Life, 1919-05-15 · page 6 of 50
Life — May 15, 1919 — page 6: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising rather than political satire**. The dominant content is a Whitman's Sampler chocolate advertisement featuring a decorative wooden sampler frame (referencing needlework samplers). The ad emphasizes the product's long candy-making tradition ("three quarters of a century") and nationwide availability. The right column contains unrelated content: a poem titled "The Crossing" about Maiden Lane in New York City, and brief comedic exchanges ("Leave It to the Politician," "Poor Mother") that appear to be humor filler rather than serious satire. Additional ads for Hotel Aspinwall and Cuesta-Rey cigars occupy the bottom portion. The page reflects Life magazine's mixed business model combining light humor with commercial advertisements.
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The pattern of good candy The quaint wooden frame in which the old-time sampler was usually embroidered held the canvas of the needlework- er’s art. Some samplers, started early in life and added to from year to year, expressed a whole life-time of artistic effort. “started in 1842”—sums up the Whitman’s Sampler three quarters of a century we have devoted to the art of making candy and making it good. Each of the sweets in the Sampler tells, in its own origi- nal and delightful way, why Whitman’s candies are famous throughout a whole continent. Selections from ten of our most favored packages are contained in the Sampler. Sold all over the United States by Whitman agents—usually the better drug stores. Every package guaranteed by the agent and by us. STEPHEN F. WHITMAN & SON, Inc., Philadelphia, U. S. A. Makers of Whitman's Instantaneous Chocolate, Cocoa and Marshmallow Whip T lovely Hatusab had just emerged from the bath, Per- fumed and rosy, surrounded by her ladies and slaves, she sought the com- pany of her lord and master, the illus- trious Psattichus IT, who at this hour always had for her his happiest smile. But she had forgotten, This was Tues- day, and he was absorbed in the new copy of Lire, to which he, being an unusually wise monarch, was a regular, annual subscriber. =REAO THE WHITE STAMP ON CACH BOX— HOTEL ASPINWALL LENOX, MASS. High and Cool in the Berkshires 0, i A MOTEL OF DISTINCTION Pee exirable Cottages with Hori Son Meee JOWE & TWOROGER, Managers er Resort, Princess Hotel, Bermuda The Crossing AIDEN LANE runs 1 a West And likewise West and There all maiden charms ai And maiden foibles least Ladd Street courses North And likewise There the lads with heart Forever sally forth, th and } Maiden Lane and Ladd Str As in ac And there the hesit. First linger in romance. Many maidens faring forth, Who wander East Meet the lads from Who love them most anc nd Wes Many are the cornered str From Broadway back to \ But none can ch where Str And corners Maiden I ir bears sweet arden-plots e stony sidew derful pla turned soldiers.” “What is it?” “Why, he would have propriated for erecting monuments in every cour United States, and then pi diers to work building ther Poor Mother ITTL TOMMY: What does close quarters” mean, Ma? Weary Motner: It's a definition of His my trying to get twenty-five vl heth your father. th = We Exclusive Havana Cigar MADE IN BOND U.S. GUARANTEE