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This page from *Life* magazine contains several satirical pieces and an advertisement: **Top Section:** Brief poems and jokes on unrelated topics—including wordplay about a "Welsh Rabbit" (a dish, also a pun), jabs at French law, and anecdotes about eccentric 18th-century English noblemen making absurd wagers. **"A Case of Blind Faith":** The satire targets Former Princeton President Patton's sermon about "blind faith." The joke: Patton illustrates faith by noting patients blindly trust doctors who write illegible prescriptions. The congregation sees the irony—Patton himself exemplifies such blind faith by trusting what he cannot read. It's light mockery of religious rhetoric's accidental self-contradiction. **"A Reach":** An Arctic explorer boasts his expedition succeeded because he reached *newspaper editors and readers*—satirizing how exploration's real success lies in publicity, not geography. **Bottom:** A full-page advertisement for Club Cocktails, positioned as a luxury Christmas drink. The page is typical *Life* fare: gentle, urbane satire targeting pretension and hypocrisy.

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IN A LUTHER BURBANK GARDEN Fe the coreless apple buds, ‘hs your hand in mine I clasp, the eyeless spuds ‘The cactus pla th have all been drawn, And speeding the n From the path ver Republican, DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS Harriman trick beats Fish, Sun. mad faith charged.—New Vork Times. Wi Brooklyn Times. THE DAY OF REST IN FRANCE Patent: Doctor. th icitis makes me suffer terribly. law forbids me to eoen on Sunday The Literary Digest ror: Impx Translation jrom La Liberté y- $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to fo ingle current copies, 10 cents. Back numbers, Great Britain. C,, England, Acrsrs. Welsh Rabbit : countries in the fter three months ‘The International News Company, Bream’s No man ever kissed me before replied the nervy youth. HANG IT ALL! HERE THEY'VE GoT MY NAME SPELT WRONG AGAIN. MAKING A MILLION DOTS ‘The English noblemen of a century ago used to spend a great port of their time in making wagers of the most eccentric char acter. For instance, in 1770, before the days of rapid transit, an gered that he could find a man to travel {rom London t» burgh and back in less time than it took another pecr make a million dots. Sir George Liddel laid a wager, and won it, that he coull make a journey to Lapland and return, bringing back with hin two native women and two reindeer, within a specified Sunday Magazine A CASE OF BLIND FAITH Former President Patton, of Princeton University, cently delivered a sermon at Fifth Avenue Collegiate Church, subject being “Faith.'" He spoke of the blind faith of the client who puts himself at the mercy of a lawyer in peeps an action for trial, and of the confidence of the sick in intrusting themselves to t "A ease of blind fa writes out a presc it; you don't know what itis. not to reason why, yours but to do and die Whether of not Dr. P. it, there was a distinct ripple throughout the congregation.— Boston Herald. “Somebody phi said the clergyman: “The doctor Oftener than not you cannot read He tells you to take it. * Yours A REACH “Was your expedition a success?” “Entirely so,"’ answered the Arctic explorer. “But you didn’t reach the north pol “No: but I reached the editors and the readers."—Wasking- ton Star. Frtexo: That villain in your new play is a mast Where did you get the character? Daasatist: I imagined a man possessed of all the varieties of wickedness which my wife ascribes to me when she gets angry.—Tit- Bits No contribution will be returned unless accompanied by stamped and addressed envelope. The illustrations in Live. are copyrighted, and are not to be reproduced. Prompt notiscation should be sent by subscribers of any change of address. A Christmas Toast with fhe Christmas Sp iit Club Cochise HE best beginning to Christmas merriment and the most de- lightful drink in the world. Prized for their uniform delicacy in flavor, for their rare-smoothness —of perfectly blended old liquors aged in wood to exquisite mellow- ness. No chance-proportioned, un- blended cocktail can possibly be so good. Club Cocktails aremeas- ure-mixed to absolute uniformity. Seven kinds—all delightful— of good grocers everywhere. G. F. HE HARTFORD. LEIN & BRO,, Sole Proprietors NEW YORK LONDON