Life, 1909-04-08 · page 29 of 32
Life — April 8, 1909 — page 29: what you’re looking at
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This page is primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotes**, not political satire. The main content includes: **Left column**: Corset and hotel ads, plus three brief jokes: - A professor distinguishing "zero" from "nothing" - A child unable to count his ribs - A debate between a bricklayer and plumber about curing lovesickness **Center**: Short humorous pieces about a barber's compliment, a Grand Duke's observation that America lacks a leisure class (suggesting Black Americans are idle—a racist stereotype), and a child asking what a cat wanted to know. **Right**: Cocoa and fashion advertisements. The page reflects early 20th-century American humor: mild, anecdotal, and occasionally containing casual racism (the leisure-class joke). There are no clear political cartoons or caricatures visible. This appears to be a typical *Life* magazine miscellany page mixing ads with light comedic filler content.
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One of the students, Morgenthaler by name, would almost invariably read an equation like this, x + y 0, as follows: “ plus y equals nothing.” One day Dr. Howe lost his long- enduring patience. “ See here, Morgenthaler, let ow you the difference between zero and nothing.”* With this, Dr. Howe wrote a big o on the blackboard. “ This,"” he sai Thi erasing the 0, he added : $ nothing. —Lippincote’s. Could Only Guess “How many ribs have you, Johnny?” ¢ teacher of physiology. “I don't know, ma'am,’ giggled Johnny, squirming around on one foot. “I'm so awful tektish I never could count ’em."'—Philadelphia asked Briancuirr Maxon, N. A Resort Hotel of High Quality May 1. with supertor accommodations for three hun- partments decorated and furnished under ex- 1s for lease engagement, DAVID B. PLUMER, Manager ‘ented at 5% East 46th St., New York. ‘Phone SU78-35th, War vy BRIARCLIFF LODGE 10 CENTS PER ROLL ALL SI VELOX PRINTS, BROWNIES, 3c; cAarge as 4 sample of out ‘bien specials nd give you better results than you have ever had. Cure for Love “T remember once,”” says Professor Grange, “hearing two very ordinary men, a_ bricklayer and a plumber, discuss love in a smoking-car. “*T hold,’ said the bricklayer, ‘that if you are terribly in love, the way to cure yourself is to run awa “The plumber shook his head and sneered. “*That will cure you,’ he said, ‘provided you y with the girl.’ Tatler. The Advantage John Bright used to tell how was cutting his hair once said to him: ‘ave a large good thing to ‘ave a large 'cad, for a large ‘ead means a large brain, and a large brain is the most useful thing a man in ‘ave, as it nourishes the roots of the ‘air.’ Sacred Heart Review. Our Leisure Class “ But,”’ says the Grand Duke, who is dining incog. with Damel Voorhees Pike, Booth Tar- kington’s new play, “The Man from Hom “but you have no leisure class in America.’ ‘0 leisure class!’ drawls out Pike, thought- fully. “Huh! You ought to see our colored population !’—Current Literature, . a barber who “You Litt: Davey Sloan is forever asking ques- tions. “You'd better keep still or something will hap- pen to you," his tired mother finally told him one night. “Curiosity once killed a cat, you know.” Davey was so impressed with this that he kept silent for three minutes. Then: “Say, Mother, what was it the cat wanted to know? body's. 0 RED-BLOODS! Come join our Brotherhood Bunch—75,00 strong! World's Viggest out-loor-sport frater- nity. Grand Pow-wow once @ month at NATIONAL SPORTSM, “HEAD-CAMP"; all good fel- lows swapping soul-stirring yarns; ing, Hunting, Camping—1500 heart-tugging, living-pictured pazes a year. Hundreds of trips over thou- sands of miles! 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Maillard’s Vanilla Chocolate is such an universal favorite with lovers of French dainties, that it is its own recommendation, Flavored with the true Vanilla bean only. Sold by all Leading Grocers Fifth Avenue and 35th Street. Bonbons, Fancy Cakes, French Bonbonnicres, Etc. The Ladies’ Restaurant isa popular Luncheon resort—“ afternoon tea” 3 to 6. The First Word “That is what I call an ideal Hardy declared to his wife as they were walking ward after an evening at the rolls’. I believe both think absolutely alike.’” es, the: inly are ¢! ing,’’ assented Mrs. Hardy; “ but about the thinking, Joe, if you will notice, ske generally thinks first.”’-—Youth's Companion. The Idiot Irate Parext: Am I to understand there is some idiotic affair between you and that im- pecunious young ass, Lord Bilaris? Farr Davonter (very sweetly): papa!—Iilustrated Bits. IF GOING ABROA 185, nese Regent Street The most EXCLUSIVE MODELS in London. FANCY TAILOR | MADES, RECEPTION and EVENING FROCKS. MILLINERY. 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