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# Explaining Life Magazine's Humor to Modern Readers This page contains several short humorous anecdotes typical of *Life*'s satirical style: **"Poor Man"** mocks masculine pretense—a man brave enough to face lions and tigers cowers when his wife presents him a homemade nightshirt, undermining his heroic image. **The "Raw Meat" cartoon** satirizes art dealing and consumer gullibility: an artist rubs raw meat on a rabbit painting to attract a wealthy woman's pet dog, banking on her buying the picture based on her dog's reaction rather than artistic merit. **The Compositor joke** ridicules workplace dishonesty with ironic twist: a printing worker claims moral superiority for returning a misplaced letter to the correct type case—St. Peter rejects him for being a "bad liar" who doesn't even lie convincingly. **The Burglar anecdote** uses ironic understatement: a burglar attributes his crime to spring house-cleaning exposing him, not criminality. These pieces reflect *Life*'s focus on middle-class follies, hypocrisy, and social pretension through brief, punchy narratives rather than visual caricature.

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- LIFE: SS AT Dg HER braved the lion in his den, And plowed the angry wave, With fear bis face had never blanched ‘Whenever he was shaved. In shadowy jungles of the East The tiger he had played ; But he quailed when his wife presented him With a night shirt she had made, —Clothier and Furnisher. Waex Lord Aberdeen was dying, a party of gentlemen were traveling up to town in traia, among them was Delane, of the London 7imes, who took a printed slip out of weket and read portions of it, It was the obituary notice. Allcriticised it and found mas faults. One said it did not deal fairly with him. All I can say is,” said the oe, “that he has approved it himself !"—Argonaut, FRIEND: What on earth are you doing to that picture? Great Artist: Lam rubbing a piece of raw meat over this rabbit in the fore- ground. Mrs, De Shoddie will be here this afternoon, and when she seesher pet dog smell Of that rabbit, she'll buy it.—New York Weekly. Tite French Marshal Vivonne and the Comte d'Auvergne were probably the most corpulent gentlemen of the court in Louis the Fourteenth’ time. Marshall, you are really getting too fat,” said the king ; ‘ you ought to take more exercise.” *+Vour majesty does not know then ‘that I take a great deal of exercise ?” “No; what do you do ?” “| walk around the Comte d'Auvergne three times every day.”—Argonaut, Missionary ; Was it liquor that brought you to this ? Imprisoned BURGLAR: No sir; it was house-cleanin'—Spring house-cleanin’, sir. MISSIONARY: Eh? House-cleaning ? BURGLAR: Yessir, The woman had been house-cleanin’ and th’ stair-carpet was up, an’ th’ folks heard me.—New York Weekly. 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