Life, 1914-03-05 · page 47 of 60
Life — March 5, 1914 — page 47: what you’re looking at
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This page contains early 20th-century advertisements and a brief editorial comment rather than satirical cartoons. **Top Left:** A small cartoon titled "Dr. Eugenics's Favorite Tree" shows a tree labeled "See" with what appears to be figures beneath it—likely satirizing the eugenics movement, which was gaining popularity in this era. **Main Content:** Two substantial advertisements dominate the page: 1. **Indestructo Trunk** (left): Promotes luggage with a 5-year guarantee, targeting traveling businessmen. 2. **Western Electric Vacuum Cleaner** (right): The key phrase is "Woman in Her Newer Sphere." This advertisement reflects Progressive Era attitudes, suggesting that electric appliances liberate women from exhausting housework, allowing them broader life activities. The imagery shows women with the device, framing technological convenience as expanding women's roles. **Bottom:** A brief editorial on statistics criticizes how dry statistical presentation obscures facts from the average reader—a commentary on public discourse and information accessibility. The page reflects early 1900s consumer culture and emerging ideas about modernization, efficiency, and women's changing domestic roles.
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F YOUR £Indestructo Trunk should be de- stroyed today; you would tecelve one just Ii ike it, free. You would not be forced to buy anew trunk; because you would be Boteeted by the rigid 5 year indestructo Guarantee Your trunk is built to stand the severest travel usage, regardless of what happens, or how far you travel, ‘That protection is the biggest reason why you should own an Indestructo. There are many others; chief among which is the Indestructo Trunk itself. The Indestructo is built with the idea of your comfort and convenience uppermost in our mind; Tea, wil agree to this after you have seen the If you don’t know the Indestructo dealer in your city, write us; we will send you our travel containing na‘ colored views of all models from $15 to $150. National Veneer Products Co. 3 Beiger St., Mishawaka, Ind. Woman in Her Newer Sphere The “new way” of housecleaning eclipses the ache and fatigue and long hours of the sweep-and-dust age. The Western Electric Vacuum Cleaner brings brightness into the home, banishes the dust-clouded, danger-laden conditions of the past. There is a new sphere for the wom- an in the home as well as in the broader activities of her life, and nothing so revolutionizes the dull routine of her household workas the Western « Electric Siumevant Vacuum Cleaner ‘With the magic force of electricity which is on tap at any electric light socket, the cleaner is set to work, and with a strong, steady, powerful suction of air draws the dust from carpets, rugs, upholstery and hangings. It actually washes them with a stream of air, and leaves them fresh, sweet and clean, The Western Electric is a real vacuum cleaner, made in types and sizes suitable to any home. You can get one in just the size to sult your need. Prices from $47.50 to $400.00, Cost only a few cents an hour to run. Your interest in your own home will make you want a copy of our new book, “Tho Clean Way to Clean.” It describes the correct principles of cleaning and the ap- proved modern methods of applying them. Ask for book No, 14- AK. There is an opportunity for agents to represent us in some unoccupied territories WESTERN ELECTRIC COMPANY Manufacturers of the 7,500,000 “Bell” Telephones Chicago, Se. Pas Ranterete Minneapolis ‘San Francisco Oakland Seattle Pe O* the gathering of statistics there is no end, but of the making of these statistics interesting, there is hardly a beginning. Ignorance reigns, not because there isn’t plenty of information available, but because this information is compiled and stated in such an unintelligent and uninteresting form that the average person, even if he had the time, has neither the skill nor the imagination to decipher and vitalize it. Why can’t statistics upon important topics be made as interesting as statistics about base- ball, as to which so many of our office boys are walking encyclopedias? Someone has said that words were invented to conceal thought. Statistics seem to have been invented to conceal facts, comicbooks.com