Life, 1916-12-14 · page 40 of 42
Life — December 14, 1916 — page 40: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page combines **advertisements and a cartoon**: ## Cartoon (Bottom Right) A hippo matron asks a shop clerk if he has larger hats, implying her enormous head size. The clerk directs her to the "clothes baskets in the basement"—a joke suggesting she's too large for normal merchandise and should look among storage items instead. It's straightforward physical comedy mocking obesity, typical of early 20th-century humor. ## Advertisements The page primarily advertises Clysmic lithiated table water (left), promoting its health benefits; Pinehurst, North Carolina as a winter resort destination (top right); and a Life Publishing Company book of prize-winning short stories (center). The Pinehurst ad notably states "**No consumptives received**"—explicitly excluding tuberculosis patients, reflecting era-specific health anxieties and segregation practices. The overall content reflects 1920s concerns: patent medicines, leisure travel marketing, and popular entertainment publications.
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inghurst — Wh t * NORTH CAROLINA, a 1S Center of Winter out-of-door life ie 9 in the Middle South Cl SmIc v4 : Four Excellent Hotels | The Carolina Hotel and Cottages now z 1 | open, 3 A lithiated table water Holly Inn, Berkshire and Harvard open eatly 4 with taste, tang, sparkle - in January. Three 18-hole golf courses and a new 9-hole and health in every drop. course: Tennis. Horse racing. Frequent trotting, running and steeple chasing by horses from private stables. EXCELLENT NEW ROADS IN A RADIUS OF S50 MILES OR MORE 15 grains of Lithia Salts to the gallon. Sold everywhere in splits, pints and quarts only. Through Pullman Service from New York ; ; cd ashington via are ytd zine, Ry. nly one night out from New York, Don’t accept ordinary waters. Boston, Buffalo, Cleceland, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati. No consumptives received at Pinehurst Insist on genuine Send for illustrated booklet giving full information The Cyr ie Sprtogs WAUKESHA. WIS. Short Stories From “LIFE” The 81 Best Stories in “‘LIFE’S’”’ Prize Contest With an Introduction by THOMAS L. MASSON Managing Editor of “LIFE” ““7 IFE’S”’ unique contest—to discover how short a short story can be—aroused great interest among American writers. More than 30,000 MSS. were received. Of these the stories which appear in this book were selected as the best. They are vivid, unconventional stories, some by established writers and some by “dark horse’” authors. It cost “‘LIFE”’ more than $12,000 to gather these stories. The reader may here en- joy the cream of the collection. Net, $1.25 By Post, $1.36 Mrs, Hippo: TWEse WATS SEEM A TRIFLE SMALL. HAVE YOU LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY ANYTHING LARGER? 17 West 3lst Street, New York “(VM APRAID NOT, MADAM; BUT YOU'LL FIND THE CLOTHES BASKETS IN THE BASEMENT.” “PETER J, CAREY, PRINTER comicbooks.com