Life, 1913-09-04 · page 35 of 40
Life — September 4, 1913 — page 35: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, with one small cartoon at the bottom right. **Advertisements featured:** - Bausch & Lomb camera lenses (top left) - Nabisco Sugar Wafers and related confections (center/right) - Life Publishing Company books (bottom left) **The cartoon** (bottom right) shows a rural foreman and editor discussing someone who "dropped all the h's"—a visual pun on dropping the letter "H" from words, likely satirizing rural dialect or illiteracy. The cartoon mocks working-class speech patterns. **Social context:** The page also advertises "The Lady Who Smoked Cigars" and a course on "diplomacy and patriotic etiquette" for government officials working abroad—reflecting early 20th-century anxieties about American diplomatic representation and rigid social propriety. The ads suggest aspirational middle-class concerns: proper photography equipment, refined desserts, and correct behavior. The humor is genteel and commercial rather than sharply political.
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Amateur Photography is more than snapping a shutter. | The time will come when you feel the need of a Bausch lomb Zeiss "JTESSAR [ENS —the lens that works with a fraction of the light weeded for ordinary lenses—takes the quickest movement sharply—and gives you clear, clean, accurate negatives. If you are Interested in better results, send for literature. H Bausch £3 lomb Optical ©. rt 620 ST. PAUL ST. ROCHESTER, N.Y. Nemeweweneeseocnesessseesenses: NABISCO Sugar Wafers Nabisco Sugar Wafers meet every demand for a dainty dessert confection. Whether served with ices, custards, fruits or beverages, they are equally delightful. The sweet, creamy filling of Nabisco—the delicate wafer shells—leave nothing to be desired. Truly are they fairy sandwiches, Neon ce nennnennenenanennennennsesneennn= In ten-cent tins; also in twenty-five-cent tins, title of which is “One Hundred Ways ADORA:—Another dessert FESTINO:—A dessert sweet, shaped like, in Which Government Officials Can confection of enchanting good- an almond. A shell so fragile and tooth- Earn a Living by Working Nights.” ness. Alluring squares in filled some that it melts on the tongue disclosing Our classes in diplomacy. and sugar-wafer form. a kernel of almond-flavored cream, Patriotic etiquette meet daily. We show you where to get the best livery hacks for state occasions at every capital in Europe; how to conceal the patches in your pants when you are Presented to court; also what to say to any given king when you explain to him that you represent America on Lady Who Smoked from eight to ten dollars per week; * how to do your own laundry in your Cigars rooms. Our free booklet, entitled “Second-hand Furniture for American Ministers Abroad,” is alone worth the You will not be disappointed whole course. in | f di hi Remember, our school is necessary. in her alter reading this snappy Unless you learn how to do your own little story by Rupert Hughes. || work you are lost. The moment you A delightful hour’s reading | accept a government position and rep- a id : resent America abroad, no matter Fifty cents per volume where, no one will lend you money on your looks, Leave your tin cup and dog at home and learn to keep the Life P ublishing Company Bat fromthe ie Fepresenung Foreman: 1 COTTER FIRE THAT ENG- 17 West 31st Street Lis comp! New York z like the measles, all the worse Rural Editor: wuv? comes late in life. HE’S DROPPED ALL THE H's.” Jerrold. TF 3 Sa ai T= ITVS comicbooks.com