Life, 1913-10-30 · page 3 of 40
Life — October 30, 1913 — page 3: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not satire**. The dominant image is a commercial advertisement for "Weed Chains," tire chains designed to improve traction on poor road conditions. The illustration shows an early automobile stuck in mud while a figure stands nearby, with text promoting the product's effectiveness "under all road conditions." The page also includes ads for books ("Westways" by Dr. S. Weir Mitchell), playing cards (Congress and Bicycle brands), and a short article titled "Tough on Us Pearls" discussing the social status of pearls among the wealthy. There is **no political cartoon** here—this is straightforward early-1900s consumer advertising alongside editorial content, reflecting the magazine's commercial nature alongside satire.
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WESTWAYS|_ By DR. S. WEIR MITCHELL “KR. MITCHELL | has given to American lit- erature that rare triumph in the domain of fiction—a novel that is veracious and entertaining in its portr of life and character and that furnishes besides an illumi- nating chapter in history.” —New York Times. “It is more real than ‘Hugh Wynne.’ ” —Boston Transcript. For sale by your bookseller co. ishing ye better . before. : Tough on Us Pearls terestin ve weels RE youca pearl? If so you must feel mightily humiliated at what happened the other day in, London, when a six hundred and fifty thousand dollar necklace was bandied about for several days as worthless, Only those of us who are pearls know, of course, how. strentously we have worked to have the world recognize our value intrinsic and extrinsic, nominal, real and fanciful. We have been careful to associate only with the rich and the pseudo-poor. appeared in public only at the ope the horse show and a few other excep- tional places. We have worked hard and long to teach hoi polloi that one of the few things worth having is pearls; by the dozen at least, by the f possible. We have been try ike them see that pearls were al- ways the companion, often the sub- stitute, of culture and refinement. And how have the vulgar herd heeded this lesson? A London workman offered a large one of us for two cents and found no takers. A London policeman tossed a king’s ransom’s worth of us to the matron as if we were of no more value than pebbles on the beach. It is most humiliating. After being for long the chief attraction at the GOLO EDGES or CLUB INDEXES opera, it would not be surprising if the For Social Play Hayle Usitovdarc y plc i For General Play notion got abroad that we were really Dainty, beautiful art backs AY Seno SC in STAMPS f Millions of Players in alt inferior to those who wear us. Heaven in full color. Many new parts of the world use forfend that this time should ever designs now ready. See ae Bicycle Cards because of come; but it certainly commences to them at your dealer's. 3 their matchless qualities ne: ae Air-Cushion Finish Club ‘ I imCushion Finish look as if the labor of a lifetime, of r-Cushion Finish sudexes Ivory or Air-Cushion Finis several lifetimes in fact, had gone for THE U.S.PLAYING CARD CO..CINCINNATI. U.S.A. naught, comicbooks.com