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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page (Volume XXIX, Number 747) This page contains a poem titled "When Ruby's in the Choir" by Roy Farrell Greene, accompanied by an illustration of a church choir scene. The poem celebrates a singer named Ruby whose voice during choir performance moves the narrator spiritually—her singing makes him forget worldly concerns and focus on heavenly matters. Below are two brief humor pieces: "To Be Modest" presents a joke about appropriate dress hemlines for young women, and a "Professor in Physiology Class" joke plays on a double entendre about the "olfactory organ" (nose), with a student's innocent misinterpretation creating the humor. The page reflects early 20th-century magazine humor and genteel sensibilities.
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HEN Ruby sings the songs of praise, I quite forget my worldly ways, And only list angelic lays, Her voice soars high and higher; It seems that c’en the minister In glances gives his love to her, Nor text to him doth e’er recur, When Ruby's in the choir. Her prayerful pleadings seem to rise, Appealing both to weak and wise, Until they reach the vaulted skies And join with angel lyre; And yet I fear the songs that roll In tuneful rhyme to Heaven's goal Beseech the heart instead of soul— When Ruby's in the choir. Roy Farrel! Greene. TO BE MODEST. )ROFESSOR in Physiology Class: HERE are no benches along Can you tell me which is the the path that leads to Success. woman lift her dress? olfactory organ ? ——— He: She should lift it a little over Srupent (unprepared): No, sir. T’S not so much whata girl knows two feet, Correct.” as how she learned it. HE: How high should a young comicbooks.com