Life, 1909-08-19 · page 7 of 28
Life — August 19, 1909 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains three distinct comedic pieces: 1. **"The Obvious"** - A dialogue between two figures (one appears to be a dandy or fashionable man) about love and relationships. The humor relies on the man's evasive answers to direct questions about his feelings. 2. **"Bound in Morocco"** - A cartoon depicting what appears to be colonial or travel-related humor, showing figures in North African dress in a rural setting. 3. **"Prediction Baffled" and "The Real Thing"** - These sections discuss Massachusetts families and baseball culture. The baseball piece satirizes an old inhabitant of Hades who claims baseball is hell—suggesting the sport's ubiquity and the speaker's nostalgic preference for earthly pastimes. The humor throughout relies on period-specific references to courtship customs, colonial attitudes, and American leisure culture.
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“LIFE: 235 Moen reres Coey Percy Terrapin: EXCUSE ME, MR. FROG, 1F 1 DRAW IN ay HEAD A MOMENT. I OWK MARDSHELL A FIVER AND IT'S JUST AS WELL HE DOESN'T RECOGNIZE ME The Obvious “TOW much do you love me?" The beautiful creature at his side looked at him ap- pealingly “Do you really want to know?" he I must know. “Very well, then poker, and a little less than my regular business. sked doubtfully I love you a little more than playing I love you NO THEY MAVE NOT FALLEN out! more after I have had a good dinner and a good cigar than I do before. I love you about half as much as the first girl i ever loved—who was ten years older than I was than I ever expect to love anyone else until | fifty, I love your extravagancies more than your economies, because they cause me more trouble. I love what I cannot verify in you more than what I know.’ “And why?’ she persisted, “do you dare to tell me all this—which I know to be true.’ and more to be over ROUND IN MOROCCO Prediction Baffled oT! has been given of an impending alliance by mar- riage between the illustrious Massachusetts f Thomas Lawson and Sam McCall nilies of A marriage of reform to legislation! Tom is a stock broker who has hai a man of letters, lapses into reform, and might have been m is a Congressman who have been a college president What their common live to become defies the whole apparatus of predic will be rich, however, and may sink into sport, finance and mere conservative pleasure-seeking respectability The Real Thing HAT’S doi in the way of amusements? '’ asks the new comer of the old inhabitant of Hades “ Baseball answers the old inhabitant “Baseball? You don’t That's great. I was a fan from ‘way back, on earth. On the square, do you have baseball every day? "’ “ Sure thing.”” “By ginger! This place suits me Baseball! Say, this can't be hell, then.” “Yes, it is. loses.”” game every rnoon, mean it! The home team always comicbooks.com