Life, 1908-06-18 · page 7 of 28
Life — June 18, 1908 — page 7: what you’re looking at
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**The Main Cartoon:** The illustration titled "The Wrong Twin" depicts a romantic or social scenario where a man appears to be courting the wrong woman. Two women in elegant Edwardian dress flank the scene, while the man in dark formal wear interacts with one. The caption warns: "IN A MATTER OF TWINS, BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT BEFORE YOU TAKE THE PLUNGE"—a humorous cautionary tale about mistaking identical twins before making serious romantic commitments. **Context:** This satirizes the popular early-20th-century comedic trope of twin mix-ups in literature and theater. The joke targets the social consequences of romantic entanglement, particularly the embarrassment of pursuing the wrong person. It reflects period anxieties about courtship propriety and the literal consequences of romantic error.
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x= ! i i | THE WRONG TWIN IN A MATTER OF TWINS, BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT BEFORE YOU TAKE THE PLUNGE Hurrah for the Fourth of July! URN up powder! Raise a row! Celebrate the rise Of our Independence Day! Johnny’ Of his eyes.) Shoot your bombs! independent now Our army wrung, Deaf to war's alarms, Freedom from the foreign king. (Off the rule has Jimmy flung Of his arms.) Start the rockets! Let 'em see Not the land that begs, But who fights gai (Tommy is this minu Of his legs.) Let your cheers to he ns liberty. te free aven ring! Light the skies with red! (Plenty kids to go around) Sound the ancient slogan, “Bring Out your dead.” Layton Brewer. Articulate EWSPAPER headlines give such curi- ous bits of news. Here is one from the Springfield Republican: : Guy A, Ham to Speak Strange, isn’t it! Balam scolded (and beat) an ass until it talked back at him, but it seems as if a ham would stand a lot of guying before it retorted. We never before heard of a ham that gave sign or promise of vocal utterance, not even after years of inti- mate human society on a railroad lunch counter. No, never. Some Virtues Best Reward Themselves HEY give a prize at Bryn Mawr Col- lege for four years of proficiency in j ousness, high courage, fortitude and faith- fulness. Girls that have these qualities already have four prizes, but, as a rule, they get them as a free gift of nature. It is a matter of taste, but is it not more suitable to give prizes for mental or physical achievements than for moral or spiritual ones? A man/once established in a college a prize to be awarded to the most perfect gentleman in the graduating class. ‘That was all he knew about the spirit of a gentle- man. “LJOW’D you get here old man?” “In my airship.” “Road good?” “Cloudy.” “BEY YOU TEN DIRD-SERDS THE BIC ONE GETS AROUND Finst” comicbooks.com