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Life — June 30, 1904 — page 16: Life, 1904-06-30

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This page contains two distinct narratives: **"Mabel's Outfit"** (left column): A humorous poem satirizing the excessive luggage and wardrobe wealthy women of the era packed for travel. The piece catalogs absurd quantities of garments—dozens of organdie dresses, multiple crepe de chines, kimonos, and countless handkerchiefs—mocking the conspicuous consumption and impracticality of Edwardian women's fashion and travel habits. **"The Boatrace"** (center/right): A narrative story, likely satirical fiction, about a boat race in a Louisiana bayou. The illustration shows a man in a small boat. The text describes competitive rowing with dramatic flair, including dialogue with dialectal speech ("Ef ye outen dis yere bayou"). The page also contains period advertisements for Wilson Whiskey and Esterbrook's Steel Pens, typical of Life's commercial content. The overall tone targets upper-class leisure culture and women's fashion excess—standard subjects for Life's satirical humor during this era (early 1900s).

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Now Mabel’s packed her s than she will need to wear, it re thi wok her dark bine etamine, her pongee and her ooks, twenty organdies that cost me lots pail from the stre galore, two crepe de chines, a mow takes a dr jetas embroidered me! Some dotted swiss as fine as mist, bal ses by the punch dinner, tea, and other With for breakfast, suits and white duck skirts enough to got her bath it it surely is a dre of hardly And handkerchiefs enough to blow each blessed hu 1 hundeedweight of » kimonos and With Knows quite a little her pa. J around to see her off and shed some tears We ste s her catch and make us buy her summer were: “Mabel, dear, be sure and don't forget ¢ suit each day—but don't you s for sale by WILSON WHISKEY That’s All! T have p in th I sce about Ix a little bayou so near the beach that the low men and. fell wn banks, a “flat paddled by was shelved on a dcep for him to get nocuvres with the paddle effectual saw a we at the Jandi yards above to fill her Here we re Ef ye Here the sx t Blood bli The race ea “Get out o” dat angrily. outen dis yere bayou till Ts k ye poy fer it ef T hev ter war asho’ wind. There are many fh raises THE BOATRACE 1 elf a ticket and take my place Jens and many robust young y seem to like it, rads, with drinks under their belts. Mh 1s he hot sun upward of three hours my neck blisters, water blisters, nd plain blisters. not be rowed because there is too m Tam filled with joy that I have coughed up two b For this. Years, decades, centuries pass and the oarsmen ap peor. They are clad in a garment which shall be namele I sce a pistol raised of the National Fed t the serv Mrs. Dork Lvox, ren’s Clubs, was talking a pandemonium breaks out train are ¢ sidation of debts Whitman," in The Ci There is a flash, They com: I hear cheers, ements, entreaties, T hear “hell,” “damn, IW. The oarsmen keep doing it. shortness of breath, Then the race is . noises, felicitatic Y talk between MW Widow ah, we have breakfast at & not down by that time York Tribune. don't wait for me. SS Mr. Olden doesn't feel as young as he emarked the observant man ink so?" “He used to joke with that u ut he doesn’t do it any er who lives © ote." —Philadelp Newsdealers in Great Britain, ‘The Internation, ding, Ch on, E. C., England, AGenrs. Up to the advent of Evans’ new era of brewing it was im- possible to get a perfectly sound ale that did not contain a quan- tity of sediment — varying ac- cording to the brand. If that sediment was disturbed in hand- ling the bottle the natural good- ness of the product was destroyed. | Evans’ Ale is the first | and only Ale entirely free | from dregs and sediment. A perfectly natural prod- | uct by the most advanced scientific methods. The standard of perfection in ale. | Established 1860 180 Varieties Esterbrook’s Steel Pens Sold Everywhere The Best Pens Mado San Francisco—Four Days from New York or. Boston—By New York Central. comicbooks.com