Life, 1910-01-27 · page 26 of 36
Life — January 27, 1910 — page 26: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Life* magazine is primarily **advertisements and humorous anecdotes** rather than political cartoons. The **satire** appears in short jokes mocking contemporary social attitudes: - **"Modern Lullaby"**: Darkly jokes about treating infant illnesses with dangerous chemicals (bichlorides), reflecting early 20th-century medicine's reliance on toxic remedies. - **"Tommy to the Rescue"**: A child story satirizing overzealous parenting—a mother warns her son not to hurt his baby brother, so Tommy kills a fly biting the baby *with a shovel*, showing absurd literal-mindedness. - **"Planning His Career"**: Satirizes ambitious social climbing through a child's prayer requesting God make him "a good lawyer, and then just land me on the Supreme Bench"—mocking materialistic aspiration. - **Omelet complaint**: Absurdly pedantic club member complains an omelet had only three flies for four people, requiring impossible division of a fly. The advertisements (whiskey, cigarettes, travel) occupy significant space. Overall, the humor targets pretension, dangerous medical practices, and upper-class absurdity.
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UNTER > QUNTER « THE GOOD NAME OF HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE IS WORLD WIDE, ITS REPUTATION UNSURPASSED Sold at all Gintclass cafen and by jodbern, WM, LANAHAN & SON, Baltimore, Bd. Modern Lullaby Bichlorides keep thee, And save thee from harm; Targents and theories Will guard "gairst alarm. —Lippincott’s. A High Course He: Do you believe in the higher ed- ucation for girls? Sur: Oh, yes. I'm taking lessons in aviation already.—Boston Herald Excused MAME on you! You came home last night actually tipsy.” “So I did, my dear. I just couldn't resist the pleasure of seeing two of you at once.""—Philadelphia Ledger. ATTENTION I will pay a substantial amount of cash satisfactory to you, if you can suggest (confidentially or otherwise) anyone of means who may invest in a realty proposition that will bear the strictest investigation. Bank and AI business references furnished. Address BONA FIDE Box 496 Equitable Bldg., 120 Broadway, N. Y. Noblesse oblige — you'll smoke them! CAMBRIDGE 25¢, ular size AMBASSADOR 4 ‘ttedienct aes OOCe “The Little Brown Box’ Planning His Career Seven-year-old Horace had a great de- sire to follow his father’s carcer. He was overheard by his mother saying his Prayers one night: “Please, God, make me a good boy, and then a good lawyer, and then just land me on the Supreme Bench, Amen." Woman’s Home Companion. An East Tennessee girl is credited with the following reply to a question as to whether she had been to the “T didn't went, I didn't want to went; and, if I had wanted to went, I couldn't have gotten to gwine."’—Good House- keeping. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER 50 cents per case of 6 class stoppered bottles 176 . Tommy to the Rescue Remedies are unfortunately sop times worse than the diseases which thy are made to cure. Tommy's mot says a writer in Lippincott’s Mage: had made him a present of a toy shore and sent him out in the sand-lot to pi with his baby brother. “Take care baby, now,’’ said his mother, “and doe’ let anything hurt him.”” Presently screams of anguish fro: baby sent the distracted parent flying t the sand-lot. ‘or goodness’ sake, Tommy, wh has happened to the baby?’? said ste, trying to soothe the wailing infant “There,was a naughty fly biting biz on the top of his head, and I killed ¢ with the shovel,’ was the proud rept. —Youth’s Companion. Asmevitte, N. C.: The four-season reson d South. Fe Maxon, the English-like Inn of The house committee of a New Yet club recently received this unique coc plaint: “I have the honor to infers you that I lunched at the club ts afternoon and had as my guests thre gentlemen, all well-known — gourme's Among other things an omelet ws served. It contained only three fics As an old member of the club, jeales of its reputation, I naturally found ths very embarrassing, as, in order to malt an equitable division of the omelet, & was necessary either to divide a fy—2 nice bit of carving, as you mu: cede—or forego a fly myself. I beg suggest that in the future, when omelet is served for four persons, ¢ should be either with (a) four flies, « (b) no flies at all.""—Argonaut. your home cleyrby taitand water throoet the New York Gateway "8 Atlantic, Gul fand West Indies Steamship Lines to Florida, the Carolinas, Georgia’ or San Domingo via CLYDE LINE ; Texas, California and Pacific Coast points; Florida-West Coast Mobile and New Orleans vis MALLORY LINE Porto Rico, cruises to and around the Island via PORTO RICO LINE Nassau - Cuba - Mexico - Yuci- tan, direct service with rail connet- tions for interior cities via WARD LINE Liberal Stop-Over Privileges on New York. Hc your s PoIsox1 DA Ss “ar coum comicbooks.com