Life, 1915-04-01 · page 9 of 72
Life — April 1, 1915 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising content** rather than satire or editorial cartooning. The main advertisement features **Cat's Paw Rubber Heels** — a shoe repair product. The ad uses a man demonstrating the heel product and includes a testimonial (signed "John J. Generel") praising the Foster Friction Plug technology that supposedly prevents accidents and offers comfort. The left side contains advertisements for **Neverbind Boston Garter** (with an illustration of leg wear) and **Evans' Ale** (a beverage). Above these is an editorial piece titled **"Jealousy"** — a satirical essay on the emotion itself, not a political cartoon. This appears to be a standard early 20th-century magazine page mixing consumer advertisements with lighter editorial content.
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i Jealousy H EALOUSY is the feeling you have when some one you think belongs a to you is believed hy you to be appro- i priated by somebody else. q When you are jealous at first your | heart begins to work like a one-cylinder | motor-car going up Pike's Peak. Your eyes flash fire, your face grows hot 7 and by a swift process of the mind { all the murderous instincts you have | anywhere in your system are mobilized 1 and concentrated. After this your eyes j hecome fixed and glassy, and you spend ing hours in muttering to yourself and your nights in clutching the sheets, starting up in hed and hiss- ing able-bodied curses at the bed- posts. To be a genuine success, jealousy should not have an actual object. When there is rea jealous about, one-half of the reasons why you are jealous are removed, | hecause this makes your jealousy about When any jeal- ic fun of possessing it is quite largely First, then, get an ima somebody to be one-half reasonable. ousy begins to have a reason, th diminished. nary object to be jealous about, chang- ing it to suit the taste. To he highly efficient and cause you the maximum amount of trouble, your jealousy should be fairly well con- trolled, in just the same way that your furnace will burn up the greatest amount of coal when the draughts are RUBBER HEELS | Are worn regularly today by thousands of people who have tried other kinds first. Get a pair yourself—then your shoes will be more comfortable—they will wear longer, and you will walk with a new buoy- ancy and lightness. For only half a dollar you can have your shoes shod with Cat's Paw Heels, and make your step as easy as the Cat’s own. That Foster took rubber the slippery economy. —black or tan. Sale You Needn’t Real Year t of Choke Your Legs Round Comfort ‘me THE RE’S NO RUBE in this leg on- d, The top of the triangle only is irt- i ic—this assures perfect fit WITH- of | OUT BINDING. No metal contacts. i Weight, one-half ounce. Ue | | If you don’t find it at y it send sample pair, post ed. 25c; double grip, 35¢ George Frost Co., Sole Makers, Boston, Mass. 105 Federal Street Boston, Mass. turned on cnotigh to make the con- sumptic There i: continuous, s no cure for jealousy except marriage. Do not, however, marry the person you are jealous about Marry somebody else. Then, about ten years later, when sit- ting in the club after your divorce, maybe you sce the former loved one passing by with a group of seven chil- dren, and the villain who caused your jealousy wheeling one of the carriages, you can go to sleep with ca assurance that you h with him in the only ¢ gotten even Keep a supply It prevents thousands of accidents. again that Foster Plug resists wear, and the extra quality of rubber affords greater resil- iency — meaning not only comfort but No holes to track mud and dirt. They cost no more than the ordinary kind—and the name is easy to remember. Alldealers—50c. attached FOSTER RUBBER CO. requires careful as well as solid f shoes into street shoes have Cat's Paw Rubber Haste is @ great relief, The heels make walking on cement walks a pleasure ian ten od femt-caties co the feet an Phage bons Friction Plug heels out of class. “The change fro iked e wills Deg Ther. Do you have weak arches? ‘Then you need the Foster Onopecic Heel which Kives that. extra support Shere needed. Espectally valuable to policemen, mo tormen, conductors, floor walkers and all who are on their feet a great deal. 75¢ attached of your dealer — orsent postpaid upon re= Ceipt of Soc. and outline of Originators and patentees of the Foster Prion Plug aheh pocveate digging, Tour beel Planning the Family Meals tion to proper drinkables lation of the food, the’ meal partaken, 'S* ALE than the pleasure of drinking it. ‘Guo Feecomicbeoks.com C. H. EVANS & SONS, F;