Life, 1912-12-12 · page 43 of 48
Life — December 12, 1912 — page 43: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising** for Saylor's Bonbons and Chocolates, with minor satirical content. The main advertisement features Saylor's "Nation-Wide Guarantee of Freshness"—a marketing promise that the company will accept returns of any imperfect candy. The ad emphasizes their extensive distribution network (14 factories, 4,000 sales agents, 56 stores) to assure quality. Below the ad are several unrelated short humor pieces typical of Life magazine's satirical format: - A dialogue between a Baron and neighbors about theater patronage and romantic conquests (satirizing aristocratic pretension) - A brief anecdote about Dr. Busay and an Irish baronet exchanging insults about intellect versus size - A piece titled "His Two Aims" about a Cleveland philanthropist establishing a "Thirty Cent Egg Club" to lower egg prices The page reflects early 20th-century American humor: social satire of European affectations, class commentary, and domestic life observations. The scattered format—mixing ads with jokes—was typical of Life's editorial style.
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poor share in a fortune, for which I should blush if I were not constantly preoccupied in making it redound to the : profit of the country. O ‘ ‘ Tue Catt Boy of tHe Restacrant: ation- 1ae Monsicur, the bell rings for the first act. iii cn| | eae . Guarantee ofFreshness | Tue Baron: The legitimate theatre has had no chance for some time. The ioe ‘ : eerie simply means that we do not café chantant and the cabaret kill the theatres where one may not smoke. Voie want anybody to keep any of That is why I regard it as a duty to ive my support to the drama. G 1 e Tux Neicitson: You will not be-alone Next our candy that in any ‘way ja your box? | falls short of perfection. Send Tue Baxox: I am expecting Fanny 5 —_ f it back. She is not playing this even- Tue Netcunor: I read in the papers that she has an engagement in Petersburg. Tue Baxon: Yes, at the Theatre Michel. I introduced her, In two or three years she will have made a for- tones | an / jf = Tue Netcnuor: I have heard that you Tue Bax Well, as lasted for onbons OoCco. ates some time n But I shall not aban- don her family, Fanny has a. sister | Our organization of 14 different candy-making establishments, who is just sixteen; I shall from now over 4000 Aiylrs Sales Agents, and 56 Aighrs stores, enables us on attach her to my person, and their fine little mother will not stand to lose to guarantee the perfect condition of every package of ehépéew anything. no matter where purchased. Our Sales Agents are the most Tue Newon : You certainly are one of the benefactors of humanity. reliable retail druggists in the country. : Baxox (modestly): You see, my Fi Tue Baron: (modestly) s You set. my We instruct all Lighes Sales Agents to order fortune is at the disposal of every one. By Aurelian Scholl, in from us frequently and to return for full credit any La Bataille Syndicaliste. box of eMéer not in perfect condition. If a box of efgéev should fall into your hands the common size, was one day accosted | and fail to impress you as being as good in in a public coffee-room by an Irish bar- every way as it should be, follow the terms of De. Busay, whose figure was beneath onet of colossal stature with, “ May I a : pass tomy deat, O Giant?” When the the Guarantee Certificate packed in the box doctor, politely making way, replied, and return it at our expense. “Pass, O Pigmy!” , | . . baronet, “my expression alluded to the Write for Ayé7 Interesting Booklet size of your intellect.” “And my ex- pression, sir,” said the doctor, “to the It tells how purity, quality and freshness are insured in all m __ egies products. We send i with the book the name of the, / AHappy Marriage nearest ofp Sales Agent. Depends largely on a know}- . edge of the whole truth y 64 Irving Place about self and sex and their Whee New York City atic to lif 1 health, This knowledge does. ot || | FRANK DeK. HUYLER, President tly of itself, nor correctly from ordinary, an rocers sell <Kxha every-day sources. ind Chocolate — ask ‘yours SEXOLOGY |'= =e (Mustrated) Choleentne ay Wa entcehathcy MDs Ieaparts tae dear, , . Have you an aim in life?’ His Two Aims Yes, sir. I have two aims,’ he re- Frank Krause, a Cleveland philantro- plied fnawe easiest B 11s Son. pist, has established the Thirty Cent “What are they, my son?’ Club, and hopes, by means of a club boy- “*The first is to become a million- cott, to bring down the price of eggs to ire.’ a reasonable figure. “*Ahal And the second?’ Being complimented on the hard and “The second is to become a multi- unselfish work he has given to this move- millionaire.’ "—Boston Traveler. ment, Mr. Krause replied: - “Unselfish work, work that doesn’t Lorp Byrox, in reference to a lady pay, is what this country necds more he thought ill of, writes: “ Lady than anything else. We are all too has been dangerously ill, but it may mercenary here. I once said to a little console you to learn that she is danger- newsboy : ously well again.” 2471 size of yours.” comicbooks.com