Life, 1913-10-16 · page 33 of 44
Life — October 16, 1913 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and copybook content**, not political satire. The main elements are: **Left side**: An alphabetical "Up-to-Date Copy Book" listing alliterative phrases (e.g., "Accident Appals Aviation Association," "Spiteful Suffragettes Sometimes Sprinkle Sulphuric"). This appears to be educational wordplay, though the suffragettes reference reflects contemporary dismissive attitudes toward the women's voting movement. **Right side**: Franklin Simon & Co. corset advertisements featuring illustrated women modeling three "Binner" corset styles at various price points ($5–$13.50). **Bottom**: Minor humor items—a Vogue pattern service advertisement and a brief children's joke about a dog's tail. The page reflects 1915 commercial culture: fashion advertising, educational copybooks, and casual period attitudes (including the suffragettes line, which mocks women's rights activists).
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on me ask a ron if ynelude For the Up-to-Date Copy Book Awe Accident Appals Aviation Association. Best-Sellers Beat Better Books. Crazy Cubists Cut Curious Capers. Destructive Dirigibles Defy Decadent Dreadnaughts. Envious Employees Excitedly Engi- neer Explosions. Feeble Fools Follow Frivolous Fash- ions. Greedy Gamblers Gobble Gobs of Gold. Heaps of High-brows Hate Horse-rac- ing. Indiscriminate Insanity Incessantly In- creasing. Jealous Judges Jaw Juries Jocosely. Keriah Kindly Keeps Kitty’s Khaki Knickerbockers, Little Ladies Look Like Lanky Laths. Malicious Muckrakers Make Much Money. Novels Now Negotiate Noisome No- tions. Original Orators Occur Only Occa- sionally. Picayune Photoplays Please Promis- cuous Public, Auutama 1913 F you want to be perfectly gowned the rest of this year, send your name for Vogue's new Patter Catalog. It contains 250 very smart models reprinted from Vogue's Autumn Pattem Number (October Ist). "THINK of ‘sitting at home, far from the bustle of the shops, and selecting your gowns from among the scores that the great masters in Paris have themselves designed. You may do just this if you have the Catalog, which shows you the gowns, offers you pattems for them, and tells you precisely how to make them for yourself. VOGUE PATTERN SERVICE 443 Fourth Avenue, N. Y Franklin Simon & Co. Fifth Ave., 37th and 38th Sts., New York No. 24—‘‘Binner”’ Corsets. New boneless model, low bust, long straight hips and back fving the uncorseted etect, of me white hatiste or Coutil, also pin! broche 5.00 “Binner’’ Corsets FOR WOMEN AND MISSES Newand exclustve models, especially designed to conform with the latest style of dress. No. 26—Binner”’ Corsets. Boned model suitable for medium or full fig- ures, made of fine white Coutil, low bust, long straight hips'and back 7 QQ . No. 28—‘* Binner”” Corsets. New bone- less model, low bust, long straight hips and back giving the uncorseted effect, made of Peau de Suede with — silk over front...13.50 Quod Quickly Quiets Queer Quirks. Riches Ride Roughshod Round Re- public. Spiteful Suffragettes Sometimes Sprin- kle Sulphuric. Thrifty Travelers Think Tips Trouble- some. Useless Universities Undertake Unde- sirable Uplift. Verbose Violet Vainly Vaunts Voting. Wireless Whirls Weal and Woe World-wide. XX-Century Xanthippe “X-rays” Xerxes, Yapping Youths Yearn for Yellow Yournalism. Zealous Zanies’ Zeal at Zenith. Tudor Jenks, Littte Bobbie was pulling the dog's tail when his aunt said: “ You mustn't do that, Bobbie; he will bite you.” “Oh, no,” said Bobby; “dogs don't bite at this end.”"—Our Animals. comicbooks.€om 7