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Life — June 17, 1915 — page 48: Life, 1915-06-17

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This page contains multiple advertisements and satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine. **Main Advertisement:** "Niagara to the Sea" promotes Canadian Steamship Lines, featuring "Miss Canada" as a romanticized figure representing Quebec's picturesque appeal to tourists. **Satirical Content:** - A piece on summer camps sarcastically argues children should be *separated* from their parents, claiming parental proximity makes children "narrow-minded, cross-grained, barbarous" and that camps will improve parent-child relationships by making offspring see parents "as his peers rather than his inferiors." This is gentle social satire about generational tensions. - A political joke about women's suffrage: a plainly unattractive woman is the "only" eligible female mayoral candidate *because* her unattractiveness won't threaten other women's jealousy enough to vote against her. This reflects early anxieties about women entering politics. **Other Ads:** Hair removal powder, whiskey, and cold cream round out the commercial content—typical period advertising emphasizing appearance and propriety. The page reflects 1910s-era attitudes toward gender, family, tourism, and beauty standards.

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Come—Visit This Quaint Little Lady, in Her Quaint Old Home Europe itself {s not more “old-world” in atmosphero than Quebec. Venice is not more delightful in scenery than the Thousand Islands of the St. Lawrence. The sea-side Is tame compared with a trip down this beautiful river. It’s an enchanted river; and the Saguenay 1s equally Interesting in a different way. Toth are included in the wonderful trip, “Niagara to the Sea,” that costs only $34.55 (return fare, Niagara Falls to Saguenay River). Our beautiful book of views will help you to decide where to go this summer, Have you written for a copy of it yet? Send 6c. in stamps to cover cost of Miss Canada aaailing. as she a pears in icture sque uebec Thos. Henry, Passenger Traffic Manager, Canada Steamship Lines, Limited 101 Victoria Square, Montreal. You Can Remove Hair very easily, in a very few minutes, and without injuring the skin, by regular use of Evans's Depilatory Powder With every package comes a complete outfit, for easy and convenient use. at drug- and department-stores. If SO cents iver hasnt“ Franses send his and so cents for a package postpaid. m hack if you want it Evans‘s Soothing Cream, 25 cents An altogether new kind of colt cream—soothing, as the name implies, GEORGE B EVANS 1108 Chestnut St Philadelphia Pa Camps for Children LL children who have parents should not fail to study up the subject of summer camps. The great advantage of summer camps is that they enable children to get away from their parents. The average child sees altogether too much of its parents, Too close association with one’s immediate progenitors tends to make one narrow-minded, cross- grained, over-sensitive, unduly hypo- critical, crude, careless, barbarous, in- trospective, pessimistic, cynical and unsociable, Even a short term at a summer camp will go a long way toward correcting these little aberra- tions. A child of normal adaptability comes home from such an outing with an entirely new outlook upon family life. He is able thenceforth to meet his parents more as his peers than as his inferiors. Indeed, it is hardly too much to say that summer camps are one of our chief hopes of a satis- factory future. E. 0. J. “It's A LONG WAY To TIPPERARY” Essence of Eligibility GHE is extremely plain, she looks a frump in her clothes, she can neither cook nor play bridge nor dance nor sing nor talk, she has no taste— in short, she is a stupid little nobody.” “ Precisely.” “And still you insist that she is the only woman in town who can be elected Mayor.” “I do. She is the only woman who can be nominated for so high an office without making the rest of the women so jealous they'll vote for the other candidate.” "* Rab, ts it really so that ye can na refilla Carstairs bott'l? *’ “ Well, Tam, I'll never say that anything can na be done since I heard the dominie say that a Camp- bell could gae eight days wi'oot a Carstairs 1788 Rye 1915 E sure you get Carstairs Rye in the non-refillable bottle—“a good bottle to keep good whiskey good.” Men who patronize hotels, clubs and cafés on the “Fifth Avenue’? or ‘‘Broad- way’? of all big cities, are Carstairs’ most loyal supporters. Gentlemen of the ‘old school’? and those of the new, call for Carstairs—and keep it in their homes. STEWART DISTILLING CO. Philadelphia New York Baltimore Wear my and your Th Wale Dic (Cent Th worth Th ward cloth, The Chatr introd Dutto 70 cel Wis worth cents Jose Jacob 35 ce comicbooks.com