Life, 1915-06-10 · page 5 of 48
Life — June 10, 1915 — page 5: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising**, not satire. The dominant right-side content advertises Waterman's Ideal Fountain Pen, emphasizing its new "Pocket Self-Filler" model as ideal for vacation travel, available in multiple sizes and prices ($2.50-$5.00). The left side contains two unrelated items: 1. **"A Royal Flush"** — a small cartoon sketch (artist credited as "LIFE" artist) depicting an elaborate court scene, likely satirizing aristocratic excess or pretense. 2. **"Query"** — a philosophical text questioning whether human achievement justifies continued violence and warfare, arguing that crime and war may be worse uses of human capacity than ever before. 3. **Hotel Biltmore advertisement** marketing New York's premier business and social venue. The page represents typical Life magazine mixed content: advertising, light social commentary, and philosophical musing.
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A New Type “The Pocket Self-Filler” the latest To those who prefer a fountain pen of the self-filling type, this announcement is of special interest. Itintroduces the most important development in self-filling fountain pens— a new Pocket Self-Filler that is distinctly Waterman's Ideal throughout, possessing all the superior qualities and exclusive features of the Regular type, plus the convenience of auto- matic filling direct from the ink supply. Simply raise and lower the lever, with the point in the ink, and it fills immediately. The lever snaps down and forms an absolute lock of the ink tube. This is the perfect pen for your vacation equipment. > ia Made in a wide assortment of Query sizes, including short size for LL the noble deeds that ever were, Ness pocket oF puree: gathered together in a kind of $2.50, $4.00, $5.00 and up. convention, The best stores ii init here sell is combining nowa- everyw J Waterman's ; aia we might as b Ideals. In ad- well meet and see if we can determine, ; dition to the after all, whether we have been of any é Pocket Self. i real use. Each one of us has per- ‘ Filler, ask to ustrated formed his act, for the good of the } seetheReg- ¢ Folder on human race. But, after all, is the ular and ’ Request human race any better than before we Safety hegan? People are still killing each f types. other, and on a more gigantic scale than ever before. If crime and war and all the bad things are worse than they ever were, what, then, has been the use of any of us?” A ROYAL FLUSH HOTEL + * BILTMORE NEW YORK Safeguard yourself against substitutes by seeing he center of | the Waterman's Ideal Trademark on cach pon. Business and L. E. Waterman Company, 173 Broadway, New York. Social Li fe of San Francisco Montreal London Paris Buenos Aires the Metr. opolis Enthusiasms 1000-OUTSIDE ROOMS ANY of us have come into contact with that person who goes into ecstasies JOHN MCE.BOWMAN q over some piece of literature to which her attention has been called, and then serenely drops it half way through, when she thinks possibly that your own attention has been distracted from it, and that you won't find her out We say “her” advisedly, because it usually is a her. Most men are perhaps too 2 __ stupid or too busy trying to make money to cultivate false enthusiasms. YOU CAN SLEEP The extent of their false enthusiasms, indeed, is often the main difference he- after sunrise, SEE sleeping porch, or camping, tween men and women. Enthusiasm is a “faculty divine” when it is genuine. Its if you wear aB.K.B. It ts comfortably over the aa ‘ ‘eves, will not fall off, nduces as well as pro- steady driving power in man has been the cause of more great deeds than any other longs sleep. Sent postpaid for 25 cents. $ for $1.00 force. fn women it is likely into. hysteri j ay i : y to run into hysterics or to die away into mere echoes. NIGHT MFG. CO., 6 Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass, | »