Life, 1905-05-04 · page 34 of 48
Life — May 4, 1905 — page 34: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several satirical anecdotes typical of *Life* magazine's humor, plus period advertisements. The main cartoons mock social pretensions and foolish behavior: 1. **"Plea of Defendant"**: A Missouri judge receives a note from a boy's mother excusing him from school thrashing because he's already been beaten by multiple parties (other boys, a cart driver, his father). The satire targets both the mother's absurd logic and corporal punishment culture. 2. **"Had Quite Enough"**: A boy requesting to become a "dermatologist" because he's tired of people altering his face—either through fighting or prize-fighting. This jokes about both childhood violence and the emerging medical profession. 3. **"His Preference"**: A child tells a society lady he wants to be a dermatologist, with the lady misinterpreting it as wanting to alter faces for money. The advertisements are period-typical, including whiskey, patent "ale" (marketed as nutrition), and steel pens—none reflecting modern sensibilities about alcohol or health claims. The humor assumes readers familiar with rural schooling, class distinctions, and period medical quackery.
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up the seeds and stowing them away for reference in time to come. Then he rose in great wrath and went out and soid great, big, wicked words, And his nei ed like unto the merry ease FF hyena of the wide, rolling plains from whence cometh the blizzai Here is an epitaph writ on Barrym Now it came to pass in the ye the soul of the kaye ng a yambol at the Lambs’ Clul almanac as 1905 that a certain man man Sie 2 of the law to He ta peneath the . bethought him to rise up and kneel He slept beneath whe sun; himself one of tt He led the life of to do, a gard And he d : And, to! the name of this man was Legit 1 of many in divers ry backyards, ke Whereat the certa y planting a garden, and went and did likewis more.—Detroit News. PLEA OF DEFENDANT The Judge of one of the Missouri county courts, HAO QUITE ENOUGH. to the Kansas City Journal, went to his A very subdued-iooking boy of about twelve yc other aftern of age, with a long scratch on his nose and an al dejection, went to the master of o s and handed him a note from his m x his seat and becoming deeply ab lad before + sir, lay off yo at,” he said, sternly. whipping that you will re The note read as follows: “Mr. Brown,—Please excuse James for n present y He played trooant, but s the boy he played tr n’ him fell out, an’ the boy fought h man they throo at caught him an’ thrashed the driver of a cart they hung on to thrashe allso, Then his father thrashed him, an’ I had « other one for being impoodent to me * the proceedin, this case until we cap pr and file a change of venue to mother’s court. Ou 1 on the belief that this co a {an opi egar the guilt of the defe which cannot be shaker evidence, and is therefore not competent to try the case.” : Stay was granted, ' allowed 25 cents attorney fee.—New her, so you need not thrash him until next He thinks he better keep in school in fu! Tit Bits ILLCREEK PHILOSOPHER. ae wn by the number of CONTORTIONETTIST. Y HIS PREFERENCE. It is an to unreasonable is to Bexevorest Party: What will you be when y attempt to give « And it came to pass that when he had made an grow up, my little man? It is a strenuous and i i and had c poking seeds into the Tue Littte Max I wants to be one of wins a victory over his forg of J, him ¢ the kitchen ‘ mutts what alters your face. Worth makes the m tno suc nd great blisters : “Akt a dermatolo True charity + , ‘ tant d i \ er much—a_prize-fighter."—HWashing activity.— Commercial Live i ed ever. Thursday a No ce ” f and ad foreign cou Postal Uni 10 cents. Ba from date of publi ve is for sale by all Newsdealer at Britain. The International ream's Building. Chancery Lane, Lond: GEN Prompt notification should be sent by subscribers of any chance of address. The illustrations in Lave. ave copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced, Better than Drugs. The Essence of Nature, ssa vanetes WILSON Evans’. | WHISKEY ESTERBROOKS Ale Steel Pens Makes Blood and Si new. Sold Everywhere The Best Pens Made That’s All! A Liquid Food. || _ “ Defender of the Rails-The New York Central.” =22%si comicbooks.com