Life, 1907-11-14 · page 7 of 20
Life — November 14, 1907 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct sections: 1. **Top cartoon**: A man in formal dress stands on a ship's deck. The caption indicates "the doctor has ordered a complete change, so Herbie takes passage for Europe on the Lusitania." This appears to satirize wealthy Americans taking European vacations for health reasons—a common practice among the affluent. 2. **Middle section**: Two cartoon panels showing a woman and man, with text about crediting President Roosevelt regarding a pilot's license suspension. This references contemporary political/aviation controversy, though specific details are unclear. 3. **"The Law" and "Suburbia" sections**: Brief satirical pieces about false witness and village life. The overall tone is light social satire typical of Life magazine's humor directed at upper-class leisure activities and contemporary civic matters.
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Enigma ‘OU will find it in easy but never in hard; It’s in a protector but not in a guard. It’s never in faith, but it’s always in fear, It’s not in a sigh but it és in a tear. It’s in the beginning, the middle and end; In your bitterest enemy and in your best friend. It stays in a house or in splendid hotels; It’s never in prisons but always in cel It’s down in a cistern; it’s up in a tree; It’s never in you but it’s always in me; In my eyes and my ears and my nose and my face, In my fingers and toes and in every place; ‘Tho’ it’s not in my hand or my foot or my arm. It’s in my timepiece but not my watch-charm. It’s always in cures but never in pills; In all our disasters but not in our ills. You will find it in kindness but not in sour look; ee a In a magazine page but not in a book. ‘The doctor has ordered a complete change, so Bertie takes passage for Europe It’s in a cute joke and it’s in a sweet smile; on the Lucania, There’s none in a furlong but there’s one in a mile. It happens that Angelina, to avoid marrying the dissolute Duke of Tripe, runs You will find it in envy and malice and hate; sway from home dlagoleed ase foctman: In life and in death, in little and great. But it’s also in hope and the prayer that we pray, And it’s in a true love forever and aye. Maurice Smiley. O SLOW about crediting President Roose- velt with improper action in suggesting the suspension of the license of the pilot of the Hartweg. ‘There is plenty of good eyewitness testimony that the pilot deserved all he got. The Boston Transcript published a letter to that effect on October 25 which was very convincing. Appalling 'T IS to tremble when one thinks what thoughts arose in the mind of Chancellor James R. Day on the days of the panic. ‘She was leaning over the rail reading an artistic and high-class humorous weekly. His heightened pulse told him it must be either Angelina or Ethelberta. ‘As he approached, she tossed the fluttering journal into the sea “Tam so tired of hearing they never lost a Lire on this line," she cried, wearily. The Law HOU shalt not bear false witness against the birds of the air, or the beasts of the field, or the fishes under the sea. This is the first commandment, and the second is like unto it, for it says that thou shalt not differ from a Great Personage, on any subject whatsoever. Such is the law, and the profit is in looking well to it. Suburbia OARDER: Do you subscribe for the village 5 newspaper? Se Va sy Without a word he ited the i board. InABITANT: No, The village dressmaker boards MiwonkwLance tew our house. To be continued comicbooks.com