Life, 1909-02-11 · page 20 of 28
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This page contains three separate humorous pieces from *Life* magazine (an early 20th-century satirical publication): **"Willie's Resolution Was Shattered"**: A moral lesson story about a boy who tries the Christian virtue of "heaping coals of fire" (returning kindness for cruelty). The joke: it backfires badly. After Willie gives his bully Jack a pie, Jack simply demands more pies through repeated violence. The satire mocks naive idealism—the boy's mother's well-intentioned moral teaching produces the opposite result. **"An All Year-Round Game"**: A photographer's comedic struggle getting a young man to pose naturally with his father. The humor: the father would naturally have his hand *in his pocket* (implying stinginess), not on his son's shoulder. **Additional short pieces**: Brief jokes about marriage, military hierarchy, and butcher shop transactions—typical period humor emphasizing domestic friction, class dynamics, and wordplay. The page is primarily **satirical commentary on social behavior and morality**, not political cartoons. It reflects early 20th-century attitudes about family dynamics, obedience, and social expectations.
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a Willie's Resolution Was Shattered A little boy came home one day from school in avery bad humor. Another boy, Jack Jones, had given him a thrashing, and he wanted re- venge. “Oh,"’ said his mother, “don't think of re- venge, lie. Be kind to Jack. Heap coals of fire on his head. Then he will become your friend.’ Willie thought he would try this method. So the next day at recess, just as he was buying a lemon pie for luncheon, Jack appeared and said: “Look here, I licked you yesterday, but I didn't give you enough. Now I'm going to lick you again And he planted a hard blow on Willie's little stomach. Willie gasped, but instead of striking back he extended his pie to Jones. “Here,’’ he said in a kindly voice, you this. I make you a present of it.’* Jack, in glad amazement, fell upon the pie greedily, and it had soon disappeared. “Gosh, it was good! ’’ he said. “ What did you give it to me for?’ “ Because you struck me,’? said the heaper of the coals. Instantly Jack hauled off and struck him again. “ Now go and get another pie,"” he said.—Ladies’ "IL give MT Se1SS°R) °R), AVY, [ Nyllv) 2 AN ALL YEAR-ROUND GAME Puorocrarner (to young man): It will make a much better picture if you put your hand on your father’s shoulder. + Tue Farner: Huh! It would be much more natural if he had his hand in my pocket! — Lustige Welt. Daypex married Lady Elizabeth Howard, a shrew of marked ability. She complained that he showed her no attention, and wished herself a book that she might enjoy more of his society. “Wish yourself an almanac, my dear; then I The Straight and Narrow Lady, with your soup bowl hat, Near-Directoire gown and make-up, With your curves all to the flat, Quite in line with fashion’s shake-up, With your long plumes all a-wave When you gaily trip the pave As on toward the shops you hike it, Do you like it? When reform has done its work— E’en though hubby much has scolded— And with many a strain and jerk You into new shape are moulded, Do you wholly feel at ease In your efforts thus to please? Smiles that match your costume rakish— Are they fakish? And when you have closed your tour Of the down-town streets for shopping, And you're home again, are your Inclinations to be stopping Long before you want to take ‘Em all off for comfort’s sake, ‘And put on, though not so dapper, Just a wrapper? —W. L. W. in Brooklyn Life. Obeying Orders Sentry: Halt! Who goes there? Private Jones: Friend who has a boitle, Sentry: Pass, friend! Halt, bottle !—Punck, Tue Brroe: I want a piece of meat without any bone, fat or gristle. Tne Butcher: Madam, I think you'd better have an egg.—Harper’s Weekly. Home Journal. could change you every year.'’—Argonaut. Live is published every Thursday, simultaneously in the United States, Great Britain, Canada and Bintlsh Porsessions. #50 a year in advance. 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