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Life — November 14, 1912 — page 32: Life, 1912-11-14

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This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** rather than political satire. The main cartoon—showing two well-dressed men with the caption "I see Percy had a lover's quarrel...the little dame gave him that black eye...No! It was her other lover"—is a simple joke about infidelity, not political commentary. The page's dominant content is **commercial advertising**: Blue-Jay Corn Plasters (the centerpiece), La Valse perfume, Morny cosmetics, and a Rubberset toothbrush. These reflect early 20th-century consumer products. The "Travelers Tales" and "Our Foolish Contemporaries" sections are light humor pieces—one about a Scottish minister's prayer, another playing on "Jonah and the whale"—typical filler for humor magazines of this era. **No significant political or social satire appears here.** This is a standard entertainment/advertising page from Life magazine's commercial period.

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Do Not Putter With a Corn Don't pare it, for paring often causes infection. — And it merely takes off the top layer. Don’t use petty, unscien- tific treatments. Such things bring only brief relief, and the corn goes on forever, The modern way is Blue- j It is used today on a lion corns a month. It stops the pain instantly. Then a won derful wax—the B & B wax—gently under. mines the corn, Within 48 hours the corn lifts © any pain or soreness. without ‘This invention gives a way to end the com forever—a simple, scientific way, Gonow and get it, It is folly to have corns. A in the picture is the soft B & B wax. It loosens the corn, B protects the corn, stopping the pain at once. C wraps around the toc. It is narrowed to be comfortable. Dis rubber adhesive to fasten the plaster on. Blue-jay Corn Plasters Sold by Druggists—15c and 25c per package Sample Mailed Free. Also Blue-jay Bunion Plasters, Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York, Makers of Surgical Dressings, etc. “2 @ PERCY HAD A LOVER'S QUARREL.” “YOU DON’T MEAN TO SAY THE LITTLE DAME GAVE MIM THAT BLACK EYE?” “ou, NO! IT WAS HER OTHER LOVER.” OUR_ FOOLISH CONTE EC MPORARIES It Didn't Matter to Him “Oh, thank you," said a lady to a laborer who gave her his seat in a crowded car; “thank you very much.” “That's all right, Mum,” was the cheerful rejoinder. As the lady seated herself he added: “ Some men niver get up unless a woman’s young an’ pretty, but you see, Mum, it makes no differ- ence to me.” Ladies’ Home Journal. Travelers Tales A gentleman whose travel-talks are known throughout the world tells the following on himself : “Twas booked for a lecture one night at a little place in Scotland four miles from a railway station. “The ‘chairman’ of the occasion, after introducing me as ‘the mon wha’s coom here tac broaden oor intellects,’ said that he felt that a wee bit of prayer Caroni the Ideal Bitters. 25 cents for trial bottle. You Oct. C. Blache & Co., 78 Broad St., } Should be in every home. Sext 1 be 8 % York, Gen'l Distrs “La Valse’? Bath Soap Bow: La Valse" Toltet Wa Parting is S—-S—-S—! . W. Abbott & Co. B would not be out of place. “*O Lord,’ he continued, ‘ put it intae the heart of this mon tae speak the truth, the hale truth, and naething but the truth, and gie us grace tac under- stan’ him.’ “Then, with a glance at me, the chair- man said, ‘I've been a traveler meself !"" —Lippincott’s. Wuesx you get cheated by a shark, think of Jonah—he completely taken in by a whale. —Harvard Lampoon was The piquancy of a Sherbet is attained by using a dash Abbott's Bitters. Sample of bitters by mail, 25 cts. in Retalled by alt first class Perfumery Stores A descriptive price list of the entire “La Valse’ series of Flos T wet with daloty sachet tent on receipt of stamped a sited Wholesale Agents F.R. ARNOLD & CO., 3,5, & 7 W. 22nd St., NEW YORK RISTMAS SUGGESTS‘ : ets and uni ke Moantaine ¢ ‘ditlereat AY ress 1 1 “Jack and I have parted forever.” “Good gracious! What docs that mean?” “Means I'll get a five-pound box of candy in about an hour.” —Pittsburg Post. received twenty-five Lost,’ said the “Joux Mittox dollars for * Paradise scornful author. “Well,” replied the practical lisher, “ he was lucky in getting the work out when the market for that sort of thing was comparatively good.” —Washington Star. pub- RUBBERS SAFETY TOOTH BRUSH Avoid dangers of loose bristles. Bristles held forever in hard rubber. Finest quality—scientific shapings. All Druggists and Dept. Stores. RUBBERSET COMPANY, FACTORIES, NEWARK, N. J. R. & C.H.T.CO., Prope,