Life, 1909-03-25 · page 15 of 36
Life — March 25, 1909 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page contains multiple satirical pieces typical of Life's early 20th-century humor: **"Shore Lots"**: A real-estate con joke where a salesman shows empty beachfront property, suggesting the buyer return "when the tide's out"—implying there's nothing to see even then. It mocks speculative real-estate schemes. **"Nearsighted Mr. Bug"**: A bug cannot court his love interest because footprints of rival suitors cover the ground—satirizing competitive courtship and popularity contests. **"Turks and Women"**: Commentary on voting rights. The piece notes Turkish men became "reasonable" after gaining votes, while questioning whether women's suffrage achieved similar results in "civilized countries"—reflecting early 20th-century skepticism about women's political participation. **"Oh, Those Irish!"**: A darkly comic reference to horse-poisoning extortion by men with Yiddish names (Press/Wolfsky/Wolfinsky), though the headline blames "Irish"—likely satirizing ethnic stereotyping and newspaper sensationalism. **"Agitating Possibility"**: A brief joke about painting something red, likely political satire.
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‘LIFE: if the thing is done thoroughly enough, it will remedy itself, For example, it is only half the battle to say that we ought not to be anxious about our debts. When the cycle is completed, and our creditors are not anxious about them—when we can run up as many bills as possible, and the slightest intimation on our part to the creditor is met with a smile of protest and the statement that they wouldn't think of troubling us—for the simple reason that there is no such thing as trouble—won't that be the millenium? It ought to be. Think also of having our favorite child go wrong, and smile as we hear of his downfall. That seems to be the logical outcome of the new thought. Why shrink from it? Thomas L. Masson. Shore Lots ITTEMAN: Oh, these are the shore lots you advertised? .Well, there doesn’t seem to be much to them. Said a charm-ant young Boomuny: you want to come lady named Wikker, up and have a look at them when “If hats are made very ‘ 7 the tide’s out! bigger, A i ne, I know, * ‘ ‘5 Me ecratag ckerieuy = AT kind of a cow is that? So that I may continue A Fletcher cow. Chews de rigger!”” her food before swallowing.”’ Nearsighted Mr. Bug: No USE OF MY TRYING TO CALL UPON THE FAIR ANNABELLE TO-NIGHT, POR HERE'S THE FOOT- PRINTS OF EVERY CHAP IN TOWN. Turks and Women WRITER in the London Daily Mail says that the right to vote is making the men of Turkey “ reasonable and comprehensible,” but no one has yet had the temerity to claim so much for woman suffrage in civilized countries. Which Sex ? Above all, let us refrain from unjust criticism of the sex that has made us the nation that we are.—Vogue. HICH sex is that?) Which sex has made us the nation that we are? To ask the question is enough; it needs no answer. Everybody knows offhand that it has taken both sexes to make us a nation, and that it always has taken, and always will take, both sexes to accomplish anything that will last over night. Oh, Those Irish ! ILLIAM PRESS, alias Wolfsky, and Reuben Wolfinsky were arrested in New York late last month on sus- picion of poisoning horses. There was no malice about it: Agitating Possibility it was strictly business. The method was to poison a few Wink Céisuer Gu “Bliss, horses belonging to a large concern and then make the con- daciarcWRixk 36: oii WrakudecGee-Ceielxdil cern pay tribute to have the rest of its horses left alive. Hav- decane) an18s GEAR ing thus demonstrated that horse insurance was necessary and —Headline in the “ Sun.” profitable the promoters had little trouble—so the papers say— Wirt he be going to paint it red, may be in extending their business. The Rich Miss Hipp: stRarcnt wirs AND FISH TAIL EP- suet? WELL, 1 SUPPOSE I'VE GoT TO DO IT oR DIE. comicbooks.com