Life, 1916-12-07 · page 72 of 94
Life — December 7, 1916 — page 72: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily an **advertising and humor page** from Life magazine, not a political cartoon page. **Main Content:** - **The Hollenden Hotel advertisement** (left): A Cleveland luxury hotel promoting its amenities, cuisine, and room rates to wealthy travelers - **Comic vignettes** (center/right): Four brief humorous sketches depicting everyday social situations: 1. A shopkeeper's absurd sales pitch about tablecloths with borders and centers 2. "Little Miss Muffet" as a distracted Life magazine reader (self-promotional humor) 3. A ghost returning to scare its former victim 4. "Meekness and Cheekiness"—personified Truth literally wrestling with a man - **Fownes Gloves advertisement** (right): Promoting style and comfort in gloves **Historical Context:** This reflects early 20th-century consumer culture and genteel humor. The jokes target middle-class pretension and absurdity in everyday commerce. Nothing here requires specialized historical knowledge beyond understanding this is period advertising mixed with light satirical sketches.
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-CHRISTMAS LIFE: A HOTEL OF DISTINCTION ATRONIZED by distinguished people of every walk in life and from every part of the world, The Hollenden is noted everywhere for the distinctive atmosphere of refinement and faultless service that permeates every department. Centrally situated in the heart of the leading business, banking, theatrical and shopping districts of Cleveland; the most easily accessible first-class hotel from all lake and railway terminals, The Hollen- den affords the utmost convenience to tourists, travellers and others seeking metropolitan service and location. The excellence of the cuisine in the Hollenden’s series of three nationally- known restaurants, numerous private din- ing rooms and great Banquet Hall and Ball Room, the largest between New York and Chicago, never varies. 800 comfortable, modern rooms; the only individual floor service in Ohio and the capacity to seat two thousand diners on the same floor simultaneously, complete but do not exhaust the unchallenged features that distinguish The Hollenden. EUROPEAN PLAN, WITH BATH: For One Person - - For Two Persons - - With Twin Beds -- Suites at various Prices he Hollenden, The New Ball Room Business Methods N elderly lady entered a shop and asked to be shown some table- cloths. The salesman brought a pile and showed them to her, but she said she had seen those elsewhere—nothing suited her, “Haven't you something new?" she asked. The clerk then brought another pile and showed them to her. “These are the newest pattern,” he said. “You will notice that the edge runs right around the border and the center is in the middle.” “Isn't that lovely!” said the lady. “Twill take half a dozen of those.” ITTLE Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffe reading the copy of Lire which, being @ wise young person, she had ordered in advance from her newsdealer. She was so absorbed in it that she paid no attention at all to the big spider that sat down beside her. Lately Returned Wanderer (to An- cestral Spook): ou! so you're sTILL H REMEMBER HOW YOU USED TO MAKE MY HAIR STAND ON END? Meekness and Cheekiness HE MAN: What! Back again? His Worry: Of course; why not? Tue Man: But I had forgotten you. His Worry: Forgotten an old friend? Tue Man: You are not my friend. His Worxy: Is not the Truth your friend? Tue Man (feebly): But perhaps you are not the Truth. His Worry (jumping on his back and getting a strangle hold of his neck): There! Doesn't that feel fa- miliar and real? Tue Max: Oh! Heaven pity me! Wretched man that Iam (He stag- gers off, his Worry waving its arms triumphantly.) doesn’t always mean to be comfortable. But style and comfort are twins in every pair of Fownes gloves. . . Good to look at— Good to wear. OWNES that’s all you need to know about a GLOVE. Pie: [ween oe ma 13S ft el Tost