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Life — November 8, 1906 — page 26: Life, 1906-11-08

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This page is primarily **satirical commentary on contemporary (early 1900s) American life and politics**, not political cartoons in the visual sense. The content mocks several targets: 1. **"Official Spelling"** — satire of President Theodore Roosevelt's efforts to reform American spelling conventions, a genuine but unpopular initiative that drew ridicule. 2. **Mayor Fitzgerald anecdote** — satirizes political theater and hecklers at public events in Boston. 3. **Multiple humorous vignettes** — joke about Mrs. Roosevelt's impatience with her husband; laundry mishaps; legal ignorance; a West African postman's polite complaint about lost trousers. 4. **"Thatched Roofs in England"** — social commentary on how insurance requirements modernize rural cottage architecture, forcing poor farmers to abandon tradition as they gain wealth. The page is mostly **humor writing** rather than visual satire—typical of *Life* magazine's format during this era. The jokes target bureaucratic foolishness, class pretension, and social absurdity. The surrounding advertisements (whiskey, ale, sauce) are period-appropriate commercial content.

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=~ OuR FOOLISH "GNTEMPORARYE aS OFFICIAL SPELLING Pray, Roosevelt, excuse us If you but amuse us y stop squinting At Government printin ot our pens is—" Forget it! —Thomas R. Yoarza, in the New Vork Times REPARTEE IN THE CRADLE OF LIBERTY “TL must insist upon order,”” said Mayor Fitzgerald at Faneuil all, when the crowd was becoming a li You can order anything you like.’ from the floor — Boston Record. Iv a pinch, use Allen's Foot-Ease A wax sn Washington was trying to secure a plaster cast of the President's face. “How long would it take to make the cast?" Mrs. Roosevelt asked. “Twenty minutes,” was the reply “That settles No human power could induce my husband to remain still for twenty minutes." Argonaut. "answered Mrs. Roosevelt HIS MONEY'S WORTH Lacnoryaan: I regret to tell you, sir, that one of your shirts is lost Customer: But here I have just paid you twelve cents for | doing it up right, sir; we laundered it before we lost it.”"— Harper's i “excuses no one.” it’s a wonder “IcNoRANCE of the law,"" said the judge, “That being the case," rejoined the prisoner, * the jury didn’t find my lawyer guilty."”"—Chicago Daily News. Intant and Adult For the upbuilding of the infant and sustaining the adult, milk is essential; and to be wholesome must be pure. Eagle Brand Condensed Milk and Peerless Brand Evaporated-Cream have po equals for purity, flavor and richness. THATCHED ROOFS IN ENGLAND “The thatched roof, which makes the English cottage pictur- exque. is doomed.” ‘or some years it has been going gradually. Soon it will be altogether a thing of the past. Fire insurance is the cause of the thatched roof’s disip- pearance. No company will insure a cottage of its contents if the roof is thatched. They who want insurance must substitute for the roof of thatch a tiled one. English cottager remains very poor so that his house and furniture are not worth insaring he keeps a thatched roof over his begins to prosper and lays in household goods of value he takes out a fire policy and away then gocs his thatched rox ville Courier-Journal. As soon as he | Lous THE COURTEOUS CORPORAL, A native postman on the Gold Coast of West Africa went in | s the Country man, and then wrote the follow | ing letter to his postmaster: Dean Masten: I have the pleasure to regret to inform you | that when T go bath this morning a billow he remove my tro Dear Master, how can I goon duty with only ? Whe get loss where am 1? Kind write Accra more trouser so I catch him an Good day, Sir, my Lond, how a Your loving J. Avpie Hotel Vendome, Boston monwealth Avenue. Electric lights. approved plumbing. | | | New and most 's shop in a blue of wrath, carrying a defunct cock: fou can see for yourself, sir parrot in the summer, and here's his feathe fed my poor tumbling out before your eyes. “Lor? bless ye'm, that's the triumph of the art! We stuff ‘em 0." —Tit-Bits. | Sblueld RECORD ral A TABLE LUXURY Reg. U.S. Pat. Off, ALE rseatsTHE Bris Tk seems reasonable that the Ale that beats the British should be brewed in BUNKER HILL BREWERIES It’s the best Ale brewed — Prove it. Pints $1.50 dozen, All dealers, Bonker Hill Breweries, Charlestown, Mass, Shaving Without Soap Brush or Cup Half the trouble of shaving and all the mussiness cogs fom py lather robbed in ‘the beard to be ” EUX-E-SIS inn Exstsh pecparnion, for « quarter of » crnnwy used by men of re! rot and mice habit. [twa delicate, demulcent cream which quickly softens athe, hrdea beard 0 that you can shave in ball the with twice the comfort. @ It leaves the skin pe volt aad eatiely fee een wriasoa, Ib a weanre totraveler, "No brush, Bo soap: jot Euz-e-co and trator make-a complete shaving ect. Kdeal or we with a eafety razor, Nove genuine without the sa- Bature of Almee Lloyd ta ted ial on tube. Sold by best druggists, 40c. a tube Extra large, 75c. Send Jor explanctory booklet to Park & Tilford, 917 Broadway, N.Y. Import Agents for U. S. Manufactured by Aimee Lloyd & Co, London, England Punch Recipe By a well known chef. Cut out and preserve Four loaves sugar; sliced orange and pineapple and a few cherries. One large cube of ice; pony of cognac; pony of curacoa; pony of apncotine; one split carbonated water, one quart CoOOR’S Champagne comicbooks.com