Life, 1912-10-10 · page 45 of 48
Life — October 10, 1912 — page 45: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, dominated by a large ad for the White Berline Limousine automobile, featuring an illustration of the car with well-dressed passengers. The page includes one **small cartoon** titled "There Are No Little Things (Size is Relative)" in the upper left. It depicts a Diogenes anecdote: a philosopher refuses to teach a young gentleman because the man won't carry a piece of cheese—he considers the task beneath his dignity. The joke satirizes **pretentious gentility**—the cartoon suggests that those who won't perform humble tasks reveal their true inferiority despite social pretensions. The remaining content consists of period advertisements (for hearing aids, garbage receivers) and a brief humorous story about a typhoid patient promised good food but served only tapioca pudding—mocking false medical promises. This is typical early 20th-century Life magazine content: light social satire mixed with commercial advertisements.
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“THERE AKE NO LITTLE THINGS” (size 18 RELATIVE) Gentility and Philosophy If you wish to know whether anybody is superior to the prejudices of the world him to carry a parcel for you s Lacrtius tells us a story of his that being once re- oung gentleman to he gave him a Dioge great ni quested by a certs teach him philosophy, picee of cheese to carry; upon which the other declined his instructions on the spot Your family physician can now help you regain lost hearing Simply by feeding pure sound waves to organs that are stif shrunken and bloodless from want af exercise. The chances are ten to one there's nothing else the matter with them, unless it is inflammation. If it sounds reasonable, write for particulars of THE MEYER-ROWAN INSTRUMENT The Rowan Sales Company Sole Sales Agents 625 East 163rd St., New York Underground Garbage Receiver Ground De fully executed. cars. This Story is Always Good The young man was convalescing from typhoid fever, and was very hungry. The doctor promised him that he should have something to cat on the following day. The patient knew he would not be allowed to eat all he would like to. but hoped for a plate of good, steaming food. he next day when the » bro} spoonful of tapioca pudding, she “Here is your dinner. The doctor 1981 The White Berline Limousine The Latest Production of the Most Progressive Motor Car Company of Amenca "TH White Berline marks the highest development of the modern motor car, both in beauty of body design, and merit of chassis construction. small detail which adds to comfort, convemience, and safety of operation has been carefully and success- The logical combination of left-side drive with right-hand control places the driver in the proper Position to handle the car with the greatest amount of safety in traffic, a very important, factor in closed The left-side position of the steering wheel, together with the White Electrical Starting and Light- ing System, makes it possible to reach the driving seat, start, and light the car without the necessity of stepping into the street. When the services of the chauffeur are not required, the glass-partition back of the driving seat can be instantly dropped out of sight, throwing the entire interior into one compartment. White Berline Limousines are built in Forty and Sixty horse-power models. The White w Company Every CLEVELAND Manufacturers of says that everything else you do must be in the same proportion.” Shortly after the nurse had -room of the young said, “IT want so’ ol from Nurse, to read. Wo postage stamp hing bring me a ‘ou please “Wutar's new in the news?” : scandal at Oldport. It has Mrs. Wallaby-Wombat, exacts a percentage tips.""—Washington the society le: of her Herald. servants’ comicbooks.com