Life, 1914-10-01 · page 38 of 48
Life — October 1, 1914 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and serialized fiction**, not political satire. The main content features: 1. **Product advertisements** for Nabisco Sugar Wafers and Anola chocolates (left side), typical early 20th-century confectionery marketing. 2. **"Letters of a Japanese School-boy"** (continued serial)—a humorous piece written in deliberately broken English, depicting a Japanese visitor's confused observations of an American movie theater. The joke relies on the character's misunderstandings: loud audience behavior, confusion about seating, mistaking stage activity for screen action. The cinema scene described appears melodramatic (a play titled "Mother Is Dying of Want"). 3. **"Gentlemen, an Idea!"** essay about restaurant ice water charges—a minor consumer advocacy piece debating whether restaurants should charge for ice water. 4. **Additional advertisements** for *The Sheep Track* novel and Russian Wolfhounds. The page contains **no political cartoons**. The humor is gentle, focused on cultural misunderstanding and everyday consumer issues rather than satire of political figures or movements.
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Letters of a Japanese School-boy Moving Picture Shows (Continued from page $82.) expecting anything. People were ob- NAB | Ss Cc | served setting in rows amidst darkness looking at jumping photographs making S Waf sobs on stage’ Me & Nogi enjoy con- ugar ers fusion to be there, because we could not tell our seats from any other dark- —entrancing sweets which et down!” some discourtesy holla. are always and everywhere “Where we set when we can’t?” I popular. Wafer confec- rai forth, feeling petite hepetal } : °, ; “Shut upwards!" another impolite- tions centered with deli- ness explain. ‘ cately flavored cream. “Why should I hush?” is loudy |‘ The perfect accompani- voice from me. ment for every dessert. “You make so much noise we cannot ; In ten-cent tins; also in hear actors,” snuggest lady of fat P twenty-five-cent tins. wee ; Yet those jumping photographs make no irritable attention to anything we \ said. This is where they are great improvement over Hon, E. H. Sothern. ‘ Of finally we fond set-down in lap ‘ AN OL. A of 2 proud German gentlemans who ‘ BISCUIT pretend we was not there. So we could study this emotion picture show and 9 —a new conception in find where it was enthusiastic. This 4 chocolate-flavored sweets. COMPANY is what it is about: js Exquisite wafers of crisped First. it was entitled “Mother Is ' baking with choc- Dying of Want in that scene we . observe home-life located in neat but olate-flavored cream dirty cellar where Smith family was s nestling between. there enjoying great poverty. Baby s Anola has achieved Tessie playing with opium-pipe on u a new delight which floor. Mother in bed looking very P only taste can tell— Belasco. In come Angel Ethel who a - 5 sce mother and require “ What mat- p a flavor which gives ter?” by speaking with eyelids. “I P immediate pleasure. have been without nourishment for P In ten-cent tins, three days,” she complain wordlessly, s “js there nothing in the cupboard?” ; “Only a few headache powders,” snag- ger Angel Ethel, “maybe you might ‘ — in IF YOU KNOW YOUR LONDON—THEN Mm The Sheep Track 7 By NESTA H. WEBSTER t . oo: , will interest you more than any novel you have read d Gentlemen, an Idea! it applies just as well to water as it peti ek Locden Socies/ ie the life, i nd 0 does to clams. It is labor ‘and wear fascinating and difficult of social worlds. Probably re HY is it that the New York restau- and tear that counts. you will even recognize some of its characters hn rants do not charge for ice Now, the labor of preparing a glass Cloth, net, $1.40. Published by st water? We have hesitated for of ice water, not to mention the break- | E.P.DUTTONE CO, 4K fifth Avene time to call attention to this om age, is, say, one-half what it is in the | w but intense sympathy for the pro: case of clams, for which first-class |RUSSIAN WOLRHOUNDS m prietors of these establishments com- New York restaurants receive a mini- nig r Nia tani tea ehdied Neoulers and ool wi pels us to give them the benefit of the mum charge of twenty-five cents. Ice ide water on this basis should be worth su me time ago Mr. Simeon Ford, in about ten cents a glass. replying to the criticism that the value And by the way, we hope the restau- th of a dozen clams was a very slight rant proprietors won't be influenced w fraction of the restaurant charge per by a saying once published in a book ab portion, said that if such a man which they have probably never heard wanted clams at cost he should go to a of, to the effect that it is a bad thing FOR g MEN gj OF BRAINS ar clam flat and dig them for himself. to refuse a cup of cold water to a 1G ARS This is an irresistible argument. but stranger. That was a long time ago. -MADE AT KEY WEST.— comicbooks.com