Life, 1916-06-15 · page 45 of 48
Life — June 15, 1916 — page 45: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising** with a brief humorous anecdote at the bottom. The ads promote Detroit-era automotive and household products: Detroit Springs lubricating oil (guaranteed two years), Delco electric car systems (cranking, lighting, ignition), and Congress Bicycle playing cards. The editorial content includes a nostalgic essay criticizing modern heating stoves—lamenting that old-fashioned parlor stoves with "good-natured, glowing sides" have been replaced by impersonal, inefficient steam heating plants run by syndicates and plumbers with questionable morals. The author views this as moral decline. The final joke concerns an immigration naturalization test where an Italian applicant, Enrico Ufuzzi, is asked to distinguish between the powers of the English king and U.S. President. His answer—"King, he got steady job"—is presented as humorous malapropism, playing on immigrant unfamiliarity with American civics and accent stereotypes common to early-20th-century American humor.
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HENthe call of the great Are Guaranteed outdo ors for Two Years lures us far from ELECTRIC Double the garages and repair x AR CRANKING shops, we want a suf. LICHTING car that will take us i out—and bring us back again. Ordinary Guaranty IGNITION DETROIT STEEL PRODUCTS CO. Detroit Michigan Stoves HEN will somebody invent a fit substitute for stoves? For many years now stoves have been deteriorat- ing in character. They are no longer individual, personal. The old-fash- ioned stove, with its good-natured, glowing sides, throwing out warmth and sunshine, drawing all the bad air out of the room, was always the center of an admiring circle. Resorts The morality of stoves has been dis- Three hundred and eighty thousand owners of cars t one of tinetly lowered. Those goodiy scions equipped with Delco Electric Cranking, Lighting and immnods of, the past: Have:degenerated into) the Ignition are experiencing in their ev eryday driving ery taste steam heating plants of the present. he éfic dcdependability of th D leo Syst 1 Cha run by syndicates and automatically the efhciency and dependability of the Delco system. he most adjusted. Any intimate cooperation e of the with them is impossible. They are pas- sionless, Their only aim is to burn up pointed Night and day they labor un- eonsingly to support a few coal barons juxury. There is no efficiency about The Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company them, They waste all the way from Dayton, Ohio eighty to ninety per cent. They never tise above the standard of morality adopted by the local plumber. What that standard is—God forbid that we should dwell upon it. nation at Union Hill, New Jersey, as to ss PLAYING ING, ci ARDS s3ros Some Job “Can you tell me,” said the Court, ‘ on addressing Enrico Ufuzzi, under any = y | his qualifications for citizenship, “ the difference between the powers and pre- For Social Play E UP IOOATE Use Paine’s Trays rogatives of the King of England and ccpalnty, beaotiful art backe in fall 1 HOYLE IPD For Duplicate Auction and other those of the President of the United (Sovdaish makes dcaiinga pleanure: OF CARD GAMES Sera eet On Obtain free States?" Air-Coshion Finish Club Indexes geo —issuep your dealer oF from us direct, “Yerzir,” spoke up Ufuzzi, promptly. “King, he got steady jot THE U.S. PLAYING CARD CO. CINCINNATI, U.S.A. —New York Morning Telegraph. comicbooks.com