Life, 1913-09-11 · page 33 of 44
Life — September 11, 1913 — page 33: what you’re looking at
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This page combines educational content with period advertising. The left side features classical quotations about education and learning—aphorisms from Confucius, Bacon, Holmes, and others—alongside an Old Overholt Rye whiskey advertisement emphasizing century-old tradition. The dominant right-side advertisement promotes "Nylo" chocolates sold exclusively through "Nyal" drug stores. The large photograph shows a smiling woman holding an open box of chocolates, capitalizing on appeals to purity, quality, and feminine consumption—common marketing strategies of the era. The lower section includes a small "Business" cartoon (caption: "He Means Business"), though its specific content is unclear from this image. The page reflects early 20th-century values: reverence for classical wisdom, brand loyalty tied to heritage, drug stores as distribution centers for non-pharmaceutical goods, and gendered marketing targeting women as candy consumers.
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1y Vogue's rated with at a very the entire Jel—along ive to the 1 Millinery OU Adages for Schoolmasters Learning without thought is labor lost ; thought without learning is perilous. —Confucius. He might be a very clever man by nature, for all I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.—Hall. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.—Bacon. No man is wiser for his learning. Wit and wisdom are born with a man. —Selden. Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes them- selves are often the best teachers of all.—Froude. Uneasy lic the heads of all that rule. His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.—Holmes, All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price—Juvenal, Men learn while they teach.—Seneca. The self-educated are marked by stub- born peculiarities Disraeli. Learning makes a man fit company for himself.—Young. Learning maketh young men tem- perate, is the comfort of old age, stand- ing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.—Cicero. What sculptor is to a block of marble education is to a human soul.—Addison. Today and yesterday and for over one hundred years this famous old whiskey has maintained its pop- ularity and added to its prestige with every passing year. OldOverholt Rye “ Same for 100 Years” The chosen whiskey of our fore. aS wecigw favor wr is charred oak barrels. | A. OVERHOLT & CO. Pittsburgh, Pa. ‘There is always a welcoming smile for You and NY LO Chocolates He that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master—Jonson. Education is all paint; it docs not alter the nature of the wood that is under it, it only improves its appearance a little —Stankope. There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.—Cicero. There is no harm in being stupid, so long as a man does not think himself clever; no good in being clever if a man thinks himself so, for that is a short way to the worst stupidity—MacDonald. Exclusive High Grade Chocolates sold by Exclusive High Grade Druggists, eighty cents to one dol- lar and fifty cents the pound “Nylo” Chocolates are absolute in purity and exquisite in sweetness and flavor. The very finest in “pure food" candies; no artificial coloring materials, just purity and freshness all through—carefully selected nuts and fruits and snow-white sugar cream centers, within a heavy coating of rich brown choco- late. Most luscious and delicious—the highest quality—we believe them the finest choco- lates in the world. ‘‘NYLO"’—remember the name and that they are sold only at ‘‘NYAL’” DRUG STORES. 15,450 of the best Druggists in America sell ‘‘Nylo’’ Chocolates. ‘There is one of these Druggists right near you. Look for the “‘Nyal” Drug Store and try a box of these delicious chocolates. They arealways fresh,ever wholesome. Ney f Spradore “Grae ‘This is the sign of the Nyal store lates. Write name and address plainly. Send to New York & London Drug Co. 108 John St., New York or, Wieder, Ontario, Canada “HE MEANS BUSINESS” comicbooks.com