Life, 1913-06-12 · page 42 of 44
Life — June 12, 1913 — page 42: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising page** from Life magazine, circa early 1900s, containing travel and product promotions rather than political satire. **Content overview:** The page features vacation advertisements (White Sulphur Springs resort, Hudson River Day Line steamship), a Vogue magazine promotion, and a Blue-Jay Corn Plasters advertisement with instructional diagrams. **Humor elements:** Brief poetic verses appear, including a "Little Miss Muffet" parody about courtship interrupted by family, and aphoristic quotes about philosophy and gender (e.g., "The mere intellect of a woman is a mere nothing"). **Historical note:** The corn plaster ad reflects early-20th-century medical marketing typical of the era—promising painless corn removal through simple chemical application, representing pre-modern consumer medicine advertising. The page contains no identifiable political cartoons or caricatures. It's a straightforward commercial/lifestyle page reflecting period leisure activities and consumer products.
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En Famille Little Miss Muffet, She sat on a tuffet, Hoping her sweetheart would stay; But along came her mother, Her father and brother, And frightened her suitor away. —London Opinion, Wuex you is betwixt Satan an’ de deep sea, dat’s de time you blames de Come Here for the Ideal Summer Vacation world bekaze you didn't larn how to Here, 2000 feet high in the Alleghanies, where the temperat 65 degrees, where ther Hon ere ocmicac erent petal b ikatel te Seas tes tat eas ON Toe % ng. Fog, Henig, Riding and, Motoring, all have ther eathanase devetea and add het + + share to the chara ofthis fascinating mountain resert. For a vacation thats diferent, come to WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS ¢~2||] Vogue has been to the| We want you tohave ournew West Virginia. : Mikado’s Garden Party ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET : It pictures and describes all the charms of both the present Read how the Mikado and his suite hotel and the magnificent new million dollar BRIER f parade before their guests through ave which opens this Autumn. It tells about the wonderful new s nues of softly dropping cherry blossoms— Bath House with its luxurious swimming pool and its com- = x in Vogue's lete system of Medicinal Baths, that has made possible “A 5 European Cure without going to Europe” For every modem fa mi European & Travel Sprrerlence,, Perfect service and delicious southern cooking. come to 7 és Besar es Oeiccate ins of eee Real eo teal eee Number eons FY ADAMS, White Sulphi we Vi : 2 . ¢ Sulphur, West Virginia NOW ON SALE swim.—Atlanta Constitution. Not only of the people and places that fA await your journey’s end docs this num- Superfluous ber tell you, but also how toget to them Of the Duke of Wellington’s perfect with the sreatest (Case. | Don't start a coolness on the most trying occasions, Guhes ond ieveee ta cake ek ged Colonel Gurwood gave thisingtances He and the many little comforts that make was once in great danger of being ) life pleasant in steamship, train and hotel. drowned at sea. It was bedtime when the captain of the vessel came to him and said, “It will soon be all over with Some magazines tell where EDIT) cae us.” “Very well,” answered the Duke, to go; others, what to buy. ig k Vogue does both! Hudson River “then I shall not take off my boots.” riudso by Daylight Tetween New York and Albany on a magnificent Day Line steamer is the most perfect inland water h Your keen enjoy ment of | s Hudson beauty and historical h Il mplete by the comfort and Tuxury of the Day Line service. A fine orchestra and excellent restaurant on each boat. 4 Great, new Str. “Washiogton Irving’ in commission. Through rail tickets between New York and Albany accepted. All service daily exceptSunday. e e Hudson River Day Line Deabrosses Street Pier New York Would you like to think In 48 hours take the plaster off. Then lift that your oldest corns would out the corn, There will be no pain or sore- be ended forever next week? ESS. simple way. A million" “And that corn won't come back. Another corns monthly are ended in corn may come if you still pinch your feet, but this way. | the corn that comes out is ended. Apply_a little Blue Millions believe this because ‘they have plaster. ‘Thatendsthe pain, done it. Millions of others still putter with and from that time on you corns. Please, for your own sake, make a simply forget the corn. _test of this scientist's invention, Tue mere intellect of a woman is a mere nothing. It originates nothing, it transmits nothing, it retains nothing ; it has little life of its own, and therefore it can hardly be expeeted to attain any vigor.—" Literary Studies.” by Walter Bagehot. Longmans, Green & Co. A in the picturo {s the soft B & B wax. It loosens the corn, B stops the pain and keeps the wax from spreading. C wraps around the toe. It is narrowed to be comfortable, Dis rubber adbesivo to fasten the plaster on. Blue-jay Corn Plasters Sold by Druggists—15c and 25c per package Sample Mailed Free. Also Blue-jay Bunion Piasters, Bauer & Black, Chicago and New York, Makers of Surgical Dressings, etc. “Tiere are men who don’t mind being kicked blue if they can only be talked about.” —George Eliot. comicbooks.com