Life, 1910-07-21 · page 17 of 40
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This page contains several satirical pieces typical of early 20th-century Life magazine humor: **"The Same Old Summer-Time"** is a romantic poem mocking male sentimentality—the speaker romantically quotes poetry and dances with a woman, yet the punchline reveals his inconsistency: "Brings always a new girl!" **"That Point of View"** is a crude dietary joke about digestion, with little satirical content. **"A Bargain That Attracts Jews"** contains ethnic stereotyping characteristic of the era. It "praises" Jewish immigrants for valuing education and aggressive acquisition, presenting this as both inherent to Jewish character and something gentiles should imitate—a backhanded compliment rooted in harmful stereotypes about Jewish greed. **"A Clever Scheme"** satirizes medical establishment attempts to suppress osteopathy through a "doctors' trust," suggesting orthodox medicine fears competition from practitioners achieving better results. **"His Reason"** jokes about a henpecked husband supporting women's suffrage, hoping it will keep his activist wife occupied at home rather than campaigning. The page reflects Period attitudes including casual antisemitism alongside progressive humor about gender relations.
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The Same Old Summer-Time HE same old summer-time is here, The same old scene is Of dancing waters, shining And rocks where high tides fret. The same old golden moon comes up To make the scene complete, Along the shore I walk with her— The same old tale repeat ‘The same old mountains The little We paddle ‘mid the lily pads The same old bark canoe; ‘The same old pine trees whisper low As dreamily we float, And from the same old poets then In thrilling tones [ quote ¢ so blue; The same old band invites to dance, And I at once make haste ‘To place this same old arm of mine Around her slender waist The same “ Blue Danube "” And in the giddy whirl I thank my stars this same old time Brings always a new girl! Ada Stewart Shelton, sets the pace, THAT POINT OF VIEW OF COURSE CHEW A MEAL SEVE: YOUR HEAD aces! 100, 1F 1 GULPED FOOD DOWN THE WAY you pO. OR FIGHT HOURS AND ENJOY IT! The Wife: wuy, crore The Dyspeptic: taxi IT INTO A MILLION PIECES A Bargain That Attracts Jews T is known that Jews are acquisitive ave unacquired things that may be had and are worth having. That is intelligent of them. It is noticed, for example, that our new: comer Jews have observed that one of the best bargains offered here is educa- tion, and that they take with both hands all they can get. So much as is free they snatch at, and what is for sale they buy if they can, getting the most they possibly can for the mone: In this peculiarity they offer an ex- ample by which our voung Gentile citizens anght do well to profit. Four-Mile Boat Races ERSONS who hold by the opinion that four-mile boat races are too much for college undergraduate men are invited to observe that at the recent New London there no racing done after three miles, and practically none after two miles. For freshmen and four-oars there — were two-mile races, and the four- mile race for university crews was won and lost in the first half of it. Dispu- tants are at liberty to argue from this cxample either that Mine the last mile is of no use or 1 that it does no harm, It is the pace that kills, not the oars. races at , WHAT ARE YOU DOING? IT INTO THE WOOD-SIED TO SMASIL IT 1S LIKE A RED RAG TO A BULL, distance. Three years ago, when a Yale stroke collapsed, it was at the end of the second mile, A Clever Scheme 2 of the reasons for O d establishing ional Medical Doctors’ Trust—appears in this extract from an official or; Bureau—or Of course a department of looks dangerous to the Chris and osteopaths. What the been able to do the Unite ceed in doing; that is, putting a stop to these forms of medical gralt.—Cincinnati Lancet Chine, “ Dangerous? "* so! Little time would the “Old School "* lose before wiping out the osteopath, who is daily curing cases where the Old School fails. When a man beats you on your own ground it is time to wipe him out—if you can The advocates of this trust interest in that large proportion of the thinking public who prefer the osteopath and find health in his treatment. His Reason “Se you are in favor of the women having the ballot? "” we say. he replies. “You see, my wife is one of the suffrage agitators, and if the women get the ballot she will be able to be at home some of the time to run the house and look after the chil- dren.”” Well, we should say take no HE. henpecked husband may get a I lot of sympathy, but that’s all