Life, 1905-11-30 · page 18 of 24
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This page from *Life* magazine contains three distinct elements: **Main Story ("At Scissors at Nullus")**: A humorous anecdote about a talkative woman at a Michigan health resort who constantly complains about her ailments. An elderly gentleman she bothers takes revenge by claiming the baths have made him gain 50 pounds and regrow hair—shocking her into silence. The joke satirizes hypochondriacs and people who monopolize conversation with health complaints. **"New Light on the Horse"**: A brief humorous piece mocking a poorly-written essay by an Indian student about horses. It quotes absurdly awkward descriptions (the horse has a "long protuberance called the neck") to ridicule the writer's English and anatomical knowledge. **Advertisements**: Three period ads for Wilson Whiskey, Evans' Ale, and Esterbrook's Steel Pens occupy the lower half. The cartoons complement the text's satire of human foibles—health obsession and pretension—through gentle mockery typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines.
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HE HAD IMPROVED GREATLY. interest in the course, Hea sons who a th resorts always a ¢ really suffering f also many of those ary and unfounded fancies of the evil state of their bodies. At on tel noted for its baths for the cure of MASAO INE a Michigan rhesmatism came a woman from New York, who at 3 once made the aequa n arently nee of every pers: came here.” for the sole purpose of telling them her inary s of the racious!” heir own, ar ve qualit ng them tell cussing at great length the cu She made a particular victim of an old gentle Ma . wan, who, being of a somewhat retiring, silent tem: was born here. perament, was extremely annoyed by her questions and her often repeated tales of woe Fir was taking a sun) ly, one morning, when hon the piazza, surround al ac 1 by a few congen uaintances, the wom: p appr . inflicted upon him her tiresome ce , and exhausted nversat ience. Ifis opportunity for revenge came “Mr. Ladd,” said sh ny nd yet not half so pleasant as they might settling weakly inte “we have had so m: nt discussion suffer cause I've been so frig pains, Why, I looke have been, ly lashed with these ter the glass this 1 have no idea how pale I was! I yself! Tut what I wanted to ask you t do you think of these baths? Have h in them andy searcely knew was this: V you any fa climate, particularly, * replied t so surely about the b the climate and the air. [can truthfully say I feel at home here. Why, whe ¢ here I weighed ss than I do n . ust think of it enced above my head, 1 to hi “I could hardly not speak an coul ble word. I never left my 1 take any ming."—7 Lire is pub rsday foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a ye 1W cents. Back numbers, after three months fr Lire is f Company, ‘ewsdealers in Great Bri ng, Chancery Lane, Li Englan im," answ hard j. Tatler. The International Ac! conversati it was necessary to | see that now I have quite a little hair. When I came.to this town there was not a spear of it ation night and day. and helpless that a child of four years me to death without its ad. I needed a! of age might have choked being in my power to resist. cried the much hope! here? When did you first com ed the old man, solemnly, 's Companion, the various ways of usi n of my nurse—for, of we an) se That was when I first man, excitedly. “You have you been ion of beco had ex; er of © rd. the swe bed w ut being 1 of it by strong mS, ne my hands were so useless that I could not pick orra, Pat, with gleaming eyes, “I'd knife and fork. Most of my days I spent half-con just tickle him with the point to sce if he was sham- WILSON WHISKEY That’s All! lary a brisk walk in the lopen these early Winter | |days, with a bottle of Evans’ ESTERBROOKS |to cap the climax and see how much more sunshine will come into your life. Ale returned untess accompanied by NEW LIGHT ON THE HORSE, For inform: in regard to the makeup and habits of the horse, that given in an essay by a Bom bay student is both suggestive and picturesque. “The horse is a very noble quadruped, but when he is angr he will not do so,” begins this investigator realms of natural history. He goes on to sta “The horse is ridden on the spinal cor¢ hridie, and sadly the driver places his foots on the stirrup, and divides his lower limbs across the sadile, and drives his animal to the meadow. He has a long mouth, and his head is attached to the trunk by a long protuberance called the neck. He has four \ two are on the front side and two are afterwards by the hese are the weapons on which he funs, also defends himself by extending those in the re a parallel direetion towards his foe, but this | only when in a vexatious mood. “Ilis foodings is generally grasses and grains He is also useful to take on his back a man or woma as well as some cargo. He has power to run as fast as he could. Ie has got no sleep at night time, and always standing awaken. Also there are horses of | short sizes. They do the same as the others are cen: / erally doing. There is no animal like the horse; 1 have tail, but not so long as the cow and other such like similar animais."—Youth's Companion, HE KNEW ENOUGH. | Mr. James Francis Burke, now Congressman from | the Thirty-sec District of Pennsylvania, in an ad dress to the graduating class of a Pittsburg school told the following stor: , “The president of an ocean-liner company was | taking a journey across the water, and, when the ship | entered a very dangerous channel, he engaged in c versation with the pilot, who, by the way, » kered old man of sixty-eight, with all the appearance of having spent most of his days on the water. The magnate remarked: 4 ““'T suppose you know all the dangerous places in this channel.” “The pilot, looking straight out into the ‘N You don’t prised. ‘Then why on earth are yc wheel? What do you know?" “'T know where the bad places ain't,’ plied the old pilot, sch to the satisfa magnate."—Seturday Evening Post. said the magnate, very much sur in charge of that ustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. on should be sent by antscribers of any change of address, Established 1860 150 Varieties Steel Pens Sold Everywhere | The Best Pens Made | comicbooks.com