Life, 1912-11-28 · page 31 of 44
Life — November 28, 1912 — page 31: what you’re looking at
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This page primarily consists of **advertisements and light editorial commentary**, not political cartoons. The main content includes: 1. **"College Slang" article**: Commentary on slang usage at University of Kansas, noting the English department's disapproval of phrases like "I am crazy about this" used by students. 2. **Dromedary Dates advertisement**: The dominant visual content—a large ad campaign promoting packaged dates as food for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, emphasizing their cleanliness and convenience compared to loose dates from wooden boxes. 3. **Secondary ads**: Including "Sexology" (a relationship/health book), "A Happy Marriage" book advertisement, and "The Morley Phone" for the deaf. The page reflects **early 20th-century consumer culture** and middle-class anxieties about propriety (slang usage) and modern convenience foods. There is **no political satire or cartoon** present—the page demonstrates how Life magazine mixed editorial content with commercial advertising.
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m by Waa H, Walling, A.M. Wholesoue way in one volume College Slang College slang is apparently on the rack. Its use and abuse have been ly exploited during the last few gene weeks. ‘The trouble seems to have started in Kansas, where most troubles originate. The University of Kansas publishes a daily paper called the University Daily Kansan. This paper, according to all reports, is a hot-bed of slang. Some examples of this taken from the headlines in one number are as fol- lo The Toot Manifesto is To-day. (That is, the new regulati: for signal-whispering goes into ef- fect.)” Andrew (se. Carnegie) Digs Up Again.” “That Baldwin Team Still Eating "Em Up.” “Jayhawker Hops on the Tobog- gan.” ‘Test Heart Action of Bubble Wag- ons.” Now the head of the department of English in the Kansas University is a gentleman of sensitive nerves; and he kas hastened to state that the depart- ment of journalism is entirely separate from that of his own. At the same time he intimates that he does not ap- prove of this sort of thing and washes his hands of the whole matter. In the mean time, the Kansan appears to be still under the blight of slang and ap- parently not able to recover from it the College nett, says: “When a young woman enters col- lege, she can try ever so hard not to of such phrases as ‘I am crazy about this,’ or ‘wild about that.’” Miss Burnett says that she cannot help using slang at college. every-day sources, SEXOLOGY Ultustrated) ng Man Should Have, 1 Should Have. ay 's Opinioas” and’ Puritan Pub. Co., 776 Perry Bldg., Phila., Pa. Something New for Every Meal At Breakfast—The one thing to arouse the lazy morning | appetite is fruit. Tempt it with a dish of cereal in which are buried | a few Dromedary Golden Dates. } At Luncheon—What can be more pleasing than some muffins or fritters made with Dromedary Dates? They’ re delicious! 4 | At Dinner—It’s easy and quick to stir up a date soufflé—or a H pudding—and make everyone say, ‘‘How delightful!” | There is almost no end to the unusual never sold otherwise. They hold a sur- i substantial dishes and desserts that may prise for you because they are so unlike | be prepared from Dromedary Dates. dusty, hard and shriveled dates you are ac- H They come to you as clean, plump and — customed to buy from large wooden boxes. j | richly flavored as when picked from the If your grocer or fruiterer hasn’t F palms of Arabia. Daintily arranged in| Dromedary Dates, send us 10c and re- a layers, wrapped in waxed paper and ceive Special Size Sample Package. packed in individual dustproof cartons— On receipt of dealer’s name we send Unique Book of Prize Recipes FREE Ask dealers also for Dromedary Figs; and you will particularly like Dromedary Fresh-keeping Cocoanut, the new kind of prepared cocoanut put up in a new package that keeps it continuously fresh. Sample free. rm THE HILLS BROS. CO. Dept. 9 Beach and Washington Sts, New York City Dromedary Date Muffins Cream two tablespoonfuls of batter with quarter cupfal add two well beaten eggs, then one cupfsl of ‘0 cupfals of four and two teaspoonfuls of der akernately: beat thoroughly and add | ‘and one cupful of Dromedary Dates cut fine. Bake in a quick oven. ‘The Latest Dromedary Product A Happy Marriage Depends largely on a knowl- edge of the whole truth about self and sex and their relation to life and bealth. This knowledge does not come intellizently of itself, nor correctly from ordinary, Af.D, imparts to o clear, “He Shall Take That Hath the Power” A wolf and a fox and a hare found a lamb, and they said to cach other, “ He that is the oldest amongst us shall cat him.” The ha aid, “I was born befor God created the heavens and the earth"; and the fox said, “Thou art right in deed, for I was present when thou wert “DON'T SHOUT” “Thearyou, Tean hear now as well ‘asanybody. How?" Oh. tomes thing new—THE MORLEY PHONE. I've a pair in my ears now, but they areinvisible. I would them in, myseli, the right. “The Morley Phone for the DEAF vorn”; and the at theveame tine is to the ears what glasses born”; and the wolf, at the same tim la toy the care: what elasece seizing the lamb, said, “ My st comfortable, weightless and capacity are witnesses that I harmless. Anyone can adjust it.” Over one hundred thousand sold. Write for booklet and testien: ‘THE MORLEY CO., Dept. 783, Perry Bldg., Phila. than you both,” so he ate the lamb. 29 comicbooks.com