Life, 1906-06-21 · page 10 of 28
Life — June 21, 1906 — page 10: what you’re looking at
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This page contains two marriage-themed cartoon jokes typical of early 20th-century humor: **"Why They Married"** (left): Shows a woman with elaborate hat and luggage declaring she'll return to mother unless the husband prevents it. The joke: he agrees to any excuse to keep her, so one excuse works as well as another—satirizing both nagging wives and hen-pecked husbands. **"The Reason Waiter Appletie Did Wed His Nancy Fair"** (right): A man explains he married Nancy because he liked how her mouth curled up and her fuzzy hair. The satire targets superficial male reasoning about marriage—reducing a wife to physical quirks rather than substantive qualities. Both cartoons mock conventional marriage dynamics through exaggeration and absurdist logic, reflecting period attitudes toward gender relations.
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754 Our Fresh Air Fund REVIOUSLY ac was due to 2B J. DeWolf H JSBAND: What has become of those indestructible toys you got last week ? Wir: They are out on the scrap heap along with the indestructible kitchen utensils. Relief and Advertisement N APRIL 20 oF thereabouts a lot of big red wagons,-each drawn by six horses, were observed hauling relief supplies for San F i offices of the express companic had placards on them to say where the supplies were going, but not a line or a letter to say whom the wagons belonged AT LIFE’S FRESH AIR FARM WATCHING THE BALL GAME to. They were wagons of FE Ss. . . ; SE: : ie hire but without advertisement. That Only one reliever that we know of circus doing relief work, not only without : 3 mee ee looked very pretty to observers, but it ha wn a marked disposition to ad- expressed the gencral disposition. srtise himself as such. Ma Fae Saag WHY THEY MARRIED WHEN YOUR WIFE JaMs AT ON AND PACKS UP HER BAG TIE REASON WALTER APPLEPIE AND SAYS, "1 SIA to moTure!” DID WED 11S NANCY FarR I YOU SNIFF SHE WILL SAY, “JUST FOR THAT 1 WiLL STAY!" SHE LIKED THE WAY IIS MOUTH CURLED UP, ONE EXCUSE IS AS GOOD AS ANOTHER. Wr LIKED WER yezzY HAIR!