, because they could stop the graft in a minute if they were willing to deal fairly with the public which supports them. This has never I been the managerial attitude, since the | now badly crippled Theatrical Trust | demonstrated that arrogance in dealing } with the American public is the proper 1 pose of the theatrical manager. Some day (perhaps) the public may become courageou. enough to take the matter in hand and regulate the sale of theater tickets. It won't be, though, un- til the new Court of Appeals abandons its absurd dictum that a licensed theater is not a public place. him, “Because I run for my life, but thou for thy master.” —From the Orient. TYPOGRAPHICALLY SPEAKING ANTIQUE WIDE AND MANIIATTAN RYE HAS MORE NUTRITION thanany other grain. By skilful distillation its remarkable food quality makes it the Richest Product of the Still. HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE with its Mature and Mellow Flavor is known as THE AMERICAN GENTLEMAN'S WHISKEY Sold at all first-class cafes and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. He who has a handsome wife, a castle on the frontier, or a vineyard on the roadside, is never without war—Span- ish Maxim, | fa nan? 508 | ANAHANG BALTIMORE comicbooee