Life, 1910-11-17 · page 30 of 44
Life — November 17, 1910 — page 30: what you’re looking at
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This page contains several humorous pieces satirizing early 20th-century social trends: **"An Old Song Rejuvenated"** mocks women's fashion volatility. The poem laments that elaborate hairstyles featuring "puffs" and "rats" (hairpieces) that women invested money in have suddenly become unfashionable. The joke targets the absurdity of fashion's rapid changes and women's financial investment in temporary trends—a woman cannot wear her expensive coiffed hair because styles have shifted to flatter looks. **"A Bad Lot"** presents a prisoner who, when asked to explain himself, lists famous disreputable figures (Byron, Swift, Poe) to claim he's less debased than them. The magistrate, unimpressed, sentences him and dismissively tells officers these names are "as bad a lot as he is!"—satirizing both the prisoner's flawed logic and society's moral hypocrisy. **"The Erratic Popular Taste"** and **"My Wife and Myself"** are brief satirical vignettes about public taste inconsistency and marital disagreements. The rest is advertising for McCallum silk hosiery and Belle Mead Sweets—typical period magazine filler.
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An Old Song Rejuvenated I cannot wear the old hair I wore some months gone by. I've laid it on the topmost shelf With many a weary sigh. No longer are they wearing puffs, Ard rats are quite de trop; I cannot wear the old hair— Oh, what a cruel blow! I cannot wear the old hair, For which good gold I paid. Red hair is so expensive when One gets the proper shade. I felt so dreadful when it was coiffed, All little puffs and curls; But T can't wear the old hair, Mas for Fashion's whirls! I cannot wear the old hair. Four switches I must buy And wind them round and round my head As flat as they will face is far too plump for this; My nose is much too long: But I can't wear the old hair, It’s altogether wrong. —Lippincott’s M: THE FINAL lagazine, RACING TERM A Bad Lot When charged with being di: disorderly and asked what he | for himself the prisoner gazed ac the magistrate, smoothed dc f gray hair, and said: ur honor, man’s inhuna: man makes countless thousands I'm not as debased as Swift, as as Byron, as dissipated as Poe, bauched as. a “That will do!'’ thundered the mag- istrate. “Ten days! And, officcr, take a list of those names and run They're as bad a lot as he is! —London The Erratic Popular Taste “Young man," said the woman at the ticket office, “why don’t you answer me when I ask you whether this is a moral and proper show? "’ “Because,” answered the treasurer frankly, “I’m not enough judge of human nature which way to answer without customer.”’—Weshington Stor. Kk and ul to say sively na rem as de. ‘em in ail, theatre to know losing a “My wife and foolish quarrel “ About what “About where we wou money enough to tra’ —Wasi myself had another go if we had near ington Herald hursday, simultaneousiv in the United States, Great Hritain, Canada and . $$ a year in aavance. Additional postage to toreign countnes in the Postal Loba years to Canada S2cents. Single current copies, lu cents. face pumoers, atter three hs from date of publication, 25 cents, ‘a courrihution sill be returned nies accompanied by stamped and addressed enveiope. stoes not hold iteetf ressonsile for the (oss or nemretnrn of unsoiiciled contrioutions. Live is tor sale by all Newadealers in Great Britain, ‘The lotermatonai News Company Breams Lor C., Engiand, Acexts. Brentano's aiso at Saaroach's News Exchanges. 16 Joka St. Adelphi, Strand. W. Faubourg, St. Denis, Paris: 1, Via Gustavo Modena, Milani Mayence, German The text and tiinstrations in Live are copyrighted. For Reprint Rights in Great Britain eppy so Live, 114 Southampton Kew, Lonaon, It. Prompt notification should be sent by subscrizers of any change of address, ILK stockings give the wearer an air of opulence, yet in purchas- ing McCallum Silk Hos- iery large expenditure is unnecessary. The utmost economy is assured by marked dura- bility and low prices. Stx Pairs McCallum Get Them From Your Dealer or Write to Us Ask for No. 201, thin, fine silk, for evening wear—black only, with self- clocking. No. 113 and No. 122, for general wear—black only. No, 153 in colors to match any sample. Our famous Guarantee Envelope protects you against any defect in material or workman- ship. Matched mending silk is enclosed, Write for Free Booklet’ Through My Lady's Ring” McCallum Hosiery Co., Northampton, Mass. Largest Producers of Sk Hosiery in the World ‘ive The social standing contented by exclust in d Sweets Ww Belle Meads Ny Choco! % 7 r uniquely cognition of thei is a noteworthy re rming palatability. —— ie yy are a delicate tribute to the refine’ c a evidence ceptions of the recipient, and an evide' per of correct taste in the sven — _ of the choicest things ee ea be made, enriched with lusciou cand ae aed and tempting nut a Sold only in sealed packazes by the better class of druggists. BELLE MEAD SWEETS Trenton, N. J. comicbooks.com