Life, 1913-02-06 · page 38 of 48
Life — February 6, 1913 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and subscription material** with one cartoon at bottom right. The cartoon by Angus MacDonall, titled "Waiter: some Worcestershire sauce for your fish, sir?" shows a dining scene where a waiter offers condiments to a diner. The diner's response—"No, some chloride of lime"—is the joke's punchline. Chloride of lime is a disinfectant/cleaning agent, not food. The satire suggests the fish is so poor quality or spoiled that it requires industrial-strength disinfection rather than seasoning. This is a commentary on either restaurant food quality or potentially on wartime food shortages and poor provisions (the reference to "lime" suggests possible period concerns about food safety/preservation). The page's primary content comprises **advertisements**: Dean's wedding services (top left), Hampshire Bond stationery (top right), and Life magazine's subscription offer featuring a reproduction of "Bygones" artwork (bottom left).
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
dPiampshireDiond The Stationery 76 Gentleman Merely selecting it for your personal stationery is a tribute to your correspondents—and yourself ar A sample packet will be mailed upon request END us the color scheme for your wedding, the number of guests expected at the reception and the size of the bridal party, and we will be pleased to ~ — Pelee se send you suggestions of DEAN’S latest New York ideas. ' en Ne eke Massachusetts These will include prices of DEAN'S famous Wedding Cake in boxes with monograms of distinctive design, the Bride's Cake, containing special gifts, unusual favors for the bridal party, cases for ices, special confetti, the bride's cake knife, the marriage service book and wedding certificate, the wedding gift record, etc. ’ 628 FIFTH Established Years New York TO NEW AND OLD SUBSCRIBERS LIFE’S Special Offer Cone. Life Pub. Co. “Bygones”” (By Angus MacDonall) This Picture Free with Each Yearly Subscription A reproduction of this picture, 9} by 15 inches in size, on paper 15 by 20, will be sent on each yearly subscription entered this season. A subscrivtion to LIFE is the best possible gift—a copy of LIFE every week, fifty-two presents a year, and this picture for Five Dollars, the regular subscription price.® LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1d: West lst: Street, New "York Waiter: some WoRcesTEKSMIRE SAUCE TOR YOUR Fisit, six?” Subscription, $5.00 Canadian, $5.52 Forelgn, $6.04 “No, SOME CHLORIDE OF LIME. comicbooks.com