Life, 1914-02-05 · page 5 of 44
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This page contains two distinct elements: **Left column:** A brief satirical article titled "Extra Hazardous" criticizing the New Haven Railroad's directors for dining expensively ($12.50-$16.15 per person) while the company paid minimal dividends to stockholders—many of whom are widows and orphans. The piece argues such executive extravagance while shareholders suffer is financial recklessness, comparing it to mismanagement of public funds. It concludes with a biblical quote about improper stewardship. **Right side:** A full-page advertisement for Resinol Soap, featuring an elegantly dressed woman promoting the product's skin-clearing properties. The satirical contrast appears intentional: corporate greed and mismanagement juxtaposed against consumerism and beauty products—both reflecting early 20th-century concerns about wealth inequality and corporate accountability.
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TWO OF A KIND “OLD CLAYTON'S SONS NEVER AMOUNT- (0 MUCH, DID THEY?” ONE OF THEM’S A POET AND THE Extra Hazardous IX connection with the recent passing of the New Haven dividend with disastrous effect upon many widows and orphans, it is noted how the di- rectors, at the stockholders’ expense, had a way of eating dinners costing $12.50 per person and luncheons cost- \ ing $6.15 per person. Harper's Weekly | | or a suggests that it would be interesting to i compare these menus with the luncheon 1 and dinner menus of the stockholders, marsore seme: | Uclear Complexion: than ten thousand of whom are pre- i sumably of small means, since they 1 own but from one to ten shares each. 1 Yes, it would be interesting, but | very dangerous. How could we know where such an inquiry might lead? Reckless extravagance in one respect is pretty sure to mean reckless ex- travagance in other respects. And then there is a certain kind of reckless ex- travagance that is closely synonymous to loot, and, if we go to probing too deeply into that, we might come to a point where a number of our estimable fiscal experts would have to go through : A ess known as restitution. That would be it contains. Resinol has been prescribed by ‘phy linbearable Those wiseland benevolent sicians for years in the care of skin affections. aie : All druggists and dealers in toilet goods sell financiers to whose management God | Resinol Soap. For a guest-room size trial cake, in his infinite wisdom entrusted the with miniature box of Resinol Ointment, write New Haven road, love the widows and to Dept. 42-C, Resinol, Waltimore, ‘Md. . esinol Shavi Stick als. contains orphans too much to return anything Resincl, making Wt mast ogreeetle to men they have taken from them. with tender faces. Trial om request. OOR complexions become clean, Pp clear and velvety; redness and roughness disappear, and hair health and beauty are promoted by the regular use of Resinol Soap, aided in some cases by the occasional use of Resinol Ointment. These soothing, healing preparations do their work easily, quickly and at little cost, when even the most expensive cos- metics and complicated “beauty treat- ments” fail. “The blase King of Judea said rightly, There is no new thing under the sun. Perhaps that sun itself, which now beams so imposingly, is only an old warmed-up jest.” (ONBRESS, BICYCLE CLUB INDEXES PLAYING CARDS or PLAYING CARDS. : For Social Play For General Play (§ A card party—old friends o-c Since Bicycleoutlastsother meet—new StNo STAMPS cards of equal price and Sobreer many tess ° costing slightly less, Bicy- cleisthelogicalcardtobuy. Tory or Air-Cushion Finish A STRONG ATTACK IS THE BEST DEFENSE