Life, 1908-11-19 · page 23 of 28
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This is primarily an **advertising page** with three brief humorous anecdotes interspersed. The cartoons are minimal; the page features ads for Calox tooth powder, Jaeger underwear, Porto Rico steamship tours, and Old Dutch tankards. The three short satirical pieces are: 1. **"Great Ingratitude"**: A woman recounts how suffragettes educated an orphan into ministry, only for him to preach that women should "keep silence in the church" (quoting St. Paul). The joke mocks male hypocrisy and ingratitude toward women's suffrage efforts—this references the active women's suffrage movement of the era. 2. **"A Warning"**: An old farmer's deadpan response to a railway surveyor threatens to stop opening her barn doors after 9 PM, treating the train as her personal servant. Humor derives from rural stubbornness meeting industrial "progress." 3. **"His Idea of Bonanza"**: Text is cut off, but appears to discuss financial speculation or luck. The page reflects early 20th-century concerns: women's rights, rural-versus-modern tensions, and economic anxieties.
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THE NEW YORK & PORTO RICO STEAMSHIP CO. 12 Broadway, New York, or Raymond & Whitcomb Co., New York, and all Principal Cities Old Dutch Tankard and Flagons A pleasing git tur oue who cares for quaint, artistic banlwork, | ‘The hammered and riveted rlnking ‘vessels * middie ages reproduced in copper and perfectly lined in Made wit wi Monogram, etc, eden. Pu Place your order carly 0 bare ‘our set made In Ume for Christmas. Send for booklet of “Clewell Coppers," Clewell Studios, 1957, 0rDst. Canton, Odio. RARE OLD is said bensty and dignity to the home. We want Ameren artlovers fo know and appreciat lt foe Tealian, French, "Ea al send for $1.00 ‘an Srawe Si GREAT INGRATITUDE The late Mrs. Clara Dewey How of Philadel- phia, whose philanthropic work among immi- grants made her well known, had a trenchant wit, and one afternoon in Philadelphia, dis- cussing the woman suffrage movement with a clergyman, she said: “You men are all alike. You all resemble the orphan that Mrs. Stanton and her friends brought up. Mrs. Stanton and a body of ladies from her church, all interested in woman suffrage, once took a little newsboy from the gutter and edu- cated him superbly. They sent him through school and college and finally made a minister of him “This young minister, the work of their hands, preached his first sermon in their church. That was a proud Sunday morning for the good ladies. They thought they had at last firmly planted among the male sex a strong and splen- did supporter. So, in their best bonnets, they filled the church that Sunday morning. They were on tiptoe with expectation, Who could tell but that their young charge might preach in their honor a woman suffrage sermon? ine their emotions when the youth arose in the pulpit, looked calmly and even sternly over the congregation, and announced that his text would be from St. Paul: Let the women keep silence in the church.” ” —Washington Star. A WARNING A new railway was being made, and, the de- sign including a small farm, the officers of the line paid a visit to the owner, an old lady “Madam,” said the surveyor, “ we understand that you own this farm, and it is my duty to inform you that our new railway will run through your barn.”* “Oh, will it?” said the old lady.“ Well, let me tell you that the last train will have to be not later than 9 o'clock, because you'll not catch me sitting up after that to open the doors for it or anything else. So mind.”"—Tit-Bits HIS IDEA OF BONANZA A certain man had a disastrous experience in gold mine speculations, One day a number of colleagues were discussing the subject of specu- lation, when one of them said to this specu- lator: “Old chap, as an expert, give us a definition of the term ‘ bonanza.’ "” “A ‘bonanza,’ "’ replied the experienced man, with emphasis, “is a hole in the ground owned by a champion liar! "’—Pick-Me-Up. ABILITY’S MEASURE Cardinal Logue, durmg his visit to Pocantico Hills, was asked how many sermons a preacher could prepare in a week Smiling, Cardinal Logue answered : “If the preacher is a man of extraordinary ability, he can prepare one sermon; if a man of average ability, two; if a blockhead, ten or twelve."’—Washington Star. PHILIP MORRIS ‘ORICINAL LONDON CIGARETTES The first choice of the critical for over half a century. CAMBRIDGE AMBASSADOR regular size after-dinner size RUDYARD KIPLING “The Adventures of Melissa’’ A live, burning story of Socialism—the most biting and trenchant thing out of Kipling’s brain within the last half- dozen years. GOUVERNEUR MORRIS “The Bride's Dead” A story of shipwreck and the survival of the fittest, physically and morally. HARVEY J. O’HIGGINS “In the Musée” A story of typical but very human life on the Bowery, with quaint characters and picturesque situations. ‘These three extraordinary stories complete in the December Fiction Number, issued November 28th. Collier’s The National Weekly De Potter Tours, 32 Broadway, N. Y. Around the World December 9; Orient, January $0 Various Tours to Europe.—3th Year. Old World Tourist Guide ys Taagaa?® JIGSAW PUZZLES ita aay all $1.00—§2.00—$8.00 (three eles). | PRUDENCE PRIDE. Deerfield, Mass. ABBOTTS BITTERS ies tho Dest cocktail Aids A delenit aromatic for ait wine, sp soda beveraces. gabon ei crane fOr and taste increases the edieet of rape Prat Tmportant to see that it Abbott's. comicbooks.com