Life, 1913-08-21 · page 35 of 40
Life — August 21, 1913 — page 35: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising and light humor content** rather than political satire. Key elements: **Advertisements**: The Indestructo wardrobe trunk (emphasizing durability through hyperbolic claims like surviving a 235-foot drop) and Heisey's Glassware dominate the layout. **"A Modern Litany"**: A humorous poem listing contemporary annoyances (visiting relatives, dramatic recitations, neighbor's player piano, Monday mornings) in mock-religious petition format—satirizing turn-of-century middle-class complaints rather than specific political targets. **"Exercise for Women"**: Quotes Harvard's Dr. Sargent sarcastically; the piece mocks his claim that poor working women need more exercise rather than better wages to prevent moral "temptation"—a dig at victim-blaming social attitudes. **Other items**: Minor humor pieces about trunk durability and suffrage debate. Overall, this is a typical Life magazine miscellany page mixing consumer ads with genteel social satire aimed at educated readers.
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Ask Your Dealer for THE INDESTRUCTO SPECIAL WARDROBE THE ONLY $40 WARDROBE TRUNK that gives you a choice of five interior arrangements The Indestructo is the original round-corner, jointless and "smashless® trunk. Ths, ladesructo is the original guaranteed—Against-Any- | Kind-Of-Damage Trunk. Only the Indestructo is registered again-t loss always, | kt was an Indestructo trunk that traveled 105,000 miles son the world for $25. hk was an Indestructo that dropped 235 feet uninjured at Bullock's store in Los Angeles. | An Indestructo that came all the way from Ireland to find "a lost owner." INDESTRUCTO (Trade Mark) Every history-making event in the trunk field begins and ends with an Indestructo Truak. h is the original—the pioneer—the leader in value—price— strength—service—convenience—and appearance. Any Indestructo owner would get a new trunk free if his Indestructo were destroyed by fire, accident, wreck of caze- less handling within 5 years from the day he bought it. No other trunk in the world carries this guarantee. | Because no other trunk is built to stand the same racking abuse, The Indestructo is the trunk you want—the only safe trunk | to buy—or to travel with, Remember the name—"Indestructo.* Remember the guarantee—"Protection always—every- where." Write to-day for the Indestructo Travel book and the name of your nearest dealer. National Veneer Products Company, 908 Beiger Street, Mishawaka, - Ind. Wanted—Uplift By Corinne Rockwell Swain. I wrote a clever lyric; 'Twas not a panegyric, But morbid and satiric— Tt simply wouldn't sell! I made it optimistic, Serene, and eulogistic, And (though ‘twas less artistic) It paid me passing well! A Modern Litany ‘ROM our visiting relations, From the fat who would be lean, From dramatic recitations,— “Ghent to Aix” and “Gungha Din"— From the janitor’s oppression, From the man who's been abroad, From O. Henry’s vast succession O, deliver us, good Lord, From the neighb’ring pianola With its perforated airs, From Zoolak and Coco-Cola, From the “ Wide descending stair: From canary birds and parrots, From the prematurely bored, From rice-pudding and from carrots, O, deliver us, good Lord! From the fountain pen’s dark blotting, From all illustrated jokes, From the throes of turkey-trotting, From the partner who revokes, From our friends’ well-meaning warn- ing, From the girl we once adored, More than all, from Monday morn- ing, O, deliver us, good Lord! Exercise for Women According to Dr. Sargent of Harvard the cure for feminine unrest is exercise The girl who earns only $6 a week and falls into temptation, says Dr. Sargent, does not go wrong because of her meagre wage, but because of insufficient exer- cise. Apparently there is nothing like a good Jong day's work in a laundry or silk mill to stimulate a craving for dumb bells in the evening—The Masses. —Lippincott’s. WHAT IS A RYMBEL This subject is treated with au- thority by the e discoverer of the rymbel, Prof. Oliver Herford, Docteur ‘es Smiles, Uni- versity of Lachen, in the all-’round entertaining September “CENTURY ” Ne 393 1NOv COMIN suGAA fe 302 WAL GAL TANRAND: Ne 393 SALAD BOWL No Wonder Dr. Lyman Abbott, at a luncheon at the Colony Club in New York, was Kood humoredly arguing the suffrage question with a prominent suffragette. “Now, doctor,” said the suffragette, “there's one thing you must admit. A woman doesn't grow warped and hide- bound so quickly as a man. Her mind keeps younger, fresher.” “Well, no wonder,” Dr. Abbott re- torted. “Look how often she changes it! ""—Boston Traveler. comicbooks.com