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This page from *Life* magazine combines satirical humor with period advertisements (circa early 1900s). **The Cartoons:** "Our Foolish Contemporaries" features short humorous vignettes mocking everyday social situations: a boy playing truant to swim, tourists at Yellowstone Park, Newfoundlanders salvaging shipwrecks, and various comedic dialogues about courtship, drinking, and seasickness. The humor relies on wordplay, dialect, and gentle mockery of human nature rather than specific political targets. **The Advertisements:** The page includes vintage product ads: Trimble Whiskey (patriotic messaging), Mennen's talcum powder, Whitman's chocolates, Dermophile underwear (guaranteed not to shrink), and Missouri Pacific Railway vacation packages to the Rockies. **Social Context:** The advertisements reveal period values: personal grooming, patriotic consumption ("support America's cause"), luxury travel, and the novelty of guaranteed manufacturing standards. The humor reflects early-20th-century class attitudes and gender dynamics typical of *Life*'s middle-class readership.

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“OUR FOOLISH ou do drink, drink Tr; ONTEMPORARIES A iE ye pps Mle THE SUMMER TRUANT. Lots 0° things to do at home— Grass is needin’ trimmin’, But—down by the river bank I'm strippin’ off fer swimmin’! “Splash !" goes the water, Cool as cool kin An’ keeps the grown folks wisbin* “It’s good to be merry and wise, . . . It’s good to support America's cause, Yellowstone Park, the wonderland And bide by the Red, White and blic, suggests primitive accommodations Blue.”” In fact you can go there in a p: car and be tertained in luxury In the most modern of hot during your stay. Think it over. = Tur peoplo who Ive along the Newfoundland : rim coast are expert wreckers; tot that they wreck Y re ships to rob them, but they know how to get every- @ rim thing from a wrecked vessel. The priest at Tre- passey, near Cape Race, was dining one day with ER 2: Green Bae the lal Bishop Power, of St. Johns. “How will At All First-Class Dealers. your people get along this winter?” said the Bishop. 'y well, my lord,’ was the priest's cheerful swer, “with the help of God—and a few wrecks.” = New York Tribune. \ Epoxwoop Ixx, Greenwich, Conn. The most popular M E N N E N Ss summer revorthoeloa the Sound store for ele Sew BORATED TaLcUM vv Chocolates York people, Open from May T oO I L E T sand COnfectio ° ns aasocares ili you tn current ioron oft POWDER Oe ca Purple Peony is a swell one from a literary stand- for After Shayne When the sweet tooth point. peed Sot ae hance ye calls for candy Waccsey: That so? What is the name of ff The wisdom tooth says your contribution ?—Baltimore American ene? . WHITMAN'S. Percy: Everwy time I call on Miss Wisely I—aw—find her out, doncher know. Jack: Why don’t you call around some time when she fsn't expecting you?—Chicago Daily News. Your basiness cares will vanish if you always call for “* She Finest Obtainable.” Cook's Imperial Extra Dry, when you drink Champa; VACATION sous fn hn sve es i ae IN THE ROCKIES. pusher. All looks before me,” gasped the subscriber, “I s © editor. Made in France of the best and Low Excursion Fares via oF | vee the blaze in about ten "—Ex- most carefully selected wool éhange for Men, Women and Children. . UEPNUNEETIO| ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED ANTANNO: I wonder if Gabsky will recite for me at my little party this evening? NOT TO SHRINK Dvuzxo: He will unless you know some as yet or Money Refunded. undiscovered way to prevent him.—Baltimore Ps prey) individually treated by a secres American. process which makes it positively unshrinkable. under any conditions, and at the same tine strength: gs tne fibre and preserves its beautiful sctiness Creme tate @ - DERMOPHILE—Friend to the Skin’ From ST. LOUIS to ura Bitters, Atdn 2. costs no mere than SHRINKABLE MAKES ot Sar H sess hy sas sn iacemememmmmmeme | Colorado, Utah and Pacific Coast, you see he's drunk? Ask to see the Summer Connection with all lines from the East. t drunk—why, I seed ‘is ‘and eg eBicoklet free on appli Through Pullman Sleeping Cars. Dining Cars soy on all trains, Meals a la carte, “ANY objections to my smoking bere?" asked Ny The DermophileCo sively cheerful man, as the vessel gave 4 another disquieting lurch 456 Broome St., None,” replied the pale chap in tho steamer New York. chair, ‘“here—or hereafter!"—Cincinnati Com- : mercial Tribune. ' Write for booklets. WM. E. HOYT, General Eastern Passenger Agent, 335 Broapway, New Yore. comicbooks.com