Life, 1916-08-24 · page 34 of 42
Life — August 24, 1916 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page from Life magazine (appears to be early 1900s) is primarily **advertising with satirical humor sections**. The main content includes: **Satirical Snippets** ("Our Foolish Contemporaries"): Short joke pieces mocking contemporary attitudes, including: - Universal compulsion to propose laws - A judge criticizing a clumsy liar - Uncertainty about Mexico's status (likely referencing early 1900s U.S.-Mexico tensions) - A woman asking her husband to help make salad **Large Advertisement**: Bell-Ans indigestion remedy dominates the center, claiming to "absolutely remove indigestion." **Other Ads**: Bacardi cocktails, Egyptian Deities cigarettes, Rythmodik music rolls, Carstairs whiskey, and Abbott's bitters fill the margins. **Bottom Cartoon**: A "shrewd sportsman" caught with out-of-season fish warns his companion to lie to authorities ("promise to swear you saw me catch them") as the game warden approaches—satirizing casual dishonesty about hunting regulations. The page reflects turn-of-century American consumer culture and genteel humor about social pretension.
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330. OUR FO ° LI SH CONTEMPORARIES LA = — The Universal Mania Lives there a man with soul so dead Who never to the world has said In thunder tones inspiring awe: “They really ought to pass a law"? —The Sun. BACARDE Makes The Perfect Cocktail, Rickey or Mshball, Try ttt To Help Him Out “You are lying so clumsily,” said the observant judge to a litigant who was king a dubious statement of his case, at T would advise you to get a law- yer."—Browning's Magazine. In or Out? Ksickex: The campaign issue will be Mexico. Bocker: But the President himself does not know whether Mexico is an issue or an entrance.—The Sun, GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER 5O cents the case of 6 glass stoppered bottles Pater: Who is making that infernal jangle on the piano? Maren: That's Constance at her exer- cise. Patek: Well, for heaven's sake, tell her to get her exercise some other way. —Boston Transcript, “Hunpy, I've often heard you speak about your salad days.” “Yes, my dear.” “Can't you help me make a salad for my reception? I must have one, and I know nothing about the dreadful things.” —Louisville Courier-Journal. GORDON BEVERAGES—GIN_ RICKEY, Di- rections: 1 piece of ice in glass, Juice of half a Lime, drop squeezed Lime in glass, Drink Gordon Dry Gin, fill glass with fizz water. Stir with spoon j and serve. Since 1788, a shining example of ‘Made in America” quality. EGYPTIAN DEITIES “The Utmost in $ Plan End orCork Tip PREFER Deities Mate the Le Turkish ond Epps Coreen | BELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package | proves it. 25c at all druggists. “Godowshi”’ has made a wonderful record of Liszt's Concert Etude Number Two (N.14184) for piano-players on YTHMODI RECORD MUSIC ROLLS Ask your music dealer to play this for you—hear Godowski himself. Write for complete catalogue and monthly bulletins of new Rythmodiks. Address Dept. A. PIANO In the protective bottle— “a good bottle to keep good whiskey good.” A Sherbet is mate tasty and de! Bitters. “A MILLionaiRe boasts that he leads the simple life “T doubt it.” “What are your ideas on the sub- ject?” “Well, when a person sleeps in a hall bedroom, eats in a cafeteria, wears a nine-dollar suit of clothes, and secs a movie show that cosis more than a'nickel, I should say he was leading the simple life.” —Birmingham Age-Herald, never Sample of bitters by mail, 25 cts. in stamps. C. Abbott & Co., Baltimore, Md. Shrewd Sportsman (who has bonght a string of fish): Mal mat now ¥ PROMISE TO SWEAR THAT YOU SAW catch Them! “You ert Witt! Ties risit 1S oT O° SEASON, AN’ HERE COMES THE GAME WARDEN.” ME fal by using Abbott's Ww