Life, 1907-02-28 · page 20 of 28
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This page contains several distinct pieces of satirical content: **"Perverted Proverbs"** (left column): A humorous section inverting familiar sayings—"Cosmetics cover a multitude of skins," "Hell hath no fury like a woman's corn"—typical of Life's wordplay humor. **"A Manly Opponent"** (right column): A sentimental story about a football match between Carlisle Indians and Harvard. An Indian player nearly scores against the prestigious Harvard team, but is tackled by a Harvard sprinter. The satire's point: after the brutal tackle, the Indian player compliments his opponent's sportsmanship ("Good tackle!"), highlighting the irony that Indigenous peoples face displacement by the very "civilization" that Harvard represents, yet respond with dignity. **Other sections** include anecdotes about licenses, a sheriff named "Big Sim," and standard period humor. The advertisements (Wilson whiskey, Hunter Rye) occupy the lower portion—typical for Life's revenue model. The overall tone reflects early 20th-century American satire: mixing gentle social commentary with casual racial stereotyping that modern readers would find offensive.
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Elder was called upoa and te jd the large hall, remarked that the jaded him of the story told of a Metbo- The reverend na strange and when he the congregation his delivery of his ONE HE'D MISSED «do T owe you anything? Not a cent, my boy You'p TETIENK I'M C-CoLD, Going round paying your 1 was going round seeing if I had overlooked anybody ¢ five Ul Saturday, will you?” Lippincett’s, Mw N-NoT Tt YY THE FR-FRIGID STORM SHEN IT's C COLD 1 SinVER so Mw MLCH “A MANLY OPPONENT Ina football -match between the Carlisle Indians and Harvard, says a writer in Onting Magazine, one of the Indian players suddenly got away with the balf and ran down the field. There was only one of his opponents between him and the goal-posts Mf the runner succeeded in getting by him, it meant athletic glory for himself and perhaps a victory for his small college over this mighty institution of learning, containing the flower of the civilization which had swept his forefathers away from the lands they once possessed. | ‘The crowd in the stands had risen, gasping in their excitement, as crowds do at such moments But just as he had almost gained the goal-line, that one man, i a famous sprinter, brought the runner down with a beautify The stands rocked with relief, and the usual “piling up” of other players took place, As the two lay there together, the fair-haired representative of New England, while still clasping the dark-skinned descendant of American savagery, felt something fumbling, and present! cap there, that his ri became awarg, at the bottom of th ing shaken. “Good tackle!" muttered the Indian. hand was b by the ) CRIMINAL co! 4 ld ever get away from “Dig Sim” al. He is familiar with every foot of gt As deput sheridl of Eureka he engaged in several long chases, always wit ‘Spanish Abe" Stanish Abe" was a bad actor, who made ita business to appropriate stray ul the blooded mares of the neighborhood. With a ' 1 he was finally rounded up and in ted in the cross-country m in eastern Nev dca outtrail a ki-yote. success. His capture of a borsethiet known as was the toast of Eureka for many a day. T cattle compani a Eureka jail. ‘The next night, however, the criminals forced the window of their cell and took to the brush, mounted on the Acetest animals they coukl steal.“ Big Sim,” hours later, “hi y the trail” in pursuit. “Spanish Abe" turned toward U1 and was changing borses along the road.“ Big Sim," renewing his mount likewise, and cutting cross-country, gained on the fugitives in the desert, Pursued and pursuer had been ridin continuously, ai But “Big Sim near Fillmor and his ¢o 4 the horses were giving way under the st * kept on, and they say he was well into tal e. to be speci he brought “Spanish be” | anion upoa a level with his gun and clapped on the handcuffs “You ain't We're in Ut Hell *Bi Come on "the Spaniard whine “Tm no d—d surveyor LOVE-MAKING PREFERABLE ‘The National Co-Operator declares that “there would be mare Rockefellers in the world if the yo time to money-making g men would devote s they do to love-m. I have life been a traveling clergyman, but j A to « traveling coonter THE EXERCCOSE KEEPS at: Wawant I + but is anybody clamoring for any more Rockefellers ] * brought down the house, aml the _ —Omahs Bec | migratioa ceased until the close of his brilliant remarks. — Posten grat ene , . At A dinner of the Lotus Club in New York a few days ago, REAL ORIGIN OF THE TUXEDO Dr. Henry Vandyke, of Princeton, took occasion to expeess bis “They are beginning to wear Tuxedo coats in Texas.” sys con sings ‘Heaven Ix My Home’ evet* gratification that “the wonderful English language, nota ag" is good! 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