Life, 1909-05-06 · page 32 of 48
Life — May 6, 1909 — page 32: what you’re looking at
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This Life magazine page contains two main satirical pieces: **"She" (left column):** A humorous poem about a domestic servant (likely a maid or housekeeper) who is perpetually criticized—she breaks things, scorches food, stays out late, and overspends. The running refrain demands she be fired for each transgression. The joke's irony: despite all her faults, the family cannot actually fire her because she's essential to their household functioning. When she once got ill, she resourcefully charged expenses to them at local stores, making her indispensable despite her incompetence. This satirizes the employer-servant relationship of the early 1900s and the paradox of keeping obviously unsuitable household help. **"Trouble Averted" and "The Fish" (right column):** Two brief humorous anecdotes about social encounters and practical wisdom. The page is otherwise dominated by **advertisements** for McCray Refrigerators and Pantosofe leather products—typical commercial content for Life magazine of this era.
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Sez g But maybe the new one would be just the same Our last one spanked Freddie the day that she came; She broke our big platter—she dropped it—to-day ; And sie ones leet night; smashed’s' good picture And she should have been fired for that; Awa ahes WAL Wot eRE REACTS: She tells our affairs to the folks o'er the way, J Charles Ro Borie te Nee And she ought to be fired for that "9 . ames But if she should go what on earth could we do? y y, We've company here and we must sce it through ; / hai, Trouble Averted She stays out at night until all hours, too; AW ashington, many much given to long foot And she ought to be fired for that. tours through Virginia, once came upo: noun She scorches the steak till it’s brittle and black, Kempt and melancholy-looking person siretched And she ought to be fired for that; under a tree, who, upon the approach of the : er aati pedestrian, immediately executed a “hu She cooks like a person deprived of the knack, touch "’ for a dime. And she ought to be fired for that ow the Washington man had, short dis. Last weck we declared we would keep her no tance back, been talking to a prosperous farmer more ; , q who had complained of the difficulty of obtaining But illness occurre happened before— r labor; accordingly he said, to the hobo as he Then she—well, she charged things to us, at the ! handed him the coin: store, . About half a mile down, my friend, there’s a And she should have been fired for that farmer looking for men to help him in bis She takes her day off when she can't well be \ F: % “; fields.”” spared, 1 BY The melancholy-looking person bowed as And she ought to be fired for that; politely as possible, considering his sitting Pos. es # sf BLAaCRL IRA EGREEIY RIERE ture, and replied: The rooms in this place are improperly aired, “Thanks. I might er strolled down that way And she ought to be fired for that 4 A month since we vowed that she'd have to get accidental-like."'"—Harper’s Magazine. out, But there was some cleaning—that left it in doubt ; She took some loose change that was lying about, And she should have been fired for that. The Fish: po peor 1 FoR LUNCH, WoN'T You? © in love in He: Do you believe in Santa Claus? —ii consin Sphinx, taneously in the United Sates, Great Britain, C ; { Lane, London, E.G. England, Acents. Rrentano’s, 37 Ave, de 'Orera, Pate British Possessions. si iadvance. Additional pestage to foreign countries ews Exchanges, 1, New Coveniry Street, Leicester Square, W. Londan? 9, Ret Union. i ob 2 rears to Gua. sz cents ‘Single current copies, lo cents, Back numbers, after three . Georges, Paris; 1, Via Firenze, Milan; Mayence, Germany. outribution seule returned nnless accompanied by amped and addressed envelope. 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