Life, 1912-11-21 · page 30 of 44
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This page contains **primarily advertisements** for patent medicines and products typical of early 1900s America, interspersed with brief humorous anecdotes. The main cartoons/jokes illustrate racial stereotypes common to that era: 1. **"Why He Couldn't Go In"**: A small Black child is turned away from a funeral service, explaining he cannot enter because he "is de crape" (is the crepe/mourning cloth). The "joke" relies on dialect humor and plays on the child's physical appearance. 2. **"Generosity"**: Two workers—a "large, husky negro" and a Frenchman—saw wood together. An Irish bystander hits the Black worker, telling him to let the smaller man do the work, reversing expected racial hierarchies for comedic effect. 3. **"New Use for the Hyphen"**: A child misunderstands grammar instruction, claiming hyphens exist "for the bird to sit on" in "bird-cage." The advertisements promote Buffalo Lithia Springs Water (for gout and urinary ailments) with doctor endorsements, pocket umbrellas, and whiskey—reflecting period patent medicine marketing practices.
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Lleol Why He Couldn't Go In A small but very black standing very erect at one side of the door of a house where a colored man had just died. The services were about to begin, when the negro clergyman ap- peared at the door and said to the little fellow: negro was ' BUFFALO LITHIA SPRINGS WATER “In Uric Acid Diathesis, Gout, Rheumatism, Lithaemia and the Like its Action is Prompt and Lasting.” JNO. V. SHOEMAKER, M.D., LL. D., Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, etc., in the New York Medical Journal June 22, 1899: “The is doubly efficient in Rheum; tism and Gout. It BUFFALO LITHIA WATER dissolves Uric Acid and Phos phatic Sediments, as well as other products difficult of elimination, while at the | same time it exerts a moderately stimulant effect upon the renal cells, and thereby “The services are about to begin. Aren't you coming inside?” “I would if I could,” said the small boy, “but you see I's de crape.” —Ladies’ Home Journal. facilitates the swift removal of insoluble materials from the body. Without such action insoluble substances will precipitate in the kidneys and bladder. The intense suffering produced by Stone, together with consecutive Pyelitis and Cystitis, are avoided by prompt elimination. | DR.GEO. BEN. JOHNSTON, M.D.,LL.D., Richmond, Va., Ex-President Southen Surgical and Gynecological Association, Ex-President Virginia Medical Society, and | ErOlssor of Gynecolony ond, Abdominal Surgery, Medical College of Virginia: “It\ were asked what mineral water has the widest range of usefulness, I would unhesitatingly answer, BUFFALO LitHtA WATER In Uric Acid Diathesis, Gout, Rheumatism, Lithaemia and the like its | action is prompt and lasting. . . . Almost any case of Pyelitis and Cystitis = — will be alleviated by it and many cured. I have had evidence of the undoubted | Disintegrating, Solvent and Eliminating powers of this water in Renal Calculus, and | have known its long-continued use to permanently break up the gravel-forming habit.” ni Bitters. Tones the stom life and flavor of any cock! ail. Try them a °. Blache & Co., 78 Broad Si New York, € Generosity \ large, husky negro and Frenchman were sawing a | of timber for the Boston subway with a heavy crosscut saw, cach in turn pulling a small © picce | Medical testimonials mailed. For sale by the general drug and mineral water trade. BUFEALO LITHIA SpRINGS WATER CO SPRERiO zi ur SPRINGS. VIRGINIA A Happy Marriage Depends largely on a knowl edge of the whole truth about self and sex aod their relation to life and health, This knowledge does pot come intellizently of Itself, : tly from ordivary, SEXOLOG (Ulnstrated) by William H. Walling, A.3f., 31.D. imparts in a clear, wholesome way in one volume: it back and forth. A pugilistic Irishman stopped to watch the operation. After a few moments he strolled up to the negro and dealt him a blow, saying: “Give the saw to the little fellow if he wants it."—Harper’s. New Use for the Hyphen A teacher in a lower grade was in- structing her pupils in the use of a hy- phen. Among the examples given by the children was the word “ bird-cage.” “That's right,” encouragingly —_re- marked the teacher. “Now, Paul, tell me why we put a hyphen in ‘ bird-cage.’” “It’s for the bird to sit on,” was the Its netstote tn the pocket. Eastty packed (n any Satchel ' startling rejoinder —Continent. BS Strong and Durable, Always with you without Jncon- eentence, Just the thing for travelling—or any day. An Ideal Christmas Gift! For Wife Mother, Sister, Sweetheart or any Mea Friends It takes just three seconds to uncover and pull out toa perfect, {ull size umbrella, and stronger than any of the old style umbrellas. It is just as easily telescoped toa miniature umbrella, only 15 inches long and 14 in dia- It is the only umbrella that telescopes to fit in the pocket. grip, suit-case or hand-bag, so thatyou always have instant protection without inconvenience, av apart to Her Daughter. Heal ine: aid Have. Allin one volume, |, $2, postpald, ‘Write for “Other ed Table of Contents Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bidg., Phila., Pa. Wine Jelly when flavored with Abbott's Bitters is made tore delightful and healthful. Sample of bitters by mail. 25 cents, in stamps. C. W, Abbott & Co,, Baltimore, Md, HUNTER WHIS RIPENED BY MATURITY, IN ABSOLUTE PURITY It costs no more than other good umbeetlas and lasts longer Maite in several designs, both Ladies’ and gentlemen's styles, all of highest grade. Soklon money-back guarantee. Ask Your dealer toe one. IU he cannot sepply you, trite us and we will tell you how to get one cost provided you seot your Veading dealers’ ‘Ask for interevting Looklet asd price list. names and add POCKET UMBRELLA CO., Dept.02, Findlay, Obio EDWARDS FIREPROOF For Automobiles and Motorcycles $30 to $200 STEEL Easy to put up. Portable. All sizes, a Postal brings latest illustrated catalog. THE EDWARDS MFG. CO., 236-286 Eggleston Ave., Cinclanat!, 0, 74 Sold at all frst-ctass cafes and by jobbers. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md.