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This page from *Life* magazine contains several short satirical pieces and jokes typical of early 20th-century American humor: **"Gentle Jane"** and **"Daft, But Canny"** are brief comic poems poking fun at character types—a naive young woman and a shrewd Scottish negotiator, respectively. **"An Indulgent Depositor"** depicts a bank customer (Shaughnessy) panicking during what appears to be a financial crisis, rushing to withdraw his savings. The humor lies in his emotional overreaction. **"O Ye Tears!"** satirizes a college professor who dismisses his wife's tears by analyzing them as "common water with phosphorous salts"—mocking both marital conflict and pedantic over-rationalization. **"Political"** section includes anecdotes about political figures like "Fingy" Conners, depicting politicians as cynical and dismissive. The remaining pieces—"Equal to the Emergency," "What a Duchess Cost France," and "A Future Stylist"—are brief humorous observations on melodrama, European excess, and educational pretension. The advertisements for Wilson whiskey and Los Angeles travel complete the page.

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7 RE GENTLE JANE Tthroagh the town srelyn Wells Man wits are all at sea Heaven is net for Jane went down below and gut Hers for scorching st hot 4G. HW. in Boston Transcript DAFT, BUT CANNY the House of Representa antic City of the National Associa s action, because Lam a fue to rashness L hetieve in peu. as prudent and careful as but they did not know whether the ice» So, approaching the Scot. the youngest and pret 9 said Sanders. would you mind just gliding under the beidge and ~The half -witted Sanders took off his cap and with a bow and ile he replied Na. nat If Ta Philadel phis Bulletin laft Eken manners. Leddies fi Waitex Mr. “Fingy" Conners, the leader of the Erie County “ Democracy." heard from one of his lieutenants that certain delegates had tled his ranks, he remarked: “Well, we're here. The rest of ‘Tell wid "em! ts place as a classic among the World Di AM SAsiens er Mian ~ ¢ site Qi dt bala ee AN INDULGENT DEPOSITOR hearing that the hank in which he kept fale, rushes with his bank be his money. The paying teller straightway began aid Shaughnessy, with a sigh of POLITICAL “cone ox Tie step” O YE TEARS! ‘The president of ane of the well-known colleges tells this story of one of his professors of chemistry It scems that the professor and his wife had not agreed upon some domestic question, the professor asserting that his means would not warrant the expense involved. His wife had used all her powers of persuasion without avail, and at Lat resorted to the final feminine expedient—a flood of tears. At this the pro- fessor picked up his hat, but paused to remark ght save yourself the trouble of that, my dear; your shave absolutely no effect upon me. Why should they, being nothing but co*imon water with a very small percentage of phos phorous salts and a teace of chloride of sodium?"—Harper's Weekly. EQUAL TO THE EMERGENCY » you break our engagement, Gwe ! cbined “Then in your prese ite which 5 have blight and drained it to the las sank tack « dit the beautiful gil iting herself upon his breast in remorse and burst forth into frenzied sobs? Sear Hastily quitti m, she returned present face tragic. yet compmel. Knceling besie thy tween his lips the fell (4) a bowl of glis of mustand water: (7) a gill of vinegar Feron: (0) the beaten whites of six eggs; (10) one ¢ and water Algernon.” she observed, coblly, as he began to 1 took was a the ant K nh." —Woman's Home Com panio WHAT A DUCHESS COST FRANCE The energy of wager Duchess Fite Jame France as much as the Last war, and had the indirect maki ram drinkers, The t her passion for self-aggrandizement. importa! vines tne America to plant on her estate in Nugard. ‘They beoug phylloxera there. It spread all over France, and tuino! for year the vintage departments. Her American French vines could not. ‘The los t $00,000,000 francs. M. FalliSres's whole family a She could . disaster her restless energy brought a But the story of what came of it ought to be a warning. Th nothing the French dread, and justly, more than wn komm remuant, except une jemme remusnte—London Truth A FUTURE STYLIST This editorial {rom the weekly paper of Missouri Univers shows what higher education does for lucid wri during the year there arise certain occasions whose ¢ af them force the onlooker 19. That is, a person is not enabled to consider the various phases of such questions, and then announce it as bs belief that the matter has two sides, and that as such is the ce he intends keeping the affair off his mind as much as posible On the contrary, this type of situation can allow of but oct opinion, for the reason that every motive exists for adopting cee course as right, and decrying the othes as wrong.””—! City Star. “Do vor think the time will come when there will be no mete? in politics?” said one boss. “I don’t know," answered the other. “It won't be our fauk if it doesn’t. We have done the best we could to take out all thet was in it."—IWashington Star. Live is pal Postal Union, $104 fre ‘of public 25 cent ae by ‘ewsdeakers in Great Britain. Chancery Lane, London, E. C., England, Acests. J every Thursday, $500 a year in advance. Post: ingle current copies, 10 cents. I International News Company Bream's ge to foreign countries in the numbers, altce three moaths No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and, addressed The illustrations in Live: are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. Prompt nctifcation should be sent by subscribers of any change of address \Alson - Vor guarawtee of purity, see back \abel oneverybditle; dts WS WHEN HUNTER WHISKEY COMES TO JUDGMENT THERE'S A VERDICT IN ITS FAVOR EVERY TIME WM. LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Md. @ LOS ANGELES—P™ Days gor new ¥ork— By New York Central Lines 3 | comicbooks.com