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This page from the early 1900s LIFE contains a cartoon column titled "Our Foolish Contemporaries" plus period advertisements and humorous anecdotes. ## The Cartoon The visible cartoon mocks a bridge reference made by someone whose wife lost money gambling. When asked how people "cross the river" from society to Hades (Hell), the unshaven man answers "Bridge!"—the joke being his wife's financial losses have him joking darkly about damnation while she gambles away at home. ## The Content The remaining text consists of brief social satires and one-liners poking fun at: - Lawyers delaying cases - Political/national attitudes (the Mikado/Japan joke about American perceptions) - Senator effectiveness - Rural justice quirks This reflects LIFE's 1800s-early 1900s formula: satirical humor targeting contemporary manners, politicians, and social types through short, pithy jokes rather than sustained narrative satire. The advertisements (whiskey, water springs, hotels, stables) are period standard.

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“~OuR FOOLISHa © ONTEMPORARY: SSA HE KNEW “By what means," shouted the preacher, “do our society hand Hades?" “Bridge!” answered th faced man whose wife had | stayed home to figure up Saturday's losses, and who was still | ladies cross the river that guessing —Broadway | ly nominal rather than real, else why nus contrivances for confining the animal re not made use of in sur their immobility being | Awestiesta is f so many and inge during operations—contrivances t ical operations upon human beings, secured by profound anesthesia.—Extract Kenilworth Inn, Biltmore, N.C. Always open. Most superbly finished hotel south of New York. ‘Tue late Thomas Nolan, a well-known member of the bar of New York, was once retained as counsel for a poor widow named Mulcahy. She was suing a construction company for damages by reason of her husband's death. 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HARDER “Senator, I presume it requires a good bit of practice to make a speech and have every sentence in it say something, doesn’t ine “It does,” replied Senator Badger, “but it requires more to be able to talk fc 4 say nothing.” Milwaukee Sentine. an hour a Iw a rural justice’s court the defendant in a case was sentenced | to serve thirty days in jail, He had known the judge from boy hood, and addressed him as follows Bill, old boy, you're agwine ter send me ter jail, air you?” pat’s what,” replied the judge. “Have you got anything to say ag’in it "Only this here, Bill. God help you whea I git out!" —News, Tue Soetit ror Hoseitauity: The Manor, Asheville, North Carolina, is the best inn South.— Booklet. MARITAL PHILOSOPHY Swe (after a vivacious discussion) > Ab, you dare to look me in the face? “Here's to the friends of our youth— Though of some we're bereft, May the links that are lost But endear what are left.” Tom Moore. imp) hiskey e Green Label. 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