Life, 1904-11-24 · page 8 of 22
Life — November 24, 1904 — page 8: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three separate advice column items and a photograph. The main content includes "Our Advice Column" addressing etiquette questions—whether a young woman should wait for a man's proposal, and how to handle a wife's need for a change of scenery. The responses offer practical, somewhat sardonic guidance about relationships and money. "The Search" section references contemporary news: Democratic Party officials searching for missing party members in Washington D.C., with reports from Chicago and New York about ongoing investigations. These appear to reference actual 1910s-era political disappearances or scandals, though the specific identities of those sought aren't clearly identified here. The photograph at bottom shows subway tunnel openings, humorously captioned as appearing "to a bibulous gentleman late at night"—satirizing drunk perceptions of the newly-opened New York subway system.
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~LIF E- ARE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS A BLESSING OR A NUISANCE? FOR the best answer to this question, contained in five hundred words or less, Lite will give fifty dollars. Correspondents may treat the subject in any way they prefer. As our question applies only to adults, it meets with the full approval of Santa Claus. Our Advice Column. HAVE just proposed to a young lady whom I love very dearly, and she has told me to wait a week for my answer. What shall I do in the meantime ? Go off and marry some one. At the end of two or three days, when she hears of it, she will repent and ¢ you your answer right away, I am keeping company with a lady, who represented to mg that she was worth a lot of money, but I find on quietly looking her up that it’s all a bluff, and that she isn’t worth a red cent. Would it be etiquette for me to denounce her to her face, or shall I go away quietly without giving ber any reason? I might mention that she has cost me over four hundred dollars in three months. We conclude that the lady is not beautiful, or you would have x some hint of this. She must, therefore, be gifted with brains, for a homely woman who can get hundred dollars’ worth of a good time out of a bright chap like you in three months is entitled to the utmost respect. The case resolves itself, therefore, into how yen us. four much money you yourself are worth. If you are broke, cling to her, for you will make a combination hard to beat and your future is assured. If you have any reasonable amount of money, how away quietly while you The doctor says my wife needs a change, but I hi strong presenti- ment that he is throwing a bluff and is under a spell. What shall I do? Why not go away yourselfon a fishing trip? This ought to satisfy all the requirements. The Search. (Specials to Live.) ASHINGTON : Pub- lic officials have not given up hopes of finding the Demo- cratic party, which was last seen on Pennsylvania Avenue at 4:00 A.M.,on the morning of Novem- ber gth. Scouting expeditions are still out. Cuicaco: Pinkerton’s Detective Agen- cy reports, as yet, no clue as to the whereabouts of Democratic party. All incoming and outgoing trai! e being watched. New York: Careful search of Sub- way has brought, as yet, no trace of D. P. It was thought that Mayor Mc- Clellan might have had it concealed about his person, but he indignantly denied the charge. Esorus: Judge Alton Parker, when interviewed, shook his head. ‘I never THE NEW SUBWAY OPENINGS AS THEY APPEARED TO A BIBULOUS GENTLEMAN LATE AT NIGHT. knew the y well,"” he said, “and couldn't pick him out of a crowd, anyway.”" Liyco.x, Neb.: A party answering to the description given seen to pass through here in the cold, gray dawn of the morning after. He was sup- posed to be on his way to the Pacific Coast, where the water is deep enough to cover any amount of whiskers, but it is not definitely known. Ausany: David Hill, when inter- viewed, said: ‘I used to be on speak- ing terms with party referred to, but I wouldn't tell you where he was, even if I knew, Are Three American Women Out of Five Disappointed in Their Husbands ? HIS question was recently pro- pounded in Lire, and the name of the winner will be published in our next issue. comicbooks.com