Life, 1910-06-16 · page 17 of 44
Life — June 16, 1910 — page 17: what you’re looking at
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This page contains **satirical commentary on American Independence Day celebrations**. The main cartoon, "This Glorious Fourth," mocks the Fourth of July by depicting preparations that focus on inevitable injuries rather than patriotic ideals. The poem sarcastically instructs families to gather medical supplies (arnica, lint, salts) and materials for bandages in anticipation of fireworks accidents. The humor lies in the contrast between solemn patriotic language ("Float Old Glory to the mast!") and practical concerns about burns, eye injuries, and lockjaw from dangerous fireworks. The caption "When Hearts Are Trumps Lead With a Diamond" appears to reference a card game, though its connection to the cartoon is unclear. Below is a brief note about **Colonel Chantecler**, likely referencing Edmond Rostand's play character, comparing Roosevelt's Sorbonne lecture sentiments to the fictional rooster—probably satirizing Roosevelt's grandiose rhetoric as derivative rather than original. The page illustrates Life magazine's typical approach: poking fun at American customs and public figures through witty verse and social observation.
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OVERHEARD IN THE UGANDA DISTRICT 5, GROWN sNoo- WISH SINCE THEY RUT THEY AVE MOVED INTO THAT 11S- TORIC MANSION! damaged in the busi- branch, while badly flood, will still continue to do ness. Any of our former patrons who call there and wish to be shown the courtesies of the place will receive the as always. We make parting test y wives same treatment this announcement as a monial of our regard to the n of our customers, who scem to feel that our downfall. their hus- Gf we must rejoice over be glad to meet P fter next month they We shall bands can secure passage) offer them our services for any hour of the day and night. Our life work is over Put there still, remains the possibility of sweet revenge. cu! and Corresroxp. Exce Bureau. LITTLE absence now and then is relished by the best of husbands. Question | DUCHESS OF MARLROROUGIT ASKS WOMEN TO uxite (Special Correspondence of the World) London, May 18. NITE or untic? A lot of precedents in this case favor the latter reading. Has our neighbor the World made a typo- graphical error? “LIFE: This Glorious Fourth GETTING READY ATHER, get the arnica; mother, get the lint: Susie, get the bottles and The smelling salts and mint; Alice, get the Plasters; Tommy, get the matches! I wil} get the needle and Material for Patches ! This the day we celebrate; let the anv ring! Every one be merry while The village children sing We are inde- That's why we're hurraying! Tom will cauterize the wounds And I will do the Spraying! pat Old Glory to the mast! Let the colors wave Over the inha Of all our country brave! We know why we're Yelling— We know why we're shouting! Don't shoot any crackers while The orators are Spouting ! ants “WHEN HEARTS ARE TRUMPS LEAD WITH 1101 Busta leg. ye patriots! Paralyze aneye! Blow yourselves to southercens— Don't be afraid to di Lockjaw’s very Painful Usually f But the sacrifice is sweet In honor of our atal! Henry Edward Colonel Chantecler G' ORGES BOURDON has discovered and expounds it in Figaro that the about human life and duty in his Sorbonne sentiments disclosed by Roosevelt lecture are identical with the sentiments of M Chantecler. Chante- cler, M. Bourdon says, is not he is universal, and he points to Roose- velt as the fulfilment, in a way, of the ideal that M. Rostand put in bis play M. Bourdon estimates the Colonel by lecture Rostand’s French, the sentiments in his Sorbonne a discourse which has been held to be doubt it is. Who- ever makes a general discourse about hu- platitudinous. No man conduct is bound to be either plati tudinous or erratic. The facts are pretty well known, If the speaker states them he can only platitude by: expression. If he misstates avoid graces of them he is more original and less sound Sundry German turn out from time to time highly original ideas of life and folks, hut they don’t wash professors A pIAMOND "* comicbooks.com