Life, 1905-12-21 · page 25 of 30
Life — December 21, 1905 — page 25: what you’re looking at
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This page contains three humor pieces typical of early 1900s satirical journalism: **"The Canine Cannibal"** mocks football's brutality. It reports that Garfield Weede (Pennsylvania football player) lies hospitalized with a broken leg alongside teammates with fractured skulls. Weede jokes that football resembles a barbershop where a dog watches the barber—not from affection, but because the barber sometimes accidentally cuts off customers' ears. The dark humor equates football injuries to mutilation, criticizing the sport as increasingly violent and dangerous to players. **"Shipwrecked Mariner"** is a brief joke about a castaway who, when rubbed noses by natives in greeting, fears becoming a "bloomin' pocket handkerchief"—a crude reference to being consumed or disrespected. The page also advertises **Life's 1906 Calendar** (designed by prominent illustrators) and **Cupid's Calendar**, plus Rogers, Peet & Co. clothing and Sanderson's Scotch whisky. The satire reflects contemporary concerns about football's safety, which was genuinely dangerous in this era before modern rules.
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ime | H | -LIFE- By William Hollenbach and Frank Fuqua, the Sb former with a broken leg, the latter with a S fractured skull. Flowers—great_ masses of The finest favored Scotch Whisky roses and violets—surrounded these young Imported Into the Cited Staten “Yes, I am afraid,” said Weede, with a pa- To look fresh, even when well worn, means liveries of first-rate fabrics. We use no other sort in making all sorts of livery for indoor and carriage manservants. ROGERS, PEET & CO,, 258—842—1260 Broadway, (3 Stores) take a little picce off a customer's ear "— NEW YORK, Philadelphia Bultetin also, —_ ' HIPWRECKED MARINER (to the sa- F. M. ATWOOD, tive who is showing his friendship by rub- ; CHICAGO. bing noses in the usual native way): Look A Sanderson DEWBALL An Artistic Calendar Gladdens the Fy Whole Year "Round Designed by the Best of LIFE'S Antists—Gibson, Balfour Ker, Bayard Jones, Henry Hutt, Allan Gilbert and others Calendar for 1906 The Canine Cannibal. ARFIELD W. WEEDE, the left end of the Pennsylvania football team, lay with a broken leg in the University Hospital. In the same ward lay two other football victims, tient smile, “that football is becoming a pretty ghastly sort of game. It reminds me of bar- bering down E “I once went into a down East barber shop to get my hair cut. As I sat in the chair and the scissors clicked away the barber’s dog lay beside me on the floor, looking up at me all | By the time most attentively, Nice dog, that,’ said I. He is, sir,’ said the barber. ““He seems very fond,’ I said, ‘of watching you cut hair? “It ain't that, sir,” explained the barber, smiling. ‘Sometimes I make a mistake and ‘ere, I don’t mind you makin’ me a King or a Hemperor, but I'm ’anged if I'll be a bloomin’ | pocket 'an'kercher.— The Sketch (London). | i “MOUNTAIN DEW" SCOTCH Go-Day—NOW THE DAINTIEST CALENDAR OF THE YEAR Cupid’s Calendar 12 DESIGNS BY A. D. BLASHFIELD A combination of drawings and remarques carefully printed intwo | colors, on boards 12!¢ x 15g inches, the 13 sheets tied together with red silk cord. In Blue, Yellow and Brown, on boards 1134 x 14 inches, boxed and tied with silk cord to match buff tint of Calendar Fa 3 . . Price $1.00, Postpaid ck Prettily Boxed. Price $2.00, Postpaid. $ bs nes- ‘This Calendar will appeal to every one with a particle of sentiment or love of h it | This Calendar appeals to every one through the great variety of its drawings. beauty, especially to those who possess a delicate sense of humor. day LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY } 17 WEST YHIMTy-FineT STREET srish- | New vonx : comicbooks.com