Life, 1905-07-20 · page 23 of 28
Life — July 20, 1905 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertisements with brief humorous content**. The main satirical pieces are short anecdotes: 1. **"Variation in Title"**: A joke about a Baltimore church program where "What Are They Doing in Heaven Tonight?" was mistyped as "Anything Doing in Heaven To-night?"—playing on awkward wording. 2. **"She Was All Right"**: A domestic humor piece where a young man's entire family criticizes his fiancée (she squints, has no style, is red-headed, is fidgety, has no money, looks weak, is stuck-up, extravagant), but the son reveals her one redeeming quality: she has no relatives. The father enthusiastically endorses marriage for this reason—satire on mercenary family attitudes and relief at avoiding in-laws. 3. **"A Nervous Haste"**: Ethnic humor contrasting American and European dining habits—Americans eat too fast due to anxiety about restaurant bills. The rest is period advertising for coat shirts, corsets, hose supporters, and carriages typical of early 1900s Life magazine.
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