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This is a humor page from *Life* magazine featuring multiple short comedic pieces and poems. The main content includes: **"Step Lively, Please!"** — A poem mocking the constant rush of urban commuting (trolleys, ferries, subways) where conductors perpetually shout orders at hurried passengers. **"A Serious Mishap"** — A newlywed couple's anecdote: the husband kisses the wrong woman in a train's smoking compartment, creating marital awkwardness. **"A Bad Case of Sabbath-Breaking"** — A minister receives fresh strawberries on Monday, then scolds the girl for picking them on Sunday (violating the Sabbath). **"One of the Wonders"** and other brief quips provide light social commentary on travel, marriage expectations, and performers. The cartoons appear to reference African American stereotypes typical of early 20th-century American humor magazines—a racial caricature appears in "What Makes de Front Rank Breathe So Hard?" The page is primarily satirical commentary on urban life, marriage, and social propriety, common *Life* magazine fare of this era.

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“STEP LIVELY, PLEASE!” and down this world I fj get to anywhe aults the “Step lively, please Ifon the trolley-car I seek My way to find by question meek, With strident voice conductors shriek: tcp lively, please! If from the ferryboat T go ‘To pick my way th L Step lively, ple ‘Then into upper take the “L" ‘To tle from that “Step lively Atlast [turn my wear Down subway st falas I wonder will it be my fate To hear St. Peter at the gatt dith H. Allen, in April Century. EPITOME OF THE LAST (THANK HEAVEN 1) MONTHLY “But you will?” she fluted he organed. s *d sounding-boardingly < it would be cowardly." be almost toe inoed retut sly, “you have your career.” *violined the man tunefully. “But your ne warbled, throatfully, “that is a thing of the “Remember Jim.” She tre Her companion diminue sharpfully followed taneous moonrise, m ‘Then the man cou; tambourine, and the next 151 sors Ai Nuly ) ssband's clothes and bis ways, x that to have joy one must give it. Who can tell the difference between her first child and a ance made her by her husband . is that left for self.improvement Who realizes that two hi Rot necessarily as good as Who cand one meant to Who gets off 3 car q be runs the risk of being ns Magazine “WITAT MAKES DE FRONT RANK BREATHE SO HARD?" SAID. RASTUS—ON—PARADE “MUS? BE A CHICKEN IN DE YARD,” THE COLORED SERGEANT SAID. A BAD CASE OF SABBATH-BREAKING On a recent Monday morning the pastor of a church in Virginia was the recipie of strawberries brought to him by a fi “Thank you very much, my dear,” said the mini . "These ay I've ever seen. T hope, however, that you did n yesterday—the Sabbath.”* J the child. “I pe rey was a-growin’ all day yest He ‘em early this mornin’, r's Weekly A SERIOUS MISHAP “Hello, Newlywed! When did you get back from your wed. ding trip? yesterday." “Have a good time?" “Yes, Ge; only "— “Only what?" “Oh, nothing. “Well, of course, if you doo't want to tell me, all right You know I'll not repeat, but "—— “Well, I don't mind telling you; but don’t ket it go we did have a fine trip. as I said. although we met with an accident that temporarily marred the serenity of the journey. But you'll not sheds between here and Denver smoking compartment, and we were out of it before T could get But I was on the lookout for ced just in time te to where my wife was sit next one, and made a her. 1 one kiss before we shot o “Yes. Go on.” “That's abou Month to daylight again.” 1 wasn't my wife I had kisse *ONE OF THE WONDERS sted me most in my travel: a queen I saw in Egy “ Wonderful, eb "Yes, it’s wonderful how they could make a woman dry up and stay that wa: sfalo Commercial said Henpeck, “was DIFFERENT the young man, tuiet home.” “What I want,” have a peacef is to get married and said Farmer Corntassel, “sometimes it works that way, and theg again sometimes it’s like joinin’ a debatia’ society." Washington Star BECALMED There isa concert singer in the West whose voice is not oaly of great sweetness and compass, but of such extraordinary power that no orchestra ever drowns its tones. Now, the husband of this singer frequently acts as her com ductor, and he is ever anxious to impress upon the public the fact of the lady was rehearsing for a concert to be given in a large hall. In one of het songs she was to be accompanied by a trumpet Although the performer, in obedience to instructions from the conductor, blew with all his might and main, yet his best efforts were invariably met with a call of * Louder, louder!” from the insatiable leader Finally, the performer rested his instrument on his knee and, surveying the leader with every evidence of indignation on his purple face, broke Louder and ke —Harper's Weekly. cat power of his wife's voice. On one occasion the tis fery easy to say, but vere is de vind. Lire. is published every Thursd: Union, $1.04 nt copies, 10 ce alers in, Great in. n, E. C., Eng AGENTS. Back 9) th ° ‘The International News Company, Bream’s contribution will be returned unless accompanied by amped and addressed envelope. d, 1 not to be reproduced. scribers of any change of address Whe only winskey that paces a compete, quaxarkeed analysis on each every, bettle- See back label! YEAR HUNTER Thets Al! WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. ARE REQUIRED TO DE- VELOP THE MATURITY AND FINE FLAVOR OF RYE Pe = @ IF IN HASTE, TAKE THE NEW YORK CENTRAL LINES comicbooks.com )