Life, 1907-05-30 · page 19 of 20
Life — May 30, 1907 — page 19: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertising**, with two notable satirical pieces: ## "Stand Aside! Said Teddy Bear" (Poem) A humorous verse battle between a **Teddy Bear** and a **Stork**, competing for popularity and precedence. The Teddy Bear boasts of being "the rage today" with children and ladies, while the Stork counters that it has historical priority, calling itself "the Teddy Bird." This appears to be **topical satire** about the fad status of teddy bears (a relatively recent toy craze) versus traditional cultural symbols. The joke mocks competing trends and vanity. ## "Easter Sunday Bird Count" (Prose Piece) A naturalist documents hundreds of dead birds spotted on Broadway bonnets—robins, waxwings, woodpeckers, orioles, etc. This is **advocacy satire criticizing the fashion industry's use of bird feathers and whole birds to decorate women's hats**. By cataloging specific species in gruesome detail, the author highlights the environmental toll and animal cruelty of millinery fashion. Both pieces use humor to critique contemporary consumer culture and fashion trends.
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Vm the Teddy Bear!” On one leg, his neck actook, Stork then struck a pose; One big bunch of claws he shook ‘Neath his bearship’s nose. “Hang your plush-upbolstered hide! Say, I like your cheek! Stand aside yoursel}!” he cried, “ Fuzzy-wuzzy freak! “When of precedence you talk, Save yourself such airs, For the bird you term a gawk Precedes Teddy Bears. Fre you're in demand at all, Creature most absurd! T must pay the house a call— I'm the Teddy Bird?—Harper's Weekly. Yours for a DELIGHTFUL AND HEALTHFUL vaca tion—The Delaware and Hudson Co. Send § cents postage for 300-page illustrated guide to cool northern Fesorts, Adiron dacks, Lake George, Lake Champlain, Saratoga Springs, Sharon Springs, ete., to A. A. Heard, G.P.A\, Albany, N.Y IN EASTER Sunday a lover of birds, who would stop their wholesale slaughter to decorate the bonnets of women, counted the victims of millinery which he saw in the course of a stroll on Broadway, with the following figures as the result : Four robins, one brown thrush, three bluebirds, one | Blackburnian warbler, three blackpoll warblers, three Wilson’s black-capped flycatchers, three scarlet tanagers, one white-bellied swallow, one Bohemian waxwing, twenty-three waxwings, one great northern shrike, one pine grosbeak, fifteen snow buntings, two tree sparrows, one white- throated sparrow, one bobolink, two meadow larks, nine Baltimore orioles, five purple grackles, five bluejays, one swallow-tailed flycatcher, one king- bird, one kingfisher, one pileated woodpecker, two red-headed woodpeckers, twenty-one golden-winged woodpeckers, one Arcadian owl, onc Carolina dove, one pinnated grouse, two ruffed grouse, sixteen quails, two helmet quails, five sunderlings, one big yellowlegs, one green heron, one Virginia rail, one laughing gull, twenty-one common terns, one black Wouldn't that shake your feathers?—Saturday Evening Herald. ‘OU have a model husband,” said the lady who was congratulating the bride. ‘The next day the bride bethought her to look up the word “model” in the dictionary, and this is what she found: MODEL: A smail imitation of “| the real thing.—Philistinc. 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