Life, 1917-05-10 · page 42 of 46
Life — May 10, 1917 — page 42: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising and advice columns** rather than political satire. The main elements are: **Left side**: A charity appeal from the Volunteer Hospital's Social Service requesting old clothing donations for discharged patients lacking funds. This reflects early-20th-century philanthropic concerns about patient welfare. **Center**: A large advertisement for Stewart Hartshorn shade rollers with Oswego/Chouaguen cloth, promoting window treatments as essential home décor. **Right side**: An advertisement for Collins-System automobile curtains, positioning them as necessary car accessories. **Upper right**: A brief column on "Points on Punctuation," offering grammar advice with humorous examples of over-punctuated sentences—satirizing overzealous punctuation rather than commenting on politics or society. **Lower right**: A small cartoon showing a suspicious employer questioning an older man about taking his grandmother's funeral afternoon off—gentle workplace humor. The page reflects 1910s-20s consumer culture, charitable concerns, and educational content typical of Life magazine's format.
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Have You Any Old Clothes to Help Us Out? The Social Service of the Volunteer Hospital re- ports more than 1,000 pieces of clothing have been given away by them since January Ist, and there are no funds or clothing left to ft out patients when they leave the hospital, To discharge the patients 20 that they shall problems ro hag fa chance in her bh for Tiers one of the bie ‘Socal Servige works, They canse sccere poudeus they are decently dothed. Won't You Help Us to Solve This Problem? Points on Punctuation Points [Tiscasyenough to punctuate properly ; if one will only bear in mind? that the object is to! convey one’s meaning with the least, possible strain on the reader and with the minimum, of ambiguity: Anybody knows of course where to put a question mark? So also the period. Is not at all difficult to handle but when it? comes to the comma, the semi-colon; and the colon: the tyro is more, likely to become confused the For years almost every woman has known and used Hartshotn Rollers, And almost_everyone has known the splendid quality of Oswego or These Curtains Are Essential To Complete Car-Enjoyment Collins-System Curtains—the origi- nal always ready automobile curtains— are regular equipment on the cars of mastered the comma, the rest is com- __ Clothing of every kind for every age or any money contribu- comma, is most common because usu- auality in every price.class, . sens wil be moat rately accopted., Sead dc o the Sesal ally it can be made to do when you of the way when got Io og od cat ( York Gity, ot upon teecpt of postal or telephone (Beekman 41) don't know what else to do. we the curtains oot of the way again es the Comertice will wend for your package, punee ihe Secu canon Se S~- SYS: ( ‘CURTAINS, ( = the You can have Coltine-System Curtains on any car you bay, Hf yeu tasist on them, ( You'lite giad, maay a Cie, that you dit ia: les: sist. But be sure to look for the latel shown: ess below “itis vour gearamty agaiostinitations. fai JACKSON TOP COMPANY He Jackson, Michigan ‘ Collins *=7 Curtains ou License No. K18996 Ces Fy TOP CO. JACKSON, OCH. DIVISION—NOVELTY LEATHER WORKS too ( Leese ees ee eee tior ~ ( culi A good rule is that he punctuates best who punctuates least. If it seems _ to you that you, are using too many OSWEGO punctuation points, many of them, can and alt be eliminated perhaps by, a better ar- CHOUAGUEN rangement of the, words. Take this sentence? “Percy, the poet, was, they Shade Cloth say, a man, who, when, at thirty, or Make Your Windows Attractive thereabouts, he wooed, won and wed, : The choosing of wall coverings and draperies, the not bonny, buxom Bertha, but the lai { blending of color schemes the placing of rare curios guishing, lithe, limpid, Luella McGi E and “objects d’art” and the hanging of pictures nis, daughter of McGinnis, the Mag- are important. But what about your windows?— nate, could not, or, at least, did not, sce Do not neglect the most important part—the shades. Unless pani han his facher-taclaw’ your shades are in harmony with the color scheme of your any further than his father-in-law’s, Foome—unless you can depend on them a to fade nor crack McGinnis, the magnate’s, income.” —unless you know that they will always hang smooth and Any straightand roll upevenly, youcannot have beautiful windows, . Anyonevcanyisee that tat sentence is enormously overcommaed. Having Chouaguen Shade cloth. Now you can get the standard shade roller and the standard shade cloth—both at the same time—for Hartshorn Rollers now control the great factories in which Oswego and Chou: Shade Cloth is made. Know the joy of having yourwindowsperfectty equ with these shades of firmtextured, ‘ly woven fabric that will not tear, crack, fade or ravel Send Today for Charming Book “Shade Craft and Harmonious Decoration.’’ written especially for us by Alice Burrell Irvine, a specialist on interior decoration. In this book Mrs. Irvine tells you how the homes of wealthy New Yorkers are furnished. ‘She gives you valuable decorative ideas that you can carry out in every room in your home. § shows you how to create the effect—at a fraction ie Of the expense—of the richly fur- z 5 ; 3 ] = nished homes of Fifth Avenue. : . Send the coupon at once. paratively easy. STEWART HARTSHORN CO, le 4 j STEWART HARTSHORN 250 Fitth Ave., New York sara . “ he COMPANY “sade Cratand Harmonies Wecordtn oe : B A 250 Fifth Avenue Name Suspicious Employer: viv your New York City Address GRANDMOTHER'S FUNERAL TAKE ALL THE coc : > O———_—___— AFTERNOON ? Polder « R—YES, SIR—ER—IT WAS A DOUBL!- ene HEADER.” comicbooks.com