Life, 1902-12-18 · page 3 of 26
Life — December 18, 1902 — page 3: what you’re looking at
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**Main Image**: "Ich Liebe Dich" ("I Love You" in German) - A sentimental portrait of a young woman in a contemplative pose, surrounded by romantic poetry about December and winter themes. **"Evolution" Section**: A satirical commentary on Pilgrim ancestry and social attitudes. The text critiques self-complacency among descendants of Pilgrims, arguing that focusing exclusively on useful hereditary traits while ignoring less desirable ones represents flawed thinking. It suggests this selective pride is inappropriately "out of place" in modern society. **Joke Panel**: A brief comedic anecdote about a telephone proposal and rejection, playing on emerging telephone technology as a modern courtship tool. The page blends sentimental imagery with social satire typical of early 20th-century Life magazine.
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, melancholy ! Away with thee! Here's time of holly And Christmas glee. Here's ruddy ember At close of day. Here's blithe December To make us gay. With cheeks a tingle We take the air; And here's Kris Kringle Who bids us share His teeming measure— Come, fill the bowl! We'll drink our pleasure With this kind soul. Evolution, HE incident of three women being overcome by the fumes of tobacco at the recent banquet of the descendants of the Pilgrims of the Mayflower presents an inter- esting study in evolution, discovering as it does the persistence of the useful attributes of chargcter, through heredity, to the exclusion of the less useful. Self-complacency is a valuable qual- ity in business, and Pilgrim self-com- placency perdures. Abstemiousness, on the other hand, never created a new market for any- thing, and long since fell by the wayside. As for common courtesy, this has been brought in mostly by Latin races ignorant of our institutions. It would be singularly out of place at a banquet of the children of the Pilgrims. proposed to her by “FTE “« What was her answer?” “She told him to ring off.”" tele- December !—Smiling, We yield to thee : With hours beguiling Thy sway shall be Complete. Come, whiten Thy fir-trimmed ways! With sleigh-bells brighten Thy frost-touched days. May all thy mornings With brightness break : With glad adornings Thy shadows make; And in thy hallways, To crown our bliss, May there be always A girl to kiss! Tom Masson. Willie Fly; TaLk anovt youn movino s1pE- ‘WaLKs! comicbooks.com