Life, 1900-07-05 · page 6 of 20
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# "Why He Didn't Get Home to Dinner" This four-panel comic depicts a man's comedic misadventures preventing him from reaching home for dinner. The sequence shows: a well-dressed gentleman encountering various obstacles—apparently getting caught in rain, struggling with an umbrella, being knocked down or tangled up, and ultimately colliding with other pedestrians or objects on a city street. The humor relies on slapstick physical comedy typical of early-20th-century Life magazine humor—the contrast between the man's formal attire and dignified bearing versus his increasingly disheveled state. The title suggests domestic comedy about a husband's excuses for tardiness, a common theme in period humor about urban middle-class life and marital expectations.
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*LIPE* The Latest Books. WHY HE DION'T GET HOME TO DINNER. he West End. Dy Vercy White. New York: Harper and Brothers. $1.00. book, being the entertaining history of the social rise of a rich’ London manufacturer of strawberry fe. written from the ightfully cynical vie pled nephe er acting us his secre- tary. The latter portion of the story contains a vivid picture of the effects upon Landon society of the earl defeats of the present war. London to Ladysmith. By Winston Spencer Churchill. New York, London and Bombay : Longmans, Green and Company. Mr. Churchill's account ot his personal expe i his captu and escape, iv ii his frank justice is refreshing afte Ralph's tirades. It isa pity that he could not have re- ers before their in book form, as ‘y in many rs y ve lost the interest AT;UFE'S FARM y doubtless had at the COMING HOME PROM A WALK. moment of their publ n in the columns of the Post, Our Fresh-Air Fund. The Knights of the Cross, ‘Two . By Henryk Previously acknowledged $1208.84 o a tie) Fay School Penny 1, 5 1307 Sienkiewiez. Boston: Little, In Memoriam, 3.00 Co & Manny 330 Brown and Company 00 3 00 J-written and well 10 09 ed story of Ic 30 ure and war in Poland 10 00 the fifteenth century, leading up to the overthrow of the military order of the Knights of the Cross. ‘The book is unnecessaril uubtless our No Inducement. m4 d fewer books at their on - . disposal than we. IRST MILLION AIRE: I offered A Dream of a Throne, By that horrible beggar one thousand exe. eure, Hoaton dollars a year to keep off the street. 4 hittle, Brown and Com SECOND MILLIONAIRE: Didheaccept? "4 Mexican histo “Oh, no. He said he couldn’t afford which i it.” I nor very GREAT PUBLISHER: Tt looks as find that he hos, been Were going to have some around: in a small lost, as it were, in a Ii trouble catching old Kruger. blizzard Assistant: It does, indeed. “Well, you would better arrange to yy) yruan Mee. New York have our volume ‘From Cape Town and London: Harper and to Pretoria’ followed by another to be [brothers, called ‘From Pretoria to Kruger.’ ” This lady is apparently A Diplomatic Woman,