Life, 1903-07-30 · page 8 of 24
Life — July 30, 1903 — page 8: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three separate humorous pieces: **"Just One"** (left): A sketch showing a man on an elevated road asking a woman below if she can "hold on for a little while," referencing "elevated roads" he's been riding "all my life." The satire appears to mock romantic persistence or unrealistic male expectations in courtship. **"Lovers Union"** (center): A heart-shaped advertisement parodies personal ads, listing humorous dating requirements like "Love for Love's Sake," "American Girl," "No Marriage for Love," and specifications about parental non-interference. This satirizes the commercialization of romance and the absurdity of reducing relationships to transactional checklists. **"Brothers," "Moments of History," and brief jokes** (right): Various short satirical pieces about coincidence, misunderstanding, and professional incompetence, typical of Life's miscellaneous humor format.
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“CaN YOU MOLD ON POR A LITTLE wmiLE?* “waar DO YOU THINK I'VE BEEN RIDING ON TUE ELEVATED RoaDs POR ALL MY LIPE Just One. _A BROW is often beautified by just one curl, A real pain caused by champagne and but just one bird, ‘A man may stake his happiness on just one girl And have it blessed or blighted then by just one word. A ball-game’s winning oft depends on just one run, A train of woes find recompense in just one bliss, ‘The earth is golden-glorified by just one sun,— But what man’s ever satisfied with ‘just one kiss"? Roy Farrell Greene, Moments of History. GSEERING into the private box over the arena, Nero was about to press the button that gave the signal to the wild beasts, when the keeper of the menagerie ap- proached deferentially. . “Emperor,” he observed, ‘sorry to disappoint you, but these Christians will have to wait. At present we are all out of lions.”” “ As if,"’ said Nero, “ that made any difference. Fill the arena with victims as usual, the more the merrier, while I will lend you iny new automobile.” Strenuous. Priest KATYDID: Why didn’t you come before? Sgoonp Katypip : Were you calling? “Was I calling? legs are?" Don’t you see how hoarse my AMERICAN MAN, NO anniaces ren Maney, No « Titees, No. : No PARENTAL INTERFERANCE TOLERATED, NO CHAPERONS Wanten, LONGER Stoonine nouns SHORTER Encacemenrs, D CUPID DULCATE Ar Lancs, A WALKING DELEGATE, Brothers. (py strangers once met each other on a highway. They were about to pass without salutation, when, simultaneously, each seemed to recognize in the other *, some semblance to himself. And so they stopped and talked. “When I first looked at you,” said the one, ‘‘ you seemed totally unlike anything I had seen before. Buta second glance convinced me that this was not so. It then came to me that in reality you were very much like myself.”” “The same thing occurred to me when I looked at you,”” replied the other. ‘t Who are you, anyway ?"’ The first stranger smiled a singular smile. “Tam,” he replied, ‘an illusion, Men are always seek- ing me, but when they find me, I am entirely different from what they thought. And what, pray, are you?" “Tam also an illusion,” replied the second stranger. “Men are always trying to avoid me, and yet, when I over- take them, I am entirely different from what they thought. We are, then, both illusions.’’ ‘¢'Yes."" “ And what is your name?’’ “Tam called Happiness. And yours?’’ “Tam called Unhappiness,”’ T.M. yee SPECIALIST : Was the operation a success ? Seconp SpectaList: Yes. The patient died sol- vent, comicbooks.com