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This page from *Life* magazine presents satirical humor pieces mocking various contemporary figures and attitudes. The cartoons use racial stereotypes common to early 20th-century American humor—specifically depicting African Americans in dialect-heavy stories meant to ridicule both Black characters and the white authority figures they encounter. "A Qualification" mocks a minister's sanctimonious preaching about neighborliness to a Black man named Rastus, who delivers a self-deprecating punchline. "Imperfect Harmony" ridicules composer Richard Strauss's discordant music through Senator Depew's anecdote. "Patience Gave Out at Last" satirizes Appalachian feuding culture through an old woman's matter-of-fact description of escalating violence. The page is primarily advertising, promoting shaving cream and facial soap alongside these humor pieces—typical *Life* magazine format mixing satirical content with consumer goods.

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ERE OU R_ IPORARIES A Qualification Rastus was honest and industrious, but, in the opinion of the new minister, un- sociable. ighborliness, my dear friend,” said the dominic, “is brotherliness. Do you take the trouble to see much of your ighbors?” Ah reckon sees as much of them as dey sces of me,” Rastus replied. “Perhaps,” said the clergyman, do you love your neighbor as yourself “Ah reckon ah does, pahson,” Rastus ied, “but you know, suh, I ain’t ptic'larly stuck on mahself neither."— Success, Imperfect Harmony ator Depew, at a recent dinner in ew York, said of Richard Strauss’s music: “To hear Strauss’s ‘Elektra’ or his “Domestic Symphony’ always ome think of the old Scotch piper who said: ‘Ah, there's ane nicht I sail neer for- get. There were nincteen pipers besidcs imysel’ all in a wee bit parlor, all playi different tunes. I just thocht I was in heaven! "—Washington Star, Let's change the name of the capital to Whitewashington.—Omaha } Patience Gave Out at Last More than one story has been told about the lawlessness and disorderliness of the feudists of the Southern m: tains, This one the Philadelphia Times tells as having been related by a clerg man of Kentucky, who has worked for many years among these neglected hill people. here had been a ami reunion, which terminated in i all fi The offenders were taken before the local justice of the peace, who ques- tioned an old woman as to the particu- lars of the fight. Her description was typical of the mountaincer's attitude toward strife and bloodshed , judge,” she said, “Jem Louis an argument with Hank Budd. Budd smashed Jem over the head stick of cord wood, and busted his n Jem’s brother smashed Hank up with a butcher knife, and Lou Barry shot him through the 1 Larry Stover went at Lou with an ax, and then, judge, we just natu got to fighting.” Caront Bitters— Sherry and Whiskey. ee No Soap ~ No BRUSH~No Cup You will find shaving a Juxury Ifyou use EUX-E-SIS (Pronounced UX The Great English Demolcent Stavi ¢ Cream Saves time—no soap, brush or cup needed—a tube of Eux-e-sis and a razor, that’s all. This celebrated English shaving cream has for a third of a century been used by men of refinement and nice habit. It quickly softens the hardest beard so that ycu_can shave in half the time with twice thecomfort, Leaves the skin smooth and free from irritation, It is a treasure to travelers. Ideal for use with the safety razor. None genusine without the signature Aimee Lloyd in red ink on tube. Sod by best druggists. 45c a tube —extra large, 90¢ Send for explanatory booklet Park & Tilford, Fifth Avenue, New York Import Agents Manufactured by Aimee Lioyd & Co.,Longon, England thorournt Kestoce the soft textul the akin, Sunburn How to rebuild skin burned by the summer's sun This fall, to have a skin ‘you ¢: be proud of, you must remove evil effects of sunburn, Bathe the face and. arms gently ith a soft lather of Woodbur: ial Soap, and. rinse thoroughly in tepid water. Continue this night and morning for a week or two. This treatment brings back the soft, smooth texture of the skin. Woodbury 1 Soap costs Nobody h es at the price their first cak wetal Soap. For s0¢ $a al Soap, of the Woodbury pre Write. today to Axper Co, Dept. 26 ing Grove Woodbury’s Facial Soap For sale by Dealers everywhere Baron Douse’s Jury Here is a story which Baron Douse, the celebrated Irish judge, once told in that exaggerated Irish “brogue” which he loved to employ. “I was down in Cork last month, holding assizes. On the first when the jury came in, the officer of the court said: ‘Gentlemen av the jury, yell take your accustomed places, if ye pla nd may I never taugh,” said the baron, “if they didn’t all walk into the dock! ondon Globe. comicbooks.co