Life, 1910-12-22 · page 30 of 44
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This page contains three humorous pieces satirizing incompetence and poor judgment: **"The Hunters"** mocks careless sportsmen whose terrible aim or judgment leads to absurd outcomes. They shoot a guide thinking he's game, mistake a town-dwelling rabbit for wild game (it's actually a man named Smith, six feet tall), and kill a fox without even seeing it properly. The satire targets wealthy hunters as bumbling, dangerous, and oblivious. **"The Cheerful Optimist"** quotes Mayor William S. Jordan and includes anecdotes about misplaced optimism—a missionary's moral lesson about time gets reframed as "payday," and a doctor assures surgery is necessary "today" because tomorrow might not require it. This ridicules naive or self-serving optimism. **"The Rescuers"** (photograph right) shows two men helping an apparently distressed woman, with her exclaiming about snakes. The humor derives from her concern about the "mighty twist"—likely a sexual double entendre about the rescuers' intentions. The page also advertises Life subscriptions as Christmas gifts, a common early 20th-century magazine practice.
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yA ui Sa SESS, AT NY The Hunters A hunter popped a partridge on a hill; It made a great to-do, and then was still It seems (when later on his bag he spied) It was the guide One shot a squirrel ina near-by wood— A pretty shot, off-hand, from where he stood (It wore, they said, brown, And lived in town.) a shooting hat of And one dispatched a rabbit for his haul That later proved to measure six feet tall; And, lest you think I'm handing you a myth— Its name was Smith. Another Nimrod slew the champion fox. He glimpsed him lurking in among the rocks. rapid moved, *s The inquest proved. One shot! It never spoke nor TIS cautious ” brown; Was it a deer—or Jones, a friend from town? while he rim man espied a gleam of But pondered by the river's Jones potted him Philadelphia Ledger. The Cheerful Optimist Mayor William S. Jordan, at a Demo- cratic banquct in Jacksonville, said of optimism : us cultivate optimism and hope- There is nothing like it. The optimistic man can see a bright side to everything—everything “A missionary in a slum once laid his hand on a man’s shoulder and said: “* Friend, do you hear the solemn tick- ing of that clock? Tick-tack; tick-tack. And oh, friend, do you know what day it inexorably and relentlessly brings nearer?" “*Yes—pay day,’ the other, an honest, an, replied.”” Detroit Free Press. fuln optimistic working “Axp you really think, doctor, that you must perform the operation to-day?” “Oh, yes There may be no neces sity for it to-morrow” ‘leveland Plain Dealer t Britain. Canada and 1 countries in the Postal fack numbers, atter three Lire Lien is published every ‘Thorsday, simuitaneous'y in the Grited tes a Possessions. $5.00 a year in advance. Additional postage 10 tore: $1.08 a year; to Canada, $2 cents, Rie Current copies, 10 cents, jonths from date of publication, 25 cents. No contribution will be returned rndess accomprnied by stamped and addressed enveiope, does not hold ttself responsible for the less or non-return of unsolicited contrientions. pany, Breams F.C. Rogiand, Aci News Exchanges. 16 John St Faw boure, St. Denis, Paris: 1, Via Gustavo Modena, M ‘ext and tinstrations in Livmare copyrighted. For Reprint 10 Lite Tid Seuthampion Rew, Lonacn. WCC Prompt notification shoud be sent by subse ¢ Opera, Paria, dont M3 Rue de Live is for sale by all Newsdealers in Great Briain, The Intemational News Ci Christmas Gitts Subscribe to LIFE for your friends If you wish to use LIFE as a Christmas gift, we will be pleased to send one of these cards for each subscription, together with an appropriate Christmas envelope. A YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION TO - LIFE - A copy cf our Premium Picture “DEAR” OR “DEAREST”? included with each yearly subscrip- Beginning ts ASA Merry Christmas Subscription, $5.00 3 Canadian 52 Foreign LIFE. PUBLISHING COMPANY 17 West 31et Street. New York The “all, xo. Rescuers: YOU Awe SAFE, NOW, NOT MURT, ARE YOU AUM—NoT HURT (catches sight of his nether ments), EM—SNAKFS! ARVE BEEN AN’ GOT A MIGHTY TWIST’ comicbooks.com