Life, 1915-06-03 · page 40 of 52
Life — June 3, 1915 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements and filler content** with minimal satirical cartooning. The opening cartoon, "The Only Time to Trust in Kings," is a brief joke: a man claims playing tennis with a girl isn't violent exercise because he's simultaneously making love to her—a mild double entendre about romantic distraction. The bulk of the page consists of **product advertisements**: Pennsylvania Rubber Company's "Vacuum Cup Tires" (emphasizing safety on wet roads), Nightingale cigars, and "Mum" deodorant. The only substantive editorial content is a **Wendell Phillips quote from 1873** criticizing Prussia as a militaristic state designed to turn citizens into soldiers—likely included because this magazine circulated during or near World War I, making commentary on Prussian militarism topically relevant to American readers. The page reflects early 20th-century *Life* magazine's mixed format of light humor, advertising, and occasional serious commentary.
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THE ONLY TIME TO TRUST IN KINGS Almost Too Much ASHAWAY: Playing tennis with a girl isn’t violent exerci i Cu x: Oh, yes. Very. then, I'm making love to her at the same time, MINIATURES Fragrant Rolls of Choicest Tobacco These “little fellows” come in at the right moment with their ready sympathy and consolation. If you cannot get these delightfal all tobsero short stokes from your dealer, ‘we will send them to you by parcel post. 25 Cents for 10 The Nightingale Cigar Co., Inc. 246 W. 59th Street New York gl Non-skid Safety y) whose action on the slippery pavement t G You can see Al You can feel You can hear All three senses continually reassure you when riding on Pennsylvania Oilproof ‘VACUUM CUP TIRES You can see the car’s undeviating obedi- ence to the wheel on curves or straight- away. You can feel the positive hold of the wheels where you instinctively brace against a slip that doesn’t happen. You can hear the drumming suc- tion purr attesting the action of the strong vacuum cups, the only prin- ciple by which rubber projections can grip a smooth, wet surface. By all these signs you know you're safe Important to bear in mind : The Vacuum Cup suction grip operates only against skidding—it has no retarding effect whatever upon the car. PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER COMPANY, JEANNETTE, PA. Direct factory branches and service agencies throughout the United States and Canada. Independent Company ie Independent. Seling ay COMMITTEE wn Certified average mileage \ A.C. A. official test 6,760 2 miles. ea A Wendell Phillips on Prussia What does Prussia represent? She represents the reorganized feudal system of the nineteenth century. She is a power (as easy to use as to say) marshaled into form by the one purpose of courts and soldiers. She is not a nation; she is an army. Her great pub- lic schools and all her civil life have a great, if not primary, purpose in the design to make men soldiers. Every man of the population—banker, mechanic, tradesman or scholar—everything but the pulpit—goes for the three appointed years into the camp to be disciplined to arms; and Prussia’s policy is an effort to drag the world back three hundred years, She is the great military out- growth, the abnormal monstrosity of the nineteenth century. —Wendell Phillips, in 1873. takes all the odor out of perspiration “Mum”? neutralizes all bodily odors as they occur. Preserves the f natural freshness of the body from bath to bath. A great comfort at all seasons—a neces sity in hot weather. 25c at nine out of ten drug- and department-stores , “MUM” MFG CO 1106 Chestnut St Philadetphis comicbooks.com