Life, 1915-03-18 · page 36 of 40
Life — March 18, 1915 — page 36: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and humor columns** rather than political cartoons. The content reflects early 20th-century American attitudes: **Humor pieces** mock social pretension and changing mores. One joke satirizes a poor child's practical wisdom about table manners being invented by the non-hungry. Another jokes about sterilization—likely referencing the eugenics movement popular among progressive Americans at this time, presented here as absurdly preventing education. **Advertisements** include luxury motor boats (the Elco), cigarettes ("Egyptian Deities"), and notably an "unfermented champagne" called Champanale—almost certainly a Prohibition-era product circumventing alcohol bans. A "Sexology" book advertisement promises frank discussion of sexual matters in clinical language, reflecting early 20th-century pseudo-scientific approaches to sexuality as educational rather than taboo. The overall tone treats modernity, consumer goods, and social progress with gentle satire typical of Life magazine's sophisticated humor for middle-class readers.
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Any Real Way GrateruL Patient: Doctor, how can I ever repay you for your kindness to me? Doctor: Doesn't matter, old man. Check, money order or cash. —Boston Transcript. In a Pinch, use ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE Tue good people of the church gave the poor children of the parish a bounti- ful New Year's dinner, and the delight of the youngsters was much more mani- fest than their table manners. One little fellow was discovered clutching a doughnut in one fist and a lump of steak in the other. He was reproved for his breach of etiquette, and took the re- proach very meekly. But a moment later he turned to the diner next him and remarked regretfully: “The trouble about these here table manners is that they was invented by somebody who wasn't never really hungry! "—Argonaut MOTOR BOATS Make this a Motor Boat Vacation Sail away—when and where you will—with your own party, in your own boat. Refinements in construction enable you to enjoy all the comforts and luzuriesofa sixty foot yacht aboard the 4S foot Elco Cruiser. private stateroom, saloon, and galley where “real dinners” can be prepared, Staunch, seaworthy, beautiful in EGYPTI DET The Utne Plain by Poophiefailuters sat and education inwariably PREFER Deities to anyother | cigarelle. Makers oft Halisd Cand’ Persie) } Safety First “Your legal department must be very expensive.” “Tt is,” sighed the eminent trust |, I suppose you have to main I don't know. Sometimes I think it would be cheaper to obey the "Birmingham Age-Herald, “We are going to give up having Johnny get an education.” “For what reason?” “Well, we can't get him sterilized every morning in time to go to school.” —Southern Woman's Magazine. CHAMPANALE “* Unhermented"* A sheriet ra + setighetet Atte Choice rah white Nisara ape juice iat rh gnc at a nade tasty and dell using Abbott's cone spat aad ot mat Graiser is the highest development rbot. ba sree tary gad Gelig iul by using Abbots tal sip bene yo Wadd. Auton, Belevor: 2 ‘Aael design and finish, the 45 foot Elco of a cruiser yacht that can be easily ott. is Co., Baltimore, Ma. d, ‘atl ington, a! Ifyou want a smaller boat, there's "nar is your name msKce'the:new We will sem? sunple for te. and yoor grocers name. the Cruisette, the daintiest, handi- est little cruiser ever built. 32 feet long, engine separated trom saloon, sleeps six: Inexpensive to buy, less inexpensive to maintain, Elco Expresses “serve you on the water as the automobile does on land.” Reliable, seaworthy boats: models of grace, refinement and lux: ury. Equipped with the new Elco engine, they are speedier than ever. Send for a copy of ‘Marine Views’ and the edition de luxe— The Cruise of the Cruisette The Elco Company Main Office and Works 175 Ave. A, B. New Jersey New York Office, 5 ssau Street [ss. theo Cruiser teacher of the first boy in line. “Tom,” said the boy “No, it isn't Tom, it’s Thomas.” “And your name?” she inquired of the next boy “ Jackass,” said the boy Waterbury Chamber of Commerce. Tr you favor war, dig a trench in your back yard, fill it half full of water, crawl into it and stay there for a day or two without anything to eat, get a lunatic to shoot at you with a brace of revolvers and a machine-gun, and you will have something just as good, and you will save your country a great deal of expense.—Appeal to Reason THE CHARLES E. HIRES CO. Philadelphia “SEXOLOGY by William A Walling, A.M., M.D. a clear wholesome in one volume: Keowede Yount Mon She Have Kaoeilee» Tore Rashad Sts lore, Keowleése a Father Should Has Knovledge a Faer Shell Impart fis Sen ene Kaowledse a Hastand Sboald Have. Keowledse a Young Woman Should Have. Keowee 2 Yom Wee Shedd Have ‘Shoold Har Kecrlste# Macher Stl rao Her Dasher Bedcal Tarvin » Wie Sted fave. PURITAN PU PUB. CO. 797 PERRY. BLDG. PHILA. PA. EVERBEARING STRAWBERRIES ber erally cue through the wiater unharmed werk earlier, ‘them Guide, profusely ttustrated, ie “Gian Bros. ‘ee » Glewood od Narery Ea. 166. 1730 Main St, ROCHESTER, N.Y. | SOMME OOK