Life, 1909-06-24 · page 23 of 29
Life — June 24, 1909 — page 23: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **reader letters and advertisements** rather than editorial cartoons. The content includes: **"Everybody's Column"** features letters to the editor discussing the magazine's quality. Readers complain that Life's jokes are stale and recycled—one correspondent notes a joke "is so old that it is gray itself" and compares them to "ones my grandfather used to tell." Another sarcastically hopes the magazine will become "as funny as Punch." These letters satirize Life's declining humor by praising it with exaggerated politeness while actually criticizing its worn-out material. **The cartoon** (center) shows "How the Blind Man Comes Home from the Club"—appears to depict a drunk man stumbling, using a cane like a blind person would, suggesting inebriation makes one as uncoordinated as blindness. **Advertisements** for Keen Kutter razors, Hotel Cape May, Cortez cigars, and White Rock water fill the remaining space. The page demonstrates how Life balanced satire with commercial content.
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You Gan’t Hold — This Safety Razor Wrong HARTSHORN SHADE ROLLERS Bear the script name of ewart Hartshorn on label. Get “Improved,” no tacks required Wood Rollers Tin Rollers = -_ a oe z The blade meets the face at just oy ~ J the right angle for a clean, com- fortable shave. Hold the KEEN KUTTER Safety Razor Silver plated in genuine Everybody’s Column What a Question! To tne Epitor or Lire: I have often felt inclined, and since reading your * Matri- monial Number ’* feel impelled, to ask whether it is possible that all your editorial staff are so damned unhappily mar- ried So that it will shave at all and it MUST shave exactly right. It’s the Yours very truly, one Safety Razor that will give a fine, James S. Rocers cool, close shave entirely im from Purnavetritia, June 3, 1909. regrets. KEEN KUTT blades That is, there are no co: nts have that famous KE N- KUT TER However, we may think we are temper and quality—hard enough to KL No. K'3Geld Biated TH sgnuine English Pigakin Case, er than we really are Is This Flattery? e Epitor oF Lire: ‘our issue of June 3 the enclosed joke (?) noticed by the writer: akwer (rather slow): Beg pardon, sir, but your hair is turning a bit gray. hold their edge—thick enough to prevent vibration and jumping over the beard. Satisfaction or money back. If not at your dealer's write us. Look for the Keen Kutter Trade Mark. SIMMONS HARDWARE COMPANY (Inc.) St. Louis and New Vork, U.S. A. for your next issue forgotten that one. Trusting that at some date in the near future your paper will be as funny (?) as Punch, I remain, Respectfully yours, B. Loxc Nuacara Fauus, N. Y., June 2, 1909 Most of the people have Cape May City, New Jersey ; Directly on the Beach Opens Saturday,Junel9 under the Same Management. Fireproof; 350 bedrooms, 150 private baths, with hot and cold sea water. American and European plans. From Distant Shores To tite Eprtor or Lire Am inclosing twenty-six cents in stamps in payment of your catalogue of Lire’s Prints, as advertised week! ly in Lire I get Lire regularly each week—if the mail comes to my station—and I value your little paper as one of the joys to life. I would rather do without letters than without your paper. My quarters are decorated on all sides with prints How THE BLIND MAN comes Nome rom THE | of Lire, and I am desirous of getting large nice CLUB, (Co: For literature, rates and general information, address JOHN_P. DOYLE, Manager Cape May City, N. J. Ive been here.—Chicago Daily News. This joke, with a majority of others in this issue, is so old that it is gray itself. As you are always so quick to notice the faults of others, I thought I would write and point out this and the others to you. I am able to realize the difficulty of obtaining new jokes, but I should think that you would rather cut down the size of your issue rather e than publish these dead ones over and over avain Once in a while T am really amused at some of the jokes (?). They remind me so much of the ones my grandfather used to tell in my | Victim: Shouldn't wonder. Look at the time | | nued on page 892) | boyhood days. I would suggest the joke about the two eggs “MADE AT al WESTJ= “The World’s Best Table Water’’ Nowe ready, 1909 edition of the famous “Richard's Fuor Almanack,” the hit of 1908, Beautifully bound and iitustrated humorous book. Sent for see. Address White Rock, Flatiron Bldg., New York City. comicbooks.com