Life, 1905-07-27 · page 8 of 24
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This page contains a serialized fictional story titled "The Carnage of William Rash" by Mrs. H-mphr-y W-rd (author's name partially obscured). It's a romantic narrative about William Rash and Loomey Kitty's relationship, featuring their first meeting and a marriage proposal. The top illustration shows "The Grass Band"—a humorous insect gathering, likely satirizing human social conventions by depicting insects in a concert or social assembly. The lower illustration, captioned "Just Wondering," shows a woman on a bicycle with a child in a seat, accompanied by text questioning children's fashion trends. This is **not political satire** but rather **lifestyle/social commentary**—typical of Life magazine's gentle humor about contemporary domestic life, courtship customs, and social behaviors in the early 20th century.
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THE CARNAGE OF WILLIAM RASH. By H-MPHR-Y MRS. W-RD. Cita kT HEN William Rash first met Looney Kitty, she had just emerged from a madhouse, called through her * The Convent.” n Rash with those indolenc: enchanting and wayward capric ow Willian stious idiosynera , ironies and imy of which he was fully and com- pletely aware, detested the commonplace — Therefore, the first evening he heard K foundly and poi moved. She bewitchingly, bew ty rave, he had been pr had seemed more r into the night he sat dreaming about her, when his deli- intimate reveries were suddenly broken in upon y insane than ever before. F. cious by a pistol shot For a moment Rash was stunned; and then glancing at the floor, he saw a white object lying at his feet. With an exquisite and unerring aim, Looney Kitty, a flash of white in the shadows of the orangery, had shot off his ¢ “ Made: He picked up the ear, and t suffo- he murmured tenderl rust it in his pocket, his hy art beating t catic nen he pursed her he light and delicate figure of Looney Kitty stood in the gloom of the night, and something passionate and profound moved William Rash as he captured her hand. It was the pain of his ear. “Looney Kitty,” he whispered brokenly, I don’t know whether you could put up with anyone so rational as myself; but [love you. [ask you to marry me.” The night scemed to have grown darker A silence Then a soft hand seized his, and Kitty’s pearly teeth deeply into his wrist delight shot through Rash “But Tam mad as a hatter,’ musical, melancholy, caressing “T love you for that, Kitt not the timid, domestic dove. A pang of intense and excruciating said a plaintive voice, { want the loon, dear ‘Their lips met, and Rash knew himself free at last of the great company of poets and alicnists THE GRASS BAND, Cuarrek XXX. Kitty and William Rash had been married sev- eral years, when she ran away for the first time with Geoffrey Whiff. about Whiff a strange and romantic charm. He was a finished and undeniable product of Third Avenue melodrama, and women loved him with a passionate and heart-breaking abandon; for a sombre power shone from his power of the charlatan and fakir But Kitty was unhappy in her flight. The little inn where she and Whiff stopped was uncomfortable, and the landlady’s children had the measles William Rash. He was idiotically glad to sce her “Kitty,” he said,with that tolerance which was the ‘here wi —the subtie, picturesque So she returned to JUST WONDERING. wep Fido (soliloguising) S SEEM TO BE ALL THE RAGK NOWADAYS. | WONDER IV CHILDREN WILL RVER COME INTO FASHION AGAIN comicbooks.com